@davidgerard
Open Sores Software

I get your point but it does go both ways.

Cheers

Around here, we say „if you are a hammer 🔨, any problem looks like a nail.“

https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/114790653339798581

THIS. I was the Main Character on Masto last year when I posted saying "Some people need to run Windows".

HUNDREDS of drive-by replies from FOSS people, it was insane. My instance admins had to jump in and block entire servers.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run genuine question, no bad intent or anything I'm genuinely just curious. I feel like I know what you mean but like, what exactly do you mean by systemic issues in tech here

They have that hammer so everything looks like a thumb.

Example: Windows gets worse over time, and data collection is worse than ever in the OS. This is a systemic privacy issue, since most of the world uses Windows, and migrating to a different OS would be difficult for both home users and enterprises/governments. How do we solve this? And what kind of discourse should we have for such issues?

On the other hand, I do enjoy a quality FLOSS recommendation every now and then, and I like to advertise a well-tested solution to a problem too.

Sometimes the best way to resolve a systemic problem is to choose having a different problem.

Isn't this why we moved here? We didn't fix the problem. We chose to have a different one.

You do have to understand the root of the problem alas...too many wannabe pros sit behind a kboard.

People are fleeing US and surveillance capitalism services. This is a trend: seeking alternatives. Some are easier than others. Enough momentum and it can influence the system. What context of replies do you seek?

Yeah, the latent libertarian notions in open source culture are severely under-critiqued. It's cousin to the ideological strain the birthed all these tech cultist silicon valley dipshits.

I want municipal data centers that we all pay taxes for and are able to use for services we develop that benefit our community and which provide us the means to create large scale alternatives to private tech monopolies. I don't want libertarian tech, give me democratic community tech.

I maintain a variant of the Zotero reference manager that provides legal and multilingual support. It makes it easier to, you know, cite things, which is falling out of fashion.

I'm dusting off the maintenance work after a two-year hiatus following a personal tragedy. It's not much, but it's what I can do.

I'm not fucking paid for this, and don't need to be screamed at and told I'm little people.

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I hear you can use Anthy to bring about the world revolution.*

*this is both an anime reference and FOSS joke because the application is based on the anime.

I like FOSS. I use a lot of open source software. I wish people stopped trying to gaslight others that these borderline unusable programs are a perfect substitute to whatever you're using.

Side note: NO. I will NOT use Matrix to chat with friends!!

I am tired of hearing FOSS recommendations that turn out to be impractical duds, for many reasons some/most of which you covered. I use windows/Mac and find those systems to work just fine for my needs.

But opposite of this, it has been an overall positive journey learning about alternatives. I wouldn’t be here on mastodon or the Fediverse if I had shut out differing views of tech, and I’m still open to switching to Linux (waiting for a RC).

"I don't know why people pay for streaming when I've only spent about 40 hours getting Sonarr and Radarr to talk to Prowlarr and Transmission to store it all in a media surver running Jellyfin using one VPN for torrenting and a different one for hosting"

Also: "How bad I feel about privacy invasion is relative to how much mall ninja infosec the victim engaged in"

Also also, I blocked several dozen people on here when the Unity thing happened, because they thought it was funny and that anyone using Unity deserved it. When I think of FOSS, I think of this kind of attitude.

What was the question? The answer is YES! Our $PRODUCT can outperform other solutions in this space by a factor of five!