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This is probably old hat for the computer heads, but today I learned that a catalyst for the GNU General Public License was a broken, closed-source Xerox laser printer at MIT. 🖨️
As the winds of change blow around your computer, take comfort that printers have always sucked and will suck for your grand kids too.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt 😂
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This is probably old hat for the computer heads, but today I learned that a catalyst for the GNU General Public License was a broken, closed-source Xerox laser printer at MIT. 🖨️
As the winds of change blow around your computer, take comfort that printers have always sucked and will suck for your grand kids too.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt 😂
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This is probably old hat for the computer heads, but today I learned that a catalyst for the GNU General Public License was a broken, closed-source Xerox laser printer at MIT. 🖨️
As the winds of change blow around your computer, take comfort that printers have always sucked and will suck for your grand kids too.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt 😂
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This is probably old hat for the computer heads, but today I learned that a catalyst for the GNU General Public License was a broken, closed-source Xerox laser printer at MIT. 🖨️
As the winds of change blow around your computer, take comfort that printers have always sucked and will suck for your grand kids too.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt 😂
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This is probably old hat for the computer heads, but today I learned that a catalyst for the GNU General Public License was a broken, closed-source Xerox laser printer at MIT. 🖨️
As the winds of change blow around your computer, take comfort that printers have always sucked and will suck for your grand kids too.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt 😂
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door https://lowendbox.com/blog/richard-stallman-rms-is-wrong-when-he-claims-every-cellphone-has-a-back-door/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #stallman #android #google #iphone #iOS #rms
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door https://lowendbox.com/blog/richard-stallman-rms-is-wrong-when-he-claims-every-cellphone-has-a-back-door/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #stallman #android #google #iphone #iOS #rms
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door https://lowendbox.com/blog/richard-stallman-rms-is-wrong-when-he-claims-every-cellphone-has-a-back-door/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #stallman #android #google #iphone #iOS #rms
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door https://lowendbox.com/blog/richard-stallman-rms-is-wrong-when-he-claims-every-cellphone-has-a-back-door/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #stallman #android #google #iphone #iOS #rms
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door https://lowendbox.com/blog/richard-stallman-rms-is-wrong-when-he-claims-every-cellphone-has-a-back-door/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #stallman #android #google #iphone #iOS #rms
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Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – mayo de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – mayo de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – mayo de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – mayo de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – mayo de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
The Character Arc and Drew DeVault
In movies and books one dimensional, boring sort of characters, are those that never change throughout the story. Good stories contain character growth. A change in the character's world view. Think of Jake Sully in Avatar: He starts as a marine, ready to shoot and kill every living thing on Pandora. And end up being the leader of Pandoran resistance.
On the internet people tend to think that other people are set in stone when it comes to their believes. That other people are one dimensional characters without character growth what so ever. If one is born with a flaw, or has a recorded history of a flaw, therefore, using the logic of the citizens of the internet, this flaw is unremovable, untouchable, and unchangeable truth representing this person's every second of existence. That is so silly. The world is full of character growth. The world is full of people learning new things. The world is full of people that change their mind.
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Soberania Digital: por que ocupar o Fediverso?
As big techs trancaram as formas de se relacionar, espalham ódio e ameaçam democracias. Refém, Brasil já foi vanguarda em políticas de incentivo ao software livre – e poderia fazê-lo novamente. Conheça a rede social que oferece autonomia na práticahttps://outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaemdisputa/soberania-digital-por-que-ocupar-o-fediverso/
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The hacker ethic refers to the feelings of right and wrong, to the ethical ideas this community of people had -- that knowledge should be shared with other people who can benefit from it, and that important resources should be utilized rather than wasted.
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Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – abril de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – abril de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open sourceMost of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]
#ai #chardet #circumvention #claude #cleanRoom #danBlanchard #genai #gnu #gpl #lgpl #licensing #markPilgrim #mit #nebraskaProblem #openSource #openSource20 #python #richardStallman #software #unix https://walledculture.org/why-genai-means-the-end-of-copyright-for-software-and-the-re-invention-of-open-source/ -
Hope of AGPL Licenser by Bovas De Quincey, an autobiography.
