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If someone can't state their point without warping the very language they use to support their point, it makes it very hard to feel like anything they're saying is credible. Example 1: someone is trying to convince me to vote Republican. They go through the Republican platform issue by issue, and compare/contrast it to the Democrats' stand. However, every time they use the word "Democrat" they instead say "Democrap"…
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He's not wrong. edit: Per emsy's suggestion: I mean that he is just articulating that if something is free, you are the product , except he(stallman) articulates it by changing the noun to reflect his viewpoint. also, I just deleted facebook.
If you are referring to the Lebowsky quote: I used to believe that to be true about Stallman too. Now I believe he is just right, what makes him so obnoxious is just that his truths are so inconvenient.
He's not wrong, but the parent commenter is an asshole.
But that would of course not be in the spirit of HN and I am sure that they must realize whether they cringe or not RMS is still going to have a pretty consistent view of the matter.
edit: It actually is annoying how correct he is. FB was pretty nice, but I deactivated my account because I disagree with FB and this reminded me to have the conviction to actually vote. I voted against LinkedIn, Bank of AMerica, Facebook, some google services and Instagram so far this year. I voted for Gitlabs, Digital Ocean, Simple Bank and the Apple ecosystem.
Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
You forgot to sign your post: Written from a computer running a bunch of software written by his omniscience
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Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here, much less you specifically.
Although I agree with a lot of what he's saying, every time I listen to him I can't help but hear the judgemental note. He takes his inherently good ideas to the extreme and they become more off-putting than eye-opening
Not directly related, but Stallman should be supporting/using LetsEncrypt instead of COMODO...
Now with the advent of IoT and other always listening voice activated services the scale of this leakage is only growing bigger.
The typical computer or phone user is ready and willing to give up their privacy to get a small discount or save a few bucks here and there.
I wonder how many of Comcast's customers are aware that Comcast is running public Wifi services through their cable modems in their homes.
In the wake of Snowden's revelations, it makes sense that we pay heed to Stallman's seemingly paranoid utterings.
Facebook is just one among many information gatherers that we are feeding daily either willingly or unwittingly.
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
[1] (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/05/facebook-...)
If someone can't state their point without warping the very language they use to support their point, it makes it very hard to feel like anything they're saying is credible. Example 1: someone is trying to convince me to vote Republican. They go through the Republican platform issue by issue, and compare/contrast it to the Democrats' stand. However, every time they use the word "Democrat" they instead say "Democrap"…
Brexit for Facebook - really? Is that all we learned from this recent referendum? Yes, it is weird to have this much personal information about so many people in the world in the hands of a corporation. But Facebook serves a real need - to connect. And they do it well. The problem is real - we need to have a non-commercial entity run this. But if Facebook dies tomorrow another company will take its place. How do we s…
I always hoped that something like diaspora[0] would take off. With blockchain technologies and ipfs style distributed filesystems it might be possible without any central organization.
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)