I mention software freedom whenever I can.

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If you paid for it then it’s your game - not their game.

(Don’t care if you ripped it yourself or not)



When tech isn’t controlled by the user: then the user is controlled by the dev, and power corrupts.

Some are born selfish and others are molded by our insistence you strive for money to survive.


If there were a software that aught to be in control of the user (rather than the developer) then it’s software running inside of you.

When things really matter all we have is conversation or violence. If our understanding of neuroscience gets good enough… this is where violence can/will happen.


When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.


Not using a hard paywall is silly, no sympathy there. Some sympathy for when your paywalled content has been crawled for. Though not much - in this age where making copies has never been easier using force is all they can do to impose their wish of artificial scarcity.


Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) was given The Nobel Peace Prize 1979. She was not a woman of peace, she “helped” people to needlessly suffer --for religious justifications-- . When accepting the award she criticized countries that legalized abortion - which of course is a big threat to peace /s.



I deleted my account but that was before I learnt you could replace all your posts with random sentences.


Presumably the implementation is not as seamless as that, and 3rd party clients do not handle it like 1st party ones.