Thread by @Tatzelbrumm

How to be a software freedom purist:
Get rid of the software altogether and build the functionality in hardware.

My Categorical Imperative is from Theodor W. Adorno's "Minima Moralia", 83. Vice-President: "Advice to intellectuals: don't let yourself be represented."
That applies to middleware and other people's APIs in particular...
#FOSDEM

Speaking of Theodor W. Adorno:
Walt Disney is the most American of all time:
medium.com/@elrumo/walt-d…
That said, I loved the Country Bear Jamboree when I visited, LONG time ago.

Janet! Rocky!! Doctor Scott!!!
Ach.

"Don't be evil" doesn't scale.
If the squeaky wheels look acceptable and are enough of an influencer, they get the individual VIP treatment.
Who doesn't fit the privileged influencer mold gets canceled.

The root of much evil in free software advocacy:
opensource.com/article/18/2/c…
(that's out of a Libertarian crowd willing to ignore Adorno's advice in 83. Vice-President and sell out to capital's interest)

Some behavior patterns aren't acceptable under any circumstances.
In the community congregating at #FOSDEM,
the problem is callout culture.

I respectfully suggest to build a hyperspace bypass around
xkcd.com/2166/

Companies often write f$cktons of free or non-free software instead of implementing in hardware.
You can't argue with a root shell. Way too complex.

Common activists' communities' failure mode:
(today: use of pronouns, for example)

Inkscape is nice to design "cardinal in pectore" coats of arms.

The best hope for IoT devices is to throw away the software stack altogether and implement functionality in hardware directly.

Connecting to the folks who pioneer the CERN Open Hardware License for open medical devices is a good idea: flickr.com/photos/8906799…

As it happens, I finally met the guys after 7 years at their #FOSDEM talk yesterday:
fosdem.org/2020/schedule/…

Distributed apps, e.g., for referenda, are principally more complicated than medical apps. Both contain code that doesn't belong into them, like Facebook's face recognition libraries in
apkpure.com/de/b%C3%BCrger…

So it's good to have an expert opinion from a main stream #FOSDEM talk that recommends the citizens of Tübingen to request the paper ballot option.

@threadreaderapp , please unroll this running presentation feedback for @o0karen0o .