Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

JAJAJA

what Spanish speakers see: hahaha

whan Scandinavians and Germans see: YESYESYES

apparently they had polygons back in the 14th century

A conservative, a centrist, and a leftist are on a sinking boat. The conservative is drilling the holes. The leftist is trying to patch them. The centrist is yelling at the leftist to stop rocking the boat.

Beyond his harming Free Software for decades, I wonder how much rms has harmed *people with Autism* as ~85% of his defenders proclaim "autistic people are just like that"

As usual, @brainwane's writing on a complicated topic are clear, thoughtful, direct, and bring the receipts to the table: "Not The First Time We Tried (FSF, GNU, RMS, etc.)" https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2021/03/26/0

Smart: a recipe website where you can set the number of servings, and it adjusts the ingredients

Less smart: it adds 4" to the target tortilla diameter for each serving, not the tortilla count.

oops

The ray of hope at the end of this week is that I believe the free and #OpenSource software movements are more unified than ever before that intolerance, abuse, and disrepect from our leaders will no longer be allowed. That's a great thing and a good first step toward visions like #DigitalAutonomy. https://techautonomy.org/

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

Let's keep the #GNOME40 celebration going with a brand new release video!
https://youtu.be/vK-SwsWnEmo

We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!

See the release highlights at https://forty.gnome.org/

Or view all the details in our release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/

#GNOME40 #releaseday #OpenSource

Found one again! "Open Source" – and then a Microsoft logo on top of it, next to a Discord link. 👏

This time on https://berty.tech/

Do they realize? Do they even care?…

That is why we need Free Software – and a proper logo for it, too: https://free-software-logo.codeberg.page/

#freesoftware #logo

it's 2021 and we are still talking about "free software" instead of:
* community software
* liberated software
* anti-capitalist software
* transformative justice software
it's been 35 years, and our philosophy and understanding of the role of computing and software in our society has changed drastically. The FSF and the culture of turning RMS into a 'great man' haven't changed in decades.

So far I've largely successfully ignored the whole #NFT thing, though I agree that the ecological impact of many NFT approaches should of course _not_ be ignored.

What strikes me is how uncomfortable, culturally, we still are with abundance and the end of ownership. The idea of a society where humans can live dignified lives while building upon cultural works without constraints has a much harder time gaining ... currency. Capitalism overshadows our thinking and dominates our discourse.

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