Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
No … the US empire will expand and grow more wealthy … the only issue is the US empire has nothing to do with the US people, it has everything to do with US corporations and wealthy owners.
The fun part is that the same thing is happening with the Russians … their empire has nothing to do with their people and everything to do with their corporations and wealthy owners.
This all has nothing to do with people … it has everything to do with money.
No … your HP printer has you
It works about a well as video editing capabilities from the start of the movie making era from the 1920s onwards. You can make a simple basic straight forward production that can be shared online. It makes great documentaries or just simple straight forward film production that doesn’t require any special effects.
They were able to make full featured films in the 1930s and 40s with far less editing capability. The only limitation is your ability to capture great images and content with your camera and video equipment.
Same here, I have a hard time budgeting most months but I do go out of my way to donate $20-$30-$40 a year to major projects or to sign on to $1-$2 a month contributions.
I think of it from the point of view that I won’t buy that hamburger this week and instead give the money to a developer instead.
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Nice idea but we shouldn’t associate open source software as “free software”. Yes it can be associated to freedom and freely available but it also suggests that no one ever has to pay for it.
This software even though it is freely available is not free of monetary cost. Someone has to pay for it either with their own money, their expertise or their time … all of which cost people money.
It becomes a whole different level of cost when it comes to open source social media. You need people to run the software, maintain the software, update the software, secure the software … then throw in servers, routing, security … and as instances grow in size you need more hardware, hardware upgrades, updates and people and organizations to maintain it all … at one point in the growth of open source social media, you start to need dedicated full time people to work at maintaining these things.
I’ve chatted with some instance owners and maintainers who say they don’t mind the work because it is limited at this time. Many of them are already professionals with well paying jobs and they don’t mind doing this on the side as a hobby or passion project. However the work is light at this time because there aren’t that many users and the communities are small. But over the past year I’ve noticed more and more instances changing and growing to accommodate a growing user base … it all ends up costing money.
So it isn’t totally “free”
A better and healthier way to see it is to call it “Open source” and remind every one that a critical thing that we should all understand in this new age of open source software is that crowd funding, sponsorship, contributions, donations should all be normalized by everyone who uses this software. And it doesn’t cost that much either. If every open source user just spent a dollar once in a while to the project or software that they used the most or liked the most, then it would add up to thousands of dollars for the developer. The same goes to instance owners and maintainers - we need to properly and regularly fund these guys to keep them all stable and working.
Personally I’ve been contributing for years to projects like Wikipedia, LibreOffice and GIMP … and over the past year or two I’m a small time regular contributor to the instance I use at Lemmy.ca
The danger with just calling it ‘free’ is in making everyone believe that no one has to pay for these services. The danger to not properly funding these projects is that eventually the costs have to be taken up by someone and that is usually the developers themselves or the maintainers or managers. And as popularity and user numbers grow, the costs only add up.
The problem comes when developers and managers have to figure out how to get more money to keep their project alive which is where corporate creep and advertising options start appearing. And also, as one platform becomes popular and becomes too expensive to maintain then it starts showing monetary value for corporations to take over. Corporate rot starts setting in when these projects are not properly funded and kept alive and developers or owners have to make the choice between being underfunded by their userbase … or making a bunch of money by selling out to a company or corporation.
We have to start normalizing funding, sponsorship, contributions and donations because that will protect our communities from being swallowed up by corporate interests in the future. If we don’t fund or pay for these things … some millionaire or billionaire will eventually come along to use their wealth at the cost of ownership and control and eventually lock up everything again behind a wall and a gate.
Nice idea but we shouldn’t associate open source software as “free software”. Yes it can be associated to freedom and freely available but it also suggests that no one ever has to pay for it.
This software even though it is freely available is not free of monetary cost. Someone has to pay for it either with their own money, their expertise or their time … all of which cost people money.
It becomes a whole different level of cost when it comes to open source social media. You need people to run the software, maintain the software, update the software, secure the software … then throw in servers, routing, security … and as instances grow in size you need more hardware, hardware upgrades, updates and people and organizations to maintain it all … at one point in the growth of open source social media, you start to need dedicated full time people to work at maintaining these things.
I’ve chatted with some instance owners and maintainers who say they don’t mind the work because it is limited at this time. Many of them are already professionals with well paying jobs and they don’t mind doing this on the side as a hobby or passion project. However the work is light at this time because there aren’t that many users and the communities are small. But over the past year I’ve noticed more and more instances changing and growing to accommodate a growing user base … it all ends up costing money.
