JackbyDev

“Babe, hold on, I need to send a text,”

Can you be certain that no company monitors your brain and uses that as their CEO somehow?

I’m not talking about what should versus shouldn’t happen.

Philosophically I agree, but legally the reality is different.

Ironically it’s a very human error to miss a username change.

I don’t think free software/open source has ever guaranteed the ability to maintain a specific project. Only the freedom to modify the software. They haven’t been stripped of that core freedom from the GPL which is the closest thing there to what I think you’re talking about.

It wasn’t so long ago that Java developers had to download the unlimited strength cryptography extensions separately from the main Java development kit because of export restrictions involving encryption.

Edit: Links for the curious.

• https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-jce-all-downloads.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Cryptography_Extension

neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.

Ughhh, it was so infuriating hearing that guy rant about how Rust was bad and was trying to take over at that conference. I felt so bad for the speaker.

The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.

A lack of freedom from being screwed over by companies stealing your code.

I would post to Stack Overflow but I’ll just get my question closed as a duplicate and downvoted because someone asked a different question but supposedly an answer there answers my question.

I use it to ask questions that I can’t find search results for or don’t have the words to ask. Also for d&d character art I share with my playgroup lol.

Some of the downvotes could be because you saying they can brick them is sensationalized when they only disabled updates.

FOSS is inherently political though, but I guess you mean country vs country politics moreso than ideological politics.

I asked ChatGPT to give me a script to parse my history file and output the dates in something human readable. Later I learned you can use something like history -i. It was basically instantaneous while the script was slow.

Though, I’m questioning my memory of this because I don’t see that flag on man pages online.

Edit: In ChatGPT’s defense, this was actually something oh my zsh added, not zsh.

Solar freaking roadways

Picking the largest known prime number feels like setting your password to password lol.

Any details on that case you remember? Sounds fascinating.

Look, when you’re trying to get your computer working I agree. I don’t mind having to use nonfree stuff if I literally cannot boot otherwise. But if we don’t have strong ideological fighters pushing for things like totally free systems then we wouldn’t be where we are today and we would always have to use non free stuff. So it’s definitely important we have people who are more ideologically idealist.

Friend, you have no idea how nervous I was during that exchange lol. I think I’m reasonably comfortable with public speaking in smaller crowds but this was a huge group of people and a bunch over Zoom too. I’m so conflict adverse. I typically just ignore problems. I’m rarely even passive aggressive. All that to say, I’m worried I sounded like that guy while I was talking lol.

Wouldn’t an end user of something that should be GPLed be able to request the source?