/tech/ - Technology

I knew all that data going around was getting sold to many companies but I didn't know it was this easy to acquire it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/privacy-technology-data.html

So cool that finally Apple supports our right to repair.

>Watched a Tesla catch on fire this morning. As soon as it started smoking the electrical system locked trapping the guy inside. Luckily construction workers broke the window so he could escape. Neat feature
https://snopyta.nitter.org/Mjarchie1/status/1527708021903609857

Fanboys in the replies desperately doing damage control.

Anyone watched this? I just did, and it's honestly depressing.

It explains how Richard Stallman started GNU/FSF/GPL out of his desire to transform society, and how GNU's kernel was encountering technical difficulties, so people swapped it out for a kernel called Linux developed by some Finnish guy, and redistributing the resulting OS as "Linux". So people, not knowing about GNU's existence, marvelled at how the kernel already had such a fleshed-out suite of application software to come with it, because they weren't made aware that it only existed because the GNU project had been intentionally constructing a cohesive operating system for a decade prior. Richard Stallman explains in an interview that the OS is basically GNU, and should not be called "Linux". The interviewers then ask Linus about Stallman's concerns, and he just laughs them off and calls them ridiculous.

The film then goes on to interview the group of people who coined the term "Open Source", and they just blatantly explain that up to that point, everyone had just called it "Free Software", which is what Stallman called it ("Free" meaning "Freedom" for the users). This group of people wanted to sell the idea to Silicon Valley executives for boatloads of cash, after discovering the resulting software was faster and cheaper than the proprietary alternatives, and they couldn't do that without renaming it because "Free Software" sounds like you can't make money off of it, so they coined "Open Source" specifically to be appealing to executives. After this it's a montage of them shilling "Open Source" everywhere, and increasing corporate involvement.

It then shows the first Linux conference, and Linus goes onstage to give a keynote, and then Stallman goes onstage and the FSF is given the "Linus Torvalds award" for their contributions, and he's like "why are you giving me an award named after Torvalds, I started this shit", and starts denouncing everyone for hijacking the movement, and trying to remind everyone of the original social goals and message of the movement, and the people onstage start laughing awkwardly, and as he goes on, this goofy clarinet music starts playing, and people start getting up out of their seats and leaving, and the cameraman pans away from him and towards Linus playing with his children, as though losing interest. The film is clearly trying to make the audience feel as though Stallman is a loon getting up to wacky antics instead of someone with Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Black hole this size, you can just slip right in, spend eternity sliding down warped space-time toward the singularity. No tidal shear to spaghettify you. Let's gooooo!

….put your battlestation, your nest, in a van or caravan and go nomadic if money wasn't an object?

Like, go full carny, a small fleet of vans, mobile battlestations, travelling the countryside. IF money wasn't a problem ofc.

Communal tents for eating and socializing and your own mobile nest to worship the 2500k in.

Yes I just watched the original 1947 "Nightmare Alley" last night.

Do not touch The Disc.

Here's a new parental verification system for Apple stuff instead of just asking for your age.

Share your custom Leftypol CSS.

Here is my book-like theme, make sure u have yotsuba B selected before using:

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Is crypto finally dying? From this crash

Are the prices gonna go back to normal after the middle aged mid-life crises geeks sell their stuff

I can't wait