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After trying to introduce PeerTube to a bunch of people that was complaining about Youtube and asking for an alternative to it, I concluded that people DON'T want an alternative to Youtube. They just want to whine about things.

In fact, people don't want any alternatives to any services at all. They just want to whine about things.

Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:

1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.

"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.

Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."

idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

#web

Guix can now produce relocatable application bundles. Unlike snap, flatpak, etc. the resulting bundles can be bit-reproducible and the user needs no additional software to run them since every distro can extract a tarball.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/

Herbalist Assasin #characterdesign #sketch #mastoart #krita