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The dialectic of freedom
So if freedom is our highest good and we cannot do without it without giving up our existence as human beings, how do we deal with it? Freedom also means danger.
This is the confusing ambivalence inherent in freedom. If we cannot curtail freedom without losing it, but as human beings we also cannot live without a contract that puts the law of the strongest in its place and prevents arbitrariness and vigilante justice, then what can we do to solve this paradox of freedom?
Since Aristotle, there has been a rational, scientific method for humanity to live neither in immaturity nor in arbitrariness. Ethics. In contrast to morality, which is its own negation and describes the state of the other, the despicable, as immorality, ethics is the scientific study of habits, customs and practices.
Even the pre-Socratic Sophists considered it intolerable that human beings, as rational beings endowed with free will, should be guided only by traditions, conventions and sets of rules.
Aristotle elevates this to the status of a science that allows us to rationally, empirically develop and repeatedly negotiate a social contract. Ethics presupposes man as fundamentally rational and capable of reflection. If he were not, he would never have been able to leave the realm of naïve sensuality and mysticism and, like an animal, would merely be at the mercy of his drives and instincts.
The basis of ethics is virtue. Contrary to the claims in revelations and in despotisms, there are no transcendent rules laid down before human reason. Moses' 10 Commandments contradict all science and are unethical. Not in their content, for that is to be negotiated, but in their God-given immutability.
The constitutions that we expect today as the basis of a modern, enlightened society did not come into being by the grace of God or through the brainwave of a single person. They were fought for and negotiated in a historical process. Our living together is a result of this ethical process.
But what does that mean for a globalised, digitalised world in transition? A world in which nation states no longer play a role (even if everyone clings to them in panic), in which language barriers disappear and permanent real-time communication takes place?
What can be clearly said is that a radical change is taking place. That the old rules, laws and constitutions, that the old social contract has to be renegotiated. Ethics is therefore the science of the hour!
The Marxists in the 19th century already tried to create a world ethic. They called it internationalism, a word that already bears nationalism in its name. The situation in the 21st century is different, arbitrary borders are dissolving, a real world community is emerging.
And in order to master this, to develop a world ethic, we need tools that enable us to do this. These must be, in the Marxian sense, tools of self-empowerment. Digital structures must not be in the hands of individuals or companies or nations. The structure must be free.
That an ethical basis for digitalisation must be created was clear to smart, rational people from the very beginning. The basis of the information age and the digital transformation is based on software. In addition to the proprietary systems and programmes that still dominate today, open source software emerged early on. Software that belongs to no one, that can be further developed by everyone and that guarantees full freedom and is perfectly suited as an ethical tool of a new society.
Open source software is therefore not a technical phenomenon, but an ethical, political one. A structure for our future.
FULL TEXT ----> HERE! https://undeadnetwork.de/bookstack/books/radical-enlightenment-a-world-of-open-sources-translation/page/english-version-please-edit
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/20/the-dialectic-of-freedom/
#ethics #FOSS #freedom #future #moral #OpenSource
Open source’s new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before and expose where the data goes
An interesting read (linked below) in that often the code used to run an application is available as open source, but not always understood by users. The thing that users worry about more though is where their data actually is, and where is it flowing (in plain simple to understand language and pictures).
It’s true that many FOSS apps are completely open, and the data is stored locally only, or sometime synced via a 3rd party service that the user chooses themselves. But Big Tech has also found ways of gaming the FOSS environment to the point where their solution is FOSS in name, but the server/cloud side is not open sourced, and the users’ data is stored in that cloud service somewhere without the user really knowing where it is, who/what else has access to it, etc.
It is being proposed that a truly open system should also extend to the user’s data, and not need a programmer to try figure out what is happening. In most cases the client-side open source app is not going to give any ideas as to what is happening with data on the server/cloud side.
Usually, such data also does not conform to open data standards, and even when it does, it certainly can’t easily be re-used elsewhere by the user. Yes, you could export your Google+ user data from Google, but there was nothing you really could do with that data.
Contrast this with a simple example of say a cloud hosted RSS reader service. You can export the OPML file and import that into any other RSS reader as the data conforms to an open standard.
To be truly FOSS the whole system needs to be able to be self-hosted by the user, and the location and the access to the data needs to be understood by users. The user’s experience is the total sum of the application software, the server/cloud side software, as well as their data.
See https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/open_sources_new_mission/
#Blog, #cloud, #FOSS, #opensource, #technology
Anarch-cow certainly has a point
Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists. -- Murray Bookchin
#anarchy #freedom #state #distinguish #lifestyle #quote #anarch-cow #cli #gnu #linux #foss #cowsay
“Embrace, extend and extinguish” - #linux #microsoft #windows #windoze #ms #embraceextendextinguish #gnu #gpl #opensource #foss ">Microsoft's growing control of Linux
Home From School
I wonder why this time of year is a favorite for the flu as well as for people. But it's bad enough today that I have to stay home. So maybe I can do some more with my new #Linux, and finish my paper about #libre #software. It's such a broad topic, though, that I might just scale it down and make it about Linux. But my introduction will go from the broad subject of #FOSS to a thesis about Linux, just one part in a bigger picture. I'm not very technically gifted, so I'm writing about the philosophical and ethical basis of FOSS. This is for English Comp class, not computer science or anything. Diaspora is full of posts about all this stuff, so it's a huge resource all by itself. If anyone out there wants to contribute to a #kid's first term paper about libre software and Linux in particular, feel free to comment!
