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Dr. Quadragon ❌
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Erik Uden 🍑
6 August at 17:00

If you wonder why Oracle sucks extra hard compared to other big tech... they were set up by the CIA in 1977

7 August at 23:23 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Balou19812

@ErikUden

How about SAP? 😁 Back to the 80s/90s😂

NSA Code is written in most linux kernels (SeLinux)

6 August at 18:06 | Open on mas.to
Hein Ragas

@ErikUden I always understood Oracle to be an acronym for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison"

6 August at 18:07 | Open on mublog.nl
Григорий Клюшников

Java is nice tho.
— sent from my Java ActivityPub server

7 August at 23:37
Dr. Quadragon ❌

A nice compact explanation for permissive vs. copyleft licensing I found:

Both models provide freedom and protection at the expense of the developer;
Permissive model provides more freedom and protection for your *immediate downstream user* at the expense of the end user;
Copyleft model provides more freedom and protection for your *end user* at the expense of the intermediate users.

It's pretty context-dependent which way you wanna go, but personally, in a toss-up, I'm gonna side with the end user. Because that's what actually matters in the end: the ability to actually use the software freely.

At the end of the day, if I have to use a proprietary, locked-down system that spies on me, doesn't let me modify it, or even look at its insides, and generally treats me, the user, like crap, it doesn't make a nick of difference to me that it has a BSD kernel inside, or MIT-licensed coreutils, right?

A nice compact explanation for permissive vs. copyleft licensing I found:

Both models provide freedom and protection at the expense of the developer;
Permissive model provides more freedom and protection for your *immediate downstream user* at the expense of the end user;
Copyleft model provides more freedom and protection for your *end user* at the expense of the intermediate users.

7 August at 22:17 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

Why have I brought this up at all?

Well,

github.com/uutils/coreutils

It's a nice project, I quite like it. But the license choice kinda irks me.

The author states that its goal is not to fight the GNU project. While that might not be the intention, in my opinion, this is actually one third of the way to the EEE scenario.

MIT license means it's easy for corporations who choose to make proprietary software to adopt it for their projects. So the "Embrace" step is basically done, voluntarily.

The next step is to Extend it, to make it on par or better than GNU Coreutils. Which has not been achieved yet, but this is the goal.

If this has the potential to be better than GNU coreutils (and it does, being written in a more modern language, and by that virtue having more potential for modernization), then why use GNU coreutils at all? That will be the Extinguish part.

Why have I brought this up at all?

Well,

github.com/uutils/coreutils

It's a nice project, I quite like it. But the license choice kinda irks me.

The author states that its goal is not to fight the GNU project. While that might not be the intention, in my opinion, this is actually one third of the way to the EEE scenario.

8 August at 0:27 | Open on mastodon.ml
uis

@drq permissive provides right, copyleft provides freedom. Right of one ends where right of another begins, but freedom of one is freedom of another.

8 August at 3:02 | Open on pone.social
FC (Fay) 🏳️‍🌈

@drq yeah. I like how Drew DeVault put it:

> "If I understand correctly, what you are arguing for is a passive freedom, which is the absence of obligations; I am arguing for a positive freedom, which is the guarantee of rights."

> Most succinct rebuttal I've come up with yet to those who view permissive licenses as more free than copyleft

fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112

8 August at 18:12 | Open on tech.lgbt
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌
stux⚡
3 August at 12:35

It kinda feels like we are at an impossible to task to "make things more fair", politicians are throwing things up like "tax cuts" that only benefit the ultra rich, like always, talk about "tips" and how that should not be taxes?

The solution is quite fcking simple:

- INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE ⚠️
- TAX THE RICH (SO MUUCH)⚠️

THAT is how we make things more fair in the economy and not with bullshit laws that are only made for the wealthy!

Again, what do I know. I'm only human no politician

It kinda feels like we are at an impossible to task to "make things more fair", politicians are throwing things up like "tax cuts" that only benefit the ultra rich, like always, talk about "tips" and how that should not be taxes?

