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🌟 Thank you #RichardStallman for your inspiring talk at Politecnico di Milano!

It was my honor to introduce @rms to 300+ attendees who packed the auditorium to hear #RMS about digital freedom and unveil GNU Taler 1.0 (@Taler), a payment system ensuring:

✅ Buyer anonymity
✅ Tax transparency
✅ Resistance to surveillance capitalism
🔗 taler.net

Huge thanks to @fedimedia & @poul_polimi for their tireless efforts to bring you to Milan!

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The image depicts a large indoor gathering in a spacious room with high ceilings and arched windows, allowing natural light to fill the space. The room is filled with a crowd of people, mostly young adults, seated in rows of benches. Many individuals are wearing face masks, suggesting a health-conscious environment, possibly due to a pandemic. The attendees are focused on something in front of them, likely a speaker or presentation. Some people are standing in the aisle, possibly waiting for their turn to sit or to get a better view. The room has a formal atmosphere, with a sense of order and attentiveness among the crowd. The text "AMENTE CHIUSO" is visible on a sign, indicating that the room is closed or restricted. The overall scene suggests a public event, possibly educational or informational, held in a setting that accommodates a large number of participants.
#Stallman#Taler#GNU
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Giacomo Tesio
I wish you were right, but with its "Joint Statement on the GNU Project" #Guix joined the shitstorm that back then was after #RMS head.

Back then, #Stallman selflessly left #MIT and #FSF to protect them from the mob justice, so that "joint back-stab", published in that specific moment was not just a sort of virtue signaling but a plain attack.

So much that, two years later 9 of those people signed the infamous "RMS open letter" calling "for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation" that dared reinstantiate RMS and even for "Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project" out of lies.

The powers in place in 2021 were quite evident: just look at the sponsors of the signing organizations to find Google, Meta, Microsoft and all of their friends.

CC: @ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr
guix.gnu.orgJoint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU GuixBlog posts about GNU Guix.
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Giacomo Tesio
@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social

The #Guix leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.

I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for this personal attack to a neurodivergent #hacker such as #RMS.

It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend Minsky's memory from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on #BigTech social media) against RMS himself.

Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed an even worse attack built on top of lies.

These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.

Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among #Stallman fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly protected commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to #opensource and to the current use of #FreeSoftware by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.
Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for #GNU system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by #ESR to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of #hackers.

But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.

So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019.
guix.gnu.orgJoint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU GuixBlog posts about GNU Guix.
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Lorenzo Ancora :verified:

Public #poll : 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗺

stallman-report.org is a new website about #RMS (@rms) , appearing to be in opposition with stallmansupport.org

The #StallmanReport website is co-authored by @drewdevault , lead developer of SourceHut.

Both developers are important #freesoftware activists; both websites tackle important social issues within the FSF/GNU through opinionated articles.

Which perspective do you find most compelling?

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Chris is.

Christ, what a mess the Free Software community (and the #FSF) is.

stallman-report.org/ is exhaustive and damning and while I knew nearly all of it already, to see it in one coherent whole with citations and supporting evidence is amazing work. Much respect also to the people who fought to mitigate his damage.

Stallman needs to have gone, to go, and to be gone from this community.

(careful, too; the same URL but with .com appended is being used to link to a manifesto supporting #RMS)

The Stallman reportThe Stallman reportOctober 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.
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bojkotiMalbona

@dangillmor This further reinforces what #RMS has been saying for over 20 years, which essentially boils down to: #ebooks enable publishers to bring the shrink-wrap licensing terms of software to books for the purpose of disempowering consumers.

Stallman was right, again.

But I must say it’s hard to derive much sympathy for #InternetArchive considering they are censoring the #deCloudflare project, perhaps as a consequence of their partnership with #Cloudflare.

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diana 𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓻𝔂 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱

I want to tell a story. This is the story why I started using Linux. And why I had no Microsoft products in my house since.

That year was 1997. Computers on the manufacturing floor at work were mostly open hardware Z80 controlled GE/Fanuc PLC’s… or PC’s running a several kilobyte assembly language program connected to parallel port I/O boards. And that older stuff worked like a top 24/7/365 unless the power went out or someone accidentally blasted the steam seals near the desktop computer. They were controlling large production lines long as football fields.

Then some engineer who I will never forgive decided to rewrite all the production machine systems in Visual Basic for Windows 95. Windows and other proprietary systems were crashing like crazy. Remember, this is when Windows didn’t use memory page protection and was filled with kernel bugs. It was unreal. If a machine had to be restarted, the production had to be restarted and that made a lot of scrap. There were about 30 active production lines running at one time, limited to the 1.6 megawatt agreement with the utilities. If all the Windows machines crashed, it took about 80,000 pounds of raw materials to restart the production lines. Forklifts would be filling up the dumpster on the back dock.

Every night at midnight, proprietary software known as #BackupExec would start at midnight. After about half an hour, the load average would increase on the #Oracle database and crash it. Every production machine would routinely push the production report and would crash the entire production line if it wasn’t there to sync. The whole plant would shut down shortly after midnight, every night. After a week, this got old, fast.

One night, I had a life changing event with a #Windows machine. An operator called on the radio that a plastic extruder was on fire. It was a 330,000 kilowatt PVC extruder and the Microsoft Visual Basic computer was showing zero degrees on every heat zone. Obviously with the fire from the barrel heaters, it was at least several hundred degrees. A few moments later was a loud explosion and the plant floor went dark with chlorine gas. I could see light to the right of me and that’s where I ran. When smoke cleared, I could see the extruder barrel had shot the thousand pound steel head across the plant floor like a canon. Fortunately I was several feet away from being in front of it, so I lived. Visual Basic had an interesting feature where malfunctions like that happened a lot.

That week, a copy of #Redhat Linux 4.1 arrived in the mail. I installed it on my new laptop. It was crazy fast. It did everything I wanted. I compiled the kernel. I compiled everything. It could play mp3 music. And it was reliable. It was all fun and games until some years after the #IPO. Google did the same thing. I would soon learn we had a term for this. #enshitification

So this is why I love free open source software and despise walled gardens of software companies. I remember #RMS on #UseNet was a bit crazy then, but he made the #GNU software license that made this possible.

That’s my #Linux story. And how #Microsoft almost killed me. Other people have Microsoft horror stories, but this one was mine. What #software from hell changed your life?

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WuMing2

#emacs for #macos user. I know it’s powerful and lightweight. But can’t find a grip on it. As example there’s no standard installation. The one bundled by Apple with the system I have was compiled without mouse support. The one installed via #homebrew has it but is a tad slow. The one on my #alwaysdata instance exposes a menu bar but doesn’t respond to touch when accessed via iPad. Mouse support was added by #rms itself long ago. But it’s generally used?

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