Here is the historical picture to go along with it
interdimensionalmeme
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The Conference at Redmond
Well, they finally did it. Bill Gates, the Monopoly Warlord of Redmond, and Linus Torvalds, the caffeine-fueled architect of Linux rebellion, have shaken hands like two aging mob bosses who accidentally showed up to the same funeral. The image alone is enough to make a ThinkPad burst into flames. Gates, the man who once viewed free software the way a vampire views sunlight, now smiling alongside Torvalds, the supposed Patron Saint of Open Source, as if decades of digital trench warfare never happened. It’s like watching Che Guevara and Milton Friedman split a dessert sampler and talk cloud strategy.
Mark Russinovich, playing the role of High Priest of Corporate Reconciliation, quipped “no major kernel decisions were made.” But let’s not kid ourselves, this wasn’t just dinner. This was a symbolic convergence, a ritual unification of cathedral and bazaar into a suburban steakhouse of existential despair. Somewhere in the void, the ghost of Richard Stallman is chain-smoking over a broken Emacs install, muttering, “I warned you bastards.” The only thing missing from that picture was a scroll of NDAs and a PowerPoint titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance Capitalism.”
What we witnessed was not diplomacy, it was absorption. The rebel king has been invited into the palace, offered wine, and handed a commemorative hoodie with the Microsoft logo stitched in ethically-sourced irony. Forget forks and pull requests; this is the final merge. Linux has breached the 4% desktop market share, and capitalism has responded the only way it knows how: by smiling, shaking hands, and quietly buying the table. Welcome to the Conference at Redmond. Weep for the dream. Or laugh maniacally, if you still know how.
Because they are tax avoidance mechanism first and charity seconds.
Money is a brokering system of power, charitues being tax free makes these entities unaccountable to democratic institurions.
That's how we ended up with this infection of corrupt megachurches.
The "prosperity gospel" is billionaire-serving propaganda. It empowers their formation, growth and necessary abuses that come from such widespread exploitation.
I think their last offensive war was tge 1700s? Since then it appears they have been mostly playing the soft power war by proxy game. While their main antagonists actively invade, infiltrate and kill them.
I can't personnally get over the facts that invaders overthrew their democracy because of fucking oil.
The perpetrators should nuke themselves out of shane. Their intelligence agents should auto-trotsky themselves.
Hi,
Just booted up lemmy-ui instance for the first time
It asks for "Set Up Site Administrator"
But as you can see when I press signup, nothing really happens
If I try to login with that account it says "Toastify is awesome!"
When I check the logs I get
root@storage:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
888bfbdd1e18 dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.7 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes (healthy) 1234/tcp lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
f60bba3c14ae dessalines/lemmy:0.19.7 "lemmy_server" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 8536/tcp lemmy-lemmy-1
2669e16088ca pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:17-alpine "/usr/local/bin/dock…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes (healthy) 5432/tcp lemmy-postgres-1
f8bf46b02c08 mwader/postfix-relay "/root/run" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 25/tcp lemmy-postfix-1
de4ad69c761e asonix/pictrs:0.5.16 "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" 21 minutes ago Up 20 minutes 6669/tcp, 8080/tcp lemmy-pictrs-1
root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-1
Lemmy v0.19.7
Federation enabled, host is lemmy.example.ca
Starting HTTP server at 0.0.0.0:8536
root@storage:~# docker logs lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
Lemmy-ui v0.19.7 started listening on http://0.0.0.0:1234/
31 translation imports verified.
93 date-fns imports verified.
4 highlight.js imports verified. (Only testing 4 samples.)
Not sure where to go from there ?!
URL is https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver
Is there an addon to defeat this right-click disable method ?
thanks !
Richard Stallman fits into this like a ghost no one wants to admit is still haunting the room. He’s the ideological father of the free software movement, the one who laid the philosophical foundation Torvalds built Linux on, even if Linus never invited him to the party. Stallman didn’t want better software; he wanted freedom, moral clarity, and a digital commons free from the grasp of corporate overlords. While Torvalds was writing C, Stallman was writing manifestos, and now, with Gates and Torvalds grinning like co-conspirators at Redmond, Stallman is the angry prophet shouting from the parking lot of a surveillance palace, still clutching his GNU banner and a half-eaten sandwich.
But the tech world, especially the sanitized, investor-friendly version of it, has no time for prophets anymore. Stallman is inconvenient: brilliant, uncompromising, abrasive, and stubbornly allergic to PR. So while Linus gets photo ops and Gates gets legacy-polishing TED talks, Stallman gets quietly airbrushed out of the narrative like toe-cheese in the Matrix. Yet in many ways, he’s the conscience neither of them can fully erase. He’s not in the room, but the room still trembles when someone whispers “GPL.”