booklord @tootbrute@scholar.social

I've reported #Wire's lack of server>server federation as an issue, and explained how it could benefit them as a company. I mentioned that there might be hackers out there willing to help them make it happen. Let's see what they say:
https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/266

"Democracy is messy, and it's kind of a pain in the ass, and the alternative is fascism."
- #HenryGiroux
https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/069-finding-joy-amidst-fascism-violence-with-brad-evans-henry-giroux/

Everyone has a story to tell. #pixelfed

I just emailed someone saying I didn't think I could do a thing anymore.

I like this thing.

I also feel soooooo relieved.

I think 2019 might be the year of me learning to sometimes say no to unpaid work.

what the fuck is wrong with america

As @davatron5000 says, I don't like playing cat and mouse with my privacy. https://daverupert.com/2018/04/dave-went-android/ At the same time, I'd prefer to run open-source software rather than iOS. And I've used Android since the HTC Dream.

But using Android without Google apps is just *so* hard. Not only do I have to invoke weird terminal sorcery every six months, but the damn thing doesn't even work very well – I haven't had working push notifications or GPS in a year. Time to throw in the towel?

How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappear-surveillance-state.html

Ignore the "Bitcoin" in the title, this is pretty interesting

In lighter news, I am only mildly furious at this dystopia of software we are all drowning in

I would almost say "🤷‍♀️ Let's just ignore this and go along with the default mediocre open-source driver that works OK."

Except.

KDE prompts you, shortly after install, to install the Nvidia driver. Any reasonable newcomer would say "yep"

and then get stymied by an apparently completely broken and irrecoverable system.

And it just annoys me that Linux is still like this. It has made leaps and bounds, and it is still pushing newcomers away.

Almost everybody spends most of their life in a totalitarian system; it's called having a job.

When you have a job, you're under total control of the master of the enterprise. They determine what you wear, when you go to the bathroom, and what you do.

The very idea of a wage contract is selling yourself into servitude. You have a choice between starving or selling yourself to a tyranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EdXNCI51yA

No one needs to starve. No one needs to freeze. No one needs to die. There is enough for everyone. More empty homes than all the people without them, more food than grocers can even sell. The labor and the materials to end scarcity exist now. It is not a far-off dream. We can end scarcity in this life.