●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, January 23, 2023 ●● ● Jan 23 [00:14] schestowitz After Hours Pet Our Elders [00:14] schestowitz " [00:14] schestowitz There are a number of old people we admire. People who are quite old, and very, very active: like Richard Matthew Stallman, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, and others (part of the activity is to identify such powerful people). [00:14] schestowitz I would like to address each of them an open letter that states the following: we love you ; youre getting old ; who is going to replace you in your activity? [00:14] schestowitz If I take the example of rms and the GNU project, I can see no vetted interest in transmitting to an organized group who can assume the strong role required to keep the free software movement alive. Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler are not fit to take over because they have sold themselves to Gaggle: in 2019, they made the FOSDEM keynote, FOSDEM 2019 - Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?, [00:14] schestowitz concluding that, since nobody can live in full software freedom, hackers should keep working on free software in their free time. At the time, @natacha and I were very upset of this position because we were thinking, for a long time already, about how to fund free software so that it becomes part of the public digital infrastructure. We took Kuhn and Sandlers call to work on your free time as an insult. Especially because they both [00:14] schestowitz came on Gaggles and Microsophs funds to host the first ever Copyleft Conf. This was a good part of what motivated us to start OFFDEM the next year. [00:14] schestowitz This situation of having a powerful person holding on to power and keeping the hands on the megaphone as they age, without taking care of transmitting their knowledge to someone worth keeping up the fight is part of the problem of patriarchy and domination in general. In a world of freedom beyond democracy, we should ensure that the work of fantastic figures does not whither and fade out. This is the responsibility of such powerful, privileged [00:14] schestowitz voices to find and nurture the next generation to ensure that their message be transmitted and kept revolutionary, rather than extinguished by the lack of power following their demise. Yet, we do not know who is able to take on rms leadership of the GNU project and the FSF after he dies otherwise, he would not have been called back to the board, would he? [00:14] schestowitz And the same goes for the larger-than-life Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva. Yet, this is on them, since they unless they did it in the background and without our knowledge did not spend the effort to inform and bring to front a community to replace them in their critical action and keep the struggle strong. Why do such people never retire is a question that may be of interest, but our question is: why do you not ensure that your work against [00:14] schestowitz injustice is carried on after you die, especially when you know that your legacy will likely be co-opted by the enemy? I want for proof the recent apology of Dr Martin Luther King by the FBI who harassed him and threatened his life. [00:14] schestowitz Here we go. This activity would be an after hour commitment to identify strong figures of the resistance and draft open letters to them urging them to stop putting out work while they still can work on setting up legacy communities for radical struggle. [00:14] schestowitz " [00:14] schestowitz [Context] "Hi, mind if we republish "After Hours Pet Our Elders" in Techrights? With attribution of course... IN IRC" [00:36] *eyehole (~LPV@freenode-n9m.6lk.jc4eom.IP) has joined #techbytes [00:40] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:55] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Jan 23 [01:02] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@fpfsqjchsbkme.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:14] *eyehole has quit (Quit: s06 o88888888 V 888888888888888888888o) ● Jan 23 [03:43] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:48] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 23 [05:31] schestowitz Richard Stallman wrote on 23/01/2023 04:25: [05:31] schestowitz > > But there are some things I should reasonably expect to be included [05:31] schestowitz > > in, like access to government, education, voting, food and basic [05:31] schestowitz > > healthcare (although I realise that in the US, the latter is [05:31] schestowitz > > controversial). [05:31] schestowitz > [05:31] schestowitz > I basically agree. One minor change I would make is that even for [05:31] schestowitz > non-basic medical treatment, there are only certain legitimate reasons [05:31] schestowitz > to exclude someone. To exclude someone arbitrarily is wrong. [05:31] schestowitz > [05:31] schestowitz > > It can range from non-interoperability with existing work-flows, [05:31] schestowitz > > belongings and knowledge, to issues of trust and affiliation. People [05:31] schestowitz > > with enhanced security needs, including prominent public figures, [05:31] schestowitz > > victims or those on witness protection, or being a guardian of a [05:31] schestowitz > > vulnerable person are the exceptions that highlight what should be a [05:31] schestowitz > > general rule for all. It also includes straight-up political [05:31] schestowitz > > choices. We are not forced to vote for a certain political party, so [05:31] schestowitz > > why is being forced to directly support a criminal mega-corporation [05:32] schestowitz > > any different? [05:32] schestowitz > [05:32] schestowitz > This list specifically does not include "requiring the user to submit [05:32] schestowitz > to unjust methods of computing, which subjgate whoever submits to them. [05:32] schestowitz > [05:32] schestowitz > > My position is that, if we're going to have technology - much of which [05:32] schestowitz > > makes life objectively worse - forced down our throats, then it may as [05:32] schestowitz > > well be Free/Libre technology. [05:32] schestowitz > [05:32] schestowitz > I agree, but something stronger can be said. [05:32] schestowitz > [05:32] schestowitz > Must of the tendency to make life worse is a byprodict of being [05:32] schestowitz > nonfree. Software is not malware by chance. The developer makes the [05:32] schestowitz > program malware because perse has the power to do so, and perse has [05:32] schestowitz > that power because the program is nonfree. [05:39] *cannabinaceous (~hvwees@freenode-9t1.9c0.jolg97.IP) has joined #techbytes [05:50] schestowitz Hi Roy, [05:50] schestowitz I'll have a think whether I can pull a sufficiently different version [05:50] schestowitz of the AI piece out of its first draft in a similar way that I did [05:50] schestowitz with the last. [05:50] schestowitz What helps is if I can get some _response_/coments etc so that [05:50] schestowitz it creates discussion points I can spin the new piece around. [05:50] schestowitz So please share and send me any IRC comments as you often do. [05:50] schestowitz all very best, [05:50] schestowitz xxxxx [05:50] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:51] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 23 [09:19] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [09:24] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@bhd63h3m8r8m2.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 23 [11:19] schestowitz
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