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2 days agoWhy Linux Mint specifically, why not just Linux? Or if they want to pick a specific distro, why not Trisquel or another FSF-endorsed distro?
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Unlike your dad’s business which exclusively “”“employed”“” black people. So inclusive.
403·4 days agoThey keep “believing” that’s what happened because they have not presented any concrete evidence that can be used to get rid of that qualifier.
7·4 days agoThe concept tends to fall apart with modern Christianity where everyone just goes to heaven and hell is written out.
Huh? From what I can tell Christians are more fixated on hell than ever now. Listen to them talk about gay/trans people, Palestinians, women who get abortions, or literally anyone who isn’t Christian, and it’s clear that they’re really excited about the idea that their god will torture those people for all eternity while they get to watch from heaven. You’ll even get catholics and protestants both thinking they’re the only ones going to heaven and the “wrong” kind of Christian goes to hell because of technicalities like whether you go to confession or not or whether praying to Mary is idolatry. Some outright say that it’s okay to kill gay/trans people, Palestinians, etc, because they’re damned anyway and god doesn’t give a shit about them.
How dare you bring logic into god’s house!
10·4 days agoit will be harder for OpenAI to compete with open source
Can we revoke the word open from their name? Please?
Has been since 1991
Same with suburbanites complaining about foxes digging up their gardens or deer trampling their fences.
Your garden and fence were in their habitat, idiot.
But when their outdoor cat that they dump outside because they can’t be bothered to actually take care of it kills a bunch of rare bird species, that’s somehow “nature” and you’re not allowed to call them out on it.
1·8 days agoTape drives. Remember those big reels of tape on mainframes in the 80s? They don’t look exactly like that anymore, but tape is still used for backups/long term archival because they offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and decent longevity without needing to be powered, as long as you don’t need to access the data all that fast or often.
Those dank memes and cat videos you posted in 2010 are probably on tape in a data centre somewhere
2·16 days agoFOSS is not American. Foss belongs to literally everyone.
Archives in case they delete it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503
Text copy of their post:
Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.
Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.
At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.
By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
I just use the same power setting for everything. It’s not like my shitty microwave is consistent enough for it to matter.