Basically, what we’re saying to people today is:
You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.
What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?
Oh, then suffer.
I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?
You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.
What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?
Oh, then suffer.
I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•Either one has to sell their soul to some corporation or suffer...
No matter if it's #GigWork [#UberEats] , #GrindWork [Any fast food job] or whatever...
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•And since #NUCbook and other projects go against #SurveillanceCapitalism, #PlannedObsolescence and/or other #Rentseeking they won't get funded.
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/nucbook
GitHub - KBtechnologies/nucbook: A modular & open design 13" Notebook that can be customized and upgraded to fit user's needs
GitHubMiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
•And just out of curiosity - why is a project that is supposed to be against #SurveillanceCapitalism being hosted on a site that undoubtedly belongs to #SurveillanceCapitalism ? Well, unless we exclude (for convenience? Because not for lack of other options) #microsoft from it....
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•Because it's not financially viable to #SelfHost it!
Also #GPLv3 is a sufficient deterrent...
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/nucbook/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•Do you criticize #Prisoners from the USA for "being part" of a for-profit incarceration system??
I want you to think about this for a minute...
https://soc.citizen4.eu/display/94d43991-9964-b7dc-61eb-bef311031412
MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
2023-07-19 12:51:45
MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
•And do you feel you are a prisoner of Microsoft and Gooogle that you write like that ? I could understand it if github or youtube were the only tools in their field. But thanks to the people who put a lot of work into their #foss / #decentralised alternatives, we no longer have to be prisoners of Microsoft and Google.
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•Needless to say that my projects only create cost on Microsoft's end and no profit whatsoever as I never even paid a single cent to them.
If they ever go full asshole onto me I'd just move the project when the need exists.
Meanwhile it's irrelevant for a #git where it's hosted.
I just have neither the time nor budget nor spoons to setup a #GitLab or #Gitea at this point...
Kevin Karhan :verified:
•MiKlo:~/citizen4.eu$💙💛
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