From 9b8a595100ee863f311433d77af7699b922350e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Odle Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:11:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updates to 006 coda --- 006/006 time.csv | 1 + 006/codex-006.tex | 10 +++++----- 006/include/chap01.tex | 4 ++-- 006/include/coda.tex | 16 ++++++++++++---- 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/006/006 time.csv b/006/006 time.csv index 78c48a3..cbee939 100644 --- a/006/006 time.csv +++ b/006/006 time.csv @@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ Date,Topic,Minutes 2025.02.19,ch. 4 writing & bugfixing,60 2025.02.21,ch. 3 edits,75 2025.02.22,ch. 3 updates,10 +2025.09.11, coda updates,28 diff --git a/006/codex-006.tex b/006/codex-006.tex index 9092069..e3c4443 100644 --- a/006/codex-006.tex +++ b/006/codex-006.tex @@ -163,17 +163,17 @@ \maketitle -\input{include/impressum} +% \input{include/impressum} \tableofcontents -\input{include/chap01} +% \input{include/chap01} -\input{include/chap02} +% \input{include/chap02} -\input{include/chap03} +% \input{include/chap03} -\input{include/chap04} +% \input{include/chap04} % \input{include/chap05} diff --git a/006/include/chap01.tex b/006/include/chap01.tex index 5fd8c92..1f87a11 100644 --- a/006/include/chap01.tex +++ b/006/include/chap01.tex @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ My comments did not fall on deaf ears. Instead, they fell on all-too-attentive e I've long been suspicious of the WordPress business model. It is often described as an open source project, and indeed, wordpress.\textit{org} is. In fact, it \textit{has} to be, since it was originally a fork of the \textsf{b2/cafelog} project.\footnote{Alas, the \texttt{cafelog} domain is now owned by a Singaporean gambling company. Such is life in late-stage capitalism.} Like other oligarchs, Matt Mullenweg didn't invent \textit{anything}—he just took something that previously existed, put his own label on it, and called it his own. -I don't have too much issue with this, but what's unique in this situation is that wordpress.\textit{com} is \textbf{not} open source. It's a for-profit company that uses the open source WordPress software to sell websites to other people. There are lots of companies out there doing much the same thing. In fact, just about every webhosting company out there offers WordPress as a one-click isntall. (A long time ago, I was one of them, in my own small way, hosting websites built on WordPress for small businesses.\footnote{This business went away because a lot of small business owners make bad business decisions—on average, most small business go out of business in less than five years. Also, a lot of them decided to move their websites to Wix and Squarespace, thinking they would get more exposure as a result. Guess what? They didn't. You could ask them, but they've all gone out of business now. I did tell them, but they chose to believe random internet strangers who gave them easy answers, instead of me, an actual person who gave them difficult answers. Such is life.}) +I don't have too much issue with this, but what's unique in this situation is that wordpress.\textit{com} is \textbf{not} open source. It's a for-profit company that uses the open source WordPress software to sell websites to other people. There are lots of companies out there doing much the same thing. In fact, just about every webhosting company out there offers WordPress as a one-click install. (A long time ago, I was one of them, in my own small way, hosting websites built on WordPress for small businesses.\footnote{This business went away because a lot of small business owners make bad business decisions—on average, most small business go out of business in less than five years. Also, a lot of them decided to move their websites to Wix and Squarespace, thinking they would get more exposure as a result. Guess what? They didn't. You could ask them, but they've all gone out of business now. I did tell them, but they chose to believe random internet strangers who gave them easy answers, instead of me, an actual person who gave them difficult answers. Such is life.}) -The key difference between WordPress and all those other companies is that Matt Mullenweg holds the keys to \textit{both} wordpress.org and wordpress.com. Al the hundreds and thousands of people who have contributed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of hours of their labor to wordpress.org—a non-profit open-source project—have also been forced to contribute those same hours to wordpress.com—a for-profit company. And because Mullenweg has control over both, he can direct all those volunteers to direct their work in a way that benefits not just the non-profit, open-source project, but also the for-profit company. +The key difference between WordPress and all those other companies is that Matt Mullenweg holds the keys to \textit{both} wordpress.org \textit{and} wordpress.com. All the hundreds and thousands of people who have contributed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of hours of their labor to wordpress.org—a non-profit open-source project—have also been forced to contribute those same hours to wordpress.com—a for-profit company. And because Mullenweg has control over both, he can direct all those volunteers to direct their work in a way that benefits not just the non-profit, open-source project, but also the for-profit company. This is a tremendous conflict of interest. Part of the purpose of the Gutenberg project was to make all those page-building plugins in the WordPress plugin repository unnecessary—and to impact the companies producing them with a financial hit, since most of them include both free (but limited) and paid (and thus, fully-featured) options. If their customers no longer need those plugins because their capabilities are now part of WordPress core, those companies lose out on income, and possibly go out of business, meaning that wordpress.