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Paradox of tolerance license
  • I think it's important to consider that the GNU General Public License is really only a part of the Free Software Movement, which is "An effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal". That movement is defined by a group of people and a goal and has "infrastructure", such as "The Free Software Foundation" ("a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization"). "The idea of the Free Software Movement is that computer users deserve the freedom to form a community", but if you want to accomplish a different goal, it might be useful to clearly communicate that goal to other people to create a different movement (and create new "infrastructure" to support your effort).

    Changing only a part of the GNU General Public License might make it incoherent or otherwise a hindrance to your goal in a way that you might not expect. It might be better to focus on talking with other people about a goal of yours, and you might discover that you can be most effective without investing any energy in creating a new license for software, but if you determine that creating a new license is important you can create a comprehensive design for one to match your efforts more closely.

    It seems that your goal might be summarized with "I want people to be able to help themselves (using software) without contributing to spreading hate" ("putting a motion in the positive is a rule in parliamentary procedures").

    See also "Chesterton’s Lamp-Post" (a suggestion to only start to act when you actually know what you want the final result to be) and "Chesterton's fence" (a suggestion to not change things when you don't know what the final result will be) for some context about what an undesirable design/plan is.

  • Commit
  • Doesn't git status tell you what to do?

    use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution

    use "git commit" to conclude merge

    I always use git status to check what is appropriate before doing anything else, since the right thing to do can sometimes be different, like after using git rebase when a break command was used vs when a squash command resulted in a conflict.

  • Why do prisons exist?
  • I found https://daily.jstor.org/the-invention-of-incarceration/ by using https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=punishment+before+prison&ia=web

    My assumption before even reading that was: I expect it's because people wanted a punishment that wasn't a monetary fine, corporal punishment, enslavement, death, or "death but we'll pretend to not see you running away, and we might pardon you in 10 years, but if we see you before then we'll kill you" (exile). I knew those were the only punishments in ancient Rome (and people weren't held for long before facing a trial), and it seems that not much had changed until the idea of long term incarceration was conceived: https://romanempiretimes.com/crime-and-punishment-in-ancient-rome-justice-and-inequality/ https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub408/entry-6360.html

  • The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover | Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control
  • If you’re coming here and asserting they don’t exist

    I don't think "his “dark team”" doesn't exist, because people that you are probably referring to are named the news article this discussion is based on.

    Were you referring to "The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover" using the words "unidentified people"?

    I also haven't found anywhere Elon Musk expressed having a "dark team" (though they might have expressed something similar using different words): https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q="dark+team"+musk&ia=web

  • Never Oracle
  • If one copy of all of your data is deleted, you should be able to recover it.

    • Maintain three copies of your data: This includes the original data and at least two copies.
    • Use two different types of media for storage: Store your data on two distinct forms of media to enhance redundancy.
    • Keep at least one copy off-site: To ensure data safety, have one backup copy stored in an off-site location, separate from your primary data and on-site backups.

    https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.html

    Someone that was following best practices would have regularly made a copy of their data and stored it somewhere that doesn't depend on anything Oracle does, since I'd consider depending on Oracle to store all of your data to be storing all your data at one site.

  • Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
  • It seems the specific problem was that military planes were being used instead of civilian planes:

    That is why I returned the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants... In civilian planes, without being treated like criminals, we will receive our fellow citizens.

    That does make sense to me, since I'd feel less comfortable if a military plane was flying into my country, whereas I'd be more comfortable if a regular civilian flight was used instead. From the perspective of a Colombian, I would be concerned about how national security would be affected by giving permission for military planes to operate when they wouldn't otherwise have permission.

  • Superiority brings controversy

    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    This community immediately reminded me of this classic video.

    Have fun being able to pay your own rent!

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