@Alex Gleason Some companies like to refer to almond meal flavored with carcinogenic chemicals to taste slightly like cheese "vegan cheese" and mold will indeed grow on almond with enough moisture.
@GreentextBot >The system only gives you a choice from the prison menu of proprietary slop.
>Die painfully.
Imagine going through all that trouble instead of just buying chicken wings for $15 and $30 of gold dust and making golden chicken wings that are just as good, but costs $45 instead of $1000.
@buy robux today :ROBUX: >More incorrect posts referring to Linux as an OS.
If those Linux developers actually enforced the GPLv2, that would be fine, as all those drivers would need to be released as free software (but of course not).
I guess manufacturers could write user-space drivers for GNU/Linux, but those would ideally all get reverse engineered and replaced.
@Suika Eszterházy Most glues tend to be toxic to plant life.
Maybe one could have tried grafting if a suitable crane and the right plant hormones were available 5 minutes after it was cut down.
Hopefully that kind of tree can regrow from the stump, but it doesn't seem there's enough stump remaining.
@ea566a76 >you cannot buy your way into making linux do something for you.
>but your money will not afford you any lenience, and it will not direct attention to your own goals
What do you think the Linux Foundation is all about?
You can buy yourself into Linus agreeing not to sue you for your copyright infringement (GPLv2 violations) and assisting you with carrying out your proprietary goals.
The nice big list of infringers is here (not all, some have been joined for other reasons unknown to me); https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members (yes, it's clownflared and you can't easily see the listing without running proprietary JavaScript).
Linux doesn't seem to be an exception - most (all?) big "open source" projects seem to be the same or want to do the same.
Sure, some Linux developers will sometimes refuse to merge garbage patches, as it was noted that x sort of patches won't be merged previously beforehand, but that's really an exception I would argue.
Don't forget that the only reason why "open source" was coined was to silence discussions about freedom in order to get corporate money to help maximize "technical excellence"; http://catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
@cbfba99e I don't have an article, but to summarize, it's pretty much an advanced form of lossy compression for text, running on someone else's server, which one can interface with a web interface that's written in JavaScript which is under a proprietary license.
"OpenAI" has scraped a bunch of text from the internet, most under proprietary terms, some under free terms (but with certain requirements like attribution) and shoved the whole lot through a neural network and the end result is a very energy-hungry language model that accepts question text and vomits out convincing combinations of the input text that matches the question text somewhat, with the output filtered through grammar, spelling and tone checking so it looks very convincing.
By pure chance it gets some things right, but it gets most things wrong due to how much of the input was incorrect and the semi-lossy reproduction nature.
@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Some tools seem to be good at entering zero width spaces between words in Japanese and it's not too hard to split or newline on zero width space.
@Kerosene :christmas_wreath: :padoru: It seems I dream of using proprietary software sometimes.
I guess that's my subconscious telling me to make it so reality isn't the nightmare as well as the dream.
I wouldn't mind a cool dream where I move to the woods.
@Alex Gleason As much as the business wants the wagies to stay around the clock 365 days of the year, they have conceded that they need to give them some time off sometimes.
@Machismo The short expiry date is intentional to force you to automate renewal.
It's pretty easy once turn renewal into a script and throw it at cron - you get an email if renewal worked or not.
@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: The software doesn't even need to be compromised - it's intentionally malware from the very start - Microsoft even details much of the malware functionality, except not straightforwardly.
@Suika Eszterházy Any sane person in the USA understands that metric should be used instead of the backwards US customary units.
Heck, even inches is now just metric with extra steps (USA and UK inch's used to be slightly different and a measurement block man went and redefined 1 inch to equal 25.4mm).
Haha yes, I can feel the freedom flowing though me.
I can now use ffmpeg to remux audio+subtitles into a mka container without even having to run --help or look at documentation.
@ A fTPM implementation is required for future digital handcuffing plans, although they haven't yet implemented that part of the proprietary plan yet, so the handcuffing machine check can be patched out for now.
Why on earth would you be used by windows instead of installing GNU/Linux-libre anyway?
@ed044e85 You highly endorse proprietary malware that's nonfree?
https://patchmypc.com/terms-of-service
"2.3 Reverse Engineering. Customer will not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Software by any means whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly. Customer will use its best efforts to prevent its employees and contractors and any third parties from attempting to do any of the foregoing."
Every single time I've seen proprietary terms of the sort, I've soon after determined that such was done in an attempt to prevent malicious functionality and/or copyright infringement from being uncovered.
You can please advise why you think that restriction is there if not for the above 2 reasons, considering that downloading, uninstalling and updating functionality is very well known and therefore not a trade secret?
A legitimate recommendation would be to upgrade to GNU/Linux, where the package manager handles updates automatically.
@anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 Actually, the mRNA sequence source code of certain mRNA vaccines was released to the public domain, which makes such sequence not "open source", but not proprietary either (I would provide a link, but I can't seem to find it now).
Too bad you can't be sure the proprietary machines that output the mRNA produced only the input.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: It isn't slow and doesn't restrict what you can program much, so it's not memory-safe.
Just write the holy GNU C correctly.
@Eric Zhang Are you finally learning the consequences of proprietary software?
You install GNU/Linux onto some ebook readers and uploading an EPUB file is as simple as sending the file to documents via rsync.
@Den Datafag Trollmann :flag: >you don't need javascript to see the aforementioned error page
You're right, now that I think about it, but proprietary JavaScript is going to be run if it's enabled nevertheless.
>for all intents and purposes i'm not ""on discord"", you won't find me there, and if you find someone who seems or claims to be me - it's an impostor.
>I do "use" discord, but it's more like "forced to use" because certain people just refuse to anything else.
Why are you contradicting yourself?
>if you want to kill discord and other proprietary centralized network shit, it's way better to do it from within, you don't preach in a church, you preach on streets, even if you hate streets.
It is not possible to kill a proprietary network service/software combination by using it, as you're only making it more cemented, as you increase the network effect.
A more accurate simile would be that the only way to eliminate a certain kind of proprietary street would be to preach against it in a church, rather than walking along the proprietary street and thus not practicing as you preach.
@Den Datafag Trollmann :flag: I don't get how my logic is held back.
You wrote "not by choice" into my question that contained an assumption, thus confirming the assumption.
As far as I can tell, that page is only visible of you use discord and run discord's proprietary JavaScript.
You then contradicted yourself, thus I noted that I didn't now know.
@461d0168 That's a shame, but I've found that Evolution with the EWS plugin can be use to connect to "outlook" servers.
Setting it up requires jumping through hoops; https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/EWS/OAuth2 and ignoring a "admin approval needed error" roadblock that you can walk around, but it's certainly worth it.
@154219fe Google's programmers just programmed it wrong.
All software in all languages have bugs, the important part is just to fix the bug and move on.
If you aren't writing in holy GNU C in the 21st century, what are you doing?
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