Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 06:15:46 JST 
Alexandre Oliva
IMHO the freedom arises out of knowing that the software is harmful and thus choosing to avoid it. assuming you'll get more freedom by progressively giving others control over your computing and thus over you is as foolish as assuming that selling at a loss will earn you profits out of volume.
the path to freedom, individual and collective, is to inform users so that they understand that others are trying to control them through the software they use, that the more they give up their freedom the harder it is to recover it and the easier it is for others to gain further control over their lives, and to avoid reinforcing the constant push that exploiters impose on users to go along the path that is most advantageous to them (the exploiters, not the users). only then, when these harmful pushes are canceled out, they (the users) can choose freely. before that, it's an illusion of choice, too distorted by harmful influences to be free.
but yeah, you're free to harm yourself by poor software choices, and nobody's telling you otherwise. informing you that, by doing certain foolish things, you're sacrificing your freedom does not amount to stopping you from harming yourself; not handing you the manuals or the programs that you could use to harm yourself, that we don't even have ourselves, doesn't either. we just know that self harm won't help you in the long run, and that exploiters take advantage of short-term thinking to progressively increase their control over their victims, so we warn against that and don't help you with that. but ultimately it's your choice, and if you're determined to pursue self-harm and hand others control over your life, we can't stop you: we have no power over you.
however, if you try to spread ideas of self-harm to others, we will try to counter that by attempting to inform and to influence them just the same. it's not like it's your spreading of these ideas that requires us to act: there are more than enough pushers of user-harmful software out there already, so we've got plenty of work to do already. but it would be definitely nicer if, instead of making our job hardware, you'd help us by inviting users gently to climb the freedom ladder at their own pace instead of teaching them to disparage us, to conform and to be controlled like most everyone else.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 03:04:54 JST
Alexandre Oliva
reality check: do you really believe it is not possible to install nonfree software on any of the recommended distros? or are you spreading disinformation deliberately?
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 03:04:52 JST
Alexandre Oliva
these are unrelated questions. respecting your freedom doesn't entail preventing you from engaging in self harm. ideally, you'd have at least the senses to not harm others around you, but imposing that on you ahead of time so that you didn't have a choice would be like DRM.
now, software that takes control away from its users shouldn't even exist. when we get there, documentation on how to harm yourself by installing software that doesn't exist won't exist either, so it's not like having such documentation is necessary or desirable. but its inclusion shows where the includer stands: with the users, standing for their autonomy, or with those who wish to control the users through the software they use.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 16:02:44 JST
Alexandre Oliva
it feels a little weird. I thought I'd be the last person using gnu social when everyone else was part of the collective consciousness in the galactic singularity
but even that xkcd character moved on eventually
no objections to NIH software, as long as it's freedom-respecting -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 15:30:26 JST
Alexandre Oliva
it's anyone's guess. I don't think either of them talks much about economics
both have right and left wings too 😉
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 15:29:59 JST
Alexandre Oliva
not even the same species
different hygiene, politics, and honesty too
but one sees what one wants to see
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 15:28:23 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I used to be @lxo@gnusocial.net, @lxoliva@diasporabr.com.br, and more recently I've been @lxo@gnusocial.jp, but now I'm setting up my own instance in the Fediverse. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 15:28:17 JST
Alexandre Oliva
.nom.br is the Brazilian top-level for a person's name (nome, in pt), and it's grouped by surname subdomains, so the domain I registered was lx.oliva.nom.br, and then I set up a subdomain for snac. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 15:28:10 JST
Alexandre Oliva
that makes it two of us! I've used GNU for over 33 years, and GNU social (and its earlier incarnations) for 16 years next month. it's not without a lot of sadness that I decided to leave GNU social behind, but I'm just not competent to install, run and maintain so much code in a programming language I'm not competent at, and I did not feel so comfortable on an instance whose announcements I couldn't understand (it will be years before I can read enough Japanese for that), and that appears to request contributions from its members in ways I couldn't contribute or even understand. I didn't wish to be a burden, so I figured I had to run my own instance, and then I came across a fediverse server that is free software, lightweight and written in a programming language I'm fluent at, so my path became clear. I hope you carry the torch and keep the flame alive for a very very long time! live long and prosper in freedom! thanks,
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