where in Europe do they do that? I live in Europe and that doesn’t sound familiar

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence becomes more relevant every year somehow

naturally given that the Torah is part of the Bible

the thing is that not all of them use systemd or bash or zsh or even X11 (servers don’t usually have X11 installed)

All of them use a Linux kernel and many components that were originally developed for GNU, especially the C library.

GTK being a part of GNU (at least originally)

“The OS” doesn’t exist. The operating systems you’re talking about are called Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, RHEL, etc etc. The main work of making an actually usable OS from the various free software components others have written has always been done by the teams responsible for these products.

But we still need a way to refer to them collectively, and it used to make sense to call them “Linux” because they were pretty much the only operating systems that used the Linux kernel, but now that Android is the most widely used OS on the planet, it doesn’t anymore, and this alone is a reason to say GNU/Linux unless you want to include Android.

WEER OLL GUNNA DYE

TBH I fail to see the significant difference between this and a function declaration.

Stallman was right

I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.

stopthatgirl7 and reddfugee are two I remember seeing a few times.

Carlos Latuff was right

https://mronline.org/2006/07/16/a-lesson-of-lidice/

John Perry Barlow was right

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Is there any hope at all left that governments might one day leave us on the Internet in peace?

Excellent. Now do Dissenter.

If you’re naming variables like that in Java you should definitely switch to C.

… not anymore? 😁

I think US First Amendment protections are much stronger than Russia’s equivalent.

In languages that distinguish definiteness (e.g. English) usually if you’re talking about a “kind of thing”, you can use either the definite or indefinite form and make sense. Only if you’re talking about a specific thing does the distinction matter: “a mirror” = a mirror I’m now introducing and you don’t know about yet, “the mirror” = the mirror we talked about before and you already know about; but either form can mean “mirrors in general”. There are slight stylistic differences what’s preferred in what contexts depending on the language, but in German too you can say “in den Spiegel schauen”.

there are many people in German-speaking countries with the last name “Deutsch” too

At least voters who don’t turn up are harmless. If all the people who voted for EPP-affiliated parties just didn’t turn up instead, we’d face far fewer problems.

LLMs aren’t virtual dumbasses who are constantly wrong, they are bullshit generators. They are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but don’t really care either way and will say wrong things just as confidently as right things.