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It's really odd for him to link to Youtube. I wonder if someone else added it. That part of the HTML doesn't seem to be written with auto-fill-mode either.

enriquto 7y ago
yes, looks suspicious, you mean he was hacked? if that is the case, whomever managed to hack the "supreme hacker" deserves some sort of prize, doesn't it?
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- bdcravens 7y ago
  Why would you call him the "supreme hacker"? His claim to fame is his ideology, not necessarily his skill.
  - enriquto 7y ago
    The man wrote the first versions of emacs, gcc, gdb, make and bison (a compiler compiler). He created the FSF and hired programmers to write other parts of GNU like glibc. He also wrote the GPL which is a wicked legal hack. Maybe he's no Knuth, Ritchie or Bellard, but a hacker he is. Certainly among the top 5 alive today.
    - bdcravens 7y ago
      When was his last commit to any of those projects? He's certainly an accomplished programmer, but then again, so is Bill Gates.
      - enriquto 7y ago
        Gates didn't write the first versions of Excel and Word, and probably has 0 commits on the source of these projects. Not to disparage the abilities of Gates, but there is no useful comparison here to be made. Last talk I saw of Stallman, to a very technical audience, he was asked this same question. If I recall correctly he said that he was working to steer the programming resources towards the most important parts for user freedom (e.g., free operating system for phones), but he did not contributed code directly, leaving this task to more talented younger people. He enjoyed programming a lot, and his coding mojo was mostly spent on emacs macros to automate his daily tasks. (this is just a recollection from a talk heard a few years ago, it may not be exact, but that was the spirit).
ran3824692 7y ago
He simply expects anyone who wants to keep their freedom to use youtube-dl, which is packaged in trisquel.
sschueller 7y ago
He should be using peertube which is GPL 3 and based on activitypub just like mastedon. https://joinpeertube.org/en/ https://joinpeertube.org/en/ Full disclosure, I'm the developer of an android player for peertube. https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android

enriquto 7y ago

yes, looks suspicious, you mean he was hacked? if that is the case, whomever managed to hack the "supreme hacker" deserves some sort of prize, doesn't it?

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bdcravens 7y ago
Why would you call him the "supreme hacker"? His claim to fame is his ideology, not necessarily his skill.
- enriquto 7y ago
  The man wrote the first versions of emacs, gcc, gdb, make and bison (a compiler compiler). He created the FSF and hired programmers to write other parts of GNU like glibc. He also wrote the GPL which is a wicked legal hack. Maybe he's no Knuth, Ritchie or Bellard, but a hacker he is. Certainly among the top 5 alive today.
  - bdcravens 7y ago
    When was his last commit to any of those projects? He's certainly an accomplished programmer, but then again, so is Bill Gates.
    - enriquto 7y ago
      Gates didn't write the first versions of Excel and Word, and probably has 0 commits on the source of these projects. Not to disparage the abilities of Gates, but there is no useful comparison here to be made. Last talk I saw of Stallman, to a very technical audience, he was asked this same question. If I recall correctly he said that he was working to steer the programming resources towards the most important parts for user freedom (e.g., free operating system for phones), but he did not contributed code directly, leaving this task to more talented younger people. He enjoyed programming a lot, and his coding mojo was mostly spent on emacs macros to automate his daily tasks. (this is just a recollection from a talk heard a few years ago, it may not be exact, but that was the spirit).

ran3824692 7y ago

He simply expects anyone who wants to keep their freedom to use youtube-dl, which is packaged in trisquel.

sschueller 7y ago

He should be using peertube which is GPL 3 and based on activitypub just like mastedon. https://joinpeertube.org/en/ https://joinpeertube.org/en/ Full disclosure, I'm the developer of an android player for peertube. https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android