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techno hippie

see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • I've won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.

    It's the freedom.

    Free to use, study, share, change.

    The Free Software Definition

    The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to time we revise this definition, to clarify it or to resolve questions about subtle issues. See the History section below for a list of changes that affect the definition of free software.

    The four essential freedoms

    A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

    • The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
    • The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
    • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
    • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

    A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.

    In any given scenario, these freedoms must apply to whatever code we plan to make use of, or lead others to make use of. For instance, consider a program A which automatically launches a program B to handle some cases. If we plan to distribute A as it stands, that implies users will need B, so we need to judge whether both A and B are free. However, if we plan to modify A so that it doesn't use B, only A needs to be free; B is not pertinent to that plan.

    ^ from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

  • "I'll give you a winter prediction: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life!" - Phil Connors

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  • Oh, even when websearching for "star trek miles o'brian" all the results say O'Brien.

    ... I seem to have slipped into an alternate timeline. I was 100% sure it was always O'Brian.

  • GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

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  • Is Ironclad "Almost There"?

  • GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

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  • When I last tried hurd (around 2014 iirc), it was "there" enough. I'm not sure what this other "there" others are on about, like it's a hard binary transition point to being usable, as if it might as well not be working at all. It's there enough to give it a go. Long time.

  • "I'll give you a winter prediction: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life!" - Phil Connors

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  • Main thing I noticed too.

  • Not the same.

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  • Are all three loaded with the spice?

  • Not the same.

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  • Mine's green

  • The goal of switching to free software is to gain full control over your computing

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  • Then they must be poor artists. ;)

  • And no, it wasn't letting Neelix on board

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  • Yes.

    Or, certainly the one that hurt the most.

    Watch Tuvix plead for his life, and tell me that wasn't wrong.

    ... And would have been great to have the rest of Voyager's episodes continue with Tuvix.

  • And no, it wasn't letting Neelix on board

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  • Becoming Q's son's godmother.

  • The goal of switching to free software is to gain full control over your computing

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  • [User-lock-in] Nonsense.

    There are an abundance of creative tools with free software licenses.

    A poor artist blames his tools.

    Don't fall for the user-lock-in of the likes of Adobe.

    I'm an artist since birth. Using the computer, foremost, for art, and in 2003 when I decided to switch from M$windows, I had already seen, in college a couple years prior, from using sgi machines with IRIX, that there are alternatives out there for creative use, so that maybe eased my way out of the mind-capture of the user-lock-in, already having that ignorance smashed by experience. When I sought an alternative from the abuses of M$ windoze, I at first was thinking I would be taking my familiar Adobe tools and softimage|XSI with me. But in the search, I found the free software philosophy, and the notion of even falling back on using wine to continue to run the software (and software (licensing) paradigm) that had been abusing me withered away too.

    Never regretted it.

    Bye bye Stockholm syndrome.

  • The goal of switching to free software is to gain full control over your computing

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  • Awareness of how easy and nice it is, seems a greater hurdle than how easy and nice it is. From my experience, [in 2003, with my first install of suse as a fresh windows refugee] it was already easy enough before ubuntu came along advertising that it made it easier and nicer (~ I noticed no significant change from ubuntu to how easy and nice it was, they just had stronger marketing).

    People just don't know [how easy and nice it is].

    Same as they don't know the distinction of free software being an entirely different philosophical paradigm to live, not just another platform to be abused by.

  • The goal of switching to free software is to gain full control over your computing

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  • Yep.

    Gotta keep telling them about the 4 freedoms of free software, showing how it's not just another platform for consumers to hope their daddy corporation is the kindest to them.

  • Billionaire Ehud Laniado dies during penis enlargement surgery, surgeons banned

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  • For sure gonna catch a lot of that small-dick try-hard over-compensating energy.

  • Bow-chicka-wow-wow, indeed

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  • So hawt.

  • Which Harry Kim are you today?

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  • "TEMU"?

  • Billionaire Ehud Laniado dies during penis enlargement surgery, surgeons banned

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  • oh!

    so is that how we'll be rid of billionaires?

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • Feels good having not used M$ Word since .... So long I don't even remember. Decades.

  • Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

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  • 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

    Can we each be given the kind of head start of millions he did? :3

  • All the different Star Trek series on a triangle graph

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  • Wise. Keep what little sanity and composure and faith in humanity you have left.