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as Stallman found it impractical to establish his own sovereign nation-state and obtain recognition from the United Nations and other world governments, he decided to continue living in Massachusetts

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« As Stallman deemed it impractical in the short term to eliminate current copyright law and the wrongs he perceived it to perpetuate, he decided to work within the framework of existing law » “impractical”, sure

somebody at apple please inform them that `COMMAND_MODE=legacy diff` is in fact the UNIX‐compliant diff and always has been

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it’s not that i don’t want copyleft free software with a dedicated community of maintainers it’s just that this community of maintainers is shit and if you haven’t split off from them by now i have reservations about your code being good

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i actually ideologically support copyleft in principle! why are you making my opinions look the same to outsiders as apple corp!

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at that era where i find myself preferring BSD versions of programs just because they weren’t developed by FSF

i am constantly walking around like “fufufu” and my girlfriend is like “why are you laughing?” and i am like “baka!!”

@coriander my hot take for gamers is that if you don’t find the characters in the sex game hot you should just not play the sex game

@coriander honestly offensive that spicy chicken sandwich and hash brown are on different menus because those sound like they would go great together

what a time to be alive when studios have figured out that sexy n·p·c’s can be used to build a challenge/reward feedback loop too

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yes… it is true… gamers are not just motivated by the visceral feeling of pulverizing thousands of enemies… gamers can also be motivated by sex

“just give the computer enough data and it will come up with its own ideas of what to say”

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i think it is very funny that some of the biggest companies in the world decided to sink massive amounts of money into the problem of making computers better at talking to humans, and they all collectively decided that solving that problem did not include, as acceptance criteria, “be able to tell the computer what to say”

@wallhackio to be clear i think billie is a better artist than zayn i’m just more in the mood for his brand of pop rn

@wallhackio this is just mumble emo vocals over a Celeste OST track

@coriander so people in the U·S hear “heavy metal is my religion” and assume there is a belief system at play, or some kind of ideology, when actually what is important about heavy metal is “issues of family, cultural integrity, the transmission of tradition, sacrificial offerings, concerns of purity, ethical system, and the enforcement thereof” (to quote Wikipedia)

but the important thing is that the latter can also be the basis of religion; belief systems are optional (just not in Protestant Christianity)

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