jrm4

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by jrm4 8mo ago
I mean, genuine question, is Linux Mint or MX Linux endangered by this? Unless I'm missing something, I have zero concern for companies who sell out by complying. The code was "free as in freedom" when you decided to build
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Right, but in turn it is absolutely reasonable and good for consumers to threaten a company with (legal) harm or extinction on a moral battlefield.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Wrong. Stop nerding so hard. It's related in terms of how it functions as human beings use it.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Haven't seen anyone else mention the following - but it more or less fulfills the same connotative role as the passive voice, no? Takes focus off the agency of -- well, the speaker, but actually anyone?
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Perfect illustration of why it's really easy to see the parallels between the immaturity of not wanting to change the UI and the immaturity of not wanting to change the name. "Glimpse" was a fantastic idea and resistance
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by jrm4 8mo ago
I installed this one day to try it out and can't remember why I stopped, but apparently now I must hunt it down and destroy every trace of it from my machine, so thanks for the update.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
? Seems to support GTK, Qt and ncurses?
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Again, this must be framed ecologically , not individually. We've moved past the point where "individual choices" matter a whole lot, a lot of this is not much of an individual choice at all. So, it's good to remember
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by jrm4 8mo ago
MORE OF THIS. This exactly the sort of silliness we need to counter..well everything.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Audacity makes me think that UI isn't the real problem.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Exactly. As I think about it, I believe we have a pretty good thought experiment. What if "Audacity" (a program that's doing pretty good that IMHO actually also has a pretty crappy UI) was called, like "flatulence"
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by jrm4 8mo ago
It's not "intent to offend" per se, it's "attempt to be edgy."
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by jrm4 8mo ago
This was my gut from the beginning. If they can't do "fully observable" or "deterministic" (for what is probably a loose definition of that word) -- then, what's the point?
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Gonna have to say this a bunch around here, but yours is yet ANOTHER comment shooting the messenger. You (theoretically) are championing an idea of freedom in language or something like that. Look, people, this is PR. The author wondered ou
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Yes, every time I post this point, I get this sort of "but I'm not offended" response. I'm not either, personally. But I live in America, a pretty strong force, for better or lately probably worse. And GIMP is very good
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Let me be clear, this has nothing to do with pushing "linguistic sensitivity" for its own sake. Nothing. Look, the author himself wondered out loud why he wasn't more deservedly popular. I put forth a reason why. PR is real.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Oh I'll fight you there. Turntable wins because you have access to LITERALLY ALL RECORDED MUSIC EVER :)
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Great argument -- but I'd also counter that "the turntable" (i.e. in the hands of experts like Q-Bert, Craze, Rob Swift, Jazzy Jeff and others) fits this quite well -- especially re your "have the audience understand wha
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Citation please; and remember your answer is incomplete without a comparison to the safety of NON sideloaded apps.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
It's emphatically not "the wrong approach," and it's exceedingly weird when everyone makes things like this an "either/or." Do BOTH, when possible.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
This should be voted higher, it quite literally is this simple.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Keeeep going. Are banks POWERFUL? Do they have lots of money and/or connections to those who do? Do they have a vested interest in getting transactions right? Absolutely! Now, with all that money and power -- they -- whoever THEY are,
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by jrm4 8mo ago
None of these things requires "locking down phones." Every single thing you've mentioned can be done in a smarter way that doesn't involve "individuals aren't allowed to modify the devices they purchase.&quot
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Your analogy is terrible because it doesn't do a proper accounting of "harm" and "risk." Food and seatbelts, that's literal health and life-and-death; very immediate and visible. "Cybersecurity" rar
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by jrm4 8mo ago
I've long wanted to kill (or drastically reduce) the narrative of "the swing voter" -- who mostly doesn't matter, and even if they do, is not reliable enough to be able to "influence." In the US, it's basi
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by jrm4 8mo ago
Sure, but this is why free software/open source is so important (and why we dodged a bullet due to "AI" being invented in a mostly open source world.) I just think we'll all have to get comfy fighting fire with fire.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
It's funny, I'm so comfortable calling this guy an idiot purely based on the fact that I've taken up Bob Ross style painting in like the last 2 years. Teaches you to pay attention to "objective" colors. And at nig
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by jrm4 8mo ago
To you. Laptops exist.
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by jrm4 8mo ago
I haven't really dived into Tailscale et al because I'm still using Tinc; and the bulk of this discussion continues to make me not want to. What's the big deal here? Any good reason to switch (besides Tinc's obscurity?)

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