FOSS hot take
"free as in free speech, but not as in free beer" is just dishonest.
Feel free to sell support services, proprietary extensions, etc. for your FOSS project.
Don't sell the mere convenience of building the damn thing -- especially with a pretentious "I did all of this work" attitude. You committed to making the current version a matter of freedom, and you probably picked a license which carries the same commitment for any future releases.
*glares at Ardour*
did you know a famous Swedish type theorist set up a pyramid scheme consisting of 1050 gay communists from a landlocked country in West Africa to develop artificial intelligence using a functional programming language?
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re: Hot tip
So, the second hard drive replaces the CD drive. To get to that, all I had to do was take out the battery, remove 2 screws to get the bottom cover off, then remove one screw to take out the CD drive. It was that simple. I've also taken it apart to replace the thermal paste and while that was more complicated, Dell actually provides step-by-step instructions to disassemble the laptop that far. These kind of laptops are seriously quite nice in terms of repairability.
Hot tip
Okay, if you're in the market for a new laptop, seriously consider a used business-class laptop (e.g. Dell's Precision and Latitude lines). I've got a Precision M4800, and it was already pretty good, right? I've now got a dock, which lets me just take it and go. I've got a *second hard drive* in it. And, it's *really* easy to fix. I literally just had to remove three screws to be able to put in the second hard drive. They're expensive new, but used? I got mine for $300.
Insidious bullshit in teaching
Let this be a reminder that they get you young. If I hadn't taken the intellectual pathway I did, the first thing I would have found challenging that narrative would have been my Texas Government professor during my second semester of college. Even as it was, I was a junior or senior in high school before I really found out that narrative is bullshit. Children are the future, and it's children that fascists will target.
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Insidious bullshit in teaching
Let that sink in. Fourth grader. Told this during social studies. By an outside speaker. Like, this would have been bad enough if I was a senior in high school. But at least I would have had the ability to, if not call it out, do my research and find out how bullshit it is. To intellectually defend myself, as it were. As a fourth grader, though? No. Not in a million years could I have hoped to defend my young, impressionable mind.
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Insidious bullshit in teaching
So, if you asked me what the most insidious lie I was ever told was, there's one that easily wins out over all others: Lost Cause of the South nonse. Now, on it's own, it's bad, but not exactly "the most insidious lie". But here's the kicker: I was in 4th grade, and I was told this by a speaker who my social studies teacher brought in to tell us about how the civil war wasn't actually about slavery.
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@rainonwires@merveilles.town I use emacs for random files (e.g. notes, configs in my home folder), nano for config files that only root can edit (easier to just `sudo nano ...` than break out emacs), and Visual Studio Code w/ emacs keybinds for serious coding (e.g. my website, FENIX and its subprojects)
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cis ppl....if u catch yourself thinking when around trans friends "man i wish i could change my name too": do that shit it automatically makes you at least 10% cooler
the mainstream narrative of the Rwandan genocide is a victim-blaming lie: a thread
The vagues ideas that many people have about the genocide that took place in 1994 in #Rwanda—one where "extremist" Hutus set off cycles of senseless violence that Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) raced to stop while the world kind of just watched & did nothing—is full of distortions, leaves out many important details, & even includes many outright lies.
This thread is a corrective. (genocide talk ahead)
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