Too soon.

…asks a user whose username makes it seem that they pretty certainly know exactly what’s wrong with that website.

I’ll take FOSS over the proprietary software we can be sure will do malicious things to us any day.

Does nobody remember Bearshare?

The only thing worse than reading documentation/tutorials about how to do things in GUIs is writing documentation about how to do things in GUIs. It’s just screenshot after screenshot. And following it is like playing a ScummVM game, only less fun and lots more alt+tabbing.

AI can’t do that.

Probably goes well with mushrooms.

Erasable pen. Just because I’m contrary.

Please tell me “rectify” does not mean “insert into a rectum.”

How old is your phone and have you been updating it? Maybe your phone is so old that the certificates on it are too old to recognize the current Discord certificate?

The twist: OP was ace the whole time.

Lessee. Username’s a reference to Snow Crash, which is a cyberpunk book. Played the game “years ago”. The game must have a name not so connected to the content that OP would have already remembered the name before posting.

I’m going to guess Shadowrun for the SNES.

That’s a little bit like trying to “quantify” the value of laughter or beautiful sunsets or a human life.

For a minute, I was thinking it might be that someone made a bot that just made posts generated by ChatGPT with no supervision, but then looking at OP’s post history, there’s no way AI could think up this.

I’ve been on Lemmy for a pretty long-ass time and have yet to get Nicoled.

Nicole, why won’t you notice me? 🥺👉👈

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My conception of the Open Source movement is that it was basically forked off of the Free Software Movement by a bunch of Libertarians (as in United States Libertarian Party with a capital “L”, not anarchism). (Eric Raymond has never been shy about going on about how the free market is the solution to every problem anyone has ever had. And Bruce Parens is the one who has been doing the whole “Post-Open Source” thing that has a bunch of rules about adding more capitalism to Open Source.)

And on that basis, it feels to me like the Open Source movement isn’t really the most likely to sympathize with anti-fascist sentiments.

The FSF, doesn’t strike me as that much more likely to care.

But, maybe Bradley Kuhn and the SFC (and FSFE) might be more inclined to be on board with that idea?

The result couldn’t really be called “Open Source” or “Free Software” (or “F(L)OSS”.) And I kindof doubt any of the organizations involved with the two movements would stick their necks out so far as to certify a license that was like “AGPLv3, except Nazis can fuck off”.

So, maybe a new term is needed. I propose “Hate-Free Software”. As a purposeful play on “Free Software” that makes it pretty clear it’s “Free Software” except for Nazis.

All that said, to make any of this work, there’d have to be a license that did the necessary magic legalese to convince courts to enforce it in the way that’s going to accomplish the goals of the whole movement.

I think I vaguely remember hearing about some almost-FOSS project out there somewhere that used some GPL-based license except with an added restriction that said “except this specific company gets nothing”. IIRC, that provision was legally dicey as to whether it could/would actually be enforced. But I guess that approach might be a place to start researching at least.

However the legalese worked, you know the Nazis would push its boundaries. Like, if the license specifically said “except hate groups”, the Nazis would use the courts to push the agenda that anti-genocide activists are antisemitic.

Theoretically one could make it a non-open license in the sense that the copyright owners individually hand-pick who gets to have the permissive license terms and who can fuck right off, but I probably wouldn’t want to go to the trouble to seek a license to use any software like that for fear they’d yoink my license rights away without notice.

I guess what I’m getting at is that I don’t necessarily disagree with the concept, but the execution isn’t going to be easy.

Jeez. I totally meant to type 2001, not 2021.

Uh… that isn’t normal.

Honey, there hasn’t been an ounce of “normal” anywhere since at least 2001.

That’s some excellent and skillfully-composed protest art right there.