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The "spirit" of FOSS licences the various sorts of ideas that lead to the GNU project and the FSF in the 80s, and all that user-freedom-fighting heritage. I think even critics of t…

They provide funding for "Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!". There was a drop in corporate funding, so they had…

Whether an action has gotten a legal thumbs-up or not is of little relevance here. I'd like to leave the question of why that's true as an exercise for the reader, but your comment…

Extremely interesting! I did ask myself if all those people would like having their photos online, what with the PRC across the pond. But perhaps I'm being "old-fashioned" there. V…

Just read the Wikipedia page - holy sh*t, if you'll pardon my French, what a figure! I haven't done anything with Perl, or Haskell, so this figure was just outside my view. Will de…

What's amazing is the cynical moral calculus people like yourself engage in when you completely discount some types of human lives, but then display this theatrical shock at the no…

Yes, and the name for this behaviour is called "being scientific". Imagine a process called A, and, as you say, we've no idea how it works. Imagine, then, a new process, B, comes a…

Excellent name! BULLSHIT really captures the spirit of the whole thing.

Marshall McLuhan called, he said to ask yourself, who's driving who?

I strongly encourage anyone who finds Meta's repeated crappy behaviour objectionable to delete their accounts on Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Or, at least, to delete as many…

I think you may be being downvoted for the exclamation mark, which I also found a tad over the top, although I didn't downvote you. Particularly when the mistake you're correcting …

The comment you're resonding to didn't say one thing about not punishing "actual criminals". What in the world are you responding to?

> It's why I'm here - it's one of the only countries on earth for which I'm politically optimistic. My curiosity is piqued by this. Do you mean to say you've moved there from somew…

This is a copy-paste of what I wrote elsewhere: > Here's the definition from the esoteric programming language wiki, which is a lovely resource for anyone interested https://esolan…

Your musings at the end reminded me vaguely of https://www.greenarraychips.com/ a Chuck Moore designed computer chip. "With 144 independent computers, it enables parallel or pipeli…

Malbolge and then https://github.com/iczelia/malbolge-lisp were mindblowing to me. And then there's the legendary https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca "Orca is an esoteric progra…

Forth isn't an esoteric programming language. The word “esoteric” has a specific meaning in this context.

Hmmm. GP listed three languages which are not esoteric, and you've patted them on the back and shared three more which are not esoteric. Oops. Esoteric language =/= any non-mainstr…

> 2. We will not accept changes (code or otherwise) created with the aid of "AI" tooling. "AI" models are trained at the expense of underpaid workers filtering inputs of abhorrent …

Could this argument not be made for anything plugged in to OpenAI's API? If so, I don't see how it's a response to the point. If you make an app for interacting with an LLM and in …

The worker-drones powering the software world have so far resolutely not managed to reflect on their primary role in implementing the dystopian technological landscape we live in t…

I take it you haven't seen this then: https://cybersecuritynews.com/fraudgpt-new-black-hat-ai-tool...

As the other replies allude to, it worked at one stage. This subjective and lovely history of the Great Firewall of the PRC was posted recently, about the to and fros in the method…

Wowser. Is it a similar story to the Chinese olympics successes - train kids from a (very) young age in specialised schools?