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i've defended rms' pedantry
i believe in free software
i believe copyleft is essential
i believe AGPL3 is the best license

i disagree with those who say "software freedom isn't important these days" or that ease of use is more important

but every time RMS makes the news he undermines the FSF and the free software movement 🤦♂️

i just e-mailed them to discontinue my recurring donation and told them why

gonna increase my donation to software freedom conservancy instead

🧠 we're... writing lisp and deploying it to production?

👨 we're writing lisp and deploying it to production!

🧠 holy shit we're living the dream!

👨 (so you better not fuck this up)

It seems like the seL4 microkernel project is really taking off. I keep hearing of projects that use it and now a DARPA seL4 "Center of Excellence."

(and I'm not in that community at all, just casually following news)

I'd be so excited about projects like the Rust-based OS https://robigalia.org/, but I'm terrified so see it and others permissively-licensed.

If you're working on an OS or kernel please consider a license with tivoization protection like GPL3, for the safety of your users 😱

Passed a booth at PyCon for the AstroHaus Freewrite, a Kickstarter-backed "distraction-free writing tool" combining a small e-ink screen with a mechanical keyboard in a fixed plastic shell for a whopping $550.

I inquired about the firmware.

"Actually it runs Debian!" said the dude.

"Oh! So I could install ssh and..."

"No," he said incredulously, "we're not going to give people root!"

TFW name-dropping one of the most freedom-focused OSes to sell a device that restricts those same freedoms.

when everybody comes over for d&d but no d&d is played they just drink and chat

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OMG I can't believe it, they finally did it! Somebody made a graphing calculator with ~modern hardware and got it approved for use in exams!

https://www.numworks.com

I've been complaining about TI being able to sell their _ancient_ tech at new prices for so long. I hope TI never moves another unit

Interesting design decisions like: it has only 256KB of RAM! Software runs on bare metal without a third party kernel.

Code is CC BY-NC-ND, so not Free, but less user-hostile than I was expecting.

in the video game "particle fleet: emergence," the tools that your spacefaring corporate crew need to defeat the alien threat, and without which all humanity dies, are unavailable until such time that they acquire a software license to use them. then they just turn on.

i was unprepared for this level of realism from a video game

BeOS (and now Haiku) implements e-mail like this: the list of e-mails is just your file browser; Haiku's "attributes" provides e-mail specific columns. Opening one of those files launches a viewer app. (Usually 'Mail' but the user can change it)

Your address book? Also just a directory, with address-book-appropriate "attributes."

Your music library? Same

I think it's tragic that we've abandoned this kind of convergence to work within a powerful hierarchical data-table browser widget.