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tabular, 1 month ago

Will the replacement services be proprietary or open source/free software?

tabular, 1 month ago

If friends decide they will use something else then I can avoid Discord. Till then, guess I’ll start using it on the web for the adblock.

tabular, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There are some advantages but generally it’s better for everyone to keep their copyright to prevent a company being able to take over and then deny users the software freedoms intended by the original license.

tabular, 1 month ago

I think you’re right that the former license can’t be taken away from other instances.

Some projects chooses a license specifically to stop people taking code without sharing code back upon redistribution via copyleft (ShareAlike). Getting around that by changing the license defeats the purpose (projecting users software freedom).

tabular, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

open source GPU, HDMI outputs

huh? Were older HDMI ports open source?

tabular, 1 month ago

It gives power over your users.

tabular, 1 month ago

Less lines of code needed means less chances of errors and potential vulnerabilities (if number and quality of eyeballs were the same)

tabular, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sure, I was just speaking in general.

tabular, 1 month ago

Young people may disenfranchise themselves for other reasons but so does the system itself when you don’t want a main party. Voting 3rd party has the same affect as staying up late and sleeping in on the day.

tabular, 2 months ago

What’s bad for the goose is bad for the gander.

The line between corporations and governments is not so clear when it comes to what’s in a citizens best interests.

tabular, 2 months ago

I consider “at least some of the time” to be an argument in favor of the opposite position. Beside, a public corporation also “sometimes” does what’s best for their consumers/user (when it aligns with the best interests of the shareholders, instead of the keys to democratic power).

I don’t consider myself sufficiently informed about whole countries. Sure America isn’t China but as an ally country… I worry. First past the post and an electoral college are not a voting system which can provide people significant representation in government. If any elected American has the majority of the people’s best interests at heart, that is luck because it’s not by design.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Everyone representing themselves is an extreme example but hopefully clearly shows how more representatives are better at representing a group than fewer. Compare a voting result of 50% A, 25% B, 25% C with a system that gives you 1 representative (from A) with a system that gives you 5 representatives (3 from A, 1 from B, 1 from C).

Electoral college permit states to choose electors who can cast their vote in a way that doesn’t reflect how people in their state voted for. If a critical amount of states agree they can choose to make the overall result better represent nationwide what all Americans voted for (an election of an election results in a bigger misrepresentation error).

tabular, 2 months ago

Remoded by ved

tabular, 2 months ago

most people dont really care about the political ideology of the person who leads the company

Do people know the political views of most company heads? Difficult to say if people care if they don’t know. If those political views clearly harm you (e.g. anti-gay sentiment in 2010’s) then most of those affected would care?

We can ignore politics but politics won’t ignore us, probably we aught to care what business do with the money we give them.

tabular, 2 months ago

The real cheats are the proprietary software we installed along the way.

tabular, 2 months ago

↑↑↓↓←→←→BA

tabular, 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6bc7d898-ce85-438b-8f36-9c4a8e46cb36.jpeg

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m finding it difficult to help at work as I stopped using Windows years ago.

The search function fails to find basic menus or programs, I’d have an easier time using Windows XP. I’m sure part of it is I’m forgetting things and not up to date with changes but when typing “printer” does not give a useful result either it’s as shit as I hear it is out of the box from M$ or it has been crippled by work’s OEM.

tabular, 2 months ago

Does installing XP count? I might tolerate that.

Can’t bring myself to install the latest few and select “no, do not spy on me” 7 thousand times. They will spy somehow as it’s proprietary - god knows what it’s actually doing.

tabular, 2 months ago

You should expect the creator to abandon the device eventually but indefinite hardware support is possible - that’s why it’s important that drivers be open source. If enough people care to use the device then a community can be created around it to support it on whatever OS they want.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

If one values their software freedom then a fair test is not only how well it performs a task because having unjust power over your computing negates it as an option. If one don’t value their software freedom then it’s more imperative to talk about what’s in their own best interests.

Linux (kernel) fails that test too as it includes proprietary binary blobs.

tabular, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Isn’t the man calling to ask where they are, when they need to know, good enough? Unless it’s been stolen what’s to be gained by spooky spying?

tabular, 2 months ago

I don’t see how it’s “greatly” helps at all in practice.

Worst case you have routes which drastically fluctuate in driver demand and you’re sending drivers to cover multiple routes a day, and hiring more drivers is probably the better solution.

Calling drivers seemed to be really practical before GPS existed, at best you can argue it’s more efficient for the boss.

tabular, 2 months ago

Microsoft now permits

The benevolence! Letting people do what they want with their purchased software. wow!

tabular, 2 months ago

I never played TTD. Does OpenTTD have a tutorial? Couldn’t find out how to play last time I tried.