| Matrix | @abaeyens:matrix.org |
| Where | Leuven, Belgium |
Pretty much this:
«Reaching net zero would cost about £4bn a year, the CCC found, or close to £100bn by 2050, which was roughly equivalent to the energy-related costs of the fossil fuel shocks that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.»
Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.
Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.
* No age or ID verification
* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run
* No third party accounts
For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.
~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.
This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
I don’t object to ‘if you don’t like it, fork it’ as a response as long as you have structured the project to make it easy for people to maintain downstream forks. Indeed, I consider the existence of downstream forks to be a sign of health in an open-source ecosystem. This means:
This leads to small projects with loose coupling that can be done (or, at least, ‘maintenance mode’, where they get occasional bug fixes but meet their requirements and don’t need to change).
A lot of projects were like that 20-30 years ago. Reaching the ‘maintenance mode’ state was a badge of honour: you had achieved your goals and no one else needed to reinvent the wheel. New things could be built as external projects. The last few decades have seen a push towards massive too-big-to-fork projects that have external interfaces that the rest of the ecosystem needs to integrate with, which are complex and lead to tight coupling.
We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.
The campaign against Francesca Albanese
"This is a fight we must win. If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age" where those who stand up for the rule of law are relentlessly persecuted, & genocide is just another tool in the arsenal to crush the vulnerable
Ondřej Michálek
Neil Brown
Mike 
Electronic Frontier Foundation
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
GrapheneOS
DrALJONES