[02/02] As for the lack of new antibiotics, we should take this entirely out of the hands of drug companies and create an international organization for the job. We should give it funds to develop last-ditch antibiotics, and to make doses for the whole world — prohibit the use of those antibiotics except in animals that are entitled to human rights.
Nasce Richard Matthew Stallmann, riconosciuto come uno dei principali esponenti del movimento open source.
Nel settembre 1983 dà avvio al progetto GNU con l'intento di creare un sistema operativo simile a Unix, ma composto interamente da software libero. Nell'ottobre del 1985 fonda la Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Pioniere del concetto di copyleft, nel 1989 crea la GNU General Public License, una delle licenze libere più diffuse.
@salvatorelasorella #1: Thank you for tooting about my carreer. I'd just like to correct one minor point and one important point.
The minor point is that my last name has only one n.
The important point is that I have never supported "open source." I launched and still advocate the free (libero) software movement, which says that software must respect users freedom, and that any program which does not do so, we should reject and replace with software libero.... (continued)
@salvatorelasorella #2 ...Indeed, there never was an "open source movement" -- the point of the term "open source" was to discard the deeper principles of the free software movment and present the issues solely in terms of practical convenience. That's why I do not advocate "open source". If you agree with me, I suggest you support us, by joining the Free Software Foundation at fsf.org.
People are criticizing this code on the grounds that they don't trust the right-wing justices to heed it. That is a valid point, but under public pressure they might heed it. That leads to a second question: supposing they do heed this code, is it adequate?
For instance, what does it say about the situation where a justice has received gifts from a rich person and then a case arises in which the giver has interests at stake, or political views? If it doesn't call for recusal in that situation, then it winks at corruption.
I agree that Biden has done some good things for the US economy, for clean energy, and for the well-being of poor Americans, and that the public does not give him the credit those actions deserve. At the same time, he has done quite a few bad things to set against those good things.
Socialist policies to help poor people hit with disasters will help for a while. As long as the rich have plenty, taxing them will make it possible to spare poor people from being crushed by disaster costs.
But some day society as a whole won't be able to afford the cost of recovering from disasters, no matter how we redistribute that cost. There will be no remedy then.
What we should have done was acted to prevent things from getting that bad. However, the planet roasters had the political power and stopped society from doing this.
We should not forget that Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians consists of more than just direct killing, occasionally of many Palestinians at once, usually of a few at a time. The siege of Gaza causes suffering and death every day, and so too (in different ways) does the gradual suffocation of Palestinians in the West Bank (while "settlers" take their land).
An explosion in the Baptist Hospital in Gaza has killed at least 500 people, Palestinians who were sheltering there: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/they-believed-it-was-safe-death-toll-rising-blast-gaza-hospital HAMAS says that an Israel air attack caused the explosion. Israel said that a Palestinian faction caused it by launching a missile which misfired, but then later said that a Palestinian faction fired several missiles at the hospital. I am skeptical of those stories. Experts analyzing the videos say that it looks like a weapon malfunctioned.
[02/02] ...Israel has always offered some sort of excuses after killing unarmed Palestinian civilians, individually or massively. But the excuses are often strained. Israel's attacks have hit press offices and medical clinics, as well as residences too. Israeli snipers have shot medics attending protests.
I can't conclude that Israel's attacks on Gaza are really other than larger terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, Israel has put Gaza under total siege, keeping out food and medicine even as the...
The Hollywood writers-studios contract has interesting rules to permit some uses of large language models but not allow them to replace writers: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/01/hollywood-writers-strike-artificial-intelligence I hope that they give good results — but we still should not call those models "AI", because whatever their output says you had better not believe it is true.
ChatGPT is an injustice because it is software that is not released for users, not even as an executable. So it is even more restrictive than a nonfree program. We call that "Service as a Software Substitute".
Since the right-wing extremists will surely continue fighting to impose their views on everyone, this is a setback for society.
Please keep in mind that Disney's commercial activities are fully based on injustice: DRM, identifying all customers, and antisocializing contracts which demand users commit not to share copies,
Sharing is good and should be lawful. Thus, the only modern copy of a Disney movie or TV program that does not do you injustice is an unauthorized copy.
[02/02] It is interesting that the interviewer presumes that AI-driven cars will be "autonomous" and that they will drive better than the ones humans drive. They are not at all autonomous — they depend on internet connections — and San Francisco already knows how badly they mess up in driving.
Perhaps they will drive well someday, when they understand as much about driving as humans do. But that is beyond today's technology.
@rms I'm really missing your talks in the past years. Are you planning to start public speaking again? I would love to see them again. Maybe upload the videos to PeerTube?
@melroy I do give talk but I don't get as many invitations as before. I announce them on stallman.org. I will announce a few soon. I no longer have an aid to get the details arranged. There will be one on Sep 27 -- see https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/
[02/02] Who decides to make inequalities? Billionaires, using their money to brainwash people so they can get more power to impose more inequalities to get more money.