So it isn’t totally “free”
A better and healthier way to see it is to call it “Open source” and remind every one that a critical thing that we should all understand in this new age of open source software is that crowd funding, sponsorship, contributions, donations should all be normalized by everyone who uses this software. And it doesn’t cost that much either. If every open source user just spent a dollar once in a while to the project or software that they used the most or liked the most, then it would add up to thousands of dollars for the developer. The same goes to instance owners and maintainers - we need to properly and regularly fund these guys to keep them all stable and working.
Personally I’ve been contributing for years to projects like Wikipedia, LibreOffice and GIMP … and over the past year or two I’m a small time regular contributor to the instance I use at Lemmy.ca
The danger with just calling it ‘free’ is in making everyone believe that no one has to pay for these services. The danger to not properly funding these projects is that eventually the costs have to be taken up by someone and that is usually the developers themselves or the maintainers or managers. And as popularity and user numbers grow, the costs only add up.
The problem comes when developers and managers have to figure out how to get more money to keep their project alive which is where corporate creep and advertising options start appearing. And also, as one platform becomes popular and becomes too expensive to maintain then it starts showing monetary value for corporations to take over. Corporate rot starts setting in when these projects are not properly funded and kept alive and developers or owners have to make the choice between being underfunded by their userbase … or making a bunch of money by selling out to a company or corporation.
We have to start normalizing funding, sponsorship, contributions and donations because that will protect our communities from being swallowed up by corporate interests in the future. If we don’t fund or pay for these things … some millionaire or billionaire will eventually come along to use their wealth at the cost of ownership and control and eventually lock up everything again behind a wall and a gate.
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I’ve saved every laptop, PC, portable device I’ve ever owned … and when they got too old and outdated with no more updates from Windows, I converted them all to Linux machines, most were just fun projects to see what I could or couldn’t do or to test all kinds of things I was trying to learn … now I have a closet stacked with devices
I will forever associate the first initial pre release beta whatever you want to call it GIMP 3.0 to the second time Turnip was elected.
The day of that announcement was the first day that GIMP 3.0 was mentioned for release
From one point of view, I don’t think the US will ever want to take over Canada. They own us already and our resources, our corporations and businesses and I don’t think they want to the expense of running our country. They have our money and resources, it would just cost them more to run manage us.
From another point of view, if they do want to take us over with military force and occupy us … that is even more expensive and difficult to implement and manage. How much do you think it would cost to have thousands of troops, officials and military run around Canada to keep us ‘under control’.
It’s a business decision and our Canadian leadership being such whores to money, it’s just cheaper to keep us under a leash and keep us at arms length, while doing whatever they want with us anyway.
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Watch as everyone shakes their hands, dance around, call you stupid and basically get mad and distracted while you go off and raid the government coffers for you and your friends.
The problem with any new kind of currency no matter what it is will always be controlled and manipulated by the wealthiest individuals who will flood their wealth into that new system.
Personally never realized what October 14, 2025 was about until just now but your explanation makes more sense … and it also make me realize that I should be looking for another thinkpad in the near future.
Windows 10 support ends and many are suggesting that instead of people moving to Windows 11, many will just move over to Linux
US and the west: … Spying is not acceptable! … except if our companies are doing it
Great advice and thanks for the encouragement. This reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I ever heard from a nutritionist talking about personal health.
If you can only do one thing to make a positive change, no matter how small it is, it’s far better than doing nothing.
It’s even more basic than that. I’m convinced its just a matter of controlling food. Every major revolution in history is most commonly initiated because people were just starving to death. They had no choice, either die starving or die trying to overturn the system … so many people opted to just try fighting because they knew they were going to die anyways. They literally fought for the next generation of people after them.
The dynamics are the same today but the ruling class know the lessons of the past so they control the food supply. They make food readily available and within the reach of everyone so no one ever truly is able to starve, at the very least no large segments of the population starves. This also isn’t to say that everyone eats like kings either … just enough food is made available and affordable to keep people from rioting. It’s also the population at play too … most of civilization will put up with shitty quality food, lack of food, low food supplies and inadequate food supplies for long periods of time before (or even if) they revolt.
It all doesn’t mean that people are happy or content … they just aren’t starving … as long as you keep them from starving, chances are high that they won’t have enough motivation to want anything to change.
Of course it works … the problem for corporations and all consuming controlling governments who want to control populations is that they are afraid of what people will think or do in their spare time. Problems for the owning and controlling class arise when large portions of the population have extra days to sit around and consider why things are the way they are in society.
Might as well rewrite history and say that in the 1940s, America fought Central European powers with alternative government systems