There’s a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she’s trying to popularize the idiom “too many dogs on the dance floor”. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let’s play, however.

Too soon.

Does nobody remember Bearshare?

This. The closest he’s ever come to doing any real work whatsoever is kneecapping the engineers who did design Teslas.

In fact, it’s clear he didn’t know shit about the Cybertruck until the reveal event. He was telling people things like “bulletproof glass” and shit. Would a designer or engineer who was involved in the development of the product have such basic misconceptions about the product itself?

How old is your phone and have you been updating it? Maybe your phone is so old that the certificates on it are too old to recognize the current Discord certificate?

I’ve been on Lemmy for a pretty long-ass time and have yet to get Nicoled.

Nicole, why won’t you notice me? 🥺👉👈

My conception of the Open Source movement is that it was basically forked off of the Free Software Movement by a bunch of Libertarians (as in United States Libertarian Party with a capital “L”, not anarchism). (Eric Raymond has never been shy about going on about how the free market is the solution to every problem anyone has ever had. And Bruce Parens is the one who has been doing the whole “Post-Open Source” thing that has a bunch of rules about adding more capitalism to Open Source.)

And on that basis, it feels to me like the Open Source movement isn’t really the most likely to sympathize with anti-fascist sentiments.

The FSF, doesn’t strike me as that much more likely to care.

But, maybe Bradley Kuhn and the SFC (and FSFE) might be more inclined to be on board with that idea?

The result couldn’t really be called “Open Source” or “Free Software” (or “F(L)OSS”.) And I kindof doubt any of the organizations involved with the two movements would stick their necks out so far as to certify a license that was like “AGPLv3, except Nazis can fuck off”.

So, maybe a new term is needed. I propose “Hate-Free Software”. As a purposeful play on “Free Software” that makes it pretty clear it’s “Free Software” except for Nazis.

All that said, to make any of this work, there’d have to be a license that did the necessary magic legalese to convince courts to enforce it in the way that’s going to accomplish the goals of the whole movement.

I think I vaguely remember hearing about some almost-FOSS project out there somewhere that used some GPL-based license except with an added restriction that said “except this specific company gets nothing”. IIRC, that provision was legally dicey as to whether it could/would actually be enforced. But I guess that approach might be a place to start researching at least.

However the legalese worked, you know the Nazis would push its boundaries. Like, if the license specifically said “except hate groups”, the Nazis would use the courts to push the agenda that anti-genocide activists are antisemitic.

Theoretically one could make it a non-open license in the sense that the copyright owners individually hand-pick who gets to have the permissive license terms and who can fuck right off, but I probably wouldn’t want to go to the trouble to seek a license to use any software like that for fear they’d yoink my license rights away without notice.

I guess what I’m getting at is that I don’t necessarily disagree with the concept, but the execution isn’t going to be easy.

That’s some excellent and skillfully-composed protest art right there.

TIL. Ew. Thanks, I hate it.

I guess that’s part of the definition of Open Source, though. “No discrimination against fields of endeavor.”

It’s gotta be uncomfortable being a journalist on Truth Social who only has an account there specifically so they can capture screenshots of Trump’s latest dogwhistle post to publish in articles.

And doesn’t Truth Social require users to upload photos of their drivers licenses in order to sign up? Or am I thinking of Parler?

• House Rat
• The Honkeys
• Shaboogey
• Moldplay

Weener

(Wiener would be better, but I only get one letter. Oh well.)

Not always true. Sometimes you major in what you love, graduate, get a job doing cool stuff, (get fucked over by an asshole boss, change companies, kinda hate working there every day, find out through the grapevine the asshole fomer boss had been fired for being an asshole, return to the company you liked working at), well paid the whole time, and continue to love what you do so much you don’t get enough of it at work and do it more every evening and weekend as a hobby.

But then, my experience is a) a bit dated (I graduated college before 2010) and b) most likely atypical.

Is that a Boring Company™ Not-A-Chainsaw™?

How do I both upvote and downvote at the same time?

Imagine this conversation in the IT department at a large bank:

IT Manager: It’s what?!

Security Engineer: Gone. It’s all gone. Every red cent this bank held in every account has been transferred by malicious actors to anonymous Swiss accounts.

IT Manager: How could we have let this happen?

Security Engineer: The hackers got approval to install PuTTY. There was nothing we could do.

That’s what “they go low, we go high” translates to from Hillary’s native tongue.

Do we really think there’s a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?

It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. “Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden’s fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills.”

Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can’t imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.

Not quite. No presidential candidate got a majority of the popular vote. Trump got more of the popular vote than Kamala did. 49.80% and 48.33% respectively.

Yes, I’m being pedantic. Does it really matter? No, probably not.

Nvidia:

• ✅ AI
• ✅ Religious
• 🚫 Red scanning visual sensors

Cylons:

• ✅ AI
• ✅ Religious
• ✅ Red scanning visual sensors

They’re only one step away, people, and I’m not even sure about the 🚫 on red scanning visual sensors.