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That's a really good way of putting it.

What also really didn't help was bigtech trying to ultra-simplify everything in their capitalistic favor as much as possible to capture the largest audience, so most technology just became stuff-consumption devices to sell attention, rather than sophisticated tools you could learn to wield.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Pretty sure it's from that one...I always reference Heinlein's quote about what humans should be capable of: It's a really long list that ends in "...specialization is for insects."

    I always loved that, myself being an ADHD guy who knows how to do all sorts of things somewhat and still learning...

    ...but growing up in a world of people told to pick a single direction to almost-never stray from and avoid thinking outside of those lines.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    Free folk, behold the humble rattle can: For her rattle sings a bell of liberty.

    Tyrants, beware the humble rattle can: For her hiss lays bare the sins of thee.

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    I love this sort of guerilla open source activism.

    The whole "manifesto" style of the main webpage is extremely well done and makes a compelling argument, even if we don't choose this as our core distro.

    I like that it also serves as a good page to send to even non-Linux folks, to explain why these dystopian cudgel laws must be resisted at every turn.

     

    EDIT: I see some comments saying the Mastodon post didn't add anything to it. I agree!

    I am a little new to posting so I thought it was polite to include the source.

    It was late and at first glance my sleepy mind thought they just saw these two images coincidentally side by side on their phone. Not like it was just a single meme. LOL

    Here's the raw image for fellow meme collectors. :)

    Original link: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116037932568933433

    A Mastodon post: "Digging through my phone for a picture and found this". An image on the left depicts: "A Chinese woman discovers she's been using a hand grenade as a hammer for last 20 years." An image on the right is an awkardly shifty-eyed monkey puppet with the caption "C++ engineers."
     

    GoG is freely releasing a bunch of games that would likely be targeted for removal by these moral panic lobbyists, for 48 hours, as a protest. Honestly not interested in the majority but hey I can get behind the sentiment!

    Link is here:

    https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

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