Random Joe, or should I say… GNU/Joe

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  • Joe Bidet@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHose
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    1 month ago

    When people make a joke about a name in a different language than theirs, based on not being able to pronounce it correctly, is it just stupidity, or stupidity AND racism?

    (i guess answer depends on whether or not the different language is spoken by a minority in the space stupid people make that joke?)



  • Joe Bidet@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldThe future is a branching path
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    8 months ago

    Retrospectively, wasn’t a lot of the space-exploration-based SciFi from the 50s 60s 70s serving the purpose of justifying massive government spendings in big rockets, mainly used to build ICBMs, to justify imperialist policies and the cold war?

    were we (the scifi afficionados) the useful idiots of this missile race?
















  • The thing I find hard to convey is that FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software for many reasons, most of which are non-technical: FLOSS software is superior to proprietary software if it isn’t spying on you, if it’s governance is collective, if it’s not build to make you pay for things that should be free, if it lets you decide where your data goes, etc…

    we’re often missing the point when we attempt at side-by-side comparison of FLOSS and proprietary software… It’s usually one-dimentional, and playing on our opponent’s field: these companies racketing their users based on rent-based exploitative business models will always have more resources than independant developpers to improve “UX/UI”… so I think this must not be the only prism through which reading these things.