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Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by rakoo »

loxdalen wrote: post #162
rakoo wrote: post #136

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The FSF has created the AGPL 16 years ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice... ), so it's not like they didn't see the turn that software was going into. But it was already a losing battle, because every developer wants to think they might become millionaire and won't use it. Whether the software runs on my computer or not, if I am the user, I must be in control. Whether the meal is prepa…

OT, but how are you in control if you buy food that you haven't produced yourself?

Just like you aren't in control of your software if you didn't write your compiler yourself, if you didn't build your compiler yourself, all the way down to the minerals.

You're never 100% in control, but that doesn't mean you should try and maximize it.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by drt5b7j »

boffinAudio wrote: post #248
Biganon wrote: post #238

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Well first of all I was 15 or 16 at the time, so I guess I didn't give it as much though as you currently do, and besides, Che Guevara is (to me at least) not a symbol of communism first and foremost, but a symbol of a man fighting for his ideas (not saying that's my opinion of him especially nowadays, I'm talking about the symbolic power, especially of the famous photograph we all know). So... no. Besides, it was in…

Che Guevara was responsible for the murder of an awful lot of innocent human beings. That fact is lost on the edge lords who want to worship him as a saviour of mankind. He was far, far from that.

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Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by debugnik »

noirscape wrote: post #104
NhanH wrote: post #37

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I will answer this assuming good faith, but this line of reasoning is very irritating since the answer (to me) is obvious. If RMS made a choice to use proprietary software, with the only alternative being his dead, there is absolutely no moral conflict, or even anything against his principle. The only issue could only ever arises if he claimed "Free Software is more important than human lives", which I am pretty sure…

It's not a bad question to ask; the FSF has proven in the past to be rather uninterested and unhelpful in helping developers of medical software get their stuff licensed in a way that's either compliant or as close to as [0] being compliant as possible[1]. Instead they opted to chide those wanting help for not being true believers of the cause and told them they'll never compromise. Basically the usual "FSF is only e…

This is wrong, the GPLv3 only requires installation information for "User Products" (as defined in the license) which the manufacturer can update even if the user can't. Most medical equipment isn't User Products and can't simply be updated by the manufacturer for regulatory reasons.

That article was written before the finished GPLv3 was published, they had only published a stricter draft.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by walteweiss »

sspiff wrote: post #135
walteweiss wrote: post #51

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This very morning, my wife performed reset of cache/cookies from our family’s perfectly fine iPad 3 (yeah, the one from 2012, 11 years old). The iPad is our kitchen TV, it shows either some content from VLC (works perfectly fine, kudos to the devs) or some YouTube from Safari (the AppStore’s app support is long gone, web app still works quite well, even considering it was updated recently). Today I spent my morning t…

I recommend against the Nexus 7. We used it for some 10 years, mostly with Lineage OS, as a video player for our kids. We had two, and both batteries are dead. No longer charging at all. Additionally, even before the batteries went, video playback was far from great at the end. I used NewPipe for youtube videos and VLC for downloads. And while once playing, it worked fine enough, the UI interactions were frustrating…

Oh, thanks for your feedback! I was worried about the N7, as the iPad is very snappy in that regard (playing video). I see almost no difference with any newer models, with the exception of super new HDR/Spatial Audio ones. (Not needed for YouTube anyways, as even if there’s content, we don’t truly watch the iPad, but listen to it.)

And it plays local H264 720p very well, usually. However, for us 480p is plenty most of the time.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by pyrale »

rakoo wrote: post #226
pyrale wrote: post #176

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> The FSF has known this for decades, and has talked about it at large, but no, developers don't want to listen. How do you fight greediness and individualism ? Yeah, the greed and individualism of earning a living wage. Not everyone can have a sheltered position at MIT or as head of a foundation.

Please, let's not pretend developers who build MIT- or BSD- licensed software on their free time after their day of work at BigTech are struggling for money. Let's not pretend React is done out of pure goodwill for the developers community by one of the richest companies in the history of mankind, and developers who work on it are evaluating whether they're going to have food on the table. There is a distinction betw…

Let's also not pretend that the solution to this specific issue is to expect all the devs of the world to respect some sort of honor code.

Had the US done its job properly and antitrusted the offending companies a decade ago, as it should have, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.

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Post by topato »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #217
Biganon wrote: post #208

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The only thing he told me is "this t-shirt implies a political affiliation that isn't mine; I won't sign it." I had asked him to sign my t-shirt, that depicted him with a beret with a Gnu on it, in the style of Che Guevara

I think that's a valid and reasonable position of him to take, though. If I ever became a celebrity or public figure I'd be sure to take a course on public-relations and media-training - it's easy to (intentionally or otherwise) turn something innocuous into something worse - Che Guevara is currently a popular figure and a positive inspiration for many, but for many other people he represents a depostic regime that r…

I'm glad you added that parenthetical postscript at the end lol. After reading your first two sentences, I was nearly salivating over the reply button. "OH MAN, WAIT TILL THIS GUY LEARNS ABOUT /~THIS~/ CLASSIC STALLMAN SNAFU FROM YESTERYEAR!!!".

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by cmcaleer »

silisili wrote: post #195
max_ wrote: post #108

This is so unfortunate. Cancer used to be something I would just hear other people getting until my Dad got it. The I understood that it was very real and that I can also be a victim. Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works. What foods, bad habits should one avoid. What other habits can reduce cancer risks? Are there any prophylactic techniques?

We definitely know obvious bad behaviors can cause cancer, probably the ones you've heard of. But I think some big part of it is genetics and/or luck. I see what happened to Jobs, and people like him - reasonably healthy people. Then I see men in my family who've routinely drank a ton and chewed tobacco, overweight, spent all day in the sun to the point of looking like leather, and live well into their 80s. Yes every…

Re: Jobs specifically, if one has cancer it's best to accept it immediately and to get chemo and other treatments that work, as opposed to colon cleanses, acupuncture etc.. Had he done this his odds of survival. He reportedly expressed regret about this towards the end, per [0].

I think about this kind of thing lot, like how I think about TotalBiscuit's cancer and his regret regarding not getting seen to earlier. The profound level of regret these people must have felt during their final days must have been frustrating and saddening, but I appreciate their efforts to warn others as they have been responsible for me personally making sure I get serious signs and symptoms seen to rather than ignoring a bloody stool as though it's normal, or thinking I can treat something myself without professional advice.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/21/steve-job...

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by drt5b7j »

Biganon wrote: post #238
drt5b7j wrote: post #227

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A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist. Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.

Well first of all I was 15 or 16 at the time, so I guess I didn't give it as much though as you currently do, and besides, Che Guevara is (to me at least) not a symbol of communism first and foremost, but a symbol of a man fighting for his ideas (not saying that's my opinion of him especially nowadays, I'm talking about the symbolic power, especially of the famous photograph we all know). So... no. Besides, it was in…

> Besides, it was in Europe. Us Europeans do not have the same epidermic reaction to communism that Americans have.

You're just making it worse and worse. I'm also European. I'm guessing you're Western European though? I'm also guessing your country wasn't under soviet occupation for 50 years? Eastern Europeans very much do have a bad allergic reaction to communism, just like Americans, and just like everyone else who came in contact with it. Che was at best a useful idiot.

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