Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I literally live more like a "solarpunk" than any of these people and will never call myself one. Turns out DIY just became a commodity for techies and hobbie crafters that want to feel cool. Most of these people are just stoked to become a small power plant for the grid rather than down gear to their needs whatsoever. DIY used to be about a rejection of consumerism and comodification just to become a consumable commodity. Solarpunk is a product based on anti-production principles, and you fucking bought it. DIY was about buying less and doing more, now its about buying more and doing less with the aesthetics of anti-consumerism, and you fucking bought it.
#solarpunk #solarpunksunday

that report is a collection of twisted projections by a well-known addict to erotic drawings of teens and children

you shouldn't give credence to everything you read on the internet

especially to attacks on people who stand against powerful economic interests

CC: @dash_jackson@lemmy.ca

@marte @dash_jackson

"Let me prove that this guy is a pedophile by linking to an obsessive hate site put up by a guy who was quickly discovered to be a fan of virtual child pornography."

The author of the "Stallman Report", Drew DeVault, was still actively using his danbooru account just months before he put up that "report."

Just a few years ago, he used that account to add the tag "happy sex" to a drawing of a canonically 14 year old female character getting penetrated.

He's been contributing to the tagging of a public archive of sexualised drawings of children for years, with the above being the most extreme example that was discovered.

About 10 years ago, when he was about 20 years old, he posted on Reddit that he thinks teenage girls should all be forced to get an IUD.

Around that time, he also posted that it was an "asshole move" to publicly point out that a person has expressed desire to abuse children. (A redditor openly admitted that he would do it if he could get away with it. In another thread, someone called him out for it. DeVault opined that this was rude.)

He's probably projecting his own issues on to Stallman. Maybe he thinks he's a "good pedophile" who must hunt down "bad pedophiles" or something, but who really knows. We can't know whether DeVault is a pedophile himself, but there are definitely very strong indicators of it.

In contrast, Stallman's statements on the matter were based on typical sex liberal argumentation that have been fashionable in certain liberal spheres for a long time, and seen as the "intellectual" position to hold. There's no reason to believe that Stallman made the statements he made out of some kind of personal issue that he was trying to justify.

All the other "evidence" against Stallman seems to be based either on quirky jokes, or difficulties with romance that he had in relation to adult women, which are unfairly used to paint him as a "creep" which is a typical insult for awkward nerdy guys. (Sometimes, it can be deserved; in Stallman's case, it certainly isn't.)

https://sizeof.cat/project/the-devault-report/

My understanding is that the courts forcing Google to split Chrome for the rest and thus making the money for Firefox unavailable might mean that development will stop for both of them – and since Microsoft and Apple don’t really seem to be innovators in browser tech my guess is that development will stop for all major browsers. Smaller browsers can catch up. Websites can catch up. HTML5 can calm down. Perhaps there is some silver lining to all of this. Because: “keep the big bad boss alive for he pays our bills” is not a great idea.

@peter LLM? I thought you were describing the contribution of the average business consultancy.

@torproject I'll add that some people on the Internet seem to not understand that privacy is not binary. You don't have either zero privacy or full privacy. Privacy is a spectrum, you can have more or less of it.

Black holes swallow all information you feed into them. But information can't be destroyed, instead the information is slowly emitted as hawking radiation, impossible to reconstruct in practice but technically there.

This makes them just like Atlassian Confluence

I saw a video of a parrot mimicking opera singers.

Opera singers are in trouble! We can replace them with these parrots.

And yeah yeah, I know what you skeptics are saying, creativity, novelry, blah blah.
The parrot sound was like 30% different.

Now that we know parrots can sound like that, just imagine in 10 years how better they can be!

Me: Wow, remember that fun movie I watched hundreds of times as a kid? I wonder if that director made anything else I know.

Wikipedia: This universally panned movie not only destroyed the careers of the director and cast, it lost so much money the studio went out of business.

Me: I see.

So ... I was looking at "Zig" again to see where it's headed. And boy does this thing seem Rust-ified these days. Building "hello world" takes forever (but displays a fun tree-shaped animation while it's happening, I guess to distract me from just how long it takes?) and then the executable is >2 MB. I am just too old for this shit! I don't want to futz with Golang because fuck Google, but honestly, what else is there? Nothing is left! There are language monsters with supposedly awesome implementations that do 55,312 things I probably don't want them to do just to compile "hello world" and then there's C. Good old C. Trusty C. Builds fast and generates mostly just the code I want it to generate C. Fuck! Honestly, this whole "modern languages" thing... 🤢 🤮 Someone give me a decent UNIX-ified Oberon compiler for crying out loud.