“Stephen Miller is destroying democracy,” “stop the kidnapping,” we [love] immigrants,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” “no white nationalism,” and “trans rights are human rights”

For anyone curious what kinds of things were written

Joy in solidarity and resistance is so important, it gives us the energy to keep fighting and encourages more people to get involved more than preaching importance ever could

There was an article a while back that talked about how humor was key to the rejection of fascism and that was a huge part of why

Interesting, I think I follow all of that. Thank you very much for explaining

Gotcha, thank you very much for filling me in, I really appreciate it!

I do think there’s value in ensuring everything low level is open source, but at least with linux phones none of the higher level stuff is really in a good state yet 😅

Its nice to hear this will be an improvement to custom ROMs. Though the future of custom ROMs is feeling a little shaky with the stuff Google has announcing lately 🥲

Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it ☺️

Weird…

Yeah, short form content isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’m glad it exists though :)

I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that at the time it was only like certain libraries and whatnot? I wasn’t sure if that was still the case, or if that person was right, or what 🤷‍♂️

I’m not an especially technical person so I don’t really remember details though 😅

Is this just an effort to replace binary blobs, or to actually support usable Linux phones or custom roms…? Are those kinda the same thing in this case?

If it’s the latter this might be the first thing the FSF is actually doing during my time with foss that I’m excited about.

If it’s just that they hate binary blobs, that’s great and all but I do kinda wish they’d focus on stuff that has a way bigger user impact 😅 I think they got really hung up on binary blobs with libreboot or whatever it was also

Pop is such a cool project but it’s been kinda broken for me both times I’ve tried it, and then add to that what happened with Linus tech tips where him being dumb combined with pop having not fixed a major and obvious packaging issue that completely broke his system has kinda just left me with the impression they’re not super on top of the ball

I hope that’s changed, I want them to be successful, especially with cosmic

I gotta find my gay meetcute somehow!

If you’re picking a distro for someone else I would not recommend a small project distro or something incredibly niche 😅

Any of the big projects should be decent. Fedora, maybe fedora silverblue or whatever their imutable variant is called, opensuse, Mint, Ubuntu, debian. (Personally I don’t like some of the choices Ubuntu makes but it may still be a very good option for less technical folks)

Others can tell you which of those have the best security defaults, but to be honest it doesn’t sound like you actually have particularly exceptional security needs relative to what any distro will provide. I’d prioritize something stable and user friendly- which, again, your best bet is NOT picking a niche small project or something most people have never heard of

I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions seems to have potentially misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions seems to have potentially misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

I wish more people focused a bit more on the need to agree to terms and conditions, I didn’t know that was a part of this issue and that massively increases the negative impact of this potential policy change

Google’s terms and conditions are consistently draconian and stupid. Especially if it’s the same terms and conditions applied to the play store, where apps constantly get pulled and devs are always frustrated as hell

Edit: I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

Forgejo is an activitypub-enabled Git forge software, and codeberg is one of the largest forgejo instances.

Thank you for this explainer, that’s cool as fuck!

Yeah as much as I don’t love proton as a company this feels wildly misleading…

I think it’s unfair to say that’s the point of the rule on a foss project’s discussion forum

Political discourse online gets really fucking toxic really quickly 😅 often driven by entirely legitimate anger and hurt over the state of the world, but we can’t just pretend it’s all an evil conspiracy by big Ubuntu to silence us.

Folks on the internet consistently demonstrate through behaviour why “no politics” is almost always a rule anywhere where folks might perceive it to be off topic, whether one thinks it’s the correct ruling or not (it’s entirely valid to feel it should be allowed even though it brings out the worst in people, though I’m sure that would put incredible strain on moderators given the internet baseline of interpersonal compassion)

And the places online where folks do discuss it? Can quickly get extremely unpleasant, or develop an inescapable undercurrent of hostility that starts to permeate all other interactions on the platform.

Personally I think actually productive political conversation is almost always emotionally laborious, and it’s important to be able to step away from the political aspects of things and catch your breath, even though everything is political. But everything being political doesn’t mean it’s healthy for every conversation to be political, that’s a recipe for burnout and people acting like their worst selves, which is counter productive to pretty much any meaningful political goal.

OSM is just pronounced open street map or as an acronym- O.S.M.

The tilde isn’t from OSM, it’s from OsmAnd (the navigation app), and I thing it’s used to communicate whether you’re running the version from f-droid, or the play store version? I agree that’s confusing and makes for an awkward name though

Thank you!!