Windows becoming a Linux distribution.
not what I want, I want Windows (as in, the existing Windows codebase) to become FOSS, if that happened, we would no longer need to care about anyone switching to Linux, in fact I might then install a FOSS Windows myself
I remember already playing it through Wine in like 2009 or so, so all that is new is that it’s now a decompiled version.
die Grammatik ist nicht wirklich besser
OK, if it is intended mainly as a description of investors and other “business” enthusiasts, then I agree with fighting against what they want.
If I don’t know what that means I’m fighting against, I won’t be fighting against “techbros”, not even using that term. I might still fight against specific things they are doing…
I wonder if I’ll ever read a coherent definition of the term “techbro”. Aren’t most KDE (and other FOSS) developers also men interested in technology? If that isn’t the definition of “techbro”, then what is?
If we’re going to wildly speculate, hey, isn’t this what we have AI for nowadays?
I asked ChatGPT: “give me ideas what the abbreviation WLBR might stand for if that is the name of a piece of image editing software”. Here’s the result:
Most image tools (like Photoshop, GIMP, etc.) don’t strictly spell out acronyms anymore—they use:
So something like:
WLBR = “WaveLight Brush & Render”
feels believable without being overly literal.
(end of ChatGPT response)
Out of these, I think “Workflow Layer-Based Retoucher” works best. But interesting that ChatGPT thinks “GIMP” doesn’t “strictly spell out” an acronym anymore, or that “Photoshop” ever did?!
Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
As long as Google is doing a better job maintaining AOSP than a nonprofit would, what’s the point?
If they ever stop doing so, then this might be an option.
It’s a fairly widespread Internet meme, I think in order to make fun of France, though I’m not sure exactly where it originated.
The main problem is that nowadays a lot of software is JavaScript downloaded when web browsing. And that might just be too demanding for ancient hardware if it was never tested on it.
I actually dislike the term “social media” in the first place, only used it above for convenience…
I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.
Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called “social media” and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn’t heard of until around that time, and both of which didn’t seem like very fun or appealing places at all.
Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by “social media” and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.
Hurray! People stop doing stupid shit!
you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
I agree that the kind of “social media” that is popular among the general public (i.e. sharing information about one’s own life) is fairly stupid. But Lemmy too is “social media”, any support forum is “social media”, even wikis are “social media”, and I do not think that those are stupid things to do, at all.
There are many more examples of this here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html
The problem is that “human freedom” and “human rights” are very general and somewhat vague terms and some people’s freedoms and rights are sometimes in conflict with each other. So it’s also often meaningless to say that you support “human freedom” and “human rights” without asking what freedoms and rights and for whom.
FOSS is a very specific subset of human freedom and human rights, it’s the right to control, modify and distribute the software one uses. All other parts of human freedom and human rights aren’t something that the free software movement necessarily has a position on. (Free software can certainly be used to, at least arguably, violate human rights, for example armed forces can use free software too, and should be able to!)
I think it must have been Etch, though I had to look at a versions table to figure that out.
It’s funny because Debian was the first Linux distro I ever installed and used.
Very shortly after my 14th birthday.
So you’re agreeing with me that this was supported by both parties…?
(I’m actually Austrian, not German; I have however read enough about US politics that I’m fairly confident in my statement above.)
On the terminal yes.
On GUIs I generally use an IDE or VSCodium with vim keybindings.