Thanks for this post! I signed and shared :thumbs up:

I don’t know exactly what a celeron silver netbook, but this is my computer : https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/laptops/acer-aspire-1-a11131

Hi fellow dwm user :P

What is the font and the browser you’re using here?

Thanks, I removed Vimium and use Tridactyl now. It has a better interface, and an easier way to use the visual mode (for text selection).

I never heard negative criticisms about wayland :thinking face:

Yes, but still, you can know how many devices a user has, the schedule of the user (or at least when that user has the time to go on Discord), what mean of transport that user uses (by calculating the time between 2 connection locations, and when some messages are posted).

Those things may not be totally accurate (because statistics are not), but I think we can still do some nice stuff with this data package alone.

What do you think?

In capitalism the deaths are indirect deaths unlike in authoritarian systems, they are more difficult to calculate. But I got your point.

That means you will be more dependent on Matrix.org server, unlike in Mastodon, where there are many different instances.

I think it works using forks, which means several versions can coexist. You can accept or decline a fork of another user on your instance.

Yes, but there’s worse: to edit a page, you need to host an instance of the wiki yourself.

In deed that was one of the thing I got in mind. I don’t think the academic writing rules can be applied to any topic the same way.

I mean, people with low-end servers aren’t going to install a matrix server. So it’s limiting the decentralization of Matrix.

Still better than Google and I actually don’t know any good alternative to it.

I don’t know anything about the protests in honk kong, why is it a problem? (it’s a real question, not a troll)

Sorry, I will read some of them, but I don’t have so much time now. What is the most successful example of marxism in your opinion?

BTW, Dessalines seems to have done an amazing job here!

Yes I think I understand now. I discussed on a Discord server about anarchism and they said the same thing. Thanks for all these recommendations, I already read some extracts of Bookchin, I will take care of the others.

OK So if I understand properly, you just think anarchism is too idealistic? (tell me if I misunderstand). How would corruption (and abusive centralization in general) be avoided in communism?

And why would it be so better?

And why so? Why would they say no?

How do I do that with conversations? I can’t see the icon :(

This is a very interesting comment in deed. I am not sure about the last sentence though. Violence is not the best kind of way to deal with stuff. Antifascists now know that (ref, “The antifascist handbook”)

I may look at Engels a bit more :)

I think I am blind. I am using XMPP for some nice channels. But I never saw integrated voice and video though. I love XMPP but I wouldn’t say it’s as easy as Signal.

Also I am not sure XMPP is made to work the same way Whatsapp or Signal does. Signal works with phone number, just the same way as whatsapp, it’s not made to be an anonymous chatting app, also XMPP doesn’t support audio and voice calls. I don’t know if there are decentralized alternatives to Whatsapp that works the same way.

But actually, yes, it’s sad that at any complication people just stops learning stuff believing it’s a too ‘geeky’ stuff for them.

ElementaryOS is some kind of an example, you can get the source code, but they ask you to pay (it’s not mandatory though and you can get everything for free) to get the ISO file.

Other examples would be Ardour and Fritzing, both have source code available for free, but not their binaries. So if you want to have it for free, you have to pay with time of compiling :p

I don’t really agree with all the hate against Signal. Signal is a good start into easy privacy for people, with an app (that I personally find better than What’s app).

Like it or not but the federated alternatives (even though I like them) are not as easy to use as Signal, I don’t think my grandparents could use XMPP as easily for example.

It’s far from perfect but I wouldn’t say it’s not trustworthy or a bad app though.

Yes I am reading the “Antifa handbook” and he talks about that in the book. I don’t know if it’s possible to respect both anti-hate-speech laws and freedom of speech laws at the same time. Sometimes by trying to respect freedom of speech, you’re breaking others laws.

There is a part of technical stuff though. If you have a very resource consuming technology, it’s obvious that less people are going to install it, which is the case of Matrix.

Also, “social issues” can be managed, for instance, the main Framasoft closed the registrations of the main Mastodon instance because they thought the network was becoming too centralized on their instance.

I mean, I don’t want to be closed-minded you know. I don’t know why, but when I see a comment I disagree with (even hostile comments), I feel an irrational need to debate with to understand the idea.

You’re probably right though, but I am an eternal indecisive.

I never got problems with bots, I got problems with people :p

lol xD

It’s a political issue more than a personal issue according to me. More a company or organization knows about you, more they’ll have power over you. If the facial recognition data would be in the hands of the state for example, the consequences can be a disaster.

I personally care a lot about it because I want to maximize my freedom as well.

Can you give an example of obsession with privacy? And the trap in question?

I actually don’t know that much about that. I am against centralization, not against GMO itself. I think many anti-GMO arguments are actually anti-monoculture arguments (except the ones about health).

I don’t know if GMO would be useful for local-scale agriculture. Maybe you can help me on that one?

Sure monoculture is not a good idea, but it doesn’t really mean GMO though. It’s not the same thing.

I know that, but I never seen any instance of Matrix that’s not matrix.org. Also email is becoming more and more centralized because almost everybody uses Gmail or something else from GAFAM. I mean, on paper it’s decentralized, but the fact everybody uses Matrix make it more and more dependent on one server.

The centralization of IRC doesn’t matter though, the fact there is no chat history makes it irrelevant to be centralized or not, if Freenode dies, something else can replace it without any problem.

Also a tiny note again about emails, due to the difficulty to setup an email server yourself (that doesn’t end up in the spams of everybody), I don’t really think emails are so decentralized in practice.

TL;DR, there is a difference between the things on paper and the things in reality.

I saw people recommending Element/Matrix. I don’t like it actually, because it’s a too centralized platform. Otherwise there’s IRC and Mumble that could be alternatives.

Also, Element/Matrix is resource consuming unfortunately, I prefer using lighter things. My laptop doesn’t even support Element client.

The reason why I think Element/Matrix is centralized is because of the resource-heavy Matrix server which limits the number of servers (same issue with emails), also most communities are on matrix.org, so it becomes more and more dependent on one server to work. There is a difference between “decentralized on paper” and “decentralized in reality”.

(btw, why am I being down voted so much xD ?)

The sources:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/hours-after-data-clash-report-whatsapp-founder-says-hes-leaving-facebook/

https://amsterdamtimes.info/after-data-clash-report-whatsapp-founder-says-hes-leaving-facebook/

I don’t completely agree with this. Matrix is semi-decentralized, almost everybody uses the matrix.org main instance, and hosting matrix is kind of a pain.

The only launcher I sticked to.

Sure, but still I think you underestimate the “fanboyism” of Brave users :p Money is actually the all-time issue of free software.