Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 74

@catileptic @JulianOliver Thanks, Alecs :) Let me have a little think and get back to you. Would love to have your help in updating it :)

@starlabssystems Related talk: https://ar.al/talks/#design-or-decoration

@starlabssystems The only way Linux-based devices will compete successfully with the mainstream devices used by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing is if there are organisations that step up and accept responsibility for the whole *experience*. We need a “the buck stops here” approach to free and open source instead of “it’s an upstream issue” approach. And device manufacturers like StarLabs are the natural place for this.

#foss #design #experience #SmallTech

“One way to achieve the desired level of integration is to control the entire software stack, right down to the operating system … on a new technologically advanced operating system tentatively named ‘KDE Linux’”

This. Finally. Yes.👆

And, hopefully, folks like @starlabssystems can take this further and add hardware to the stack: e.g., The StarBook is designed for KDE Linux. You can run any distribution on it but everything works 100% on its default OS. https://floss.social/@akademy/113123668949310341

@W_Lucht Not to mention selling arms to Israel so they can carry out their own genocide as we speak.

Democracy is the right to choose between committing a fascist genocide or a joyous one.

#USPol #UnitedStates #USA #Israel #IsraeliAmericanGenocideOfThePalestinianPeople #Palestine #Gaza #WeetBank #apartheid #warCrimes #settlerColonialism #empire #genocide

@adelfaure 💕

“All of humanity could share a prosperous, equitable future but the space for development is rapidly shrinking under pressure from a wealthy minority of ultra-consumers, a groundbreaking study has shown.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/12/consumerism-and-the-climate-crisis-threaten-equitable-future-for-humanity-report-says

@JulianOliver @catileptic Reminds me that I should update this site sometime (if I ever get time to): https://cleanuptheweb.org

@TwraSun @Giliell @Bundesregierung You know you’re on the wrong side of history when the fascist sewer clowns start congratulating you.

@flaki Nope :)

@Nonilex Anytime! Thank you for putting in the effort :)

@OS1337 Sorry, can’t see that post. How’s it broken?

Excellent thread from last night’s US presidential debate by @Nonilex 👇

#Harris #Trump #Debate https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/113116242054100757

@phf Thanks!

Darn thing is, we’re the many, they’re the few. And their whole stupid system relies on their convincing us that the inverse is true; that we’re powerless when we’re the power they fear most.

Let’s build the alternatives so people can see that alternatives are possible and understand that they’re not beholden to living within the toxic confines of the teenage worldview of a handful of sexually frustrated Silicon Valley man-babies.

@phf I hear you but we don’t have to let the asshats determine how we do things. We don’t have to play by their rules. We can make tech differently.

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

@nando161 Alt text:

Screenshot of article from The Breach Investigations, Sep 4 2024

“Canadian mega landlord using Al 'pricing scheme' as it massively hikes rents

Software the U.S. government says is illegal gives landlords ability to coordinate rent hikes. Now it's being used in Canada by developer Dream Unlimited”

“AI is just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool” 🤔

“Assault rifles are just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool”

“The atom bomb was just a tool, it is silly to debate the morality of a tool”

pay attention to people who want to foreclose debate on the moral implications of consequential technologies.

the first of our rights to be lost is always our right to defend our own logic

@EdCates *smh*