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  • rah@feddit.uktoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Decentralized social media is better, but it won't solve the issues social media causes.English
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    7 days ago

    Free access to information meant everyone would be educated and informed, and able to freely communicate and organize.

    Could be, not would be. They still can be. But they won’t be.

    Corporations turned it into a tool of oppression.

    No the people turned it into a tool of distraction from the pain of life using the tools corporations were happy to provide.

    Technology has never and will never save us from capitalism on its own.

    Capitalism isn’t the reason that free access to information hasn’t educated and informed everyone. Exactly the same indifference to education and organisation would exist in the absence of capitalism. The limitation isn’t capitalism, the limitation is the suffering that life necessarily implies. In the face of relentless suffering, most people are not motivated to learn beyond what’s necessary to survive.

  • rah@feddit.ukOPtoFree Software@lemmy.zip•The Stallman reportEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What holes do you see in the logic of this document?

    Here’s from the modlog:

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    when he threatened suicide if Betsy did not agree to date him

    I skipped to the section on allegations of misconduct and stopped reading here. They just quoted Stallman saying he didn’t threaten suicide and then the (nameless, cowardly) authors immediately say “he theratened suicide”. Despicable. There is nobody to back up Betsy’s side. There’s no response from Betsy to Stallman’s recent comments in the incident. And yet this is the first “corroborated” example they come out with.

    This site is another insidious hit piece. I pity the authors that they’re so twisted and power-hungry in their relentless attacking of a man who has clearly suffered for having a different mind to most and yet also contributed so much. Much more, I would guess, than these snakes will ever contribute.

    by rah

    reason: being a weirdo

    If you want to be the BDFL and public face of a large organization, it’s not enough to be technically correct. You also need to be someone who is at least tolerable to interact with.

    By the same token, if you want to attack a respected hacker, you need to not talk bollocks.

  • rah@feddit.ukOPtohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?English
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    6 months ago

    the very tone of this thread is suggesting that the HA developers choice in how they distribute their platform is “incorrect”

    Not incorrect, just poor engineering. Anti-social ultimately.

    you seem to disagree with explanations provided as to why those choices were likely made

    I can see only two disagreements in the whole post. Only one of those is about the reasons for creating an OS rather than distro packages. I have corrected a number of factual errors and errors in reasoning but those aren’t disagreements.

    Dismissing those statements and observations do not make them incorrect.

    Yes, my dismissing of them is not what makes them incorrect.

    Nothing I stated is dramatic

    LOL “this evil developer is doing a sinister thing”