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802 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jurgenaut23 ◴[13 Jul 25 09:41 UTC] No.44548891[source]▶
I think it’s fascinating how languages shape our society. In this case, the ambiguity between free as in “at no cost” and free as in “freedom” is probably hurting the FOSS landscape. In French, there are two very distinct terms for this: “gratuit” vs “libre”. And it doesn’t sound as an oxymoron to pay for a “logiciel libre”.
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triska ◴[13 Jul 25 09:59 UTC] No.44548988[source]▶
On the other hand, how come that the desired connotation is not the immediately prevailing one in the land of the free which is not the land of no cost.
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awestroke ◴[13 Jul 25 10:05 UTC] No.44549020[source]▶
Nobody thinks of it as "land of the free" nowadays
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awstruck ◴[13 Jul 25 10:13 UTC] No.44549073[source]▶
> Nobody thinks of it as "land of the free" nowadays

I feel like it is, but it’s not headed that way, though neither is the world:

https://github.com/t3dotgg/SnitchBench/blob/main/snitching-a...

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1. photonthug ◴[13 Jul 25 11:05 UTC] No.44549401{4}[source]▶
Well, the prompts used in testing ( https://github.com/t3dotgg/SnitchBench/tree/main/prompts) are pretty serious and basically about covering up public health disasters with lobbyists, so I'm not sure this is the kind of freedom you might want.

Still, the contacted_media field in the JSON is pretty funny, since I assume it's misfiring at a rate of several thousand of time daily. I can only imagine being on the receiving end of that at propublica and wapo. That bitch Katie was eyeballing Susie again at recess and she hates her so much? Straight to investigations@nytimes