No most millennials are also too lazy because they stopped giving a shit about computers when it stopped being a requirement to use the internet like 10-15 years ago because smartphones.

Most who did haven’t in at least a decade, and wouldn’t unless you put a gun to their head.

For some reason the vast majority of people seem to just want to ignore the machines that literally run our society, and its fucking maddening.

FFS the amount of people who I work with in IT and even then don’t really give a shit about their daily computing is absolutely fucking baffling.

Its really just a smattering of people from all ages who actually know how to use a computer because they’re actually interested in doing so.

Well that’s an assumption…

Also what’s the point of being anti-ai when you’re already anti-cpyright?

The issue isn’t generative AI, its capitalism. The AI just makes capitalism’s bad parts more efficient, or is at least supposed to.

Next time use matrix.

Yes and no, if you have large-scale projects that require a ton of people, donations can be necessary.

Just because you take donations doesn’t mean you have a profit motive.

Also processing time, especially on weaker hardware or with bigger files.

On one hand I don’t trust random cracks not to have miners in them.

On the other I wouldn’t run a proprietary video game outside of a sandboxed VM any who.

She said slut referring to herself, and within the context of being a slut for something that isn’t inherently sexual.

Edit: Nope misread that. Either way there are a lot more contexts where one can use slut and not be shitty.

Well one of those is ableist while the other ones are just fun.

Yeah that’s why I threw “especially those in industry”.

Either way if you’re not writing software then yeah sorry your input matters less on the language we use to describe it.

I’m not gonna walk over to a doctors office and start arguing that the language they use is wrong because it doesn’t line up with what I know as a layperson.

Whether or not its “invalid” isn’t the point. Those are the accepted terms by most people, especially those in the industry. The point of language is to communicate ideas.

When most people say “free software”, they’re talking about software that’s free as in freedom. Using it otherwise just causes unnecessary confusion.

You’d maybe have a point if this was made up today, or even 10 years ago, but this was settled during the early years of the industry. Free software is free as in freedom, freeware is gratis but not free.

This is established industry jargon, and has been for over two fucking decades. Not really sure why its being argued.

You’re right, the first amendment wasn’t about freedom of expression, it was about not having to pay for books.

Using the word free to describe something that doesn’t restrict you has been a thing for centuries. “Free Software” has been the accepted term within the software world to denote freedom respecting, libre, and open source software since the 80’s.

This isn’t about because Richard Stallman said so. Its because its the definition pretty much everyone, especially those who’ve actually touched a compiler, uses.

If its personal or internal only copyright wont’t matter since no one will have it to release it.

Just don’t give it out.