diff --git a/006/006 time.csv b/006/006 time.csv index 2cd4b59..aebe8a1 100644 --- a/006/006 time.csv +++ b/006/006 time.csv @@ -39,3 +39,5 @@ Date,Topic,Minutes ,ch. 2 aside,20 ,ch. 1, 60 ,,49 +,ch. 1 edits, 20 +2025.02.17,ch. 1 edits and additions, 30 diff --git a/006/codex-006.tex b/006/codex-006.tex index a80e7af..1175972 100644 --- a/006/codex-006.tex +++ b/006/codex-006.tex @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ \usepackage{tabto} % Use tab stops when we need to (especially in footnotes) \usepackage{microtype} % Make things neater. Thanks /u/-LeopardShark- \usepackage{tabularray} % Easy tables -\usepackage[defaultsans]{Cantarell} % sans-serif font; https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/firasansregular %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -76,6 +75,14 @@ \titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{40pt} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% Fonts %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\usepackage[defaultsans]{Cantarell} % sans-serif font +% Make sans-serif a little smaller, since it seems too big in headlines and text +\let\oldtextsf\textsf +\renewcommand{\textsf}[1]{\small\oldtextsf{#1}} + + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Custom Macros %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -114,8 +121,6 @@ %% Just for Issue #006 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{ulem} -\let\oldtextsf\textsf -\renewcommand{\textsf}[1]{\small\oldtextsf{#1}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -143,15 +148,15 @@ \begin{document} -\maketitle +%\maketitle -\input{include/impressum} +%\input{include/impressum} -\tableofcontents +%\tableofcontents \input{include/chap01} -\input{include/chap02} +%\input{include/chap02} %\input{include/chap03} @@ -161,7 +166,7 @@ %\input{include/chap06} -\input{include/coda} +%\input{include/coda} diff --git a/006/include/chap01.tex b/006/include/chap01.tex index 340ea03..5a52366 100644 --- a/006/include/chap01.tex +++ b/006/include/chap01.tex @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ \section{The Trouble With Open Source} -\paragraph{About the title:} \textit{Support Your Local Sheriff} is a 1969 western/comedy starring James Garner. It was initially a box office bomb, and the movie studio wanted to pull it from theaters (because movie studios tend to be spineless, risk-averse creatures). Garner had confidence in it though, and challenged the studio to match a \$10,000 stake to keep it in the theaters. The studio accepted his challenge, word of mouth caught on, and the film became a minor classic. Kudos to Garner for putting his money where his mouth was. It's not the best film in the world, but it's worth a watch. - As a Linux user, I'm a big fan of open-source software. All the software I use in real life (i.e., when I'm not at work) is open source. (I finally did abandon VueScan for NAPS2, as I mentioned back in issue \#4.) I don't want Microsoft or Apple in my personal life at all, if I can avoid it. I'm not worried about their stealing my identity or anything like that. What I want to avoid is their pernicious insistence on occupying a larger and larger role in my life. Alas, that takes a bit of work these days. Also, open-source is a difficult path to follow these days. There are always people looking to exploit this model for their own greed. As I mention later on, it helps to examine a person's source code. @@ -22,7 +20,7 @@ Second, Microsoft included the option to just get a text message, but also indic This is problematic in so many ways. For one thing, once I have that app on my phone, Microsoft is now embedded in my life. It goes everywhere I go. If I have to choose between a Microsoft product or some other non-Microsoft product in the future, I am more likely to go with the Microsoft app because hey, I already have their authenticator app and so that's one less app I need to download and install, one less login I need to maintain. Microsoft is my friend, after all, looking out for me and making my life easier by providing this free app that makes 2FA so easy to manage. What a wonderful Big Brother it is! -The worst thing about this however, is how deceitful it all is. First, Microsoft creates an artificial barrier to doing what you want to do, and then it conveniently offers you a ``free'' solution to get around that barrier.\footnote{We would be wise here to remember Doctorow's Law: In a capitalist society, if somebody gives you something for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.} And of course, that solution means that Microsoft is going everywhere you go. It's a part of your life now. You can only get rid of it with a great deal of effort. +The worst thing about this however, is how deceitful it all is. First, Microsoft creates an artificial barrier to doing what you want to do, and then it conveniently offers you a ``free'' solution to get around that barrier.\footnote{We would be wise here to remember Doctorow's Law: In a capitalist society, if somebody gives you something for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.} And of course, that solution means that Microsoft is going everywhere you go. It's a part of your life now. You can only get rid of it with a great deal of effort. \footnote{My company is heavily invested in Microsoft technology, and we have to use 2FA to log into our VPN. Fortunately, they gave us the option of either using the app or using these little credit-card sized authenticator cards (I forget what they're called). But there have been rumors that the cards will soon go away and we'll be forced to install the Microsoft authenticator app on our phones and use that. For that reason (among others) I am looking to move on from this company. If they want me to use a digital device, then they should provide it.