I remember that RMS’s position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an “update firmware” button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.
Raised (at least culturally) Roman Catholic. Religion stopped playing any part in my life as I became an adult, I hardly ever think about religion at all, not even enough that I would call myself an atheist or agnostic.
they said wrong answers, not AI generated answers
I agree to some extent with you.
But you should start reading here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship
I believe there is a small set of information that should not only be moderated (not shown to people who don’t want to see it), but censored. I’m thinking especially of doxing. For that reason I think this is a real problem, that people’s personal information may still show up in mod logs.
Of course, on the Internet, you can’t really effectively control the spread of any (including this kind of) information at all.
Satellite navigation. In my early childhood we sometimes played a street racing video game that had an arrow pointing the direction on the screen. My mom would remark that she wished she had such an arrow when she drove a car IRL, by now she definitely got that wish.
thanks, the first one helped me understand it
Is there a good ELI5 what this entire dispute is about anywhere? I have been reading many news stories about it, but they all seemed to assume I already knew about it.
More or less an instinct I think. That is how I was able to tell I was starting puberty, that I started to imagine and want to see and touch naked breasts of the women and girls around me. I myself didn’t have an explanation why, but that was now more than half my life ago and it hasn’t stopped.
I don’t have strong preferences as to shape and size. Small breasts are still breasts.
The fact that you posted this question without any context on how old you are really, what you look like, how you behave, may be a clue as to your maturity.
We still reduced our tram system quite a bit from what it once was; not to zero like e.g. West Berlin did, but lots of places where trams used to run now have bus or metro lines running instead.
“before they did this” for Vienna is around WW1, which was a very different time :/
I am not very familiar with housing crises in other countries. I have lived in Vienna my whole life and now live in an apartment I own. This was possible to afford for me (a single man then in his mid-20s working as a software engineer) with a bank loan and some financial support from my family; I am not sure if it would still be possible nowadays.
Austrian here and I too would never make tea in the microwave. (I too drink tea mostly when I am sick.)
any distro except the ones listed here https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html technically already “took” that “route”
I know all of that. The “not have owners” wording was mainly a reference to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html
You don’t know of any such non-profit? Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, OpenStreetMap Foundation, you don’t know of these?
I’m a supporter of free licensing of any and all works, but I recognize that it is most important for software because there you need transparency about how it actually works (and affects our lives), you need to be able to build on other people’s work, this is not necessarily equally important for all other types of work. It’s also a fair point that we have not really yet figured out a very good business model for free licensing, unfortunately.
Of course in general these are all still rising movements, think about how many scientific journals have CC licenses nowadays compared to like 15 years ago.
When and where was that? I have never seen cherry on pizza before, nor do I remember reading about it.
Doesn’t North Korea likely have nuclear weapons now already? If it does, then you can imagine the result.
Free software doesn’t have owners, that is kinda the point of free licensing.
Someone else would do whatever Linus does now. I am not sure what exactly that is nowadays. In fact it is already now the case that if he (or any maintainer of any FOSS) did a bad job maintaining it, someone else could step in, do a better job and many people would switch to that fork.
If that is so, I have yet to notice it in the wild.
I think my family at least got it in the early-to-mid 2000s, a few years after that.