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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:26:37 JST 翠星石
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@SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat >but after you hit one person everyone else will run away.
Only people in the immediate area will likely notice and run away when it comes to a sword - while a gun has an auditory warning that travels quite far.

>Even without changing magazines, an AR15 has typically 30 bullets in it,
That's an extended mag, typically magazines are 10-15 rounds.

Loading rounds into even a 10 round magazine alone takes quite a bit of strength - a child would have a lot of difficulty doing so.

Firing 30 rounds out of a semi-automatic takes skill - if you have a limp hold, the mechanism is likely to jam in <10 rounds and will not cycle again until the jam is cleared.

>you can easily kill 4-5 people with that if you fire at a crowd.
You could easily kill 4-5 people swinging a sword randomly into a crowd.

>School shootings with multiple casualties happen almost every day in that shithole called America.
That is in fact not true - such is calculated from counting gang violence in a street that is of some proximity to a school and retards blowing their balls off by mistake in a school, as a school shooting.

Here is a more accurate list of a school shootings; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)?useskin=monobook

As far as I can tell, most of the time a kid had a gun, usually no murder was successful, or only one was.

574 deaths in 24 years is too many, but such is not a leading cause of schoolchildren deaths in the USA.

Maybe school stabbings could be worse (stabbings happen a lot in the USA), but those don't seem to be reported.

Only governments are any good at committing massacres at schools; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_death_toll?useskin=monobook
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  List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
  
  This chronological list of school shootings in the United States since the year 2000 includes school shootings in the United States that occurred at K–12 public and private schools, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Included in shootings are non-fatal accidental shootings. Excluded from this list are: Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions Murder–suicides by rejected suitors or estranged spouses Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person. Shootings by school staff, where the only victims are other employees that are covered at workplace killings. Number of US school shootings by year with casualties 2000s 121 incidents. 2010s 260 incidents. 2020s 308 incidents. See also List of school shootings in the United States by death toll List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000) List of school...
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  List of school massacres by death toll
  
  This is a list of school massacres by death toll. Footnotes for the main table The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties). The Weapons column gives a basic description of the weapons used: F – Firearms and other ranged weapons. This primarily includes rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots. M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, rocks, or bare hands. O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks. A – indicates that fire was the only other weapon used V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used...
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:00:37 JST 翠星石
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@SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat >If you have a proper democratic government that respects the people, you don't need home defense against the government.
Unfortunately, that doesn't happen unless there is the possibility of consequences if the government does not serve the people.

>It also definitely takes a lot more skill to commit murder with a sword than it does with a gun.
Even a pathetic sword swing is likely to kill and doing so is easier than using a rifle.

To use a rifle you need to load it, adopt a competent grip, aim and fire on target, not get spooked by the supersonic blast, handle the recoil and also change mags once you're out of ammo (and also, if you have limited magazines, loading them is difficult, let alone speed loading them).

You can give a mentally ill kid a sword and it would be easy for that kid to commit murder.

An unloaded AR-15 would be far less harmful in the hands of a mentally ill kid than a sword - as all it could be used for is a blunt weapon.

AR-15's are loaded in different calibers - for example .22, .223 or .308 - assuming a loaded .223, without practice, I reckon a mentally ill kid handed a .223 AR-15 could murder one person if they don't miss and then the kid will likely drop the rifle due to the unexpected recoil.

Unlike a sword, which is mostly silent, the supersonic blast makes it quite clear what's happening.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 19:38:58 JST 翠星石
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@SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat Banning guns is not going to stop criminals from getting guns, as those are too easy to handcraft and import.

99.9999% of people are not mass murderers, but almost all governments are - thus if you want to ban guns, the government should be first.

Governments should not have guns, but it appears that individuals need a large collection of weapons, including swords, firearms (including a tripod machine gun), clay-mores and nuclear bombs (as that would be barely adequate home defence against the government).

It takes a similar amount of skill to commit mass murder with a sword than a gun.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:02:08 JST 翠星石
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- waifu
@waifu Most of it is slop with no artistic integrity.

I guess it would be theoretically possible for there to be such with superb artwork.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:00:27 JST 翠星石
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- SuperDicq
- 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:
@SuperDicq @enigmatico Ironically proprietary software is so bloated that every crappy thin clients have quite good performance.

Now only if such hardware wasn't handcuffed.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 03:18:43 JST 翠星石
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- pistolero
@p What kind of keyboard stops working just because you spill a little tea on it?

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 01:50:02 JST 翠星石
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- mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
@mangeurdenuage @SuperDicq A compiler doesn't copy bad code and ensure you are not the copyright holder - it just generates assembly output from the source input.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jan-2026 01:50:00 JST 翠星石
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@HatkeshiatorTND @SuperDicq @mangeurdenuage You cannot steal code - as making a copy cannot possibly steal anything.

If you've gained a prohibited copy of the source code of proprietary software, using a compiler to compile it could be additional charges for what is deemed unauthorized modification (as you're modifying it from source form into binary from).

There are plenty of proprietary compilers still, but you would have to be insane to use such compilers.

A compiler being proprietary doesn't have any impact on the copyright status of the program it compiles, although if the compiler inserts any runtime libraries into the output, that software can be proprietary.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 21:37:26 JST 翠星石
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- Xyfdi Horton
@SuperDicq @xyfdi Nothing as long as it's 100% free software and has AGPLv3-or-later GNU extensions.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 20:49:54 JST 翠星石
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@SuperDicq @fsf @mjdxp The future design of the GNU browser?

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 03:57:22 JST 翠星石
- arihi
@arh Only if you publish them online and free software and you trick people into telling you all the design flaws and vulnerabilities and you dastardly fix all of them.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:55:39 JST 翠星石
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- divVerent
@divVerent Unless you are the copyright holder, you cannot relicense software.

Such informal license may be invalid and if so, the software is proprietary as there is no license.

If the license is valid, I don't see a reason why it would be incompatible with GNU licenses, as the GPLv3 for example does not force you to distribute software if you don't want to.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:47:08 JST 翠星石
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@deprecated_ii I actually like the look of such bridge as it doesn't destroy the landscape too much.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:19:26 JST 翠星石
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@bagder >He's actually proud of ensuring that in the future there is a chance that people won't know that the copyright of a file from curl has expired.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:15:40 JST 翠星石
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- mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
@mangeurdenuage Malware? Such exploit ideally wouldn't actually execute any code - if you can manage to overflow in a way that overwrites a text string in a display buffer, ideally your message would be displayed and nothing more.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:00:23 JST 翠星石
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- Eskuero
@eskuero It's nothing to do with LLM's or AI - those mostly use SSD's - the HDDs duopoly just gladly jacks up prices at any excuse.

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 01:00:18 JST 翠星石
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- Eskuero
@eskuero I don't believe the slop videos are stored for very long.

Regardless, the more HDDs you make, the cheaper it is to make each unit - but why not jack up the price if the demand is such that the suckers will pay anyway?

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 23:52:09 JST 翠星石
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- Phantasm
@phnt Leaking memory is memory safe in Rust.

Why on earth would you run Rust garbage instead of proper GNU C programs?

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 23:49:20 JST 翠星石
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- Pi_rat
@Pi_rat @lss

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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2026 22:25:54 JST 翠星石
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@eliseo01 @lxo @lexinova Jellyfin is proprietary software, as it's a C# program.

All C# programs are proprietary software, as all of them require proprietary software from microsoft to compile and run.

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