} I don't use GitHub any more as a result. I have moved all my online repositories from there to both my own git server (located at \kref{https://git.kjodle.net/kjodle}{https://git.k\\jodle.net/kjodle}) and also to Codeberg (located at \kref{https://codeberg.org/kjodle}{https://codeberg.or\\g/kjodle}). @@ -58,13 +56,13 @@ The key difference between WordPress and all those other companies is that Matt 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?} -And now that wordpress.(org? com? I'm not sure which anymore.) has attacked WPEngine for not ``supporting'' the wordpress.org project, we see that this is not really about promoting open-source projects but about yet another oligarch (or in this case, a wannabe oligarch; Mullenweg is small peanuts compared to others) trying to consolidate his\footnote{It's interesting to note that all oligarchs are male.} power, and drive all of its competitors out of their business either by hook or by crook, it seems. +And now that WordPress (.org? .com? I'm not sure which anymore.) has attacked WPEngine for not ``supporting'' the wordpress.org project, we see that this is not really about promoting open-source projects but about yet another oligarch (or in this case, a wannabe oligarch; Mullenweg is small peanuts compared to others) trying to consolidate his\footnote{It's interesting to note that all oligarchs are male.} power, and drive all of its competitors out of their business either by hook or by crook, it seems. -Again, this would not be an issue if wordpress.\textit{com} were not a thing. The creators (or forkers) of open-source software should not be allowed to create for-profit entiteies that directly benefit from the volunteer labor of thousands of volunteers. +Again, this would not be an issue if wordpress.\textit{com} were not a thing. The creators (or forkers) of open-source software should not be allowed to create for-profit entities that directly benefit from the volunteer labor of thousands of volunteers. -\section{How to Actually Support Actual Open-Source Software Projects} +\section{How to Support Actual Open-Source Software Projects} -It's not always about money. (I mean, it is \textit{partly} about money for now, at least until we can build a society which is based upon ensuring people have what they need, and can contribute what they are able, rather than a society built upon avarice.) +It's not always about money. (I mean, it is \textit{partly} about money for now, at least until we can build a society based upon ensuring people have what they need, and can contribute what they are able, rather than a society built upon avarice.) \begin{enumerate}[itemsep=\baselineskip] \item Use the software, on a a regular basis. Get good at using it. Become an expert at using it, so you can help others down the road. (More about that later.) @@ -77,3 +75,18 @@ It's not always about money. (I mean, it is \textit{partly} about money for now, \item You can always participate in the support forums, help other people out, and make suggestions for improvements. \end{enumerate} +\subsection{How to Support This Zine} + +In a lot of ways, this zine is an open source project. It's published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Sharalike 4.0 license (\ccbyncnd)\footnote{See \kref{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/}{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/} for more information.} so there's no reason you couldn't just take this code and do your own thing with it. The only reason somebody hasn't already is that there's just not a huge market for zines about Linux. + +You're already doing the best thing you can do to support this zine: you're reading it. (I'm grateful that you are and I hope you're enjoying it.) + +But everything that I wrote up above also applies here: Please talk about this zine on whatever social media platforms you participate on and share the Etsy link. And yep, please remember to talk about \textit{why} you like this zine. (Also tell me what you'd like to see more of. Like a lot of creative people, I vacillate between having too many things to talk about and not having enough things to talk about.) If you have friends you think would like this zine, please send them over to take a look, or buy them a copy. If you want to buy some copies in bulk to give away, please contact me so we can work out a pretty hefty discount. + +If you want to donate just to keep this thing going, you can always do so via PayPal at \kref{https://paypal.me/kjodle}{https://paypal.me/kjodle}.\footnote{You are under absolutely no obligation to do so, and my imposter syndrome actually means I would be embarassed if somebody did so. Relevant link is here: \kref{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_NpdAy3WY}{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl\_NpdAy3WY}.} + +But really, please just read and enjoy this zine. And remember to tell your friends. Thanks! + + +\paragraph{About the title:} \textit{Support Your Local Sheriff} is a 1969 western/comedy starring James Garner. It was initially a box office bomb, and the movie studio wanted to pull it from theaters (because movie studios tend to be spineless, risk-averse creatures). Garner had confidence in it though, and challenged the studio to match a \$10,000 stake to keep it in the theaters. The studio accepted his challenge, word of mouth caught on, and the film became a minor classic. Kudos to Garner for putting his money where his mouth was. It's not the best film in the world, but it's worth a watch. +