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   Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 11:12:12 JST Richard Stallman

   US citizens: phone your representatives and senators and call on them to protect funding for NPR and PBS. They are far from perfect. They feel obliged to take a "balanced" view even in an unbalanced situation. But they will help resist fascism.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:00:45 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @rms I scrolled through your posts.

     I'm not one to usually give a shit about stuff like this, but you get 1-5 favorites on each post you make.

     You are Richard Stallman, a famous and widely-recognized personality with more than five thousand followers.

     Most people would take a hint.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:00:57 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @rms You are a cringe retard, and dipshit takes like this discount all of your achievements to date. Learn to stop talking.

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     Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:05:09 JST Richard Stallman

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     • Matt Hamilton

     @eriner @xianc78 Contrary to certain misconceptions, what actually happens is this: the political notes are posted, and the person who has set this up operates a bridge between Mastodon and email on my behalf. This means that I (RMS) do indeed get all replies through the bridge and send email responses to the bridging software to post on Mastodon. but I do so only on occasions where I believe it is warranted.

     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: and Yuchen Pei like this.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:05:10 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • xianc78

     @xianc78 @rms I shouldn't have to know Richard Stallman lore to be aware that the poster of this content isn't a human being who is able to read my reply.

     Yuchen Pei repeated this.
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:05:12 JST xianc78

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     • Matt Hamilton

     @eriner @rms He used to have a pump.io account to do the same thing. He said that he doesn't really like social media and that Mastodon account is set up by someone else under his blessing.

     https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:05:13 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • xianc78

     @xianc78 @rms

     > He doesn't reply to people

     I hate people like this. If you post your thoughts to the Internet, you should be obligated to at least be aware of feedback.

     This is probably my biggest pet peeve.

     The account should be labeled as a bot, at the very least.

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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:05:14 JST xianc78

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     • Matt Hamilton

     @eriner @rms He doesn't reply to people. That account just mirrors posts he makes on his website. He always had Social Democratic leanings. I'm surprised that many people don't realize that until now.

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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:17:11 JST Tyler

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     • xianc78
     • Matt Hamilton
     In 2014 as a young man, my wife and I took you out to an Italian restaurant, and we talked about your girlfriend. You had a cold and you asked the waiter for hot water and ice. You wanted the pasta al dente but the waiter was dumb and didn't understand. When I picked you up you were in some college-esque apartment. I had a VW Jetta you had a hard time getting into.
     
     As a young man, I wanted to treat someone I respected to dinner, because I valued what they did: Foster a software culture of free sharing, with restrictions on the software to KEEP it free.
     
     As a grown man with a family of my own, I see that you actively work against my interests in other areas, promoting a deadly ideology that, if allowed to proliferate, would result in the molestation and degeneration of my children and the end of my people.
     
     Please take your Win regarding responsible software sharing policy and let that be your legacy. Not "social justice" activism: the work of someone our grandchildren will be angry we didn't shoot like a dog in the street while they still walked this earth.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 15:17:11 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • xianc78
     • Tyler
     • Matt Hamilton
     He acknowledged my existence. 🥳
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 19:01:20 JST 翠星石

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     • xianc78
     • Matt Hamilton
     @rms @eriner @xianc78 Btw, you are posting to the Fediverse via a Mastodon instance.
     
     Referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" is like referring to GNU/Linux as "Linux", considering that the original instance software was GNU Social, which is still being using, despite how much Mastodon developers like breaking federation.
     Another Linux Walt Alt likes this.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:01:25 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @blenderdumbass >the Linux kernel
     Please do no write that, as that implies Linux is more than a kernel.
     
     If you want to stress that Linux is more than a kernel, please write; "the kernel, Linux", or "Linux, the kernel", or otherwise please just write Linux when you mean Linux.
     
     
     Ubuntu or Trisquel or Debian or Arch are GNU/Linux distros, so you you want to write about general OS usage, like operating GNU software in GNU bash, you would write about "using GNU/Linux".
     
     If you want to write about posting messages onto the Fediverse, you should write about that, unless you were complaining about the ridiculously low default character post limits of Mastodon.
     
     
     GNU Social also implements OStatus, which Mastodon supported until they decided to abruptly remove support, without even giving the GNU Social developers a bit more time to finish implementing ActivityPub.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:01:26 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki @rms @eriner@noauthority.social Hmm... There are 3 levels to it. The Fediverse, the Activity Pub itself. And every little service built on those. Like Mastodon.

     Similar to how there is GNU / Linux, the Linux kernel, or something like Ubuntu or Trisquel, or Debian, or Arch.

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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:52:15 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki I like a strategic language approach better than correct language. For example it is often very good to use "Free Software" especially with English speakers, because it confuses people enough to make them ask questions.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:52:15 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @blenderdumbass The best strategic language approach is correct language.
     
     It is correct that free means freedom.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 21:09:21 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @blenderdumbass I don't hesitate to full GNU/Trigger, as all they can do is cope and seethe.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 21:09:22 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki Also sometimes you want to avoid bursts of norephinephoria in people. So you choose words that triggers them less, to then slowly and carefully make them reconsider.