janAkali

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it seems to be a variation of "cargospace" meme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Sorry, I meant to write that Github is not a software distribution, but a code distribution platform.

And 'mostly harmless' as in it's not inherently malicious - you can use it for harmless stuff. It's merely a tool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Github is not a software distribution platform, it was never meant to be one. It's a developer platform for code distribution and collaboration. And UI is designed around that.

A lot of projects use it as a distribution platform, but they're wrong - it's always better to have a web page with simple download button for casual "ordinary" people.

But, this case is special: this mostly harmless tool is designed and almost exclusively used to stalk / doxx / hack people =|. So, it's not in developers interest to make it widely available and easy to install.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also a good filter for useful videos vs 'content'.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is that a landmine strapped to his butt?
Reactive armour?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, then you have to find another name for that kind of software and define it that way. I certainly would support such an effort, i.e. to make software available to everyone at no cost.

There's no need to come up with new terms or change the existing ones. Free software is inherently free in price. And you can't enforce paying for software without the restrictions put in place (e.g. drm). Here's a quote from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html :

With free software, users don't have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software. They can copy the program from a friend who has a copy, or with the help of a friend who has network access. Or several users can join together, split the price of one CD-ROM, then each in turn can install the software. A high CD-ROM price is not a major obstacle when the software is free.

Free software can have a price, but paying it is optional.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I meant that free software is inherently can't have a price. Even if you provide source code only to your users, they are free to share that source code for free.

Thus there can't be piracy because piracy of free software is inherently allowed.

And if you try to prevent your users from sharing the source either legally or with drm - you add restrictions to software, making it less free for your users.

The recent situation with RedHat provides good demonstration and example of this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biology fact - fish can reproduce externally. Female lays the unfertilised eggs and male fish squeezes milt (spermes) on top.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yes. It's also a Rube Goldberg machine, where photons travel millions of kilometers from sun to bump into some electrons, electrons then bump into some metal and fast metal pushes air in your room to make it move a little bit faster.

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