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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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  1. Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
  2. Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, NixOS or the many, many other offerings out there.

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  2. Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
  3. Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
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PSA: Do not participate in any NixOS official community spaces (hexbear.net)
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They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist lmayo, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere.

Go use Guix instead (they don't rely on free GitHub credits or limitless AWS S3 buckets) and are objectively superior on a technical standpoint (no "experimental features" that everyone considers stable) and don't give any shit about nonfree software unless you provide it, or only contribute to nixpkgs (collective infra) and outside projects like Lix/Snix.

Avoid the NixOS community at all costs if you value your emotional labor. Even the chuds have done this with things like Determinate Systems Nix ("Nix without the drama") and making their own corpo shill platform called "flakehub"

Source: A former NixOS community member (me)

There is no liberalism anymore, only fascist cultural hegemony that will take over every space it can.

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[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are framework and dhh in this context?

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Framework is a company that makes repairable modular computers, DHH is the inventor of ruby on rails and is a turbo rich white nazi.

Framework CEO most likely talked to DHH, found him a "great" guy, and then made his company heavily promote Omarchy, a DHH dotfiles dump that just came out this June more often than any other other distribution.

Now Framework CEO is ready to join the protracted C-suite war against woke.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I hope the Mastodon mob seriously gets on this one. Might be a good crusade of theirs for once

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rumors have it that GNOME is planning to reject their sponsorship altogether due to this. Which is incredibly based if they do.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unironically very based of them lol (also slay 💅)