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New comment by tpkee in "Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration?"

tpkee — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:32:56 +0000

Nono, you don't understand. He is autistic so he didn't know what he was doing, in fact he is giving money to far right/nazi parties throughout the whole europe because he loves free speech and democracy

New comment by tpkee in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:47:29 +0000

I supposed it was clear that I was referring to FOSS, in hindsight it wasn’t clear at all.

> Russian shenanigans

I do care about the conflict and hope for a swift victory by Ukraine, but in this instance it could have been anyone really. It doesn’t matter these people are Russians: Linus, to comply with “legal requirements”, threw out maintainers without giving an actual reason. If he is so eager to comply with legal requirements now, I wonder what he — he or any other software maintainer — would do were the “legal requirements” be for an unjust cause; countries shouldn’t dictate who can and cannot work for FOSS projects.

And on the matter of “we are the good guys, nothing can go wrong”: In EU politicians tried to make cryptography useless again, and while I don’t believe the law will pass I can’t help but wonder if FOSS maintainers, just like Linus, will happily comply.

New comment by tpkee in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:48:48 +0000

FOSS is inherently political, it stands for softwares both free, per your definition, and free as in people’s freedom. If now any political entity large enough to pull its weight can hijack an entire project, then FOSS is pointless and the people contributing to these projects are just doing some good ol’ work for free, with no benefits for nobody but corporations.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

New comment by tpkee in "Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:33:55 +0000

Leaving or joining. I hate LinkedIn

New comment by tpkee in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:02:30 +0000

Then what is the point of free software? By existing within the law mechanism it is on itself pointless: it is free labor companies tolerate because it suits their interests and it is for now allowed because we don’t live in a dictatorship, but it is easily hijackable and, as Linus proves, there is not even a need to actually write malicious code.

I wonder what would you think projects like signal, but the FOSS community too, should do if the “chat control” law actually passed in Europe.

EDIT: if, as you say it doesn’t exist in a legal vacuum, then FOSS is worthless and, I reiterate, just free labor for corporations

New comment by tpkee in "Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:51:54 +0000

Ah! Finally the spies have been freed from Putin influence by being relocated to a safer country, no matter that if someone is truly as brainwashed as you say changing countries is pointless. Fucking hypocrisy

New comment by tpkee in "Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer"

tpkee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:21:24 +0000

What is the point of open source if it doesn’t protect individuals from the control of corps and non-democratic countries? What’s the damn point of open source if law enforcers can just hijack the project?

I don’t care about the Russians shenanigans but I’m dumbfounded by the lack of transparency, the obvious racism, from Linus.

New comment by tpkee in "Meteorologists, please stop the fearmongering (2019)"

tpkee — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:25:51 +0000

Yeah. The worst is that it is not alarmism, it’s literally what it already is. According to a rather new research, things may get even worse than predicted

New comment by tpkee in "Meteorologists, please stop the fearmongering (2019)"

tpkee — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:24:13 +0000

Not only in America. The Mediterranean boiled this year with an average of 30 degrees Celsius, which for a sea is a lot

New comment by tpkee in "Meteorologists, please stop the fearmongering (2019)"

tpkee — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:59:32 +0000

Yes, except that summers are hotter and hotter and hotter. The alert was there even during August, the difference is that the August weather is the baseline now