Anti-Corporate Movement
This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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I noticed you run a Minecraft server. May I interest you in this project. It's a dockerized Minecraft server that turns off when nobody's on and turns back on when someone attempts to join.
As for electronics I mainly just solder some IoT devices like a smart lamp. Currently I'm fighting with my room fan that I want to turn smart as I keep running into new problems. As it looks now, I'll need to learn FreeRTOS, IR modulation, and the Zigbee protocol to get it all running.
Another pending project is designing a custom PCB for my Logitech G613 keyboard. It started typing double letters. At the same time it's kind of the only keyboard design that I'd be fine with. Full size wireless mechanical keyboard with a macro pad. Wishful thinking would also be things like detachable numpad, ortholinear layout, detachable split layout, but oh well. This is the closest thing on the market that fulfills my requirements. Only issue is the Romer-G keycaps. I would much rather have hot-swappable MX switches. Therefore I'll look into swapping the PCB out for something custom so I can keep the same chassis I like but replace all the switches and return to a keyboard without double strokes and better sound, too!