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gentooflux ◴[] No.46177636[source]
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[] No.46177824[source]
"I don't know how to make a screenshot" - what a fucking star.
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mvdtnz[dead post] ◴[] No.46178874[source]
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9dev ◴[] No.46179939[source]
Heavens, thank you. It’s like people assume genius when RMS wiggles his little toe and wonder what grand intellectual insight might have moved Him to do so.
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[] No.46180394[source]
Stallman has been right so many times, usually decades ahead of time. On each hype cycle when most of us were bewildering at the latest shiny thing, Stallman was spelling out exactly how companies would use it to exploit us. And I'm not talking about obvious garbage with zero upside like crypto and IoT, I'm talking about more subtle hype that actually did have a degree of upside, like the cloud or javascript for example. I think he deserves a little bit more respect than that. I'm not saying "lets suspend our critical thinking and just follow whatever RMS says", I'm saying "this guy has been decades ahead of time in the most fundamental matters like morality and justice, lets give his quirkness a little leeway".
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1. Gud ◴[] No.46180682[source]
Disagree with you about crypto, it allows me to purchase high quality drugs online. Also disagree with you about "IoT", I use zigbee devices that I can control remotely.

What seems like "obvious garbage" to you, might be a treasure to another person.