MIT is a terrible license that only got popular because of the popularity of the anti-open source movement in the last decade.

one could write books about what’s wrong with the MIT license.

It could even theoretically be argued that MIT has in some ways allowed big tech companies to proliferate, by effectively allowing them to take open-source code, modify it, and then close it off in their proprietary software. What does this mean? It means that the work of countless dedicated open-source developers can be co-opted by companies that have done almost none of the work, reaping several billions of dollars, while the developers who actually did the work make no money. It’s like opening your doors wide only to have someone come in, take your stuff, and sell it back to you.

In contrast, in licenses like the GPL, there’s a requirement that if you use GPL-licensed code and modify it, your new code also has to be open-source under the GPL.

the syntax is more powerful than markdown, the whole idea of with blocks and the ability to have more complex layouts is great

I love it; it’s been my replacement for LaTeX ever since I’ve hears about it on hacker news

• In Australia, a kilogram of apples weighs two kilograms
• In Australia, gravity is an opinion
• In Australia, if you have three kangaroos and two koalas you have 9 wombats
• In Australia, if you pay $15 for a $20 dollar meal the restaurant owes you $400
• In Australia, right angles are 69 degrees
• In Australia, 1 is more than 2 except when you write it on its side
• In Australia, a minute is 2 seconds long, which is 24 hours out of the 6 hours in a day
• In Australia, the square root of any number is “a dingo’s breakfast”
• In Australia, dividing by two doubles the number, as sharing is caring.
• In Australia, if you travel north you’ll end up south
• In Australia, the shortest distance between two points is the scenic route
• In Australia, a watch moves counter clockwise, to remind you not to live in the past.
• In Australia, counter clockwise always means the following order: 1, 26, 55, 0, 0, 0, 9999, kangaroo, spider, mate
• In Australia, your left hand is always your right, because we don’t like to leave any hand behind.
• In Australia, the speed of light is adjustable depending on how bright the sun is shining.
• In Australia, when you whisper, the sound travels faster than when you shout

I don’t want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can’t be that stupid, right?

I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption people, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he’s so… I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.

Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual’s stance on encryption, surely there can’t be a single person that heard that statement and didn’t laugh at it, right?

Perhaps the Australian stereotype of being upside down holds some truth, considering his… utterance; he must walk on his hands and constantly get bit by snakes and attacked by drop bears on his daily commute, that’s the only explanation for how someone can make such a statement

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it’s so rare that it basically only exists in well run companies and well run FOSS projects (which are few and far between)

Oh, i didn’t think about that! Tho I’d feel gross installing a google product on my phone

Doesn’t match my experience. The worst thing about it is ping, but download is mostly always around 100-200.

I mean fair enough, some files are in /run/current-system/sw/

well nix still uses the same structure, the only difference is that files are symlinked to files in subfolders of the /nix/store folder.

For example you may find that /etc/hosts is just a symlink to /nix/store/69420aaabbbcccdddfffggghhhiii420-hosts

In my case I’m my own server runner but hey I wouldn’t mind a donation 😂

Reminder that Google is supposedly a real tech company, yet they’ve failed at:

• Podcasts
• Whiteboards
• Domains
• AB testing tools
• Phone services
• Phone contracts
• Physical albums
• Copying other companies
• Copying other companies
• Chatbots
• A different chatbot
• Social media
• Social media
• Social media
• Social media
• Gaming
• Video calls
• Video calls
• Video calls
• Music
• Music
• Selling routers
• Making TV Shows
• Selling TV Shows
• Streaming TV Shows
• Surveys
• Video hosting
• File storage
• Website building
• Bookmark managers
• Shopping
• VR
• VR
• Home assistants

(No, I don’t have any repetitions, yes I missed a few)

Bonus tip:

ci" means change inside “” ca" means change around “”

the " can be replaced with any of: ({[wspbt

For changing inside or around parentheses, curky brackets, square brackets, words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks and HTML tags respectively.

So for example if you want to replace all parameters in a function call you just do ci(

But that’s not all, the c is one of the possible operators, but not the only one.

di{ deletes the content of a block ya[ copies the content of something inside square brackets g~iw swaps the case of a word guis makes a sentence lower case gUip makes a paragraph upper case

And the most useless one: g?at replaces the content of an HTML tag with its rot13

If you’re on Android use grayjay, if you’re on Linux use freetube. You can follow channels on both of those.

If using grayjay and you can afford it please do pay for the license; you’re not technically required; it’s based on the honor system, but it helps the developers at FUTO work on it and it helps them donate to other FOSS projects.

If you use freetube please donate to them, even a dollar, the developers will greatly appreciate it.

Let’s support software that doesn’t hate us!

Weekly reminder that the best way to tell them off is to donate to the Lemmy developers, even 1 dollar is no doubt appreciated. Tell reddit off by using their competitor and paying for it.

that’s a good point! I guess I’ve never personally experienced those extremes you have (I was born in the late 90s), I think my first internet connection was ISDN or maybe the early days of ADSL, because I remember the day my family got 7Mbit and we were mesmerized by how fast it was

in a few hundred years if ever. I doubt that the average person will ever need more than 1 Tb/s

to give you crazy numbers:

1 second of a raw 32k video with 12bit color at 60fps is around 50 GB/s

that will likely not happen, FOSS tools will still respect you as a sovereign individual

I will tell you something that most people won’t: you don’t have to use those websites.

It doesn’t matter how important you think they are, you can take a stand by not using them if they don’t respect you.

Do you know the reasoning behind the common saying “the united states doesn’t engage with terrorists”? Politics aside, it’s because engaging with your enemy legitimizes or empowers them. By refusing to negotiate or engage with terrorists, the policy aims to avoid granting them recognition or validation for their methods.

You can take the same stance; when a website stops working with non-chromium browsers you stop using it. You IMMEDIATELY stop using it, even better if you pay them money, you should IMMEDIATELY cancel citing that they’re stealing your intellectual freedom. If the US government does the same and you’re required to use a chromium browser to fill out your taxes for example, do it on paper, give them a message that you’d rather not use technology than have guns pointed at you