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software licensing meta 

If you're going to argue that the concept of "open-source" should introduce ethical constraints - which I *morally* can agree with - then you also need to be able to find a universal definition of "ethical" that sufficiently many people can agree with.

And when I say "need", I mean that this is a hard requirement to make the concept work legally, which is what open-source licenses are (unfortunately) exclusively about.

You can't just pick a particular set of ethics that *you* like and argue that that's what "open-source" should mean. I mean, you can, but there's approximately zero chance of that working out in practice and catching on, because there's always going to be *something* that others disagree with.

If all this sounds infeasible to resolve, consider that perhaps a software license is not the ideal place for ethical constraints...

i want software that turns to dust if a capitalist tries to use it

Questions to ask yourself before replying 

* Am I just being contrarian?
* Do I already have a relationship with this person, or am I being inappropriately familiar?
* Am I "ironically" doing exactly what this person just said not to do?
* Am I derailing another legitimate discussion in order to get on my own favourite hobby-horse or to one-up this person in my knowledge of social issues?
* Am I saying "Are you surprised?" when they're disappointed?
* Am I providing unsolicited advice?

One thing I would really like to erase from culture (especially tech culture) is how people who get frustrated lash out at the tools that they are using and, through the area of effect, the people making and maintaining those tools, instead of learning to deal with emotions of frustration in a healthy manner.

I am in a new Iveco by Heuliez electric bus:

Pro:
* Best placement of USB-A and USB-C ports I’ve even seen in a bus, in the rear of the back seat including a stand to watch a video on your phone 🤯
* So much legroom
* No bleeping!
* Good build quality, although I hear something rambling already.

Con:
* Seats are a bit hard, and the actual seat feels short under the legs
* USB ports at wheel chair area very awkwardly located.
* Large non-see through lettering over the windows.
* Stop buzzer very loud and annoying.

Cannot rate the information system, it crashed.

furry fandom and age discourse, ageism, queerphobia and family abuse 

maybe we should encourage our youngins to look out for each other and help them to grow to be individuals who can resist and fight against those who want to hurt them, unchain themselves from the oppressive mindsets of the queerphobic, racist, sexist, ableist state.

and provide them safety if they can't.

i said what i said. block me and see if i care.

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furry fandom and age discourse, ageism, queerphobia and family abuse 

i understand that a lot of the aspects of furry culture are inherently tied to NSFW stuff,

but i swear to fucking god

you are living in your own neat white middle class european/american bubble if you think i had any place i could turn to

there was nothing for me. nada. zero. just because you anglophonics have safety nets provided by society we don't. we poors, third world nation dwellers are fucked in the ass.

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furry fandom and age discourse, ageism 

i am sorry but i saw an absolute rancid take about how furry fandom is the "adults only community, was always intended for adults, and if you are a kid, you have no place here"

look, it's perfectly fine to say you don't want to interact with minors cuz you want to freely post or talk about NSFW stuff. but to say that fandom *as a whole* must not allow kids in it is such a fucking privileged american take i don't even know what to say.

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"We should ban kids from the Internet until they turn 18"

I had a hard enough time finding people like me even with the Internet. Finding anyone locally who was anything like me was impossible.

The idea that people want to actively cut people away from their support networks, to isolate them from others, and banish the youth to a primitive 20th century lifestyle? That's fucking bullshit.

What next, do you also propose that kids only be allowed to speak to their parents, no one else?

Is there software somewhere to help train yourself to remember your passwords? Like a quizz. The software doesn't have to know your password, just a strong hash to tell you if you got it right or not, it's not meant to correct mistakes only to practice typing the passwords so you don't forget.

Is this a security concern to have and use such software? Better solutions?

I'd need that for passwords I seldom use but are very important.

Sometimes you're the guy who has three degrees in a subject and who TA'd that class for undergrads and you actively do research in that area and still people explain it to you on the internet

health update, transplantation 

It's official: new transplantation date is January 14!

: For those using Ko-Fi with monthly donations (without tiers): do monthly donors/subscribers automatically receive updates you post by e-mail? Or does that require manual action on either end?

politics meta 

After repeatedly trying to discuss "what does the EU actually do, how does it actually work" with people, I can really only draw one conclusion: it's not that the anti-EU folks don't understand, it's that they *want* to keep believing the anti-EU rhetoric because it gives them someone to blame for everything as an easy answer, whether it is true or not.

(This is only about specifically anti-EU stances that usually come with some sort of nationalist rhetoric, not general anti-government or anti-hierarchy stances which are much more varied)

Boy do I ever hate websites that turn grey as you scroll down until the point where a modal appears asking you for money or personal information

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