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Can’t say I’m “stoked,” but those two looked the most interesting in a list full of AAA licensed franchise garbage.

344 plus a lot more who turn around and don’t die.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Once that warmth finishes melting enough of Greenland to shut off AMOC it’ll be colder than ever.

Can you actually install your hacked version on your TV, or is it DRM’d to prevent it? That’s the only thing that matters.

Sure, because caring about users’ rights is “insane.” Because caring about societal effects of (lack of) antitrust and consumer protection law is “insane.” Because having an ounce of goddamn self-respect and not wanting to be abused is “insane.”

No, I don’t think I’m insane at all, actually. I think the people incomprehensibly arguing against me in this thread can fuck all the way off with their corporatist simping!

What the fuck? I said I don’t even actually care if the kernel is Linux or NT (or anything else) as long as it’s genuinely open so the user can modify it, and you somehow try to twist that as quibbling over distros?! Way to miss the point by a goddamn mile!

It really isn’t, though. It will still have a shitty UI that tries to shove the “smart” features in your face, it’ll probably shove some bullshit EULA in your face on first startup, and engage in other dark patterns.

I like how the US definition feels the need to include the standard unit in parentheses, but the UK definition doesn’t even bother to include the obsolete unit at all.

It’s a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket, built by an incompetent misogynist asshole on a base that supports Google’s hegemony over web standards.

That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?

Continuing my smart TV OS analogy, your answer is like saying just to use a dumb TV instead. There aren’t any dumb TVs anymore! The TV manufacturer cartel colluded to quit making them!

“Just go live in the fucking woods like the goddamn Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.

Among other reasons, board members who would’ve dissented were forcibly muted in the videoconference meeting during the “unanimous” vote.

Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.

Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.

So now the question is, what accountability and consequences are we going to apply to the Greek, Italian, and French officials who failed to do their goddamn jobs and aided and abetted a war criminal?

Should I use force?

Yes. You scrample fighter jets and force them down, using missiles if necessary.

Risk starting a war?

This does not follow. The war would be started by whoever illegally retaliated for a lawful arrest, not by whoever did the arresting.

The war would be started by whoever illegally retaliated for a lawful arrest, not by whoever did the arresting.

This is why permissive licensing isn’t good enough; copyleft is essential. (And not just GPLv2 copyleft, but copyleft with anti-tivoization and cloud loophole protection as well, such as AGPLv3.) Every part of the system – the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure – has to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.

We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.

Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).

100% fearmongering bullshit designed to erode property rights. Cars have been completely “open” throughout their entire history until recently, and the problems caused by irresponsible owner modification have been both negligible and entirely acceptable (compared to the alternative of going full-blown police state to stop them).

Make no mistake: full-blown police state is exactly what you’re arguing for when you suggest people shouldn’t have the right to modify their own fucking property!

Yes. Python is a multi-paradigm language, but IMO proper “pythonic” python looks a lot more functional than OO, with liberal use of duck-typed list comprehensions and such.