What projects are you working on, if I may ask?
DeckPacker
I am a guy from southern germany. I like scouting, trains and computers. Politically, I would consider myself as a democratic socialist.
This is not my main instance anymore, my new account is !DeckPacker@piefed.social
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You shouldn’t have to justify your identity. Sexulatity are just labels, it doesn’t really matter. Just identify as what you want / feel comfortable with!
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If people can’t afford to do anything, then they don’t have freedom.English
1·24 days agoThat’s basically the difference between positive and negative freedom.
Negative freedom is the freedom from restrictions (like nobody prohibiting you from walking) while positive freedom is the ability for you to do something (like being able to walk)
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
3·1 month agoAnarchism doesn’t mean, there are no rules. Read the wikipedia article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
3·1 month agoThat was indeed a really interesting read! It really made me think more deeply about software licencing. I didn’t quite understand what the authors problem with GPLv3 was though? That the companies are scared of it? Isn’t that kind of a good thing? I don’t want amazon to make massive profits off of my work, because if that’s possible to do, then that would necessarily mean, that my goal as a developer (to protect my work from exploitation while helping the common good) isn’t working. I am curious what you have taken away from the essay though? How do you protect your code from corporate exploitation?
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
11·1 month agoWow, I didn’t think, I would get such an interesting book recommendation out of this. Thank you so much!
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
7·1 month agoFree software works though?? Also if you want some real world examples of anarchist-like principles being applied in praxis, without fascism, look up Rojava or the Zapatista-Movement.
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
4·1 month agoIsn’t protecting workers from exploration on of the core goals of communism?
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
3·1 month agoI mean, it’s less about the intention and more about the reality of software development. Just because the developers back then didn’t chose to do software development in an anarchist way (although I think a lot of them had that kind of mindset), doesn’t mean, that they didn’t do it using anarchist principles.
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
10·1 month agoAlright, thanks ;)
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
21·1 month agoAre you shure about that? Because that would mean, that every piece of software, that hasn’t been released to the public would automatically be free software, which would make the label pretty meaninglessness.
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
14·1 month agoSorry for being a bit of an idiot, but what is praxis?
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Do you consider the free software movement to be an anarchist/communist project?English
142·1 month agoWhile I agree, that Marxism-Leninism or Russian-Style “communism” have nothing to do with free software, I would also not call them real communism. Marx litteraly defined communism as a classless, stateless society. There is no such thing as a communist state. I also would argue, that free software is fundamentally anti-capitalist, because it rejects the basis of capitalism, which is private ownership of the means of production (which in this case would be software). So, in my opinion you cannot simultaneously believe that capitalism is the best way to organize software development while believing that free software is the best way to organize software development.

Yeah, I was looking for that info, because I don’t trust any (especially new projects, that use AI).
How did you know, it was AI though? I am just curious