No, I don’t think that’s sustainable, nor is it sustainable to act as if it were true. Given the lack of resources we have compared to Google or Meta et al., the only way to make it work is to stick with something for the long run, and bake in protections in both the technology and the organisational structure. Being opensource and federated goes a long way there, there’s no real reason why something not for profit would have to enshittify. But people won’t put in the effort to keep building it if they think that’s inevitable.

People from Berlin call themselves Berliners, nobody thinks they mean the donut.

If you use arch (btw) it still does

Cars’ buttons need to be used while preferably not looking at them, that’s a pretty different situation to a smartphone

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Will you develop medicine for free?

Medicine development is almost completely done in Universities with tax money, pharma company budgets are almost completely marketing. So yes, we already do that

That doesn’t sound like a positive outcome…

absurd take, literally everyone cares about standards of living, it is almost tautological

Could you give some examples of where this has worked in the past?

They just said “the economy” because they don’t want to admit it’s racism

If you already don’t use Google apps, and your bank app doesn’t ban graphene, there shouldn’t be any issues at all tbh

Fairphone would need to substantially modify their hardware to make that work

This reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) Mozart quote where a student asked him to teach them how to write a symphony, and was told “start with something more simple and short, for one instrument”. The student complained “but you have been writing symphonies since you were a child!”. The reply: “yes, but I didn’t have to ask how”.

The application of this idea here is that for someone to know the requirements for their system to the degree that they can really be sure that the most typical suggestions are not sufficient for them, they probably have to understand how the kernel handles swap and RAM to an extent that they don’t really need to ask this question.

People are very ready to assume that their system is way out of the ordinary, but it probably isn’t.

Mastodon doesn’t have low character limits, it’s not terrible for having a conversation

The US does have a homicide rate 3-10 times greater than other developed countries and a gun death rate 20-50 times greater than other developed countries, and in line with Guatemala, El Salvador etc.

Just because it’s not a strictly linear increase with the number of guns does not mean they aren’t causative.

In fact, that statistic is deliberately misleading because you can only really murder people with one gun at once, so the more guns you own, the less likely any individual gun is to be a murder weapon.

You take out the yolks and add stuff to them, so they take up more space…

Hoe dan dat ik er nog nooit van gehoord heb? 'k heb ook nog nooit in Nederland geleefd, er zijn veel dingen die ik niet ken. Alleen een beetje de taal bijhouden hebben mijn ouders wel voor gezorgd, maar niet dat ik wist wat zo’n eitje was.

Omg, nog nooit van gehoord maar dat moet ik een keer proberen

Idk, has potential but I’m pretty sure cops are very hierarchical and not supposed to beat up their bosses

Yeah but people actually do that, as opposed to the edgy preteen nonsense above