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How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.
  • Understood.

    I think we're talking about two very different things. Apologies, language is a crude instrument. I should have made it more clear. I was referring to the right to freedom of movement. This concept is defined different ways in different countries/bodies of law. There's a great wikipedia article on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

    From OP's text, I inferred that they clearly understood the luddites only smashed the technical kit of employers who the luddites felt exploited their workforce. I'm not certain that that concept of their operation would be grasped by a reader that had not heard about the luddites prior to reading OP's words.

  • How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.
  • /* they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them whenever those looms were owned by employers who were felt to be exploitative of their employees.

    The interesting thing is how one defines exploitative. I've seen ex-mining communities where the population moved in and grew with the industry but, since the mines closed, many had stayed in place eking by on very meager state benefits, and not traveled to find work as their forebears had. To be abundantly clear: I'm not making any judgement of right or wrong, I'm just suggesting that (at least for populations who have a right to freedom of movement) there are opportunities for a little more colour to be put on OP's canvas.

  • Magazine bans not federating with lemmy.world (and potentially others)
  • @adam thank you for explaining this. Am I correct to understand, then, that this is something about which we ought to approach the #activityPub devs, rather than ernest?

    Ernest's comment that ActivityPub tries to federate moderation (but isn't ?why) was very interesting.

    It seems to me, on the face of it at least, that moderation is a key part of any social medium.

  • How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
  • Fdroid --> unciv

    Civilisation clone. Really fantastic if she enjoys that sort of thing.

    https://f-droid.org/categories/games/

    Also I don't know anything about adblockers but I was lucky enough to have a device supported by www.divestos.org and I think the OS defaults to a DNS that ignores ads somehow. But I'm not sure! I just know I get WAY less spammy ads than friends do :P

    #divestOS #Fdroid

  • How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
  • Fdroid --> unciv

    Civilisation clone. Really fantastic if she enjoys that sort of thing.

    https://f-droid.org/categories/games/

    Also I don't know anything about adblockers but I was lucky enough to have a device supported by www.divestos.org and I think the OS defaults to a DNS that ignores ads somehow. But I'm not sure! I just know I get WAY less spammy ads than friends do :P

    #divestOS #Fdroid

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