FOSS zealot, game developer, and lifelong learner 👹👾📖
freedom maxi, solarpunk, cypherpunk, and anarcho-communist (anti-statist/anti-stalinist) 🌞💻 🟥⬛
centralization is the root of all evil
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#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0
I also made a video including details & instructions.
Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness.
PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA
Text (instructions only):
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data
recently found out i am likely to be sick for over a month until i'm recovered 😿
i really can't be posting during this time, but wanted to let you all know i haven't died/been captured/abandoned fedi
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(1/3)
i really hope that in 100 years, it will be just as common and just as serious to say "i believe in Free+Decentralized Software" as it is now to say "i believe in free speech"
people are starting to understand, but only partly or for the wrong reasons (privacy, microslop, cost, etc)
#FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Decentralization #Decentralisation #FreedomTech #FreeDecentralizedSoftware
mastodon sidenote: where am i supposed to put the hashtags? part 1/3? part 3/3? in all of them??
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this is a painful time period to live in for so many reasons 😮💨
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some will even use a majority of Free+Decentralized Software but use proprietary and centralized software like Discord, Twitter(X), Facebook, etc "because that's where the majority of people/my family/friends are" - and EVERYONE remains unfree, as a direct result of their contribution to the network effect
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those are fine reasons, but the reason to support FOSS is above all that proprietary code means you are never free.
privacy focused users might use the proprietary FUTO keyboard or the centralized Signal messenger - and remain unfree
people who can't afford to upgrade their hardware to use the latest windows might switch to linux, but they will continue to use other proprietary/centralized software - and remain unfree
(1/3)
i really hope that in 100 years, it will be just as common and just as serious to say "i believe in Free+Decentralized Software" as it is now to say "i believe in free speech"
people are starting to understand, but only partly or for the wrong reasons (privacy, microslop, cost, etc)
#FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Decentralization #Decentralisation #FreedomTech #FreeDecentralizedSoftware
jess :3 
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