\textit{com} has fewer competitors.\footnote{Squashing your competitors is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism. If it weren't we wouldn't need anti-trust laws, would we?} diff --git a/006/include/coda.tex b/006/include/coda.tex index 201cbd4..19b39a1 100644 --- a/006/include/coda.tex +++ b/006/include/coda.tex @@ -38,15 +38,23 @@ The first line saves the \texttt{textsf} command under a new name (\texttt{oldte \begin{multicols}{2} \begin{small} -\noindent{}This is the sixth issue of this zine. I originally did this so I could learn how to use \LaTeX{} and also learn more about Linux. I thought I might get one or two issues and that would be the end of it. So when I started doing this, I pushed everything to my git repo at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the-codex}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the\\-codex}. +\paragraph{I cannot believe that this is where we are:}This is the sixth issue of this zine. I originally did this so I could learn how to use \LaTeX{} and also learn more about Linux (and get some practice with Git in the meantime). I thought I might get one or two issues and that would be the end of it. So when I started doing this, I pushed everything to my git repo at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the-codex}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the\\-codex}. -It looks like this is a thing now, and a single repo just won't work. I'm just over 300 commits in that repo, which doesn't really reveal much about the state of each issue. So, going forward, I'm going to be making commits to a different project on my git repo at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/the-codex-zine}{https://git.kjodle.net/the-codex-\\zine}. That way, each issue can have its own repository and will eventually come to a logical end, instead of being never ending. +It looks like this is a thing now, and a single repo just won't work. I'm just over 300 commits in that repo, which doesn't really reveal much about the state of each issue. So, going forward, I've decided to make this an organization on my git repo at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/the-codex-zine}{https://git.kjodle.net/the-codex-\\zine}. That way, each issue can have its own repository and will eventually come to a logical end, instead of being never ending. -I will, however, maintain the wiki at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the-codex/wiki}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the\\-codex/wiki}. +I will, however, maintain the wiki at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the-codex/wiki}{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle/the\\-codex/wiki}. Believe it or not, I also have a forum for it at \kref{https://forums.kjodle.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=15}{https://forums.kjodle.net/forumdi\\splay.php?fid=15}, so if you want to join that forum and share your opinions and ideas, I encourage you to do so. + +Starting with this issue, I wrote each chapter in a separate \LaTeX{} file, and then used the \texttt{include} command to include it in the main file. This made writing and editing this issue a lot easier, but I realize now that this method also makes it easier to collaborate with others on the writing of this zine. If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this zine, and are familiar with \LaTeX{} and Git, then you can just clone the repo for the current issue, make your changes, and then file a pull request. + +Because you probably don't already have an account on my personal Git server (although if you are interested, contact me and we can talk about it), I'm also pushing the entire thing to Codeberg, which you can see here: \kref{https://codeberg.org/the-codex-zine}{https://codeberg.org/the-codex-zi\\ne}. (I've included the template files that I use for each issue there, so if you want to make your own zine in \LaTeX{}, you can download those and create your own.) + +To mark this change, I've made a few changes to the title page to make it a bit cleaner and more inviting, but that's the only change I plan to make. You can expect the same level of quality (both high and low) as you've always gotten. \paragraph{A shameless bit of self-promotion:} I wanted to learn more about using Tikz in \LaTeX{} so I created a zine of funny (or at least what I found to be funny) Venn diagrams. You can see and even buy a copy on Etsy at \kref{https://wolfgangswishlist.etsy.com/listing/1884948144/funny-venn-diagrams-a-zine-and-coloring}{https://wolfgangswishlist.etsy.co\\m/listing/1884948144/funny-venn-d\\iagrams-a-zine-and-coloring}. -\paragraph{Me, on social media:} I used to love Twitter, and was disappointed (to say the least) to see what it's devolved into. Nevertheless, I am on both Mastodon (\texttt{@kjodle}) and Bluesky (\texttt{@iswpw.bsky.social}). Please feel free to reach out to me there, although I am not nearly as active on either of those platforms as I used to be on Twitter. Maybe someday, again, although I doubt it. +\paragraph{Me, on social media:} I used to love Twitter, and was disappointed (to say the least) to see what it's devolved into. I am on both Mastodon (\texttt{@kjodle}) and Bluesky (\texttt{@iswpw.bsky.social}). Please feel free to reach out to me there, although I am not nearly as active on either of those platforms as I used to be on Twitter. Maybe someday, again, although I doubt it. Sometimes that which is lost will never be found again. + +\paragraph{Zine site:} I make other zines besides this one, which you can read about at \kref{https://just13.click/}{https://just13.click/}. I also have a mailing list there, and I encourage you to sign up for it. I have to pay if I send out more than one email per month anyway, so I definitely won't be clogging up your inbox. \medskip \begin{flushright}