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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 orthoxerox »

bonoboTP wrote: post #303
_njyk wrote: post #267

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It's true that in Western Europe it's fine to show the communist symbols. To Westerner, they never saw communism in action, only propaganda. Which means that kids can proudly wear their capitalistic-made Che Guevara t-shirt at school. However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols because it shows support to extreme atrocities in front of people who were victim of t…

> However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols As a Hungarian, this is just not true. The Western view of communism has been imported and the more time goes on, the more the younger generations base their views on what's cool in the West vs what their old and uncool grandparents blabber on about. With the Internet and media and travel options and exchange semester…

Che shirts - yes, "1956: best year of my life" shirts - not so much.

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

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Post by bachmeier »

Pannoniae wrote: post #329
lima wrote: post #290

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Linux desktop is more viable than ever. Zigbee/Matter/... are widely adopted open standards without vendor lock in. Things like Home Assistant are getting serious attention and funding. Could be much worse.

The Linux desktop is better than ever (in fact, I am switching to it the first time in a few days! I just need to setup some things first) Sadly, the enshittification has also taken over parts of the Linux desktop as well though. For example, the mobile-first, flat-everything user-hostile design. (like gnome) Dark themes were not common while skeuomorphism was mainstream, they are only in demand right now because vie…

> the enshittification has also taken over parts of the Linux desktop as well though. For example, the mobile-first, flat-everything user-hostile design. (like gnome)

My first successful experiment with Linux was in 2003 (having flopped in the late 1990s, when Linux could be found on the shelf in stores everywhere). The desktop I used then was Gnome 2. My current desktop is Gnome 2, with more or less the exact same look and functionality, though it's called Mate. It's only enshittification if you have a way to force it on people against their will.

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

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Post by Pannoniae »

jraph wrote: post #334
Pannoniae wrote: post #329

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The Linux desktop is better than ever (in fact, I am switching to it the first time in a few days! I just need to setup some things first) Sadly, the enshittification has also taken over parts of the Linux desktop as well though. For example, the mobile-first, flat-everything user-hostile design. (like gnome) Dark themes were not common while skeuomorphism was mainstream, they are only in demand right now because vie…

I don't like Gnome so much, but enshittification is quite a strong word to qualify it. I'd prefer we reserved this word for when stuff gets worse because of money / investors, with incentives at odds with the user needs. I don't believe Gnome suffers from decisions that are bad because of financial incentives.

Well, I am open to changing my mind. What do you think, what's the reason then? From an outsider perspective, 10 years ago I've seen all those beautiful, perfectly usable UIs, and they have almost all disappeared by today. What happened? Why do you think GNOME does that?

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

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Post by lm28469 »

ekianjo wrote: post #277
lm28469 wrote: post #178

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> Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works. We know most cancers are preventable and caused by our lifestyle/environment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/ Don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, avoid smoked food, avoid processed red meat, avoid plastic food containers/beverage containers, buy bio food or food which has grown with minimal amou…

There is virtually no evidence that bio food or organic food is better for you

They contain less pesticides on average and pesticides are directly linked to cancers but you do you

Also several studies mention they have higher level of nutrients, vitamin &co

Eating bio veggies won't make you cancer proof, but the again smoking a cigarette a day won't guarantee you a cancer either. It's a game of luck but some things help while other things are detrimental, I personally see no reason to buy pesticides riddled veggies when I have access to cleaner ones

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20359265/

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

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Post by maheart »

alerighi wrote: post #358
tharakam wrote: post #235

̛If you check the surroundings, you will see the mess we are in. Virtually (?) there are 0 options for a viable IoT platform, mobile/desktop OS that doesn't annoy us. It could be privacy, locking, you name it, ... Only recently, I happen to realise, we could have listened to this man little more. Too late then, we are sold already. Recover well Mr Stallman! I wish you the best!

Well Linux is usable as a desktop operating system. For IoT there are multiple open source project, Home Assistant, ESP Home, just to name a few. The real problem are mobile operating system. Android phones are nowadays even more and more locked down, and using ROMs without Google Services is nearly impossible.

>The real problem are mobile operating system

There's SailfishOS. It still uses Android kernel+drivers, but above that it's a "real" GNU/Linux system (glibc, systemd, bash, Qt, connman+ofono, zypp/packagekit, Gecko). It's not completely FOSS, but it is usable as a daily driver, and has been for at least 10 years (based on personal experience).

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Post by [deleted] »

0xDEF wrote: post #144
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…

AGPL is also the license you should use if you don't want big corporations to use your software. Big Tech even avoids GPL-3 and stick to GPL-2 from what I have noticed.

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Post by Ensorceled »

calderknight wrote: post #294
Ensorceled wrote: post #232

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> pretty much everybody did things that today would get you canceled Do you have some examples of someone being “cancelled” in this way?

Aren't there countless examples of people who have been cancelled in this way to various degrees? People accused of sexual crimes, racist beliefs, fringe moral views, heretical religious/theological beliefs, etc. have been cancelled countless times both recently and all throughout recorded history. Examples: * Norman Finkelstein (blacklisted from Academia for his work relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict) * Rich…

> Norman Finkelstein (blacklisted from Academia for his work relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict)

He wasn't "cancelled" for being "woke", that's straight up political fallout for going up against Israeli interests.

> Richard Stallman (made to resign from his positions at MIT and FSF due to comments relating to Marvin Minsky and Jeffrey Epstein)

He's back at FSF. Clearly not "cancelled" as evidenced by this entire thread. He received relatively mild repercussions for supporting a known sexual predator combined with his own list of accusations of sexual predation.

> James Watson

This is the only one that is possibly a "cancelation" and that's a stretch. Being repeatedly and openly racist and then getting kicked out of your cushy chancellor emeritus position because of it, again, doesn't feel like "cancellation".

> Justin Roiland (forced out of Rick and Morty due to alleged crimes)

Ah yes, the "guilty until proven innocent" version of "cancellation" ... not associating with people with multiple credible accusations of crimes is not "cancelling" them.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #229
MadSudaca wrote: post #225

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What would happen?

The rabid anti-communism of Cuban diaspora in FL is so extreme it's driven them right into the GOP's arms for their votes; the amazing thing is how they've done it despite the racism just-below-the-surface there.

The racism suits many of them fine. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/02/us/black-cubans-apart-in-...

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

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Post by tyingq »

borbulon wrote: post #333
jraph wrote: post #181

Here he is, 70, under chemo, giving a speech. He keeps being a force of nature. May he recover well, or at least have long enjoyable years ahead. He has/had arguable/unacceptable behavior, but I believe we strongly owe him. He has built incredible software, defined important stuff and kicked our asses in the right direction.

Having cancer myself, I can tell you that there are a lot of misconceptions about what life “under chemo” is like. I’m in a clinical trial for pills now, but when I was doing infusions, the worst of them had me out of commission for about 4 days - chemo day (which was about schedule, not side effects), then days 4, 5, and sometimes 6 after chemo day. The rest were completely manageable, in fact I looked forward to wo…

"under chemo" though, isn't some single shared experience. Everyone in that infusion room with you is getting some different sort of poison cocktail in a different strength. And most of the drugs are, quite literally, poison. There's at least 7 broad, very different types of chemo drugs, and subcategories under that. Also, very different total duration and frequencies of infusion. And they all may have other things going on in terms of cancer progression, other unpleasant treatments (radiation, surgical procedures, etc) going on at the same time, and so on.

Doxorubicin might be a good example. It has nicknames like "red death" and "red devil", and many unpleasant secondary side effects. Side effects that are different from other chemo drugs, including an unusually high rate of congestive heart failure.

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