Social media addiction comes from frustration toward the devices people are using, and so does, more often than not, free software/open source advocacy.

Social media addicts could then learn to use better tools, especially GNU Emacs (which is diametrically opposed to social media, in the best way), but they generally stay addicted so it’s hard to find a decent, drama free online FLOSS/hacker community.

Furthermore, whereas free software advocates generally use better tools, open source advocates are, frankly, grotesque at times, and certainly won’t tell people they’ll prefer to increase productivity metrics over fostering wellness and democracy, leading among other things people to confuse FLOSS with e.g. hacking or permacomputing and to speak on behalf of things they won’t understand.

The onboarding process of libre software development is generally mediocre, not internationalized (Guix is an exception), and i18n of decent graphic tools (e.g. Linux Mint, which I wholeheartedly recommend) is rather new, so FLOSS communities (which need top notch IT infrastructure if anything to maintain and fix their machines) generally aren’t up to date yet, and won’t be for years because most of us use Mastodon anyway. This results in pedantic circlejerks about the CLI and I’m not even talking about sustained patterns of messaging on anonymous forums fostering depression among our communities, because our existence is a threat to Google and Microsoft (and to any kind of wannabe dictator – Putin, Bannon, your local right-wing representative, and so on).

As a symptom of that mess, Linux users on Mastodon (who generally aren’t FLOSS activists) will basically catcall people into deleting their whole drive and installing Linux with FDE or into dual booting, even if our backup/restore programs are excellent. We still see installing Linux as a long-term commitment and not as something going along the lines of “let’s backup your drive with Syncthing and install Linux Mint, we’ll keep in touch if you want to get back on Windows”. Instead of taking a shower (metaphorically) and leading by the example by thriving IRL with a decent beginners-friendly distribution, we’ll get ready to ask questions like “do you want a source-based or binary distro?”, “what do you think about rolling releases?”, or “do you really want to use glib/systemd?”, as if anything – any volunteer work – our pedantic quest for moral purity would hold in low esteem wasn’t vastly superior to any 30-SLOCs snippet extracted from the Windows source code.

Simply put, if you want to install Linux you’re gonna want to look for AFK user groups, have a depression mitigation plan, and consider everything a self-claimed “FLOSS activist” will tell you online as a tragic and suicidal projection of digital (+ AFK) abuse.

Besides that, there are many great female Linux influencers and one of them has rightly said that since she wasn’t paying for software on Windows, everything she used had a better alternative on Linux. The Linux Mint UX is just better IMHO and the bugs, honestly, are rare and quickly fixed (whereas some Windows laptops will predictably disconnect from wifi networks, for years).

Unrelated to balenaEtcher but I haven’t been able to flash ISO files from Windows 11, either by using Rufus, Etcher, Fedora Media Writer, or even the WSL. I need to borrow a computer running a FLOSS operating system or to install OpenBSD first, and then from OpenBSD to download and burn an ISO file.

https://circle.gnome.org/? Never tried their ISO software, I just use dd.

I wasn’t talking to you. This is none of your business.

Sorry, missed the Office part but both Cozy Cloud and Nextcloud support OnlyOffice. It’s 12€/month at Cozy Cloud though, and the service is France-centric… For now.

You’re missing the point. I will source my post (because I’m a nice and, frankly, jobless person) even tho I was answering to the OP, because this is a public document.

But you’re the one coming out of the wood with baseless claims. Every serious privacy guide claims that you shouldn’t use OpenPGP for opsec, which is well beyond degoogling anyway, so why are you even recommending ProtonMail over cheaper offers like Nubo, Mailo, or any other indie mail provider? Why are you suggesting another data silo in a degoogling community?

Coucou, en anglais j’utilise Emacs et Denote, pour plusieurs raisons :

• interface purement textuelle, ce qui implique une énorme satisfaction kinétique avec un clavier méca (C-u C-c C-c en Ergo-L :>)
• gestion de Markdown + Org => gestion des événements => compatibilité native Mastodon + Mobilizon,
• interopérable (tout est dans le titre),
• extensible (en Emacs-Lisp),
• Org, donc compatibilité avec la méthode PARA et elfeed-org dans la même syntaxe,
• possibilité d’export Beamer quasiment OOTB,
• possibilité de produire des diapositives de conf avec C-w, C-y, et TAB (au format PDF),
• Emacs donc compatibilité avec spray.el et nov.el,
• Emacs donc une interface unique pour tout (mêmes commandes, même thème pour Lemmy, lire des livres, gérer ses tâches, naviguer sur Gemini, chatter, et rédiger programmer des documents),
• Emacs donc documentation hors-ligne à travers les pages info et l’auto-description des commandes, variables, etc. (e.g. C-h v)
• Emacs donc accès à une excellente communauté insérée dans la recherche (logique, c’est le meilleur outil)…

lawn enforcement agencies

Good morning Sir,

Politics aside, the OpenPGPjs library would be a viable alternative with a client side checksum program, but sure enough, the builds are reproducible.

Until then, this isn’t even technically true.

For example, you can’t import your emails with the POP3 so when your mailbox gets full you can’t even pay for one month and download them all while deleting them from the server.

It isn’t usable for free accounts and there was pre-4.0 a cult-like trend on the support subreddit to disclose your tier. I’m not aware of any moderation post, or note, asking users to stop this practice (u/ProtonMail was listed as a mod account).

