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  • Hi, this is an excellent answer.

    I didn’t mean to dismiss online resources, but to highlight the continuous entrepreneurship in dismissing foundational knowledge. My post was honestly, rather bad for the reasons mentioned a few minutes ago, but the sentence “Linux is only free if your time has no value” erases the pleasure of reading books and getting new skills. It literally means that free and open source software can’t be more useful than whatever Google and Microsoft are developing, which doesn’t even include passwords managers.

    Secondly, the difference you make between free and open source software are very interesting but to my understanding, it may boil down to the freedom 0 : free software is made for everyone, whereas open source software is made for specialized communities. Because most people don’t even write simple software, and I’m not talking about enterprise-level complexity here, most open source software is written for other developers. I’ve observed thousands of anonymous messages which coincidentally blurred the difference between free software and open source software by e.g. promoting the sway window manager that we know and love. On 4chan at least, calling people to hurt themselves has become an acronym (to whomever reads this, please don’t hurt yourself).

    I’m not sure my own definition of free vs. open source software is the right one, but I know the actual difference is leveraged to kill people – comrades even.

    And finally, I agree about everything else. I didn’t properly develop about GNU software because I was trying to leave my screen.


  • Hi, it may depend on the background, but personally I’ve been stuck on problems for months, only to solve them by spending 2 hours reading a book. I’m talking about basic self-taught tools like Git, your first programming language, and so on – Microsoft and Google build and leverage platforms to keep specific demographics stuck for years, and to some extent, to kill them.

    I’m not talking about solving problems on a complex stack with tools that you already know, but rather about learning to program the output of a Skribe document as a social media-addict 4chan user. We’re not even talking about Makefiles here, but about hundreds of thousands of people actually giving a hand to free software development, instead of trying to change the world in free form fields.


  • Alright, that’s pretty cool, sorry – I thought it was a list of links automatically inserted in lieu of comments.

    I’ve been trying to get into the IndieWeb for years, but I’ve been struggling to implement it. Doesn’t it rely on a central server too? Can we use it in a fully e.g. decentralized or federated way – would it even make sense, or could we easily switch to another flagship server, as we did with the Freenode takeover?

    Please feel no pressure to reply, I can do my own research ^_^