Mary 
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Hi I'm Mary (or heatingdevice if you're lame). I write stuff in Javascript, use Arch Linux, and draw memey SVGs. Oh also I do the frontend of elixi.re, https://gitlab.com/elixire/frontend
Joined Jun 2018
@maple ah, okay. I'm *fairly* certain my first computer was generic as well because I don't remember any branding or anything on it
@maple this probably isn't what you want to hear, but a unique computer (particularly an old one) is a lot more interesting than some mass-produced one imo... where did you get it from?
cw: antisemitism
@garfiald Oh! That makes more sense, I wasn't sure if I was missing the beginning of a thread or something. Thanks!
@lynnesbian Honestly I think in the case of Google Pay, it's for the user's own good: they may inadvertently have hurt security in some way by rooting it and they likely don't want to be responsible for it.
cw: antisemitism
@garfiald Sorry, but can you explain the cw? Am I just missing something? lol
Mary
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lifehack: pour some milk into your bowl of cereal for the classic "breakfast" taste
@garfiald she/her!!!!!
@slice columns?
@soren why not just use a css linter if you want type safety? heck, sass already does it and it's arguably a lot better fit for the job
@soren but there's no purpose... at that point, it's just css with some stupid syntax 🤔
@soren scalacss...... how on earth do you involve scala with css
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r/traa post, may contain sensitive content
Miku created Minecraft https://redd.it/b74tso
⚠️ if you're reading this you're cute and valid ⚠️
cursed idea: what if you could unlock your phone by doing Funny Fortnite Dance
@lynnesbian "pls someone at nasa read this, i cant remember my password pls respond quickly i love ur app"
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what is "free software"? why do people say software isn't free, even though you can download it for free from the app store? (long, serious)
there are a lot of ways you could define "free software". for example, you could say candy crush or CCleaner is free software, because you can install it for free.
when people say that software is "free as in freedom", or "libre", they mean something else. under these definitions, neither candy crush nor CCleaner would be free software. in order to be free by these definitions, software needs to fulfill these four criteria:
- the ability to run the software for any reason, without restrictions. this means that the free version of teamviewer is not libre, as it tells you that you must purchase a license to use it commercially.
- being able to study and modify the program's inner workings. this requires the source code being available. software that doesn't provide the source code thus cannot fulfill this term, and software like snapchat, which bans users for running modified versions, is definitely not one of these.
- being allowed to redistribute the software. if you buy a macbook, you can install updates for free, but you certainly aren't allowed to redistribute these updates.
- being allowed to distribute modified versions to others. if you're not allowed to download the app, make some changes, and send that to people, it breaks this rule. the youtube app is free, but google wouldn't allow you to do this.
all of the software mentioned in those four basic rules is "free", but not free. this distinction is often used by saying "gratis" or "libre" - gratis software is free as in "free donuts", but libre software is free as in "freedom".
as with anything, it's hard to make clear cut rules to define what is and isn't an example of libre software. the cooperative software license prohibits most companies from using the software, but is otherwise entirely libre. this violates the first rule above, but i would say it's still a free software license, although the free software foundation would disagree with me on that.
here's a link to the cooperative software license: https://coinsh.red/c/csl.txt - check section 4 for the restrictions mentioned above.
and finally, here's a link to the FSF's article on what is and isn't free software. this is where those four rules came from - the FSF calls them the four essential freedoms. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
neither of these links are necessarily an endorsement of the contain contained within.
Mary has moved to @mary@coolmathgames.tech:
has moved to @mary@coolmathgames.tech:
- btw i use
- arch
- Phil
- Swift
- IQ
- ₱9 billion, we've been over this already....
- Discord
- heatingdevice#1212 (196769986071625728)
Hi I'm Mary (or heatingdevice if you're lame). I write stuff in Javascript, use Arch Linux, and draw memey SVGs. Oh also I do the frontend of elixi.re, https://gitlab.com/elixire/frontend
Joined Jun 2018
