bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@niclas of course, i think i have been for a long time because of free software ;) was more about how warped ethics are now.

while we are at it, any stuff you'd recommend to read?

@tyil @mia @jollyrogue @nuclear@mstdn.io
yes, coc is a red flag because of the people who like it, not the contents.

contents are a given for sane people, and you don't need a coc to swing the banhammer or to fork stuff for that matter.

@vwbusguy @jollyrogue @nuclear@mstdn.io "uninstall proof". this is so childish it could be right off of twitter.

and i don't even know what nuclear is xD

you know, with polite diplomats and politicians i could even imagine siding with the ukraine. as it stands they have the most annoying and corrupt people imaginable. the new ambassador in germany is AGAIN saying that germany is "too slow" with delivering the gibsmedats.

the real evil shit though is that he says we shouldn't take in russians who fled the draft:

> "There are young men fleeing, who have no regrets, but still want to avoid military service and end up waving Russian flags and driving through German cities in motorcades," the ambassador told the newspaper. These are a "security risk" not only for Germany, but also "for all young Ukrainian women with their children, who in the end would have to sit opposite these men in refugee shelters".

(from german: https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-sonntag-219.html#Makejew )

this is so wrong on so many levels it's hard to take apart.

- we literally took in MILLIONS of young men from cultures much more foreign than russia. some of _those_ really are a "security risk", you can frequently read about it in the news when someone is stabbed again.

- russians seem to be viewed as subhuman by the reasoning of the ambassador. the line with the poor women and children insinuating that they all will be raped by russian beasts is a fucking classic! maybe putins "denazification" is right after all?

- i never have seen a russian motorcade - only one by turks after turkey won a football game. i never had a problem with anyone eastern european. hell i never have seen a russian flag waved anywhere. or ukrainian for that matter, that only started recently and is done by german statist npcs from what i saw.

i'd really take anything else than clown world now, thank you.

@Nelenese @maxmustermann this is your brain on "german normie".

@dusnm
i do see the comparison, i'd argue that instant message protocols are a bit different: you don't choose a tool which has no influence on others, but on everyone using it.

people receiving the mail can read it in a web mail UI or in mutt. if there just is no federation in a messenger, i have no choice but to use a single server.

the editor example is pretty good: you can write a mail with notepad or with vi, as the interface is "text". just to compare, you can't have features like "doesn't break when cloudflare breaks" or "can't be taken down completely by governments" with centralized protocols.
@oklomsy @aral @LunaDragofelis @selea

@dusnm
i think that the problems software solves can't be made easier infinitively. at some point making things "easier" means cutting functionality. you can optimize the representation of a problem (and solution), but going further will change the problem.
@oklomsy @aral @LunaDragofelis @selea

@Shiroyasha
very shiny! i do like the case, it has a nice design

@dusnm
i don't get the reasoning that things have to _match_ the already existing taste and knowledge of people.

some time ago, people were first using whatsapp, or telegram or android or an iphone. they just learned how to use those things.

if something else requires learning, people will learn it if it has something in exchange. things like "cloudflare is broken, again, but i still can send messages here, cool".

if we are stuck in perpetually replicating commercial software, we will forever fail. we don't use our greatest strength that we don't have to amass "sales".

look, the normies managed to ruin everything even when NOT using linux. the _idea_ of "normies will use this" gave birth to so many things (consolekit, pulse, systemd, etc.) that are technically unsound, it's not even funny anymore.

thus i'm heavily opposed to cater to their needs. either people want to use good tools, or they don't. not showing them in the first place is the wrong choice.

@oklomsy @aral @LunaDragofelis @selea

@dusnm
if you are skeptical about it, why are you even here? just use twitter, it's what the people use!

we will be stuck in the mediocre world of the lowest common denominator forever. so many good ideas died because of this reasoning, especially in IT.

@oklomsy @aral @LunaDragofelis @selea

@dusnm if nobody bothers to switch to CIAgnal anyway .. why shouldn't i try to have them switch to something actually good and federated in the first place? in fact xmpp or matrix have one more friend there than signal: me.
@oklomsy @aral @LunaDragofelis @selea