Cavespider sounds hardcore.

OK, I’m guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I’m not privy to… I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!

I thought I’d just slip it in and see what happened! I like making things in GIMP as well

Amazing, thank you so much :)

What’s that? GIMP?

Found it! I’d missed that - thanks!

I’ve been ricing my GNOME DE.

Only joking. I had a bit of fun in GIMP for to illustrate this post. You’re welcome to use it if you want :)

Ah OK, please accept my apologies. Could you recommend somewhere where this sort of discussion would be more appropriate? Your active moderation is appreciated by the way :)

Awesome. Massive Attack are really well-respected in the Southwest and beyond.

Fuck yeah! Go GIMP! Also announced on Mastodon fwiw:

https://floss.social/@GIMP/112995553132226800

I’m super excited about 3.0 🪇

Does XMPP support voice/video calls?

Hey, I came across this site today which sells FOSS merch (including stickers) and thought of you:

https://www.freewear.org

Very helpful contribution - thanks 🙏

More people should know about F-droid.

I really like this. Would you share them as a text document? It would be cool to edit/add some :)

I think this makes sense as the majority of people in ‘developed’ countries live in urban places. I live rurally and I find it interesting to think about solarpunk visions of this way of life, particularly how our social lives could be enhanced.

The usual stuff I guess; keeping minimal or no customer data, located in a country which isn’t participating in international surveillance agreements (Five Eyes et al), no wishywashy privacy policies etc.

Would peer to peer apps be resistant to this sort of thing?

I haven’t been able to find a dedicated shop for this. Wanna start one?

Porn is probably the most pirated visual work that I’m aware of and I’ve noticed that one of the responses by the people who make it is to move their business model away from restricting access indefinitely to producing custom/bespoke pieces at a relatively high one-off price to compensate for cases where it immediately gets proliferated without further gain for themselves. If someone pays them to make the clip and then shares it with others it’s OK because the producer has been rewarded in full at the point of sale. This is roughly equivalent to a piece of art being bought or commissioned and paid for in full by a museum or gallery, who put it on public display and make digital copies available for people to make their own prints from.

From an artist’s POV this is much simpler and more economical than trying to gather royalties on an ongoing basis and enforce copyright to create false scarcity.

In my solarpunk future though, I will be an artist whose basic needs are met by machines and nature and who receives a universal basic income which I can give away to other artisans as a way to say thanks and to encourage them.