I was going to add sources anyway, I’ve only had 3 hours of sleep last night, but you need to understand that we don’t owe you resources. I, for one, don’t know you. I wasn’t talking to you when you approached me with a nominal sentence, and you need to acknowledge that you base your tone on the assumption that I didn’t consent to this conversation.

So of course I’m still considering blocking you. Going this route, you would keep the same entitled, passive-offensive tone.

As rude as it is, people will only adapt to this by drawing boundaries in a more cohesive, efficient way. You need to check your attitude, and to embrace the resource-centric nature of the internet. Improve your tooling.

Thank you.

Tired. In auto-pilot mode for the last 3 hours.

Part of it is based on the OpenPGP standard itself, e.g. you only need the passphrase to decrypt your emails, not to encrypt them and certainly not to change your settings.

Part of it is based on experience.

Part of it actually needs a few sources; the Lavabit part is speculative but solid, there are bread crumbs all over the web.

I’m tired but:

• you’d need to compare the checksums of their web-based cryptography at every login,
• you could use their bridge but you’d need to give your OpenPGP passphrase to change your settings, for no reason
• they have the CIA at their administration council,
• they have an history of unethical behavior toward Twitter survivors,
• they have an history of spreading conspiracy theories,
• they have an history of contacting hosting providers asking them to remove blog posts,
• they didn’t share the Lavabit fundraiser so they could get quietly issued a US National Security Letter (overriding the First Amendment and preventing Ladar from appealing),
• they can access to your entire mailbox anyway, not just to the email contents,
• this has enabled the arrest of Social and Climatic Justice activists, they replied they couldn’t resist a Swiss court order (so that’s not their fault I guess, the tech is just bad)…

Why would you trust them for your opsec, and why would you enable them further?

Alternatives include Disroot, Nubo, and Zaclys.

#Proton #ProtonMail

As a CEO you may either attract more contents creators by paying them more or by lowering the quality of your editorial curation. It means you may either risk bankruptcy or knowingly foster depression at a global scale, unless like Mozilla’s Pocket you chose to piggyback on a decentralized model and have no skin in the game.

People have brought up Kendrick Lamar but I’m sorry, he’s never been recommended by my partner’s Spotify account. Not even once.

Some people recommend dual booting. I recommend having at least one cheap SBC in your home that’s dedicated to running Linux, and eventually to keep Windows on big enough machines for professional work, video games, and so on.

But the kids? Sure, they should run Linux, unless specified otherwise by their schools, until they’re old enough to decide by themselves.

I’d encourage you to push for free software if you’re stuck on Windows, but that’s another issue, I just think you might keep this machine on Windows and install Linux on a lowtech computer. It depends on what you need Linux for but with my eeePC the only bottleneck is the web.

On doit agir en France aussi.

Au début du génocide du peuple palestinien, une camarade qui, à mon humble avis, est l’une des raisons principales pour lesquelles l’implication de mon syndicat met les patrons dans la merde (il y en a d’autres, mais elle en fait partie) a défendu le fait de ne pas perdre de vue la Françafrique pour éviter les dérives antisémites d’une fixette anti-Israël.

(Ce qui ne veut pas dire que l’État d’Israël ne doive pas être combattu, mais ça passerait par une pratique de lecture de documentation historique quasiment inexistante dans le milieu militant français, cela se ferait plus généralement dans le cadre d’une nécessaire et essentielle perspective internationaliste – mais toutes choses égales par ailleurs nous pouvons agir de manière plus efficace contre la Françafrique que contre les exports d’armes par les États-Unis.)

Je te rejoins totalement sur le fait que l’on doive agir prioritairement pour les droits des minorités en France, et contre l’impérialisme e.g. de Bolloré. De nombreuses luttes anti-impérialistes doivent être menées, mais dans une organisation saine et pérenne cela passe par un travail de veille, au sein d’une commission où la présence est, par définition, facultative.

(Il en va de même avec les logiciels libres, le graphisme, la veille parlementaire, etc. : oui, les déclarations de Ruffin et de Bardella sont importantes, mais dans le cadre d’une organisation de défense des salarié·es. On n’a pas à discuter de leurs derniers livres dans des salons généraux.)

Indépendamment de ce que l’on peut faire ici et là, je te suggère évidemment de rejoindre une organisation si ce n’est pas déjà’fait, et n’hésite pas à faire des pauses quand tu en ressens le besoin. 🫂

Merci !

Comme répondu à Snoopy (mais il y a vraiment deux minutes), c’est contre l’enfermement des personnes malades, contre la contrainte, héritées de l’Ancien Régime.

L’objectif est de mieux soigner en accompagnant plutôt qu’en enfermant. Un exemple peut être le groupe d’entraide Les Entendeurs de voix, des personnes schizophrènes qui ne tentent pas de supprimer leurs voix mais de les rendre bienveillantes.

Try spending 5-7 hours a day, for years, on a stupid website and you’ll figure it out.

I’m speechless with the way this community, not just you, has reacted – i.e. sure, I’m sorry for the leaps in my reasoning, but it precisely was the point.

Hi, sorry I was logged out due to 2FA, and I didn’t really try to log back until now.

I agree about the “unusual leap of contextual logic made to connect Twitter to Emacs”. For my defense, repeating the same idea over and over is exhausting, and this is precisely how social media addicts use microblogging.

I don’t have the time to answer right now, I know from experience it would take several A4 pages, but thank you for the kind answer.