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[–] weex@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

On the forks aspect, FOSS culture hasn't quite got things abstracted enough here. Yes, forks would happen but a lot of value would be destroyed in a sale of the upstream. Our goal should be to make it totally pointless and that's usually best done with copyleft and many copyright holders. Apt sources could also be more fluid and reputation aware about which repo they distribute from.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

We should take inspiration from tiktok from what it does right.

I agree with this. If anyone's interested to work on a tiktok replacement, let's find a way to join up and work on making these various right things work in a privacy-respecting, fun, and FOSS set of projects. @libre_warrior@lemmy.ml are you aware of any good rallying points? A new community perhaps or existing software project?

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Obviously ridiculous that people put up with this kind of infringement but not unexpected either. Manufacturers access to data should work like it does in open source. A choice given to the user to share anonymized data or not. Remote start and maintenance alerts can be done with privacy if we make it a condition of purchase.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This is fantastic. Reproducible builds help solve the issue of uncertainty that binaries were generated from the specified source code. It's a key piece of developing more secure software. Thanks for sharing.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't call NFTs a movement. I reserve that word for phenomena that attempt to drive positive social change. NFTs are just a natural product of the digital scarcity that blockchains provide. There is some overlap between FOSS and NFTs in that they share some technology and process. Both depend entirely on the internet. There are some shared motivations some that are unique to each but they operate in such different ways that I don't see the comparison as being very useful.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Those medical devices use state-of-the-art pen-tested cryptography right?

RIGHT?

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the share. I didn't mean to argue. It's a tough and very broad topic to approach as a technologist, but definitely deserving of study.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I see. Guess I'm looking forward then to hearing more about solutions which don't use tech.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Tech is a tool and can be used for good and bad. I see examples of use for bad but I'm not sure about fallacies which speak to reasoning. Since you read the book, I think it'd be more helpful to write about the pros and cons discussed in the book than to post screenshots.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After clicking through to the browser's site "Beta available soon on select devices..."

Thanks for sharing though. I've been trying to find more FOSS to use with the Oculus and Cardboard.

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think that's a big problem. Certainly nothing new for redditors. And at least it has a banned tag so we actually know part of why it was deleted. People often ask and answer about what it said and I think that works fine. Was it spam?

[–] weex@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Recently was talking with someone and they said "fediverse and metaverse" in one breath and I was like whoa. I don't think anyone wants to give Facebook even Meta let alone metaverse.

The two concepts share very little except the rhyme. I see the term as really up the air so I'd only use it if I wanted to confuse people.

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