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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB11PQ9Eo8 "Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine", 5m:14s
Overlapping rooms, tunnels longer on inside, walking uphill both ways… Feels like a game engine @Azure might make!

#vim

This scan of a newsletter is from 1971 but it could just as easily have been posted to Mastodon today.

From https://logicmag.io/06-mainframe-interrupted/ on Joan Greenbaum's attempt to unionize computing.

Ethernet scarf

legs for hours

Paul Atreides: Mual'Cop

guess I'll do the whole group

Linux and “open source” in a nutshell, from the horse’s mouth:

“There is a genuine reason to worry. My desktop is free but my data and applications (which run in the cloud) aww not … what do you care about more – just that the code is open or also about the business practices as well?”

Linus Torvalds: “Personally, I only care about the code. When I say maybe there are people who worry about walled gardens and cloud provides who take ownership of your data, I am not one of those people.”

Truth coming out of her well to deposit eggs inside of your unsuspecting torso

Sadly, the #Collaborate platform is a great example of how the #VultureCapitalist startup funding model has infected #SocialEnterprise thinking;
* they call their website an "app"
* Instead of building on and sharing their work as #FreeCode;
"You must not ... create derivative works based upon the Site of any kind whatsoever or any software or programming related thereto"
https://www.letscollaborate.co.nz/terms-and-conditions
* You can only login via FB (to be fair they're working on a native login):
https://www.letscollaborate.co.nz/faq/facebook-login

🛎️ Website update: finally revised a short article that critiques Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (that I am a member of) for their strategy of shunning proprietary software:
https://datagrok.org/gpl/shun/

I can see why normal people just throw their hands up in the air about data privacy. I've put so much effort into this stuff, but instead of feeling like a super-cool guy in a spy movie, I feel more like a guy with a half-working phone and no decent emoji input

The latest episode of the excellent #LibreLounge podcast is about #FreeCulture, the #CreativeCommons licenses, and #Remix and #Mashup culture:
https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-7-free-remix-and-youtube-culture.html