The NSA is doubtless sitting on a trove of these types of vulnerabilities to use when they really need access to something.

Which is a hilarious Freudian slip on their part. Who is it that they think don't want to teach about the Civil War? Could it be the ones who instead refer to it as the "war of northern aggression" and try to erase the context of slavery by saying it was about "states rights"?

I think people are more afraid that this will function as successful brainwashing than they should be. As someone who went to grade school in OK, there is not a doubt in my mind that the kids won't stand for this. I fully expect those per-classroom bibles to be systematically stolen and destroyed on a daily basis. I'm honestly a little envious that this didn't happen while I was in school. It will be interesting to see the outcome, for sure. Don't underestimate a high-schooler's penchance for civil disobedience.

I set up a bazzite HTPC specifically because of its immutability and smoother user experience. The steam deck also locks down the package manager because this yields a more predictable environment.

You're right, they weren't a "household name" yet. But they were probably more than a little worried about surviving at the time. Turns out they picked the winning strategy.

Google was the first example I thought of, because they were founded in 1998, solidly before the dotcom crash. They survived because they hoarded data.

My point was that every company going into the bubble thought they had a product they could monetize, but virtually all of them failed in favor of just hoarding everyone's data. Amazon and eBay were competing for ecomerce supremacy, but now even they are just privacy violators for various reasons (amazon via AWS and Alexa, eBay in the interest of detecting malicious account behaviour).

MySpace is an example of another unsustainable social media model in the vein of many dotcom era services. They died out as soon as Facebook realized they could hoard everyone's data.

All roads lead to privacy nightmares. It's the fossil fuel of the internet, and enshitification is the climate change.

No, this just the best strategy in a first pass the post voting system.

That describes the business model of basically every internet company that survived the dotcom bubble.

Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don't want another 2016 situation. We don't have good options, only least bad ones.

I don't think this is what you're experiencing, but I had an alarm go off randomly for one beep once. Went and looked at it, and a few seconds later a spider crawled out and away from it.

If it's photoelectric, anything that could scatter light could cause it to go off. Is your house dusty?

Stop being a meme of yourself lol

It is literally the definition which has been used since the term's conception when the open source movement split off from the software freedom movement

No, it's the definition the Open Source Initiative has used since their inception. They are just one of many open source communities with their own licenses.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree (which is my entire point). Cheers.

Honestly, 80% of everything is crap, and 80% of businesses fail, and that's nobody's fault. It would be even worse if they tried to ship a turd they knew wouldn't satisfy players.

I understand if you're sad that the game didn't turn out and you don't get to play it, but I'm just proud of them for taking the risk to begin with, and I'm sorry it didn't turn out how anyone would have liked. Sometimes thems the brakes.

Ahh, that might be it. I run TrueNAS too. IMO that should be the default behavior, and you should have to explicitly pass a flag if you want mount to silently mask off part of your filesystem. That seems like almost entirely a tool to shoot yourself in the foot.

You can’t just redefine an established term because it’s inconvenient to your argument.

Agreed, which is why you can't expect to enforce the definition you like on everyone. The only thing about "open source" that we agree on is that the "source" is "open".

I'm realizing you're working with outdated information. Take a look at the license again, it's been updated.

I think I would have expected/preferred mount to complain that you're trying to mount to a directory that's not empty. I feel like I've run into that error before, is that not a thing?

If someone posts their source code publicly, it's open source. It's unreasonable to ask them to review and maintain every PR sent their way. If they want to work on it by themselves, that's fine. If you want to fork it and make changes yourself, you can. Literally the only qualification for something to be open source is that the source is open.

It's also unreasonable to be upset if they tell you you're not allowed to take their work and re-sell it for your own profit. That would be like saying that artists are in the wrong for being upset that all those AI companies used their work to train their bots without asking. "Why would they prevent the creation of nonfree applications that use their work?!" I assume that's not your position, right?

But as you said, NewPipe is also copyleft, and it seems like you don't have a problem with that. So I don't really understand what your issue is with Grayjay/FUTO. It's reasonable to be concerned about where their funding comes from, but you haven't mentioned that. You say they have "marketing lies", but haven't pointed to any.

It's perfectly fine for there to be multiple open source solutions to the same problem, and you're allowed to have a favorite, but that doesn't warrant dragging the others' names through the mud for no reason.

There's gotta be a solution that leverages their unwavering support for the 4th amendment here. I mean a penis is basically a naturally occurring gun, already. You could almost certainly get a congressman to endorse porn in schools this way.

When I was in highschool, it was normal for everyone in my mostly male friend group to greet each other with hugs. I remember my dad saying he found it weird. Didn't change anything.