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MangoCats

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  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • GPL has certainly failed time and time again, openly in the case of FFmpeg and their clones all over Eastern Europe and elsewhere. FFmpeg made a lot of noise and resorted to "public shaming" mostly because the courts weren't working for them. And they have a very visible product... so many GPL licensed things are lurking inside proprietary products where they'll never be seen.

    It's like putting a license on COVID to prevent it from spreading... it just doesn't work in the real world.

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  • The point of all of this is that you really should, no matter what it is.

    That's like saying: I have a pecan orchard, I like my trees and I don't mind if people collect the nuts as they walk by. Oh, but the point is: you really should, those are your nuts, you pay the taxes on the land, you care for the trees, YOU should be the one to sell them, not give them away to some randos passing by.

    Yeah, sure. You do you.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • without my consent or their assuredly begrudging reciprocation. This should not be controversial. The GPL accomplishes this

    In legal theory. In corporate practice, MIT and similar "pushover" licensed software, especially FOSS libraries, is more readily adopted by corporate users - and through this adoption it is exercised, tested, bug reported - sometimes the corporate trolls even crawl out from under their rocks and publish bug fixes and extensions for it. By comparison, GPL stuff is radioactive, therefore less used.

    Then we can talk about how successful you are likely to be in enforcing GPT on any large entity, particularly those in foreign countries.

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • I'm just wondering about basic functionality - can it play through without a crash or is it still Windows only for a smooth UX?

  • Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

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  • But, what's the user experience playing the MYST humble bundle on it?

  • Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade

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  • Had a friend who used to put his super-workstation laptop in his backpack. It would randomly turn itself back on and get HOT in there at times, like firestarter hot.

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

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  • Battery lore has been cargo-cult woo since the NiMH days... most of it feels like manufacturers saying "oh, I'm sorry you didn't get our advertised life, you must have done something wrong."

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • I don’t know why private companies don’t fund their own shit rather than steal from taxpayerS through NASA.

    It's not that they can't fund their own: it's "why would they, when they can use their wealth and influence to get it funded by taxpayers?" https://youtu.be/kTlhIQeBWHI?t=20

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • There's all kinds of power and influence of people through the press is a very traditional kind of indirect power for people to wield. When I talk about money as power it definitely includes the power to influence how people think and vote and act without putting an actual gun to their heads. Twitter is the new TV and TV was the new radio and the radio was the new newspaper... All kinds of wealthy and powerful people in the past sought control of the press, not only for their own desires, but also as a bargaining chip with other people with power: "do this for me and I'll make you look good on my platform..."

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • for some reason people STILL treat him with credulity.

    They WANT to believe.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • just about enriching himself. Of course that’s a big part of it.

    Can't make the big changes without big $$$ to make things happen.

    Unfortunately, he looks like a delusional moron with the life experience and grasp on reality of a suburban 14 year old. So, a couple of good ideas in there, but absolute disconnect from the realpolitik necessary to effect true change.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • a system to eliminate, not support and elevate the poor here

    If you look at human population growth and resource consumption over the past 500 years, the curve can't continue - we'll need thousands of Earths within the next 1000 years, and Warp drive just isn't ready yet.

    If "being poor" means living like the bottom 20% of the U.S., then, yes, the poor must be eliminated somehow. Pesky thing about the poor, they still have children, often at higher than replacement rates. It's good for happiness from relative circumstances: lots of people "born poor" can work their way into a better condition for them and their children, but it's an unsustainable model. Just like capitalism in general.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • That's not money, that's power. Money quits being money somewhere around a million dollars a year-ish, call it 100M lump sum. Above that, more money isn't an abstract thing you buy goods, services and real-estate with, it's power: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • Hugo Drax had it all figured out in Moonraker. We just need a higher natural resources per capita ratio, then it all works out easily.

  • Linux users after Windows 10 EOL

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    Tax strike?

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  • It's also not hard for the IRS leadership to direct their agents to skip all that time consuming audit and verification stuff and just start slapping seizures on everybody who owes more than $1000 in presumed tax liability.

  • Removed

    Tax strike?

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  • I can imagine the IRS could start seizing bank accounts and other assets like they already do for tax violators, but if it got to be a crisis they'd step up their pace.

    In today's climate I can also imagine ICE coming to your door to kidnap whoever they can get their hands on, if you're a tax violator who posts the wrong kinds of messages on the internet (including brown skinned selfies.)

  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • A really small house can hold 50 gallons of diesel and a generator, be towed to a filling station, and follow you thousands of miles...

    If you want a 200 mile round-trip limited EV that you always charge at home, you can buy those today from all kinds of sellers.

  • Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package

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  • He needs an excuse to rage quit.