What are folks on different group message platforms talking about?

IRC: I can't see what they're talking about because there's no chat history.

XMPP: Everyone here hates matrix and so we spend all our time talking about our shared hate of matrix.

Matrix: We talk about how the matrix.org foundation is doing a terrible job stewarding the matrix protocol.

Discord: We have no one to talk to because all our friends were banned by the AI mod bot.

Stoat: Everyone here hates Discord and so we spend all our time talking about our shared hate of Discord.

Signal: I lost my chat history and contacts and I don't know how to get them back so I don't know what everyone's talking about.

SMS: Hi! I'm a spambot! To confirm your appointment, please send me money and vote for me! Don't forget to leave feedback!

Final words

First of all, I sincerely apologize to all the dear ones who created their support pages on the ShirazLinux portal. Due to my absence and the limited access of team members, the settlements were delayed; a delay caused by the circumstances that occurred for me.

I don't know what the future holds, but we are trying so that I don't have to go back to prison, and I have also been assigned a lawyer who is pursuing these charges against me.

Overall, it was something we predicted would happen one day.

My only wish for the future generations of this land is that the promoters of free software events have only one concern: determining the date of the events. No fear of threats, no filtering, no prosecution.

Hoping for a beautiful future for dear Iran

Free Software, Free Society

This slogan was always the last sentence of my presentations introducing free software.

Presentations whose topics were coordinated to be held at the global #LibrePlanet conference (https://libreplanet.com/) at Shiraz University (https://shirazu.ir/).

But destiny turned out this way, and this conference was planned and executed in Shiraz Prison instead of Shiraz University.

Of course, at that time, Shiraz Prison served as a university for us; a space full of artists, engineers, doctors, and educated people, each of whom was imprisoned on charges of acting against national security or political activity.

It was a joke we always made. We used to say that with this many restrictions and warnings from regulatory and governmental bodies, we would eventually be forced to hold the conferences in prison.

I have signed undertakings regarding the margins of events many times, and on several occasions we were prohibited from attending relevant centers by judicial orders.

It was the accumulation of these very incidents that moved our venue from universities and innovation centers to coffee shops and parks.

But in the end, that same bitter joke of ours became reality, and this time it was prison's turn to host free software events and conferences.

there are some people who i believe have a bit of a complex where they can't stop thinking about the fact that everyone else also has genitalia. And so they make it everyone's problem

Wenn wir ehrlich sind, haben viele von uns nur noch Zynisches im Kopf, wenn wir über unsere Regierung nachdenken oder (re)posten. Zur Wahrheit gehört aber auch, dass es Verzweiflung ist. Und nicht hilft.
Seit Jahren läuft das so.
Was können wir ernsthaft tun, bevor wir uns weiter spalten lassen?

apparently we use twice as much power as similar homes???

is 17kWh/day really that much for an apartment

I think the biggest blind spot in FOSS is that for most people most of the time, computers aren't liberating or empowering at all, they're just in the way. They're an unwanted layer of complexity that's been forced into the gap between them and whatever they're trying to get done.

We've had a chance to microdose on that experience with the proliferation of silly IoT widgets - wtf is this, why is there a computer here I'm trying to make toast - but IMO haven't really absorbed the core lesson.

This is a valid point, but the other side of that coin seems to be that - despite an incredible amount of work done on containerization and rapid deployment services - "click to stand up your own services" startups just... don't seem to succeed, at least not in any everything-you-need-on-one-unified-host way. The last company I saw trying to make click-to-deploy unified self-hosting work was Sandstorm.io, that became Sandstorm.org, that ... doesn't get a lot of traction.

https://hachyderm.io/@akareilly/116855245123581259