Man i’m a platypus, what did you expect?

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.orgtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What was your gateway product to open source?
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    10 months ago

    For me, Blender was probably my very first introduction into FOSS. I was using it because it was free, but I also liked the concept behind having a useful software the people used everyday to make cool projects like movies and animated shows. I did a project on it in. What really got me down the rabbithole was Debian. I had come across it in computer class, and I really liked the interface. i did more research and came to love Debian for being a stable distro run by the community. From thereit’s history.

  • TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.orgtoSocialism@beehaw.org•We Need a Library EconomyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To add something else:

    Maybe also in addition to a library economy (which is used to maintain things for the public), we could have a salvage economy (for recycling older things) that feeds into that. I remember one time hearing a presentation about this building called the Kendeda Building, and during its construction, instead of throwing the materials away, the salvaged usable building materials and used those to build the new building, preventing some yseful things from going to the landfill. I think a salvage economy could be useful to the library economy because older unused things can still repurposed for use.

  • TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Let the Platforms BurnEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i want to watch the corporations burn too. but we’re losing something we’ll never get back.

    This perfectly highlights the precarious situation we are in. We have collectively decided to put A LOT of Internet history on a few centralized places that don’t really care about data as profit, and now it is coming back to bite us in the rear. We will lose a lot of history that we can never easily get back, whether it is deleted, or siloed behind a login/paywall screen.

    Take, for example, Twitter burning down. It affects everyone negatively. Think of all the important conversations going on about race, gender, sexuality, and protests and movements, that will be lost to time. Think of all the artist who have posted work on there, only to discover they have to shift to a new platform literally overnight because no one can see their artwork and there is a mass exodus. Think of how good reputable news sources are becoming even more fragmented as reputable, trustworthy actors flee Twitter, turning it into a swamp of misinformation and disinformation.

    Now take this scenario, and spread it across all the major sites, keeping in mind how all sites rely on each other to be useful, so damage becomes exponentially worse as more large sites decide to do restrictive policies that trap users and data within their sites. As a result, information cannot travel as freely between boundaries. Now taking into account all the damage that has been done, the Internet won’t be the frontier of possibility and community as it once was, but rather another cash cow, and medium of distribution: it will become like a more interactive version of TV.

    I wish we could go back to the mid 2000s/early 2010s era of the Internet…I miss those days… Sorry for doom ranting a little, it’s just the Internet as a concept is important to me.