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@MarkRuffalo

"National debt" is not a real debt as explained by , check Stephanie Kelton's book "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" for an introduction.

Also Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) wrote some articles on it.

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Tobias Bernard

Some friends and I were discussing why we do free software even though it often means doing tons of work for little or no money.

I think for me some major factors are the personal agency you have over the work (independent from employers/investors) and the potential for longevity that comes with having your work be part of the commons (projects can't be acquired and killed).

That kind of unalienated relationship to your creative output is very rare outside of maybe fine arts or entertainment.

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@mnf 🤣🤣🤣

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@mnf

FYI (lemmy.ml) is an alternative to Reddit that is decentralized like Mastodon using , so it's part of the and you can interact with it from here.

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@andric

Does this person really think being Open Source is a bad thing?

Anyway you seem to be talking about graph databases: why the user should care if an app uses a graph database or a relational database?

Instead in that thread it seems they are talking about apps having a graph view, that is cool but who cares, it's not a key feature.

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@pluralistic

Nice, we recently got The Deficit Myth by Kelton and there were Mosler essays around as well. And articles translated on retemmt.it/ and mmtitalia.info/

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@atomicpoet

I wish you the best bro

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@pluralistic

Ah OK, welcome! I have spread MMT in Italy since 2011 but I am not very aware of the latest developments in the English-speaking area

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@pluralistic

Because you are challenging the dogmas of macroeconomics in a way that is vaguely reminiscent of a heterodox theory like MMT?

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@pluralistic

Never heard of and ?

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@atomicpoet

KDE is a community, not a DE, the DE is Plasma... and the platform is mostly Freedesktop with X11, Wayland, DBUS, Flatpak and so on. Plasma is just a Freedesktop-compatible DE.

BTW using the name of the kernel as the name of the desktop platform is something that just happened: it's how language works.

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@atomicpoet

Who cares, Bash is a shell like the others; with "Linux" we mean the desktop OS opposed to Windows and MacOS. You must look at this from desktop computing perspective, not the definition of OS by informatics textbooks.

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@atomicpoet

OK, be aware many use the term "Linux" as short for the desktop platform, not for the Linux kernel; it is a figure of speech.

Personally I don't understand which user can care if Android, ChromeOS or some embedded device uses Linux kernel or something else, it only matters to IT professionals or equivalent.

As an engineer who used only Linux distros as his desktop OS for 12 years, the only peculiarity I know about Linux kernel is that it has cgroups and namespaces that power containers that I use a lot.

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@atomicpoet

Please distinguish between Linux-the-kernel and Linux-the-desktop-platform. The latter is basically Freedesktop standards and projects, DEs like Plasma and GNOME and so on.

Who cares if the kernel is actually Linux-the-kernel or something else.

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Patrick Breyer

🇬🇧 Job opening!🚨No German language skills required 🚨 We are looking for a part-time campaigner for our “Stop #ChatControl” campaign. Submit your application until 31 January:
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@arnicas

More than ever we need and

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@aral @StayGrounded_net

What about Big Pharma and the war industry? How can we allow private individuals to profit from disease and war?

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@eric

> I say this as an attorney.

Well isn't that obvious for a lawyer? The Romans invented our legal system and they had two words for two distinct concepts: ius and lex.

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David Revoy

I'm sharing my 2023-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: davidrevoy.com/article953/krit

#MastoArt #krita

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@tbernard @nate

Same with KDE and some Freedesktop initiatives. There was even the effort to unify instant messaging services in Telepathy that was integrated with the system. Not to mention Nepomuk and semantic search.

We still have KIO to make remote or "virtual" resources appear as files and folders. And KRunner can still be used to provide some unified search but a few third party apps take advantage of it.

And sadly tabs in title bars to make windows behave more like browser tabs are gone.

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