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by asrt 2y ago
The focus here isn't on DeVault's software, but on his hit piece aimed at ousting Stallman and the FSF board to install his own people. He attempted to distance himself from the article to mislead the public and maybe even shield
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by asrt 2y ago
That's not what it says at all. In that quote Stallman makes a distinction between pornography that depicts real children and drawings, which he claims hurt no one. This distinction is also made by the law in the USA, so this quote mer
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by asrt 2y ago
Which globally influential movement? Stallman's credit for the creation of the GNU operating system was stolen by Linus Torvalds, and most of the community even claims that GNU isn't an operating system, essentially deleting his b
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by asrt 2y ago
>If you want to discuss our report on Hacker News, you will have to help us overcome the systemic reactionary bias on HN. The message is clear: HN has a "bias" (according to them) and their readers must take action in order to
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by asrt 2y ago
The Epstein quote is taken out of context and his controversial opinion about age of consent (which isn't even that different from the opinions held by esteemed philosophers like Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir) was retracted pu
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by asrt 2y ago
Bullying an old man with cancer over off-colored jokes made half a century ago and opinions that he publicly retracted is "the right thing"? That's absurd.
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by asrt 2y ago
The anonymous authors of this website have instructed people on other websites to come here and downvote any and all comments that speak in favor of RMS: https://mastodon.social/@report_press/113305688857205037 This is
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by asrt 3y ago
This guy made GCC and Emacs. GCC in particular has shaped how most software has been compiled for decades. His operating system, GNU, is the de-facto UNIX implementation and runs many critical systems around the world. Anyone who claims tha
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by asrt 7y ago
>Linux comes with Firefox pre-installed (or some variant of it, depending on distro). "Linux" has a minuscule market share and the people that use it are already more likely to use Firefox than Chrome since FF is open source. &
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by asrt 7y ago
10 years ago you could safely use Firefox (Gecko), Chrome (Webkit), Konqueror (KHTML), Opera (Presto), Internet Explorer and small browsers like Lynx. Today only Blink and Gecko remain. And for some reason web developers want Gecko to dissa
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by asrt 7y ago
>Also the non-JS web is basically dead. People should to come and accept that even if it's not perfect. This is what it all comes to. Unparsable, terrible-to-use websites that are also not compatible with text-to-speech is the futur
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by asrt 10y ago
That name bothers me. I understand that people don't want to use the name GNU/Linux because it's stupid and overcomplicated, but in this case there is no Linux at all. This is quite literally GNU running on top of the NT kern
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by asrt 10y ago
Bultmann and Robinson? Do they operate the Tor node on a Bultcave or something?