I love how Dan Weinreb's reasons for why #Symbolics didn't succeed doesn't even consider their hostility towards free and open development of #LispMachine software as having something to do with it.
@rml@screwtape@lispm#FreeCulture necessitates both labor movements and much like #Degrowth (nevermind the terrible name) with which it is compatible (it readily fits as a subset of it), it represents and requires a rethink of our society and its illogical labor for the sake of numbers that don't actually do anything beyond making the majority more miserable.
Reminder! You can still send in a mixtape or virtual DJ set for the next edition of SETS (@provo) - a virtual fedi music night on 13 October :ablobdj:
Any style, just your favs, 15 mins max. No prior experience needed, just have fun w it :possum_happy:
I'm sorry to learn John Fielder has passed away. He was the best-known photographer of Colorado's beautiful landscapes. Toward the end of his life, he donated his work to the public domain, so he should be recognized for supporting free culture as well. #freeculture
It's disconcerting to me how many are using Discord. Which effectively locks me out because I'm not going to create any valuable community there and see it all get ripped away as usual.
So: Mastodon, Stack Overflow (which is a privately held corporation but all the content is deliberately #FreeCulture), email lists, IRC groups.
It's disconcerting to me how many are using Discord. Which effectively locks me out because I'm not going to create any valuable community in a walled garden only to see it all get ripped away as usual.
So: Mastodon, Stack Overflow (which is a privately held corporation but all the content is deliberately #FreeCulture), email lists, IRC groups.
Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects! :cc: :ccby: :ccsa:
Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:
For all of you busy preparing manifestos for forthcoming elections, here is a #FreeCulture#policy proposal:
> For all published artefacts using DRM, there needs to be a legal method for expiring the lock - or circumventing the DRM - once the period of all relevant copyrights has expired, otherwise future generations would not be able to access these artefacts.
If backdoored E2EE is possible then backdoored DRM should be easy too, right?