Carmen Bianca BAKKER / is on Nostr

#Cooperator @ Coop IT Easy in #Brussels, @fsfe board member, author of #REUSE.software

I love #FreeSoftware, #Vegan, #Esperanto, #Cooperative, #Socialism, #Cycling

Last Notes

2024-11-01 17:20:08

this is my new favourite #website
https://genders.wtf/

2024-10-29 15:43:46

je dois résister à la mise à jour vers #fedora 41 jusqu'au week-end… il s'agit d'une charge mentale énorme.

2024-10-17 20:51:08

https://stallman-report.org/
The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.
And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.
And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.
And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.
But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.

2024-05-18 12:22:10

i got a cape i got a big gay cape
#brussels #pride

2024-05-09 21:13:02

more genocide apologia in the finals rip
#eurovision #israel

2024-05-07 14:10:33

:blobcathissing:
faut payer pour une protection de base de la vie privée quoi
je me demande si un tel pop-up est légal
#privacy #RGPD
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2023-10-25 09:41:21

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@npub1sg4…xslc I have a faint feeling that the flow of useplaintext.email is rather topsy-turvy. Section 4, the one making the case for why plaintext is Good Actually, should go first! Maybe followed by etiquette, followed by all the e-mail client busywork.

2023-08-04 14:12:23

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@npub1x4g…sete This is why I ride on the centre of the lane, always. What are they going to do, deliberately kill me?

2023-07-27 21:07:09

I'm going to try _a thing_. There are two related phenomena regarding #cars and #PublicTransport that I basically never see discussed. I wrote an article about these two things which includes two very clear definitions. I want to see if I can get some reach to disseminate these two things like a mind virus.
Boost if you like. Or don't. I'm not your boss.
The premise: when you own a #car, it is cheaper to drive the car. But: we want to get people out of their cars, even while they still own cars.
The definitions:
- Sunk cost discount: for as long as you own a car, it is cheaper relative to public transport to use that car for individual journeys, even though you would save money if you got rid of the car and exclusively used public transport.
- Trip cost scaling problem: for each additional passenger taking a journey together, the cost per passenger becomes lower when travelling by car, but higher when travelling by public transport.
The article: https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2023-07-27-the-sunk-cost-discount-and-the-trip-cost-scaling-problem/
Shamelessly tagging @npub1jtr…eyqs @npub1g45…0ka3 @npub1je5…rfze
#cycling #bancars #urbanism #train #bus #metro #tram #SunkCostDiscount #TripCostScalingProblem