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@screwlisp @amszmidt

The beauty of #libre licensing, specifically the #Copyleft subset, is that the world doesn't have to depend on the behaviour of one company - others can fork the code. Examples of that happening abound. Not so with proprietary. I'm also not a fan of 'weak' #libre licenses, e.g. BSD & MIT, etc. And I revile software patents (see softwarepatents.org.nz)

@eduardoochs @kentpitman @dougmerritt @mdhughes

softwarepatents.org.nzTake the Lead! | No Software Patents in NZ
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@screwlisp I'm familiar with neither anggtwu.net/#eev nor @eduardoochs I"m afraid.
@kentpitman

For what it's worth, I've made a career out of producing nothing but #libre (#Copyleft) software & providing related services... 31 years now. I'm against proprietary on principle: davelane.nz/proprietary

@dougmerritt @mdhughes

Dave Lane · Reflections on Proprietary SoftwareI've been pondering proprietary software for the past couple decades.
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@lightweight
I wonder, did you ever cross paths with anggtwu.net/#eev @eduardoochs in software-freedom-dom? #FOSS #libre I use the heck out of Eduardo's eev mode in #emacs .

If we happen to get @kentpitman around - Kent has written before about the relative impossibility of getting paid to program when once you personally come up with a unique program, someone will immediately rush to make a libre clone of it. I guess you successfully "did that".

@dougmerritt @mdhughes

anggtwu.netAngel's Egg - the home page of Eduardo Ochs (a.k.a. Edrx)

#lispyGopherClimate 24 hours from this toot on anonradio.net/ as every week (12pm NZT Wednesday, 0UTC Wednesday, 8pm Boston Time Tuesday night in the Americas).

We're lucky to get @lightweight on on short notice for tomorrow about #libre #technology #education in #aotearoa #NZ .

Dave's open history: davelane.nz/my-open-history

...Dave switched from #emacs to #vim 15 years ago. Who has questions / tech education scene related questions? Leave them here please.

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@JoBlakely
All good. Ai is a negative feedback loop and will hurt susceptible people.

It would depend on how you see #libre and #foss software. Along with #llms I would argue that any computer running #microsoft or #apple software is enslaved to the corporate overlords. Machines meant to help us are turned into spy bots harvesting data about us for tech oligarchs.

Every computer that switches to #linux gives us freedom and loosens up the chains of capitalism that enslave us.

From: blenderdumbass . org

I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/cl

Please suggest some names for a community-run service like Disroot, but aimed at non-technical people in #India 🙏

The service focuses on #Federated and #FreedomRespecting * services, like #Fediverse , #XMPP , #NextCloud etc

The mission is to provide an accessible alternative to proprietary corporate spyware propaganda platforms.

Names in any Indian language are preferred, but English works too.

The name should be easy to communicate, verbally, to most Indians. Avoid words that can be confused for other words…

"We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

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Bluesky Social · METR (@metr.org)We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Libre est Queer
Par Khrys @Khrys

Une autre lecture plaisante et rafraîchissante en ces temps de dérèglement climatique et de canicule semiocapitaliste

Pour moi, promouvoir les licences libres est une attitude queer. On ne rejette pas le système, on cherche à le hacker, le subvertir, l’adapter à nos besoins. C’est une stratégie de l’ici et maintenant, une lutte de l'intérieur du système. Car c’est tout de même assez tordu (queer) de résister aux licences capitalistes en inventant de nouvelles licences capitalistes, tout particulièrement celles qui sont contaminantes !

https://linuxfr.org/users/khrys/journaux/libre-est-queer