The solution is quite fcking simple:

- INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE ⚠️
- TAX THE RICH (SO MUUCH)⚠️

7 August at 21:31 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Mark

@stux The point of 50’s-era 90% marginal tax rates was to incent companies to invest money into their businesses. These investments were tax-deductible, thereby reducing taxes while providing a benefit to society. Merely reducing the marginal tax rate allows business and the wealthy to just hold the wealth, without producing any benefit to society. We should create a separate, higher rate structure for those who choose to leave the US while keeping all the benefits of being here.

3 August at 13:55 | Open on mastodon.world
Chris @ todfox
Alex :autism_pride_circle: :neofox_flag_ace:

@stux@mstdn.social you forgot to mention you're a cat in your spare time. meow.

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112898433265244677

here, have this.

3 August at 15:23 | Open on kitty.social
Dr. Quadragon ❌
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Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ

@MarkHoltom I have a trouble with this because almost all bottled water companies buy the bottles they fill.

3 August at 18:32 | Open on techhub.social
ferricoxide

@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk

They produce drained aquifers.
They produce land subsidence.
They produce empty wells for farmers.
They produce higher water-rates and usage-restrictions for other customers within a water-region.

5 August at 12:40 | Open on evil.social
Aerofreak | DE/EN
Dr. Quadragon ❌

I think, Ross Scott would have made a great political analyst.

youtu.be/rxOKEsBx4NU?t=1273

He described, in broad strokes, basically everything you need to know to get started with political economy, and described how corporate state corruption works.

IN A GAME REVIEW.

Granted, it's "this" kind of a game, but still.

There's also his Adpocalypse-era video about demonetization that's still hugely relevant:

youtube.com/watch?v=NjqjwCeLf_

7 August at 20:54 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌

I noticed, that save for installing sysrep packages and changing the system settings, I hardly ever need root on the desktop system.

I kinda want to try an immutable distro. But I don't want to let go of the rolling release Arch provides.

Is there such a thing as an immutable system that has the rolling release schedule that as fast as Arch's?

(inb4: no, i do not want nixos)

7 August at 19:41 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Neural Meduza
7 August at 19:00

В России появится первый туалет с отсеком для мечты

7 August at 19:22 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Missing The Point
7 August at 16:26

This. This is why some of us are here every day, grinding.

Tweet screenshot Brandon Friedman Follow @BFriedmanDC "A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold." - E.B. White Quote tweeting: madeline odent @oldeno... •15h I don't say this lightly but whoever it was made the initial couch joke has quite possibly changed the course of American history
7 August at 19:18 | Open on mastodon.ml
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Theodore Painsworth
Alexander Knochel
WilliamBob

@MissingThePt -much tooting about the obvious choice to play Harris on SNL; however, remember SNL also has the SOFA KING sketch anytime they want. Back to the front-send in the clowns!😬

7 August at 19:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Dr. Quadragon ❌

Пизданутая какая-то неделя, на всю башку.

7 August at 19:12 | Open on mastodon.ml
metallcorn 🐧

@drq неистово двачую. Ещё только среда, а я уже все

7 August at 19:56 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@georgetakei You know what I hate more? When I'm supposed to be working, but instead I find myself cleaning the house. AND then...

7 August at 19:04 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌
Dr. Quadragon ❌

Народ, там @lost_enchanter стримит впервые за очень долгое время! Давайте сделаем так, чтобы она продолжала!

twitch.tv/lillian_deer_vt

(ну да, пока на Твитче, но штош)

@rf

7 August at 17:26 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
local deer girl
7 August at 17:06

Кто сегодня залип, тот я!
Стартуем стрим через 10 минут.

twitch.tv/lillian_deer_vt

7 August at 17:17 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other. (c)

7 August at 16:15 | Open on mastodon.ml
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@drq jokes on you im young stupid and bitter

7 August at 16:37 | Open on dindon.one
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