It didn’t for some reason? It didn’t work for a relatively precise reason.

And that reason is Larry Ellison. He (Oracle) bought Sun, which was leading the OpenOffice.org project.

At the time Google was still not evil, people thought Facebook was a good idea. It was the time when people actually liked big tech.

Even then Ellison was already so massively disliked in the industry that the very moment he got his hands on OO.o LibreOffice was created and all contributors jumped ship.

Do Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai strike you as extremely white names?

Edit: to be clear, some of those people are really quite racist… But I am not so sure that’s such a determining factor in the larger sector.

I think you’re running a bit there, and the Norwegian Crowns Icelandic Krona would like a word with you.

Often the parcel is sent from China, when I buy from Amazon.

Like a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.

These sabotages had been so inconsequential that I had not even hear about them. On the other hand…

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-left-wing-group-says-it-is-behind-railway-sabotage/a-77916758

This might be controversial, but I find that protesting the environmental damage of western industrialization by attacking public transport… Is a very special type is stupid.

How long ago did you have it? I still have it, ans The camera was absolute trash out of the box, but they improved the firmware at a later point. Now it’s… “Fine I guess”.

Won’t impress anybody, it just… Gets the job done.

He is not a programmer, he’s actually into PR.

And Ludic, the guy he had on, said exactly the opposite.

AI is very unhelpful because it excites the terrible customers you don’t want to deal with, and puts off the good ones you would have been happy with.

Either way it ends the possibility of a fruitful exchange of Information.

You forgot: “we could try to build it a half decent sandbox but then our gizmo wouldn’t escape anymore, and we prefer to look incompetent rather than giving up the headlines.”

there are plenty of fallacious arguments for freedom, some of which are based on conspiratorial thinking.

There are arguments for freedom based on conservativism. Ancaps also exist. Plus fascists love freedom. Their freedom, and a reeducation camp for you.

And plenty of left-wing activism tries to leverage the state to protect minorities.

What I’m really saying is that it’s not so one dimensional as lefty freedom vs right bootlicking. You want a nice example?

http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm

This actual economics book on intellectual property, which advocates for a downsizing of IP rights (both copyright and patents) and is greatly supportive of open source. It was written two decades ago by a couple of relatively conservative Chicago neoliberal economists.

I highly recommend it BTW, there’s very good factual research that more people should be aware of, and high quality discussion. But a lot of the arguments are based on market capitalist principles.

I don’t know where the balance is or should be between solidarity and rejecting intolerance.

I don’t think anyone can tell you for sure. It’s a difficult balance that needs to be constantly negotiated (even just within yourself). Very very often doing good requires evaluating trade-offs between values that are desirable but (to some extent) incompatible.

No, they are not the only phone that lets yoy relock the bootloader.

They are the only phone to do that the proper way, while also including a TPM.

I would say that it’s often not the same computer.

Fascists and right wingers too?

There are features of Open Source that clearly appeal to several kinds of right wing brain.

In general the far right is also a counter-culture, that benefits from all the kinds of freedoms that the left does.

You want privacy so government doesn’t come for the immigrants, they want privacy so the government doesn’t come for their guns.

You want encryption so the corpos don’t see you unionizing, they want encryption so the cops don’t see them organizing a coup.

You want free speech because information on gender and orientation is not scandalous and dangerous, they want free speech to discuss the proper place of brown people.

You don’t want to use mainstream tech because it’s awful, exploitative and plutocratic, they don’t want to use it because it’s clearly an arm of the jewish deep state.

And let’s not even get into the whole crypto thing. Largely open source, but largely appealing to ancaps and other such funny beasts.

You’ll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too.

Yes but the conspiracies tend to be different.

You say that as if we don’t continually discover right wingers, fascists, religious bigots, and conspiracy theorists within the community.

What’s an electromagnetic microscope simulator? For reference, I work in electron optics.

Because other jurisdictions have mo such scanning?

As far as I recall not the US, and definitely not China, so the more appealing alternatives may be some smaller country.

Indeed, laptops and even more so power banks, strike me as some of the least BIFL products in existence. Only Smartphones and wireless a earbuds might be worse.

If the child is amenable, a used thinkpad with Linux will keep running smoothly basically forever, take a beating, and be serviceable.

And get them in all kind of arguments over office formats.

Out of the frying pan straight into another frying pan a wok

Well, not quite.

Chat Control’s point was to prevent the material from circulating after it’s been produced.

Even even our zealous pencil pushers are not quite that dense.

Meh. I would say that if anything deserves an exception, it’s ereaders.

Im my wife’s kindle PW I can replace the battery, and have done that.

But there are simply no new batteries for that kind of device to be found. So then the new battery lasts 20% longer than the old one, and maybe added a year to the device’s life.

Replaceable battery isn’t worth much if you don’t have a reason to believe you’ll be able to source a good one a decade from now.