Thursday, the EU launched a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons. During this launch, EU & national authorities were *crystal clear* on how large our digital autonomy challenges are in the Trump era. I delivered a keynote in which I outlined how dependent we are technically and culturally on US big tech, and I offered some modest advice: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/
Fair. I don't have that problem (Debian IRC is mostly on OFTC, which never encountered the freenode shitshow), but indeed libera is not as active as freenode once was.
There is libera.chat which is everything freenode was, except "owned by a crazy Bitcoin person who thinks he's the Prince of Korea"
@ariadne @lynn
The Exim version of that is:
- Make sure you have an ACL configured for acl_smtp_data
- In that ACL, add the following:
require message = Gmail confidential emails not accepted here
condition = ${if def:header_x-gm-locker:{no}{yes}}
Three bugs appear.
“Ah, with my senior software developer senses I detect these are in fact not three separate bugs, but a single bug manifesting in different ways. A greener developer would have fallen into this trap and spent all day chasing shadows!”
*7 hours of struggling*
They are three separate bugs.
Because if you're going to insist I must be upset about your other causes, why stop there?
That's why I don't do it, and why I say that the cause of free software, *while related* to other causes, is still not the same.
@violetmadder
In the mean time, while you go off and do all that, I'll sit here making sure you can actually do that without being spied upon, by contributing to an operating system you can trust to do what you want it to do, not what some shitty billionaire halfway across the world wants.
And I'll do it on my terms, which is that anyone can use what I produce for any purpose, because that to me is the most core of all cores to free software. And that includes you using
I'm not apolitical for having different political opinions to you.
I have only so much time in a day to care, so I prioritise. If you go and organise a protest against Google and that manages to make them slightly less evil, more power to you. I might even join (if it's within my means to do so). But it's not something that keeps me up at night. It's not my priority.
I'm not saying your cause is wrong, just that there are other causes that I find more important.
@violetmadder Also, my "I'm not going to comment on that in public" is specifically about the sponsorship for FOSDEM and is related to me being a FOSDEM organizer.
It should not be read as a "I think google is great and everything is fine" with a dog in a burning room.
There's a reason why I use firefox, duckduckgo, and my own mailserver, ffs
I also don't think things are quite that bleak, but then that might have something to do with me not being in the same country as you.
@violetmadder You seem upset, you should take a breather.
I can agree with people on the cause of Free Software without agreeing on all their other causes.
And I'm not saying which causes; I agree with most of what you say, though not quite as angrily. It's just that there's a time and a place for everything, and a conference about "free software" is not the same thing as a conference about "privacy", even if the two are related.
@ben 40 is a number, not an explanation, but you obviously are not interested in an actual conversation and only in more insults, so, plonk.
@ben So what's your background then? Obviously you think you know better, so educate me. Why should I believe you, and not my 25 years of actual fucking experience in the field?
Or are you just someone else who believes "my beliefs are the only valid ones and if you disagree you're an idiot"? That way lies facism.
I've explained my opinions. It's OK if you disagree with them, and I'm happy to have a civilized discussion about them, but don't insult me just because you disagree.
@freakazoid I'm saying that for an organization, it's not possible or desirable to form an opinion about everything. I don't think FOSDEM has an opinion on privacy, human rights, or democracy, even though most of its members do (some quite vocally so).
I'm saying it's OK for FOSDEM to be like that, as long as the opinion on free software is there and is clear.
I'm personally worried by the current backslide to facism, but it's not something I deal with in the context of FOSDEM.