#Hacking #Capitalist Realism: on serendipity, social innovation and emancipatory #politics
Not much, actually.
I mean, do you really pretend a #US artist has ever read the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights?
That's not fair at all! 🤣
And it's not even correct.
Read articles 18, 19 and 12.
No mention about #Government.
Such restriction exists only in the mind of those who have a problem with #FreeSpeech.
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
Shamar
boosted
Author tricks #amazon into distributing union materials to its own employees via book cover #theverge https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20907399/amazon-mike-monteiro-book-cover-labor-union-attention-workers
Thanks to #WSL people can run #Linux tools on #Windows.
Think about it....
... a little more...
...nothing?
Let me give an hint: people can install an X server too (separately, either ##Xming or #Cygwin).
Nothing yet?
Ok, last tip: you can install #xpdf from #Debian #GNU / Linux.
Nothing?
🤦♂️
You can teach people how to read #DRM protected #PDF on #Microsoft Windows.
But that's not the most interesting lesson you can teach them.
Through this DRM violation you can show them how fragile is #Capitalism. 😉
And it's even more general: there are always ways to subvert an oppressive system, usually provided by the oppressors themselves.
Shamar
boosted
Shamar
boosted
Shamar
boosted
Sesame Street, a show created for public access television to help kids from low-income families learn to read and write, is being put being a paywall which will prevent the kids who most need it from accessing it.
The past 50 seasons are also included in that so they can't be streamed anywhere else.
Fuck capitalism.
Pirate Sesame Street.
The problem (apart from capitalism, obviously) is that people can't code.
So while it's obvious to hackers that the best outcome is when code is and is kept in the commons, to most people the only advantage of #FreeSoftware is that it's free as in beer.
They cannot really study, modify and distribute forks of the software they use, be it proprietary or not.
To change this state of things we need to work on at least two aspect of our society: #Culture and #Technology.
We need systems designed to compose and we need to teach people why and how to code and debug.
Then people will find unacceptable to not being able to hack their own software.
Shamar
boosted
@niconiconi @xj9 In certain cases, copyleft probably makes things more accessible than the abolition of copyright would.
But on the whole, the main thing stopping you from reverse-engineering that unreadable binary blob and sharing your knowledge is not the obfuscation, it's the copyright.
But on the whole, the main thing stopping you from reverse-engineering that unreadable binary blob and sharing your knowledge is not the obfuscation, it's the copyright.
Shamar
boosted
End copyright
@clacke @nepfag@pl.smuglo.li @xj9 Hmm. If you are pro-copyleft, are you really sure copyleft is not needed when copyright is abolished? Sure, without copyright, all programs and code can be used for all purposes, but still, nothing prevent someone to sell a huge and unreadable binary blob. In a sense, proprietary software thrives by itself regardless of the existence of copyright thanks to the unreliability of machine code.
Shamar
boosted
At least it has a bit of irony...
@erlequin @AbbieNormal @ekaitz_zarraga
Nice article.
It's a pity for the last line about millennials. I just think (and hope) that Selam Jie Gano was too young and politically naive to understand what she did. I think (and hope) she has been subtly but effectively manipulated.
I hope that, in the long run, she will understand this and rebel. She looks smart... so there is a little hope despite she being so immersed in US culture.
For the rest, I think Ebersol is quite right. Thanks for sharing!
I'd argue it's not the same movement, actually.
You are talking about #OpenSource, @erlequin talks about #FreeSoftware.
Shamar
boosted
@AbbieNormal @ekaitz_zarraga @Shamar Maybe you should grow up and do not act in a naiv way. There always have been people trying to do harm to the free software movement. Apart from an orchestrated witch hunt there isn't anything that could have been dig up against him.
pclosmag.com/html/Issues/20191…
pclosmag.com/html/Issues/20191…
Shamar
boosted
#pertutti: se volete iniziare un pc windows con account locale ed evitare la registrazione di un account ms, in fase di installazione non attaccatevi alla rete
I think it's pretty easy.
If he did any crime, he should have been processed in a court.
And with him all people who haven't reported his crime: they were all accomplices.
If he didn't do any crime, what happened is a violation of #RMS #human rights. In particular article 18, 19 and 12.
That's it.
Why everybody is happy about this? Because RMS do not belong to any of the minorities that populate the remorse of #US people.
He is a #hacker.
He is too #weird.
He doesn't worship #profit!
So for the #mainstream he doesn't deserve #human's #rights.
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
Overall, I think #RMS case taught everybody we really need international #ThoughtCrime Laws.
I have the #right to know what I can #think and what not.
I want the right to a due process.
As an alternative I propose the abolition of Courts. We should replace them with a #GAFAM directed crowd of #cowards that lynch people they don't like.
I guess #Google and #Facebook will be very happy to donate the whole infrastructure for #free.
And if it's free... who care about #freedom?
In a way... 😒
I think I'll write something about this hegemony of totalitarian hypocrisy.
Now we all know that #OSS won.
#FreeSoftware is not about #Freedom. #Software is not a form of #expression. #FSF don't give a shit about neither #CivilRights nor #FreedomOfExpression.
And #GNU is full of the same kind of people.
#OpenSource is winning!
Join https://freesw.org/
Welcome #Newspeak!
Welcome #DoubleThink!
This is the new-GNU world!
🤮
Shamar
boosted
Fatemi capire @microsoftitalia@twitter.com perchè devo per forza creare un account quando avvio un nuovo pc? E perchè devo dirvi quando sono nato? E perchè devo per forza impostare un PIN? no words.....
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
