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@c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io @martinvermeer@fediscience.org @futurebird@sauropods.win I'm sure there's at least one gender out there that's got escapes and DBA commands in it

@futurebird@sauropods.win And if you're given access to a database *containing * said dangerous info, consider making a serious accident happen to that field

@nitrokey@social.nitrokey.com Image description: Eminently skippable. A stock photo of a hand holding a generic phone, onto which a red screen with a warning-sign captioned "Qualcomm" has been edited. A laptop is visible behind it.

@eloquence@social.coop I'll accept that: one term confuses purpose, the other confuses culture. Both are kinda tainted.. I like the appeal of newer terms like "communal", "emancipatory", etcetera. I suppose the fact that you and I, while generally agreeing on the better and worse aspects of the scene, can argue on the relative bad-ness of the two older terms is proof enough that it's time to move on from them both. But we had better move quickly to get out the new mission and branding because, as you say, people are going to fall off the better parts of Libre software and land in merely "open", or worse "shared source", or some other neolib rebranding.

@eloquence@social.coop Also agreed, yes. I'm only saying that the _distinction_ remains important - if you say "Open Source" I might rely on context to know whether you're talking about something corporate or emancipatory, but if you say "Libre" or "Free Software" I know without context. The terms aren't interchangeable, and would be the lesser for it, if they were.

@eloquence@social.coop I agree with the general idea here, but WRT "Open Source" I don't. That branding was deliberately invented to be confused and conflated with Software Freedom, so as to deflate the emancipatory movement into a sort of voluntaryist, CV-enriching, capitalism-compatible unprotected commons. To push back on that in favour of Free/Libre, Emancipatory Software is pretty important. Of course, RMS did a poor job of that by choosing "Free" as the keyword and sticking to it with characteristic obnoxiousness even as it continued to confuse people.