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   Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 19:55:40 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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   Elon Musk is now infamous for showing a Nazi-Salute when Donald Trump became the president for the second time. Yet, this is the same Elon Musk, who's cars were disliked by the same people who have a hard on Trump. People who like to burn gasoline. For them an electric-car company is an epitome of wokeness. It was very fu...

   Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/how_ai__ice_and_elon_musk_manipulate_people_into_supporting_evil_

   #AI #ICE #ElonMust #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Privacy #Copyright #Freedom #DRM #Libre #uspol #Politics

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 19:55:39 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass There are several errors in the article.
     
     >But the general gist of it is, that it is all designed as a virus of sorts. To infect everything and anything with Freedom.
     No GNU license is a virus - it does not infect merely aggregated software.
     
     it is designed as a spider plant of sorts. To allow the freedom to grow if someone chooses to take a piece.
     
     >The EULA for Windows even explicitly states that they used code under the LGPL.
     It is not in the EULA - in the windows copyright information in settings, there is an exception to the blanket clause that says reverse engineering to find the malware is not permitted - reverse engineering is allowed for debugging modifications to LGPLv2.1 and LGPLv3 libraries, as that is what those licenses require.
     
     >At one point engineers at Apple extended it to compile their in-house programming language and Steve Jobs personally called Stallman, to negotiate something to "free" Apple from Stallman's license. But Stallman politely told Jobs to fuck off. And having no other choice, Apple released their module for GCC as Free Software to be compatible with the license.
     That is not correct.
     
     Objective-C was developed by NeXT and not apple;
     Consider GNU Objective C. NeXT initially wanted to make this front end proprietary; they proposed to release it as .o files, and let users link them with the rest of GCC, thinking this might be a way around the GPL's requirements. But our lawyer said that this would not evade the requirements, that it was not allowed. And so they made the Objective C front end free software.
     
     NeXT was later bought by apple.
     
     The C++ front end existed, because of the GPLv2-or-later as well;
     Consider GNU C++. Why do we have a free C++ compiler? Only because the GNU GPL said it had to be free. GNU C++ was developed by an industry consortium, MCC, starting from the GNU C compiler. MCC normally makes its work as proprietary as can be. But they made the C++ front end free software, because the GNU GPL said that was the only way they could release it. The C++ front end included many new files, but since they were meant to be linked with GCC, the GPL did apply to them. The benefit to our community is evident.
     
     https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.en.html
     
     >to please use the MIT, or Apache
     MIT has released many licenses, you are thinking of MIT expat.
     
     There are several versions of the Apache licenses.
     
     >that will not take their powers over the user away from them.
     No strong GNU license takes any power away - those just decline to also grant power over the users, in addition to granting the 4 freedoms.
     
     >their ( somewhat Free Software ) text editor VSCode
     VSCode is proprietary software, released under a proprietary license; https://code.visualstudio.com/license
     
     Non-corresponding source code is separately released under MIT expat, which the VSCodium project uses, but VSCodium still includes and recommends proprietary software (Electron is proprietary software).
     
     
     microsoft adjusted co-pilot to no longer insert software that was licensed under a strong GNU license, unless the file is licensed under a strong GNU license (there are still license-compatibility issues, as GPLv2-only is not compatible with GPLv3-or-later and copyright information, like the copyright holder name is also removed).
     
     
     You are confusing LLM's with Artificial Intelligence - LLMs are only Artificial StupIdity.
     
     >In the 90s, after the Linux kernel became a part of the GNU operating system
     Linux is only a kernel.
     
     Linux was not part of GNU in the 90s - it was released as proprietary software to use with the GNU OS in 1991 and freed under the GPLv2-ambigious in 1992.
     
     Only many years later did GNU Linux-libre become a part of the GNU operating system.
     
     >Linus Torvalds, for example, is in the Open Source camp.
     It's hard to say that, considering that his kernel isn't even source-available.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 19:59:54 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass Also, is it dumb to use "swear words" - there are much more creative, better words that can be used to stress your point.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:45:02 JST 翠星石

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     @blenderdumbass If you want to convey norepineuphoria and anger, it is best conveyed with the most skilled of language.
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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jul-2025 23:45:03 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     @Suiseiseki Nah... If you want to make people start engaging with the material on an emotional level, the material should resonate emotionally. It should allow people to yell with the text on things the text finds yellable. It's not enbadification. It is enSHITification. SHIT is important. As is the "fuck off" in the Stallman - Jobs situation. As in the other instances I was trying to convey norepineuphoria and anger.