

ah yes, Karl Popper’s paradox of yumyucking.
ah yes, Karl Popper’s paradox of yumyucking.
Your gaming PC is going to be terribly inefficient and draw 10x as much power at idle as a workstation PC.
Is this really true? Modern components have fairly robust power saving capabilities. Just because it’s got a 750W power supply doesn’t mean it’s drawing 750W all the time.
Yeah, but you and I aren’t really representative of all software people. Most of them just want to grill.
Why do they not care?
Because, for many of them, they don’t have any reason to. In other words, privilege. Copyleft licensing is a subversive, anti-establishment thing, and software engineers are predominantly people who benefit from the established power structures. Middle/upper class white men (I’m included in that category, by the way). There’s basically no pressure for them to rock the boat.
And why would they avoid GPL
Because many of them are “libertarian” ideologues who have a myopic focus on negative liberty (as opposed to the positive variety).
Well, my experiences with my coworkers would lead me to pretty much exactly the opposite conclusion: the majority would probably intentionally avoid the GPL, if they even care at all.
I can’t believe professional developers choose MIT because they can’t be arsed to look at the license choices
Have you worked with many professional developers?
The unfortunate reality is that a significant proportion of software engineers (and other IT folks) are either laissez-faire “libertarians” who are ideologically opposed to the restrictions in the GPL, or “apolitical” tech-bros who are mostly just interested in their six figure paychecks and fancy toys.
To these folks, the MIT/BSD licenses have fewer restrictions, and are therefore more free, and are therefore more better.
Please be careful when copying anything that could be considered your employer’s intellectual property (almost certainly anything you built as an employee falls into this category) off of that employer’s systems.
And definitely be even more careful about using one employer’s IP for a new employer (neither company would be pleased to discover this).
My Gnome has everything between 100% and 350% in 25% increments?
I once got called the f-slur for having the audacity to read a book in public, outdoors in front of the library.
And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.
On my current Fedora 40 install /bin
is already a symlink to /usr/bin
Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit
Slaves don’t have private ownership of their capital (that is, their own labor)… because someone else does.
Most “free” workers, in terms of capital, own only their own labor.
Capitalists own the majority of the capital–land, equipment, intellectual property, etc.
A system where the workers own the capital (aka the means of production) is socialism.
With the exception of some stuff used for windows desktop development, .NET (“dotnet core” is just .NET now) is released under the MIT license. I’m not following how using .NET would be contributing to the “agenda of proprietary software”.
The dotnet cli tools that come with the SDK run just fine cross platforms without Visual Studio. Your Linux distribution probably packages the SDK already, just install and use it.
If you want, you can use C# without .NET by using Unity, mono, or maybe Godot now I think?
I’ve been wrong before, but I can’t imagine Trump accepting a plea deal.
Mostly I’d be worried about actually being able to finding a decent jury without one nutjob who refuses to convict under any circumstance.
This is actually the maximum amount OSHA can fine for a single instance. My understanding (not an expert or anything) is that these amounts are set in legislation, so OSHA can’t increase them without Congress.
why American government has not gone after Proton like they did with Lavabit
Lavabit was based in the United States. Proton AG operates entirely in Switzerland. Ostensibly the US government would have to go through the Swiss court system to get anything out of Proton.
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