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by sneak 10mo ago
Thanks for the completely off base psychoanalysis. You’re wrong. I am simply tired of people pretending that using free software means that the author is owed a damn thing, even if you go and make a billion dollars with it. It doesn’t aff
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by sneak 10mo ago
You think that missing out on talking to high schoolers is worse than missing out on the harms of smartphones? We must have very different views of the world. I would never let a child for whom I am responsible have a smartphone. They are
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by sneak 10mo ago
Scientific consensus is often NOT the defining measure of what a state (and thus a prosecutor) considers truth, and thus what they consider misinformation. The dangers of medical misinformation, regardless of scale, do not negate the fact t
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by sneak 10mo ago
Why would a 15 year old warrant a mobile phone, much less an unrestricted one?
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by sneak 10mo ago
This post makes it clear to me that you should not be giving devices such as the Switch to children.
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by sneak 10mo ago
Then why continue to donate time and attention to censorship platforms? Having a Facebook account is completely optional.
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by sneak 10mo ago
I think those who advocate for censorship are gullible and have fallen for the bush-league trap of believing that the state is on your side and exists to benefit you.
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by sneak 10mo ago
Telling lies should never be criminalized, because there is no single trustworthy arbiter of truth. This has nothing to do with vaccines. There is a very good reason that misinformation is, and should remain legal. This simply allows the
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by sneak 10mo ago
There is nothing dynamic about this site in the sense of “static site”. This may well be a static site.
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by sneak 10mo ago
50 years from now there will be emulators that can run the OSes of today that can run flash emulators.
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by sneak 10mo ago
A “normal country” like the UK or Hungary or Switzerland? Really though it’s because Russia mostly has nothing going for its millions of people except petrochemical exports.
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by sneak 10mo ago
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed…
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by sneak 10mo ago
I disagree. The moral thing to do would be to respect the stated wishes of the author of the software, who made clear when they published it that no payments of any kind are expected. If I gave you a gift and you tried to give me money, I
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by sneak 10mo ago
In the lunch example, reciprocation would be releasing additional software under free software licenses, not payments. There should be zero social pressure, as gifts do not convey obligation. It was the software author’s explicit choice whe
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by sneak 10mo ago
There is no moral obligation, either - that’s my point. They chose to give it away for free. It’s the author’s explicit decision that there is no obligation placed on recipients. Giving a fake gift that comes with unspoken strings attach
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by sneak 10mo ago
Charitable donations that are self-serving aren’t non-genuine. The money still spends the same.
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by sneak 10mo ago
Gifts do not confer obligation. Copying deprives the original party of nothing. Absolutely nothing about free software requires or even implies any responsibility to “give back”. This idea that anyone making money with free software some
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by sneak 10mo ago
It says right on the bathroom faucet that it isn’t for drinking - anyone brushing their teeth with the sink water is a fool.
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by sneak 10mo ago
This is what I felt when I read Rob Pike’s post, for the most part, but expressed a hundred times better than I could have possibly imagined.
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by sneak 10mo ago
These have all fallen massively in price, too. Many billions more afford education than was possible before. Economies of scale have brought manufacturing costs for housing down, and now people live in larger, better structures than ever b
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by sneak 10mo ago
Copying isn’t theft, and it’s DEFINITELY not theft of labor. Then again, you already knew this because we’ve been pointing it out to the RIAA and MPAA and the copyright cartels for decades now. It is my personal opinion that attempts to ref
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by sneak 10mo ago
Some of us do, and actively root it out. I’ve never in my life been more excited to sit alone in a room with an editor and a compiler than I am these days.
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by sneak 10mo ago
Funny. The fact that Go exists actually makes LLMs tremendously more useful; I find a somewhat footgun-free type safe language aimed at making junior devs safe and productive is the perfect use of an LLM that is at junior dev level of outp
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by sneak 10mo ago
Working for the web’s leading mass surveillance advertising enshittifier is not “roll[ing] through a stop sign”.
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by sneak 10mo ago
> many tech companies have 50,000+ employees There are not many tech companies with 50k+ employees, as a point of fact. I’m not arguing just to argue - 300 people isn’t small by any measure. It’s absolutely not “extremely small” as wa
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by sneak 10mo ago
The CIA ran torture prisons, got caught, then there was a congressional inquiry, and they hacked into the computers of the congresspeople to delete the evidence of torture. Then they got caught hacking congressional computers to delete evid
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by sneak 10mo ago
There already are on Sony TVs. My roommate is always connecting it when I’m away and I have to factory reset it and go through the dark pattern to use it without WiFi.
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by sneak 10mo ago
I’m still always surprised that there are adults who think it is not. The CIA, for example, is entirely above the law.
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by sneak 10mo ago
300 people isn’t “extremely small” for a company. I don’t work with/for companies over 100 people, for example, and those are already quite big.
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by sneak 10mo ago
Sure. The system worked in that case - it was discovered as malicious and pulled.

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