#agpl
#fsf
#gnu
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#lgpl
#richardmatthewstallman
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Using Talmudic Techniques To Understand Free Software
In the Wikipedia article about Talmud it says that:
It records the teachings, opinions and disagreements of thousands of rabbis and Torah scholars.
And if you know from books like Tanya which references the book of Nida on the first page, in the first paragraph, in the first sentence, you know that Talmud likes to link things Wikipedia style, and then argue those things, trying to find patterns.
What could be the pattern in linking a Wikipedia article and then talking about Wikipedia in an article about using Talmudic Techniques to understand Free Software?
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How One Hack Nearly Took Down The Internet - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
#Veritasium #Technology #Science #Tech #Computers #Hacking #Vulnerabilities #RichardStallman -
CW: Triggering use of language
"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism
Both "open source" and "free software" mean, in terms of software itself, largely the same thing. The source code is published. The project is developed by a community of people. The project is forkable. Many pieces of software are both "free software" and "open source" in the same time. But when you dig into the details of their definitions, you start to see differences.
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Anthony Zone ( Fireside Fedi ) is avoiding to interview Richard Stallman out of fear
Despite having all of the opportunities to interview Richard Stallman himself, Anthony Zone, known as Ozoned, tiptoed around him.
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This is your chance to hear Richard Stallman speak. 🗓️📣
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Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – enero de 2026
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. -
#RichardStallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984
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Reader Comment Response: You Don’t Have to Be Richard Stallman to Be a Free Software Advocate https://lowendbox.com/blog/reader-comment-response-you-dont-have-to-be-richard-stallman-to-be-a-free-software-advocate/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #freesoftware #gnuproject #FOSS #fsf #gnu #gpl #rms
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The Insanity of the Richard Stallman Lifestyle and the Psychology Behind It https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-insanity-of-the-richard-stallman-lifestyle-and-the-psychology-behind-it/ #freesoftwarefoundation #richardstallman #Editorial&News #gnuproject #stallman #gnu #rms
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Recopilación del boletín de noticias de la Free Software Foundation – noviembre de 2025
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Richard Stallman kritisiert KI-Chatbots scharf: Er nennt sie „Bullshit-Generatoren“ und fordert mehr Einsatz von Open Source, besonders im Staat. Ein Weckruf zur Reflexion über KI und Transparenz! 🤖⚠️ #OpenSource #KI #Chatbots #RichardStallman #TechEthik https://www.heise.de/news/Richard-Stallman-Chatbots-sind-Bullshit-Generatoren-10798837.html
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From: blenderdumbass . org
Kristoffer Borgli's 2023 film Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage is a movie about a man, who is being dreamed about by a lot of people. At first his family have weird dreams about him. Then people related to them. Then the whole world. At first the dreams make him famous. But then they take a turn for the worst. At first he is just doing nothing ...
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/dream_scenario_2023__is_about_richard_stallman_
#DreamScenario #NicolasCage #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #RichardStallman #RMS
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Richard Stallman pens a love letter to open-source purity, declaring #GCC won't be a library because companies might *gasp* create nonfree addons. 🏴☠️ It's a thrilling tale of moral high ground and corporate villainy, starring email archives and index lists. 📜✨
https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00572.html #RichardStallman #OpenSource #LoveLetter #NonfreeAddons #MoralHighGround #HackerNews #ngated -
The Code: Story of GNU + Linux
(2001)
Complete Documentary
[Subs: ENG, ESP]#Linus #Linux #GNU #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GNUProject
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From: blenderdumbass . org
A lot of people have a mixed bag of feelings when it comes to Steven Spielberg's 2018 masterpiece Ready Player One. They dislike the nostalgia bait, and the countless references. They poke fun at logical inconsistencies. Yet nobody can deny the fact that Spielberg apparently is incapable of making a terribl...
