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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:42:53 JST 
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@ignaloidas @wolf480pl @karolherbst If the actual issue is not actually described, what is anyone meant to do?
It a feature is lacking, a feature request can be submitted for it and chances are someone will go describe how to get x task done, or implement that feature.
It's a ruinous compromise to relentlessly add proprietary malware to what should be a free system; https://web.archive.org/web/20250520180609if_/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
nonguix is a sin considering that many of the most proprietary computers will in fact work without proprietary software added - there is usually just the inconvenience of using wired, or getting a decent Wi-Fi card or a reduction in GPU performance (that is reducing as Nouveau reclocking improves). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:34:10 JST
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@eris @icedquinn @mangeurdenuage "Radioactive waste" is a misnomer, as no radioactive material is waste - it can be reprocessed to remove the neutron poisons and re-used.
Yes, coal does contain radioactive isotopes and burning gigatons of coal releases substantial amounts of such isotopes into the atmosphere. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:32:28 JST
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@ignaloidas @wolf480pl @karolherbst https://web.archive.org/web/20250404123340if_/https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20250404123340if_/https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20250306013258if_/https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.en.html
>of said "holier-than-thou" vibe
It's not a vibe - I am holier.
>by throwing some half-baked (if even that) projects that don't implement 90% of the user required features.
The FSF has a free software directory that attempts to document all the available free software - alas people actually complain about it?
When it comes to free software with a lot of development work put into it, such software in fact usually exceeds 90% of the features a typical user requires - sometimes even hitting 100% and then adding more features.
Just because a program isn't an exact clone of some proprietary malware and thus requires that the user learn how to perform certain tasks in usually actually a better way, doesn't mean that the functionality doesn't exist.
People complain about GNU Octave, but it works fine and implements almost 100% of the functions Matlab provides.
When it comes to GNU packages, almost none of them could be described as half-baked - many offer functionality that has no parallel; https://web.archive.org/web/20250312143907if_/https://www.gnu.org/software/
Free software in early development may lack 90% of the features of a long developed proprietary program with millions or billions in funding, but the free software program at least respects the users freedom and thus you should use the free software instead for your freedoms sake, even if it is inconvenient (but really, I find free software to be extremely convenient, with inconvenience only ever resulting due to proprietary sabotage). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:19:18 JST
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@Kyonko802 It is false that rms drew the rat. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:16:20 JST
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@shironeko @karolherbst @wolf480pl Emacs is not single threaded - it supports multithreading; https://web.archive.org/web/20250604021343if_/https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Threads.html
It's up to you, to do the hard work to make Emacs's internal operations work with multithreading and submit the patch if you want multi threading. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:11:32 JST
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@icedquinn @mangeurdenuage *there -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:09:52 JST
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@ignaloidas @wolf480pl @karolherbst >whole emits this whole "holier-than-thou" vibe
The FSF is indeed holier - they practice what they preach and focus on the practical aspects of freedom.
The "OSI" has approved multiple proprietary licenses, thus they won't help you with freedom. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:08:01 JST
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@shironeko @karolherbst @wolf480pl A separation would be a removal.
It would be like separating GNU/Freedom into GNU & Freedom. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:06:54 JST
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@icedquinn @mangeurdenuage It is renewable - there is enough Uranium on the Earth and in the sea to last billions of years.
You can just throw the slightly used fuel right into the ocean with enough dilution, or better reprocess it, or just bury it back into the ground where it came.
Decades ago a known flawed reactor design was built, then it was neutron poisoned, then all the rods were pulled out and then the cooling was shut off and surprise, surprise, there was a steam explosion that was uncontained as their was no containment building - but such retarded act hasn't been repeated, but even an event that bad killed far less people than coal has and such uncontrolled ejection of radioactive material has never repeated. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 23:00:25 JST
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@mangeurdenuage >Phone manufacturer backdooring their encryption.
Colour me surprised. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:57:47 JST
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@mangeurdenuage Why do normies believe that macos uses a single byte of Linux when it doesn't?
It used to come with some GNU, but not really anymore. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:56:37 JST
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@SuperDicq @mikka That seems to only apply to fast, newer devices, not on older devices that are overwhelmed by the other bloat more than the optimizations make up. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:54:36 JST
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@SuperDicq @VIPPER It's only if you use soap etc on your skin or you use excessively hot water that it is bad for it, as your skin doesn't care about a bit of water.
I need a shower to be able to properly perform. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:52:39 JST
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@hfaust >Category V
That's why it's so hard ですぅか? -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:50:06 JST
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@kottke Conscientious GNU/Car builder partially wants something that will just crush the other vehicle like a pancake in case of a collision with no damage and therefore selects a thick enough grade of steel for the frame. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:48:01 JST
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@A39IsTOZ8SJIr2oM2y.graf@poa.st @alyx @Breaking911 I've heard of a camera being used for suicide watch, but it failed, as the imprisoned managed to choke herself with a sheet unnoticed. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:41:37 JST
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@SuperDicq @mikka Yes, it seems that thankfully most countries at least have a clear route marked through the country or between states. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:38:00 JST
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@SuperDicq @mikka The older versions route faster than newer versions, as there is less bloat to slow routing down.
Nobody has so far, as those who really care about freedom don't tend to go outside much and thus have no need for convenient routing. -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:35:38 JST
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@SuperDicq @mikka >I just navigate using roadsigns and remembering landmarks mostly.
That works when you are going to places you've been before, but that does not work in ultra-proprietary countries where the road signs don't actually list the location the road leads to and lists somewhere else instead and often has few turn-offs (the sign that does list a place closer to where you want to go is the wrong route of course). -
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 22:28:05 JST
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@sally AK-47? She'll need something more accurate like GNU/Rifle,
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