Also, something I’d like to add (it may seem contrary to what I said before, but it stems from the same line of thinking).

Everyone changes the world, for better or worse.

It doesn’t have to be a revolution or anything, you can change the world in so many ways.

The most important thing is to be an upstanding, good person. You can change the world through community, you can help your friends out, when they are in trouble. You can help your friends through just having a good time with them. You can reflect on life with the people you love, try to offer them new perspectives. You can help random strangers. You can make inspiring art.

You can raise confident, smart children, that may change the world themselves one day, either as a parent or a caregiver or teacher.

Fundamentally, Facism is about hate and left wing ideas are about love. So we can win by just increasing empathy in the world.

For me, I believe that free software can liberate us, and also I just love to code and be a nerd. So I contribute to free software projects online, I helped my mom and a friend of mine install Linux. I helped my scouts move to Nextcloud and Jitsi.

Change is about exploring new ways to use any skills you have to make small impact, which will maybe eventually bear bigger fruit than you might have thought. And if not, then you just made your life, or maybe the life of people you love a bit better, and that’s also great.

Of course, it’s also great to go to demonstrations, join political orgs etc. I just found for me, that I don’t have that kind of energy in me, so I focus on other things. That might also change someday.

Changing the world is mostly about your attitude on life.

I feel like, that’s exactly what I said.

And that changes nothing, because we either try to change the world or give up.

And the world as it currently is is not acceptable to me, so I try to change it.

You can still be part of the change.

And also that is a gross overgeneralisation, it’s not like schools were full of revolutionaries a decade ago, and today I definitely feel like more people are ready to do something, especially since Trump took office.

Just look at the success of Mamdani or the no Kings protests.

Jacob Geller made a video about something that’s quite analogous, how we deal with the knowledge, that the world is going to end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9N7Awpk9lE

I highly recommend it, Jacob Geller is an excellent storyteller.

You can definitely change the world, have you ever heard of history? It’s full of revolutions, the french revolution, the civil rights movement, the workers rights movement / unions. How do you think, we achieved this relatively good living standard in the last 50 years?

Shure, changing the world will be hard as fuck and it could be years until you see any positive change from your behaviour, maybe your actions will only bear fruit after you died.

But the only thing we can / we have to do is try.

And attitudes like yours are exactly what fascists are counting on.

If you don’t want to do anything and just stick your head into the sand, I can’t stop you, I guess, but stop pretending you didn’t have a choice.

This is literally me. A friend of mine recently mentioned that they thought about installing Linux and I was instantly like “Please let me come over and install Linux with you” ;)

Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.

The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.

“War is peace”

OK, I am sorry, but I am pretty sure, your use of objectively is wrong here!

What empirical evidence are you basing this claim on?

What is corporate about Debian?

Postmarketos is looking pretty promising right now.

I mean, servers are definetively means of production in a marxist sense.

Ladybird is pretty much dead to me, firstly because the dev has some really bad right wing vibes (he said gender inclusive language is too political for his docs and retweeted a Nazi on Twitter). And secondly because the started using AI to move the code to Rust to make it more secure, which is insane if you know anything about AI or security.

My current hope is in servo, because they have much more capable maintainers and the project seems to make some good progress. Also they have daily builds on their website for every operating system, so you can already try it out easily (but don’t expect everything to work right now, they still need some time).

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Genuinely asking, why would you use FreeBSD when there already is Linux?

I think they have their own action system (https://codeberg.org/actions/meta), but I’ve never tried it. Maybe you can look into that?

My point about Microsoft was mainly because AI is harmful and often used in a hostile way against open source. Also the fact that Microsoft tries to own the whole free software ecosystem.

That looks amazing!

I don’t want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that’s actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.

Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self hostable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It’s also managed by a nonprofit and it’s pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.

What did he say, do you still have your job?

Yeah, don’t get me wrong, this is an insane law. It makes no sense and it is utterly ridiculous and dystopian.

I am just saying, that it is still manageable to continue, we shouldn’t give up. We should continue to fight against this law, but we can also realistically keep distributing our software regardless of this law.

I think, the age thing only has to be implemented by the operating system, not by every piece if software. We as app developers can then choose to use an API to age restrict our apps, if we want to.

We just have to make sure our app isn’t recognized as an operating system in itself.

But they could still just request the age bracket that is stored on the system at the time of download, no?

It’s not at all impossible, it just has to be implemented.