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An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

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Hurray for the klinkers
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Why Streets in the Netherlands are Made of Bricks

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"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch"

https://malus.sh/

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

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“You claim to stand with the people of Iran while you offer European bases to US killing machines.

While you support Israel’s chemical warfare as they poison the air of Tehran with toxic fires and black rain, spreading cancers for decades.

From Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq — your bombs never brought democracy and never will.

They bring chaos. Death. Destruction. And the unbearable silence of children who will never come home.” #iran #eu #murder

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If you hear a politician use the words "social media," you can find their actual meaning by substituting in the phrase "Ordinary people who are not celebrities communicating with other ordinary people who are not celebrities."

Politicians who rail against the alleged evils of "social media" are not concerned with opaque recommendation algorithms: they love those same recommendation algorithms when it's Spotify or CBS News using them.

Politicians aren't concerned about privacy: again, they love spyware when it's Spotify or CBS News or the police doing it.

Politicians do not view your self-hosted single-user blog any more favorably than Facebook: if anything they view you as more of a threat.

To the extent politicians dislike "big tech" at all, it's because "big tech" has historically permitted ordinary people who are not celebrities communicating with other ordinary people who are not celebrities.

There are no non-malicious reasons to ban ordinary children who aren't celebrities from speaking to other ordinary children who aren't celebrities. It's not a "well intentioned but misguided" policy. There are no "reasonable concerns." It's just pure evil.

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witch_t *navi Mar 11

@julia i'd like for the normalization that doing less/going-slower is okay, and that marking software as finished and "bug-fix only" is okay

in this society there's always a push for productivity, more, more, do more, implement my feature request, fix my bug, ping, ping, ping, ping

it's even personal for me because i did have not one but about half a dozen panic attacks over thoughts such as "i'm not doing enough for openrc", "taking too long to implement $pr", etc -- and the more it happens, the bigger the snowball gets, or the deeper i drown, the harder it is to continue, this still happens to me

but rather than normalizing the tool with numerous societal, economical, and ecological problems that also reinforces the current fucked up system even more, i'd rather we build communities with humanitarian expectations where maintainers are not pushed and pressured to the point of burnout

also, while i may get disappointed on maintainers, and get a desire to not use the project going forward, what i don't do is shune or crucify those people, they're still people and if anything victims of the system

i do hold a disdain for enablers though, and by that i mean not people simply using AI because work or because they're tired, but people that actively and loudly push for and defend it -- imo those people are contributing to the problem, not suffering from it

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Thayer Mar 11

[EDIT: now sorted thank you SO MUCH!]

Heads up my dudes, my son needs to do work experience this summer and he's a programmer. Nearly 15, can do 3 decent languages, main in Java, been programming since 4. All he wants to do is be a developer. Anyone offer work experience these days? Two weeks in July. London or Dartford way or anywhere in between. Ta! Retoots appreciated!

#workexperience #help

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lainz

Mar 11

"I thought we were against copyright, why are we using it as an argument against LLM training practices?"

Our positions don't exist in a vacuum, they are something we work on specifically to improve the world. We formulate critical positions as a function that aims to turn our current reality into the desired one.

What happens if we say "fine, since we are against copyright, we should let corpos ignore intellectual property"? Our previous knowledge, our experience, and the mechanisms of capital, point to the answer being: "they will enforce copyright onto thee, and not onto themselves, for they are the ones that write the rules". That is, our normally correct anti-copyright position would in this case aid the maintainment of an undesirable status quo, as IP is already overwhelmingly used against the weak.

What initially sounded like a contradiction (" you reject IP but you bash corpos for breaking IP") is in this case the correct approach to oppose the state of things.

Similarly, tools we may want to abolish, such as intellectual property, are to be used to our advantage for as long as we are not realistically in the position to abolish them.

This is, in my humble opinion, what free software is; it is IP itself weaponized against monopolistic forces. They cannot abolish code IP because it would hurt them too, so all that is left for them is to take advantage of the situation as best as they can (free software can still help them save costs after all).

A similar approach can be take (after due reasoning!) in other areas. For example: "we don't like violence in it of itself, but if we don't use it, it will be used against us first, as it is being used every day".

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