I’ve had it with FOSS zealots in their ivory towers (basements?), funded by paychecks from their day jobs in surveillance capitalism…
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Replying to @aral
…we’re doing our fucking best to build a sustainable, independent social enterprise to tackle surveillance capitalism with integrity…
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Replying to @aral
…but if anyone feels entitled to demand that we spend our limited time & resources on *absolute bullshit* like LibreJS, they can fuck off.
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Replying to @aral
I agree re:demands, but I hope you see that LibreJS—though inadequate!—is itself an attempt to respect human (user) effort.
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Replying to @datagrok
And, I’d argue that it’s actually superior as it’s accessible by anyone w a browser and works to raise awareness *visibly*.
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Replying to @aral
this is a great argument that I hadn't considered. Thanks for the reply. (And all the AGPL3-licensed work!)
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Replying to @datagrok
…gets weary being attacked from all sides sometimes. Sorry for venting several years of frustration in a single Twitter thread.
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Replying to @aral
Keep up your work. It's a start. One cannot make everybody happy in such a short time. And one cannot solve every problem in one go.
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Thanks, Niklaas. Mustn’t let things grate us; I know :) Appreciate the kind words :)
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