Gabriel

I care about the open web because the medium is the message.
And I love the idea that people can define their own medium.
I think the great news is that we can still build tools to make that accessible to more people.

We live in a society

In hindsight it seems they didn't need to attack self-hosting directly because the plan was always to price consumers out of hardware access.

There's a kind of person who really cares about software and hardware freedom and does all they can do put it into practice.
Then there's another kind of person who just uses whatever is easiest and barely interacts with the stuff at all.
And they marry each other.

90% of fedi accounts are run by the same five people. To prove this, I will now post this message from every one of my sock accounts.

Lfmao 🤣

New #WeightLoss Voice log

RE: https://gabe.rocks/health/happy-reflection/

Canada is officially a planned economy

Furthermore, ministers could hand out these exemptions to any “entity” they wanted. Under federal guidelines, an “entity” can mean everything from an individual to “a corporation” to an “unincorporated organization.”
Thus, anyone with the government’s ear — be it a retired politician, a political party, an activist organization or a major corporation — could feasibly be able to bypass Canadian laws on everything from food safety to labour regulations.

Things like that used to be called "essentials"...