Actually this my first term paper on any subject. I have done essays before, but not a real live term paper. This has to have references and footnotes and all that stuff. It looks a lot harder than just an essay. Maybe it's a good thing I have to stay home.
[Browse the full list of changes] — [Visit the website] — Now stutter-free and multi-search! 🦾
Every month this platform serves a minimum of 22.000 requests from at least 3.700 distinct users.
Each request is a person discovering (or rediscovering) a free and open source software.
Tags: #website #webapp #webapplication #libre-software #freesoftware #free-software #foss #opensource #database #directory #linux #gnu-linux #gnulinux #windows #osx #hacking #freesoftware #libresoftware #website #opensearch #searchengine #directory
Neue Commnunity: FOSS - Deutschsprachige Community zum Austausch über Freie Software 💻
Es gibt schon lange eine sehr große und aktive englischsprachige Opensource-Community https://lemmy.ml/c/opensource , aber um sich zu deutschsprachigen News auszutauschen oder Fragen auf deutsch zu stellen und zu diskutieren, gab es mW noch keine Entsprechung. Daher habe ich nun spontan diese gegründet:
👉 https://feddit.de/c/foss_de
Inhaltlich kann es um Alles rund um #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreieSoftware gehen, was Euch interessiert - seien es bestimmte Anwendungen, neue Releases, Tipps und Empfehlungen oder auch gesellschaftliche Initiativen wie #PublicMoneyPublicCode und vieles mehr.
Siehe auch zur Frage "Was ist freie Software?" von der @Free Software Foundation Europe
Es ist eine Lemmy -Community auf #feddit.de. Ihr könnt die Community auch von #Mastodon , #Friendica #Akkoma etc. aus abonnieren. Und ihr könnt damit auch ohne Lemmy-Account Beiträge darin erstellen, indem Ihr den Community-Account [ät]foss_de@feddit.de taggt.
Achtet nur bitte darauf, dass in der Überschrift (= erster Absatz in Mastodon, Akkoma) keine Hashtags, Tags oder Links vorkommen. Ausführlicher hier.
Wenn Ihr auf Lemmy aktiv seid, könnt ihr Euch gerne auch noch als Co-Mods melden.
Damit aber erst einmal: 🧡lich willkommen in der neuen Community! Ich bin gespannt auf Eure Beiträge.
@Community Vorstellung
#SimpleMobileTools, great suite of #FOSS #Android apps, is going to be sold, and not into good hands; new owner, ZipoApps, is known for tracking, stuffing ads, and overpriced ”ad-free” subscription plans.
@noodlejetski :verified_gay: — I saw you recently recommending the apps, so a heads-up.
There was a fork attempt, but as of now is seems removed: https://github.com/FossifyX
Also Astian (maintainers of Midori browser, among others) declares forking: https://github.com/orgs/goastian
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241
FOSS Browser | Update v.13
Gerade habe ich das Update auf Codeberg.org veröffentlicht. Hier die Änderungen:
- umgestellt auf "Google rounded Material You Icons"
- fix: Verbesserungen beim Sichern/Wiederherstellen
- fix: Verbesserungen bei benutzerdefinierten Weiterleitungen
- fix: Layout-Verbesserungen
- fix: deepl.com in normalem Tab öffnen
- fix: Lint-Probleme
- fix: WIKI-Links
- fix: Strings bereinigt
- fix: aktualisierte Übersetzungen
- fix: Backup beim Beenden
- fix: Abstürze im Zusammenhang mit Cookie-Manager
- neu: Icons in Übersichtsmenüs
- neu: schnelle Suche auf Webseiten (langes Drücken des Suchsymbols in der Toolbar)
- neu: AdBlock → eigene Domains hinzufügen
Benannt ist dieses Release nach dem badischen Revolutionär Friedrich Hecker. Wer will, kann die Debug-Version auf Codeberg herunterladen und testen. Ansonsten heißt es abwarten, bis das Update bei F-Droid ankommt.
