• 18 Posts
  • 486 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

help-circle




  • Every day the gymnastics needed for a Trump supporter gets more and more convoluted. First, he was speaking up in favor of H1B workers (so much for support of American workers), then his “no new wars” turned into broad support of Israel and military actions taken, now his “drain the swamp” has turned into “it’s not permitted to even talk about Epstein”.

    More proof that he is a shameless huckster with no honor in him at all. Sadly, much of his base is quite used to making excuses on his behalf and I’d imagine they can keep this up for quite a while. What a scumbag. I won’t be upset when he leaves the White House, whether that’s due to health problems, impeachment or running out the clock.


  • Detained in Auschwitz, Jewish inmate still has faith in Hitler’s Final Solution www.bbc.com

    Speaking from Block 10 of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Jewish detainee says she believes “the undesirables will be eliminated.” If Rachel Stein could vote, she would have cast her ballot for Adolf Hitler. She’s a devout supporter of the Führer even now that she’s locked up as an “undesirable” in the concentration camp. “Hitler is doing the right thing because lots of these people don’t deserve to be here,” Rachel told the BBC over the phone from Auschwitz’s infamous labor camp. “I will support him until the day I die. He’s purifying the Aryan race.”

    In 1938, she was labeled a “non-Aryan” and stripped of her citizenship. An SS judge revoked her “Jewish status,” which is a common practice. But because she was a devout Christian (and occasionally lied about her ancestry), the judge allowed her to remain in the camp instead of being sent to the gas chambers.

    “Better living conditions in the labor camps,” Rachel said, “and shared suffering with fellow prisoners. It’s like a family!”


  • I will start this out with a disclaimer that I do not follow Christianity at all…

    If you are a bible-follower and friendly towards homosexuals, then I guess you’re skipping over that part where it says “homosexuality is an abomination”.

    That’s one of the many reasons I can’t look to the Bible for guidance. I have some gay friends and they deserve all the love and consideration everyone should get.

    To those that say the Bible deserves to be followed, but exclude the parts where it says homosexuality is an abomination, I wonder what other parts you ignore? AFAIK, one isn’t supposed to flip through the Bible and pick and choose which sections should be followed.

    This is one of the many reasons why I consider the Bible immoral, and following it either immoral or morally and logically inconsistent.





  • This is one of the reason that the USA being heavy handed with Chinese is going to bite us in the ass. While in the USA, we bury our heads in the sand and GM, Tesla and etc. all crank out $95,000 giant trucks/SUVs, some companies in China are making very, very affordable vehicles. These aren’t necessarily garbage either – there’s models available for almost any price point.

    What WOULD be really smart and forward thinking is if in the USA, the domestic brands also make some affordable models to get EV more popular. However, they are addicted to fat profit margins, and thanks to all the protectionism, they don’t need to worry about offshore models being “better”.

    While other nations either develop and/or import affordable EVs, we’re effectively banning them. This is all going to end up with a giant wake up call for American auto-manufacturers when the protections/tariffs are ultimately lifted and they HAVE to compete.

    I think it would be great if the tariffs came with huge incentives for domestic manufacturers and motivated them to be competitive. Instead, it’s just letting them segment the market for a few years and make a killing. Who loses? The people…






  • audience already agrees that complicity in genocide is an acceptable tradeoff to software freedoms

    I talked about that to show one possible counterbalance between liberty and usages which are probably not explicitly wanted by the authors.

    Another common example of freedom/restrictions is someone wanting to have their software permissively licensed while also not allowing cloud vendors to resell access to it. That’s how you end up with licenses like Elastic’s.

    Or, if you want another example of “free”, look at the distinction between the GPL and the BSD license as it applies to Sony and the Playstation. One of the reason Sony chose BSD for the basis of its gaming system is because the BSD license allows for commercial usage. In that sense it is MORE free than the GPL, which would not allow the type of usage Sony did with the Playstation without conferring more responsibility to Sony, for instance, releasing their source. Under BSD they have no obligation to do so, hence it is more free in that respect.

    My whole point is a lot of people say “I want my software to be freely licensed” but they do not realize that they may be unintentionally opening the door to usages of the software that they do not want to see.

    One should not pick a license that allows for unfettered usage of the software if you have certain ways you don’t want to see it used.

    As a final parting example, look at Prusa and their printers. They release the firmware and designs as open source. They they later get angry when companies clone their designs. This is permissible under the license. This is making Prusa want to lock down their future designs to avoid that usage.

    Anyone considering licensing of their own software should think very carefully about what usages they support or object to and license the software accordingly. If you release your software as BSD licensed and some company comes along and makes a billion dollars with it, you aren’t owned a cent under that agreement. If this makes you angry, don’t pick BSD.




  • Closed source browsers are rare today, and even those are built on the open source browser cores.

    Any browser that’s not Chrome is rare today. I’m not sure pointing at Chrome as a well-managed open source project is a good idea. Although one can view the source, Google controls the codebase and development process with an iron hand. Any feature that is a good idea technically, but will hurt Google is a no-go to have merged.