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/ready_player_one_is_about_privacy__digital_rights_and_ageism
#readyplayerone #stevenspielberg #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #privacy #digitalrights #eff #fsf #richardstallman #ageism
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From: blenderdumbass . org
On June 26th ( two days ago ) PewDiePie ( who I believe needs no introduction ) released another video in his liberation saga. This time titled I'm DONE with Google. In this video he goes over his process of getting "de-google-efied", or as he clarifies toward the end of the video, his process of getting rid of his reliance on B...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/did_pewdiepie_just_crack_the_code_for_how_to_present_libre_software_
#PewDiePie #Freedom #Libre #RichardStallman #RMS #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #YouTube
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From: blenderdumbass . org
On June 26th ( two days ago ) PewDiePie ( who I believe needs no introduction ) released another video in his liberation saga. This time titled I'm DONE with Google. In this video he goes over his process of getting "de-google-efied", or as he clarifies toward the end of the video, his process of getting rid of his reliance on B...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/did_pewdiepie_just_crack_the_code_for_how_to_present_libre_software_
#PewDiePie #Freedom #Libre #RichardStallman #RMS #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #YouTube
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Hack, Hacky, Hacker
A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.
The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving.
Fox by Arnold Peter Weisz Kubincan. Original public domain image from Web umeniaA successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live.
On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P).
Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.
I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.
A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style.
Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time
#Business #Creativity #foxVsHedgehog #hackerCulture #Hacking #hackyMindset #IsaiahBerlin #Leadership #lifeDesign #NakatomiTunnel #philosophy #playfulProductivity #problemSolving #RichardStallman #shortcuts #techPhilosophy
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From: blenderdumbass . org
On June 26th ( two days ago ) PewDiePie ( who I believe needs no introduction ) released another video in his liberation saga. This time titled I'm DONE with Google. In this video he goes over his process of getting "de-google-efied", or as he clarifies toward the end of the video, his process of getting rid of his reliance on B...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/did_pewdiepie_just_crack_the_code_for_how_to_present_libre_software_
#PewDiePie #Freedom #Libre #RichardStallman #RMS #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #YouTube
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Richard Stallman presenta GNU Taler: pagamenti digitali sicuri e rispettosi della privacy
Durante l'evento al Politecnico di Milano organizzato da @fedimedia e @poul_polimi il 26 maggio 2025, Richard Stallman ha illustrato GNU Taler, un sistema di pagamento elettronico libero progettato per garantire anonimato al pagatore e trasparenza fiscale al beneficiario. Ecco cos'è e come funziona.
:diggita: @[email protected]
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Al Politecnico di Milano, aula stracolma con gente in piedi:
oltre 350 persone assiepate per ascoltare :stallman: Richard Stallman, nell'evento organizzato da @fedimedia e @poul_polimi.:diggita: Gruppo GNU/Linux: @[email protected]
#GNULINUX #Linux #GNU #RichardStallman #Stallman #Politecnico #Milano
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Do you know what “#Tivoization” means?
#RichardStallman coined this term to criticize a practice that restricts user freedom: even with free and opensource software, some devices block the execution of modified versions.
Yes, but why this name?
It simply takes the name of the first product (Tivo) this terrible practice was applied.Did you know? 😬
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Do you know what “#Tivoization” means?
#RichardStallman coined this term to criticize a practice that restricts user freedom: even with free and opensource software, some devices block the execution of modified versions.
Yes, but why this name?
It simply takes the name of the first product (Tivo) this terrible practice was applied.Did you know? 😬
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Do you know what “#Tivoization” means?
#RichardStallman coined this term to criticize a practice that restricts user freedom: even with free and opensource software, some devices block the execution of modified versions.
Yes, but why this name?
It simply takes the name of the first product (Tivo) this terrible practice was applied.Did you know? 😬