#Android #FOSS #FOSSBrowser #FreieSoftware #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung #DigitaleSelbstverteidigung
Hi Diasporians (kein Plan ob das euch alle richtig anspricht). Einige von euch kennen diesen Text. Denn ich habe diesen Text für meinen damaligen Umzug von wk3.org zu pod.dapor.net geschrieben. Nun also die leicht aktualisierte Version für meinen Umzug von pod.dapor.net zu diesen hier, diasp.org. Wie dem auch sei, da pod.dapor.net bald die Pforten schließt habe ich hier schnell einen neuen Hafen gefunden. Da schonmal many thx diasp.org. Ich bin alles andere als #neuhier auf Diaspora. Mein erster D*-Hafen war #joindiaspora, von da schipperte ich weiter zu #wk3, weiter zu #pod.dapor.net und nun lege ich hier an. Über all die Zeit mochte und mag ich den kreativen Content von euch allen, die alles andere als profanen Diskussionen und nicht zuletzt die spannenden Menschen, die ich teilweise schon in real life kennenlernen konnte. So und nun sammel ich mir “meine” Kontakte wieder ein.
Achso, ich interessiere mich für: #freeopensourcesoftware #foss #anarchie #kollektivismus #webdesign #grafikdesign #antifa -aus Prinzip! #it #linux #lineageOS #wordpress #joomla #umverteilung #420 und vieles mehr.
Achtung, now the english version - my english is, i would say A2 (Elementary)
Hi Diasporians (dont know if its sounds good to you). some of you know this text, couse i wrote it in the past when i moved from wk3.org to pod.dapor. how ever, pod.dapor.net will be closed in a few weeks and so i found a new habour in here. Many thx #diasp.org. I`m not #newhere at *Diaspora. My first habour was #joindispora, after that i discovered the habour of #wk3.org, then pod.dapor.net and now i will anchor here. All the time i enjoy that creative content, the deep conversations and never the less the interesting people, a few of them i met in reallife. Well, now i collect my “old” contacts.
Molly, version indépendante de Signal pour Android ?
Utiliser #Molly #foss , au lieu de #Signal pour #Android, une fausse bonne idée ? Merci de vos retours et boots 🙂
Le site : https://molly.im/download/fdroid/
sry, being post whore today. i'll slow down, by cramming posts with brevity in one. (or i could bog off to mastodon).
Playing: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Jy0qZSfPtBSm/ a bit linear, mono-linear, conflationary, unnuanced, but fun.
Playing: https://www.bitchute.com/video/8ifPYY72bR6a/ yep. #freeseed
Playing: https://www.bitchute.com/video/0ExhTgZRute5/ #endtoendencryption #censorship #foss
aight, enough posting social commentary churn, reacting to the trolling.
onto something i actually like, something positive, something useful...
#herbstluftwm lets me do things i cant even do in my #xmonad config. #lub #foss
herbstluftwm evokes such ridiculous giddy joy.
very good #windowmanager
📹 Why I deleted GrapheneOS
video by L. Rossmann
Synopsis:
Micay, the lead developer of GrapheneOS accuses the F-Droid project of harrassment:
All I posted before their outburst of bullying and fabricated stories which started in their developer chat room was information on the Android permission model, how F-Droid presents it incorrectly to users and how that harms users by misleading them in 2 different ways about it. I stated we intend to add a disclaimer screen to GrapheneOS on this incorrect information in the F-Droid app if they won't fix it, which has been planned for a long time. F-Droid has multiple serious security and usability issues which they have downplayed and refused to fix. In many cases, F-Droid has downplayed and refused to acknowledge or fix security issues. They've started making posts with the explicit goal of downplaying the issues and misleading people about them. This will only increase the priority of replacing it and moving users away. Engaging in harassment and libel towards people reporting and publishing information about serious issues in their software is one of their main approaches. Several people other than myself have posted blog posts and videos explaining issues, which F-Droid has attacked with lies. [...]
I have irrefutable proof that multiple core F-Droid and Calyx developers (substantial overlap) have engaged in bullying, harassment and libel targeting me to advance their own interests. 1 2
In the aftermath, Rossman, right to repair activist and interpreneur, has to confront the state of distress of the talented developer, who feels isolated and mistreated. The stress reduces the capacity to communicate correctly, leading to even more isolation. On the spectrum of autism and victim of cyberbullying since 2018, in the end Micay's mental wellness is at risk. In addition to contacting the authorities and asking for help, he takes the wise decision to use the social networks in a safer way:
I've stepped down as lead developer of GrapheneOS and will be replaced as a GrapheneOS Foundation director. I'll be ending my use of public social media. I'm unable to handle the escalating level of harassment including recent swatting attacks. There will be a smooth migration.
Cyberbullying can happen at any age and dealing with it can be hard. Wish you a serene recovery.
Lesson learned:
if we want to enjoy free software, we should also keep in consideration the wellness of who develops it. The aggressivity of some open source projects goes beyond healthy competition and we should all see it as the exterior manifestation of a toxic environment. Open source developers should stick as much as possible to a code of conduct, ensuring emotional detatchment and professional behaviour at all times.
Tags: #opensource #foss #os #grapheneos #fdroid #mobile #android #ungoogled #smartphone #customrom #privacy #mentalhealth
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601062933/https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1651377352469880833
https://archive.ph/j7qql