Jerkface (any/all)

To me, Linux is the almost unbearable compromise to the mainstream, coming from BSD.

No, it has never even once bothered my why people install Linux on their own hardware. Not even now that you have brought it to my attention. What is on my mind right now is why you care so much.

How is this any sadder than just closing your eyes and thinking really hard while you crank one out

There was a “we” that produced the first public licenses – amateur and enthusiast software developers, who previously were simply publishing things to the “public domain”. And “we” had clear goals in doing so, which we often wrote directly into our ad hoc self-written licenses. They weren’t handed down by God, there is a mortal history, and living people here were part of it.

I agree that the GPL should be viewed as a cultural artifact, not a legal one. It’s just the spirit of shareware, but without money involved.

In context of the many failures, I don’t think this establishes anything.

The original intention of public licenses was never to prevent code from spreading in any circumstance. Rather, that’s the “innovation” of copy-left. We just wanted a way to share our code without putting the people who used it into legal hot water. We didn’t want to control or manipulate people, using our code to extort a particular behavior out of them. We just wanted to share our code. I think copy-left makes sense in certain situations but I don’t think it should be the default option of a person wanting to contribute to culture.

okay but I say fedi-verse (deceptively) like a normal person

like the GPL successfully enforces

I’m not aware of the GPL being legally tested to where you can claim that; there are a lot of open questions, and it has failed to protect works from AI companies, for example.

You’re taking an incredibly slanted position. There is a whole world of vibrant, viable, meaningful FOSS outside copyleft licenses. Even when one philosophically and politically prefers copyleft licenses, sometimes there are cases where the humanitarian or practical argument favours permissive licensing. But there are many who simply don’t share your interpretation of the philosophy and politics.

Hatred of the poor can be found in every society and culture. It’s so pervasive, it’s ridiculous it doesn’t have a proper name. The closest thing is “classism,” but this is something different.

I say “pownt”.

I would love to see the users casting votes ITT.

Nobody has ever stopped acting shitty because people responded by acting shitty toward them.

Absolutely not true, and also contrary to the entire premise of the justice system.

But while you go too far in some of your arguments, your point is sound.

Please don’t contribute to the abuse, torture, and murder of vulnerable individuals just to make a totally unrelated point. Chickens and cattle are not lumber and steel, they are individuals who would have been loved by their mothers if they had been given the opportunity. The animals we create are all morally entitled to the exact same unconditional love and protection as our own children.

Most people go to the supermarket and buy cruelty, torture, violence, atrocity, and slavery.

No, they moved to Discord because there was a for-profit corporation that was extremely motivated to move people to Discord. Mumble is better in every way that an anti-consumerist cares about.

Mumble is THE SHIT.

Bullshit. Look around you. Get out of the shower and open your eyes. What, is it aliens responsible for all the violence in the world? It’s us. We do it. We are built to do it. Violence is VERY OBVIOUSLY inherent to our psychology.

Also, that’s not how trauma works.

If the registration email is compromised, the attacker can reset the password. So the password doesn’t offer any additional security, in actual practice, over just testing control of the registration email address. If anything, passwords are less secure.

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