[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Who is that guy?

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Oh no...

I'm honestly pretty worried about people flying around the place on their own. It makes it so much easier to mess up, I believe, and way more dangerous than what cars currently are.

Hope they are reeeeally careful with how, or if they actually roll these out, because it could be such a nightmare...

And as always, fuck cars, and long live pedestrianization and public transit. It is technologicalny impressive, though, and the autopilot could be a lot better. But still...gives me the ick

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I really liked this. It kind of reminds me a bit of the last few chapters of Jason Hickel's How Degrowth Will Save The World. Where he talks about the intelligence of trees precisely, and the relationship indigenous tribes have with nature being a lot more like coexistance rather than exploitation. Nice read.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know how related it is to your question or topic, but I'm currently reading a book called Marx at the Arcade, and perhaps you would find it related to your chaos. Specially because it deals with the production or games, and also the nature of play, with a Marxist perspective.

Edit: I also made a post about an article I read, which also gives a summary of the book and is what convinced me to buy it.

(But that is more related to gamers, perhaps)

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Okay, so I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, of it should be on Freechat or some other place, but being a gamer who has lately been somewhat conflicted between the need to

touch grassAs alluded to by the guys at TheDeprogram Podcast on their episode titled Touch Grass
, which ironically means just have fun playing videogames, and not just focusing on being a socialist 24/7 and all the things one is missing by not reading enough theory, or not organizing, or not working, or blablablablabla...

But I'd always love to see some sort of marxist analysis of programming, and software, and ofc...videogames! And so this is just an article by Jacobin Magazine, which summarizes the contents of the book

(which I've not read)But looks intresting given what the article says
Marx at the Arcade.

And I thought it would be the perfect thing to share here in Lemmygrad. Hope I'm not mistaken posting this here.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago
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Feedom Isn't Free (logicmag.io)

This is a linked reading from the anticapitalist software license website, which I posted before on this same community.

Thought it would be an intresting read to share here as well.

TL;DR: About the failure of the FOSS movement and it getting turned into just OSS.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

This amazes me given how prevalent e-mail is for basically all online services as the main way for identifying yourself.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Damn it makes me so jealous of China everytime they win on rails. But it's great news as a whole. Wish we had the same everywhere.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Strong Copyleft licenses are better as well than permissive licenses, and the ACSL is referred to by the authors as

In general, the ACSL is a good match for software that would have otherwise been permissively licensed under MIT, ISC, or BSD but with restrictions against corporate usage.

And it requires attribution. But the added bonus cherry on top that this license gives is what thex explain as

[...]Most existing licenses, including free and open source licenses, consider qualities like source code availability, ease of use, commercialization, and attribution, none of which speak directly to the conditions under which the software is written.
Instead, the ACSL considers the organization licensing the software, how they operate in the world, and how the people involved relate to one another.

Which I think is a good addition.

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TL;DR: it's a copyright license that forbids any non-worker-owned company from using it.

Full License Text

 ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4)

Copyright © [year] [copyright holders]

This is anti-capitalist software, released for free use by individuals and organizations that do not operate by capitalist principles.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (the "User") obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to use, copy, modify, merge, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, subject to the following conditions:

1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or modified versions of the Software.

2. The User is one of the following:
a. An individual person, laboring for themselves
b. A non-profit organization
c. An educational institution
d. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

3. If the User is an organization with owners, then all owners are workers and all workers are owners with equal equity and/or equal vote.

4. If the User is an organization, then the User is not law enforcement or military, or working for or under either.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

So I've made some posts recently asking about the various difrerent licensing and development philosophies we could apply as socialist software developers, and have now found this license.

It is listed on GNU's list of incompatible licenses as a non-free license, since it limits what the software can be used for, and who can use it, which goes against freedom 0.

And I found it intresting enough to share. As

an alternative(To the fairly common (Lemmy, for example) use of the GPL 3 License or the AGPL 3 License by socialist software)
for us socialists to clearly state our political views through our licensing.

The biggest drawback I can think of when using this license is that it limits the flexibility for comrades who are better suited with a different legal enterprise structure, while still working as a cooperative in practice.

But let me know any thoughts you tay have on this. I just thought it was intresting enough to share and keep the discussion going.

Further readingThere are also some links for further reading at the bottom of the web page I might share at some other time as their own posts.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago

No idea, but maybe you could incorporate the one's you've already written down in your post?

For reference to people who also want a list or for anyone to add to it and not repeaththe ones you already have?

Hopefully there is some better centralized list someone more knowledgable than me can point out, but I think doing this would also be helpful.

As a suggestion

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I have found it not so simple to be able to find socialist literature regarding software and software development, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations for myself, and anyone who may find this post in the future. (And if there's an already existing post which details various sources on the matter, that would also be appreciated).

But I mostly wanted to know if there's any literature or any analysis on FOSS, and if that's the best alternative we have currently under capitalism. Because I see a lot of socialist software is usually developed utilizing strong copyleft licenses such as GPL 3.0 (or later) or AGPL 3.0 (or later) (Lemmy, for example).

And I already made another post regarding the ProleWiki page on FOSS, where I asked about the possibility of including further information in order to make it easier for fellow comrades to learn more about the topic, from a socialist perspective, and not just cling to FOSS for freedom's sake.

And maybe the possibilty of including some information regarding the views on self-hosting as a way of providing better information security for comrades, as well as include links to resources such as Codeberg for code-hosting, over GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 months ago

This is amazing!

I've only heard some counter-arguments to 15-minute cities saying that the people there don't end up being able to buy from the businesses close by. Have you heard of something similar? Specifically from a Spanish-speaking YT DiegoRuzzarin.

I personally think it's great to have 15-minute cities but I wanted to know your opinion on any counter-arguments to them.

NotJustBikes on YT is a (lib) channel in favor of 15-minute cities and urbanism in general.

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I don't know if there's a post asking about this already, but what happened to the whole Common Software concept?

I found this webpage for the RTC:

https://comrades.sbs/

which I think is what the article on FOSS is referring to.

But I see that the pages for Common Software and Revolutionary Technical Commitee have been deleted.

Does the License still exist? What happened to the RTC? And can I find more information anywhere?

Because now it just feels like a tease, but with no link to learn more. And I've wanted to find a better alternative to FOSS for my software.

Thank you so much for the wiki. I love it and would love to keep reading it.

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Similarly, I've heard the whole

You'll grow out of it.

and

I was also a socialist when I was your age.

Basically treated like a phase.

Edit:

But I'm trying to read and understand more beyond just the podcasts and YouTube videos by The Deprogram or Diego Ruzzarin

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