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Bill Gates was in the right place at the right time, enabled by the platform of an upper class education from a young age. His reign at Microsoft monopolized the tech industry, stunting development and growth for years to come.

Whether its Bill's attempts to privatize public education with under preforming charter schools, or proselytize procedures like circumcision in Africa as a cure all to AIDS (despite a lack of scientific data to support this position), he has done significant damage to the world

Charging more would make this laptop less accessible to the vast majority of people. The Novena, Talos & many other libre hardware projects were always so expensive as to be botique afterthoughts, rather than "I can spend $100 and get a nice netbook".

Bricking hardware people paid for without offering a refund is potentially illegal, even US companies like Lowes realize this, hence why Lowes refunded all hardware purchases of Lowes by Iris Home Security Systems for customers they could track down.

I'm far from the only one rinning a business atop AGPLv3 software :P

Amazon was the pioneer of SaaSifying AGPLv3 software.

Sounds like a very narrow minded legal team, AGPLv3 code is the core of many modern businesses.

Paving our best farmland is not sustainable, nor is deluding yourself that we can capture carbon at anywhere near the rate needed to prevent severe change in our weather patterns.

US suburbs are heavily subsidized with federal dollars[1], this is a huge reason why PGE can't effectively maintain the infrastructure in California. The ratepayers & tax base cannot afford to repipe a suburban neighborhood when the water service lines hit end of design life, let alone repaving, maintaining gas, electrical service, telecom & cable[2]. This is also why Fiber buildouts are so uncommon in suburbs (for-profit companies won't make their money back within a decade).

We have designed an extremely expensive mousetrap of suburbia where you get degrading public services (as maintenance & replacement bills accrue and go unmet), nearly mandatory car ownership, and higher rates of health problems caused by the poor design of these neighborhoods[3].

1 - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/we-have-always-...

2 - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/27/a-texas-sized-...

3 - https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20040927/suburbs-may-be-haz...

Flammable roof types should also be banned, when embers land on a roof the last thing it should start is a fire!

The German government has contributed the base layer to OpenStreetMaps, and uses it for their official parcel/lot line maps. It is much better than the janky pile of crap Esri dumps on most counties in the USA.

But gasoline & diesel are okay despite polluting? That doesn't make sense, nor does it follow that petroleum based fuels are permitted despite be extracted and refined using tools and appliances well beyond what most Amish communities currently permit.

These people have no ethics, if it furthers their narrative they will spin any tangentially relevant story.

Unlike Engineering, there is no Board of Engineers to hold you (or your company) to account for lying about the capabilities of your core product or whether its actually working for the vulnerable people used in a company's marketing :c

That is my point, AGPLv3 is rarely used due to the antics of certain free software advocates.

Ethically, there is a huge swath of developers that aligns with writing code under libre licenses, but gets turned off when they see our community filled with people that lash out at them needlessly.

The journey to software freedom has been bogged down for too long by people that drive away large chunks of potential developers & users[1].

If you want to be caustic, we won't stop you, but you can't come into community events like LinuxFest Northwest, SeaGL & such, shit on people there who are writing libre software, and expect us to invite you to come back.

1 - https://www.networkworld.com/article/2988850/linux-kernel-de...

Perhaps ultra-pasteurized is common on the East Coast? Its definitely not common for 1 gallon or half gallons in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho or Michigan (in my experience).

Hence https://joinpeertube.org/en/ existing and growing. YouTube has demonetized & banned LGBTQ+ mentioning videos[1], and continues to tighten the noose around those that make it a viable platform.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110752

UHT Milk is not normal in the USA outside the grab & go bottle sizes (1/2 liter): https://www.fredmeyer.com/search?query=milk

What is concerning is the high fructose corn syrup, kelp & skim milk blend that Darigold, Kroger and other US milk producers are advertising as Fat Free Half n Half: https://www.fredmeyer.com/search?query=fat%20free%20half&sea...

Seems to work for me on Linux using older Firefox, must be a legacy WebKit issue (as Apple forces all browsers to use Safari's WebKit engine).

Apple really is dragging their heels on supporting HTML5, when even (deprecated) Edge has better standards compliance, something is plainly wrong in Cupertino.

Electric cars have many negative externalities too, tires, brake dust and such don't magically disappear due to the change from Gas to Electric. Even my bicycle produces a surprising amount of brake dust!

None of this is healthy to breathe in or let get washed into our streams and rivers.

As technology and finances have enabled China's expanding authoritarianism, they have broken new ground with:

- Mandatory state written malware for phones and computers,

- "AI" for tracking people in public, at schools and businesses

- Prevalent speed and crosswalk cameras to enforce traffic laws that their own police force fails to write tickets for.

The city and state have permitted environmental protection laws to be used and abused by those with the funds to hire a lawyer, to the point that one angry person has successfully stopped redevelopment of the military base at Fort Lawton: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/cbmeye/fort_lawt...

When I was a kid, half my class was kids from Fort Lawton. They were kind, compassionate, and fun to hang out with after school, despite the limited means of most of the households that were in Fort Lawton.

Many of the people that live (under the radar) in the park surrounding Fort Lawton would lead much better lives if we redeveloped this into affordable apartments. The area already has reliable bus service (with dedicated lanes to downtown) and dedicated bike trails and lanes, its one of the few candidates for adding significant housing at a low cost inside Seattle.

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> We’ll keep those discussions completely private unless we both agree to share

Reads to me as StackOverflow will not share anything if they feel revealing the conversation would hurt their PR.

The CoC is almost certainly already written, but this quip is a cherry on top:

> We’ll be reaching out to her directly to apologize for the lack of process, privacy, and to discuss next steps. We’ll keep those discussions completely private unless we both agree to share any of it with the community.

So they're going to demand she stays hush about what they say to her unless they approve? Seems extremely dishonest and scummy to try and control someone you've already wronged.

WHOIS is pretty private at this point, Namecheap, GoDaddy and others set up domain privacy services on every domain for free.

Their mail relays are unreliable though, it is much harder to make a site operator aware of an issue now :c

First Tech and BECU both do this, pretty sure the smaller credit unions like Verity and People's CU also reimburse ATM fees and offer high yield checking & savings accounts.

Amateur Radio license holders can't use encryption in the USA. This kills a large portion of the use case for an amateur cellular network.

This chat app has no source available, a few neat features, but no hope of easily integrating existing Signal/Matrix/IRC bots currently :c

This is really awful behavior by Google. We need to eject Google from LGBTQ+ organizations so long as Google chooses to actively hurt us.

Don't let Google wrap itself in our flags while stabbing us in the back!

The name is very similar to lemmy with this font. Lemmy being the federated alternative to Reddit/HN: https://dev.lemmy.ml

I was pointing to a time when both institutions were producing valuable tools from their research and development that significantly bettered the world around them.

MIT & Harvard have not been affecting change in the world around them like they did in prior decades.

What has MIT or Harvard launched recently that has come into as widespread use as the GNU Coreutils?

Bloomberg is really putting Harvard on a pedestal in the beginning of this article, that along with the unretracted implants[1] story makes me think their newsroom is deeply flawed.

I don't think Ivy Leauge schools are deserving of their current reputations or valuations (in terms of quality), the systemic rot at MIT (having an ice cream social to celebrate Aaron Swartz, happily taking money from convicted criminals), Harvard and nearly every other Ivy League stems from an idolization of money over all else, education and research are only present at these institutions as window dressing.

None of these institutions should qualify as a non-profit, given their abject failure and continuing refusal to act equitably as every other (non-church) non-profit must.

1 - https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloom...