You seem to think we disagree on creation of a police state or massive surveillance system being a bad thing for some reason. None of which are stopped with regulations by the states that are funding and building said things …

For sure they are! Meta more then the others though

Collaboration. Industry leaders, universities, and hobbbiests can all collaborate in the same place rather then siloing to their own infrastructure

Sorry I guess there is a bit of a casm of understanding between us here. Yeah restricting hammers, heavy hard objects on a pole found crafted throughout human civilization, does sound neigh impossible to me.

I mention hammers because they used a popular biker gang weapon to honest. Quite a bit of murders done with hammers.

“We have to block Huawei from selling telecom equipment to other countries to limit authoritarian control!”

“We have to force countries to use our oligarchy controlled ISP to maximize authoritarian control”

Honestly this just feel like that Mr Bean cheating meme it’s just looks so obvious

Right. It’s small, and compact, so you can fit in the bike, and quick swing to someone’s Dome just about does it. /s

Violence is a method of action, some tools are force multipliers in that action, and thus useful in that case.

Don’t get me wrong, hammers building houses and plow shears have done more to quietly change the world then guns and swords ever have, but guns and swords have.

I mean the Oracle CEO said so explicitly last year to investors

It’ll be cool to see some more CI tools for desktop apps.

Cloud native apps have tons of tools.

openSuse build system is really powerful.

The Steam deck devs have built some really cool stools

But none are really desktop user/dev friendly imho

Tbh I just duckduckgo the company and product if I find it in Amazon and order directly

Small buisnesses and more so consumers can flex on what they use. Academia can choose what they teach and require Governments can choose what they pay for

We have power

Suse’s open build system does this. It’s just very enterprisy to me, so I haven’t really used it myself

It’s more work to get things to work. You have to be more explicit as a dev.

Personally I really like it, and wish there was more support for MLS features it has in Userland

Learn from the best of the US example and leapfrog from using opensource and the best of the Chinese example using open hardware.

There are so many places where good FOSS and FOSH investments can act as public infrastructure for an entire economy. After that just fostering good education so that more people can leverage and improve on it and we might really see a Renaissance

Tech workers Coalition is closest we have I think

Would absolutely love to see the EU fix the fedual kingdom style Interfaces of US cloud offerings. Like you can use things like Rancher to create a open interface that Interfaces with the absolute mess that is AWS/Azure/GCP/VMWare but it’s just because they want to pretend their all just so special, which it’s just network and compute for 99% of the time and the other one percent established open source software preconfigured on network and compute

Don’t get me wrong hyperscailing infrastructure is fucking impressive to me (and the EU should lean with Open compute there IMHO), but the Interfaces I swear are intentionally garbage to lock people in.

OpenID is still a supported standard with an active standards body.

Practice makes perfect, but this better viewed as steps to cutting them out of our lives and not just nudging them to stop supporting facism, destroying workers and our planet.

The need us. We don’t need them.

Listen, I’m highly critical of the CCP, but LLMs aren’t facts machines, they are make text like what they are trained on machines.

They have no grasp of truth, and we can only get some sense of truth of what the average collective text response of its dataset (at best!).

It’s really an extension of “Would some really do that? Just lie on the Internet?” But now “Would AI, which is built to create content like what people post on the Internet, really just lie?”