Or maybe can’t even see the copy. They may be looking at lorem ipsum.

Having worked with vendors in the print industry, I’m wondering if at least some of this is a scaling issue in the edit. Because the “tall and thin” type is exactly the same height as the rest.

Maybe there was a version that was more distinct, and a layout guy standardized them without seeing or reading the copy.

Maybe that’s too much benefit of the doubt.

The Venn diagram of privacy focused and paranoid has a good bit of overlap.

But anything private enough for the most paranoid dev is private enough for me.

There will always be some percentage of users that Linux just isn’t for, and some users that fall in love.

In my opinion the motivations that convince them to try Linux are irrelevant. What’s important is that the general trend is more users sticking with it.

IMO I couldn’t care less if people dual boot, we’re still have a use case for Windows. I have a Windows machine myself.

Well that’s kind of what I’m getting at. How many times does that happen before everybody just goes back to using GPL, MIT, etc…

Not exactly an alternative, but I put adguard on my Google TV. I don’t know if it protects me from all of my info leaking out, but it blocks a lot of predatory stuff, and does a great job of keeping garbage from getting in.

I may switch up the launcher since so much of the default UI is now empty ad space.

I’m all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we’ll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we’re currently using.

I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we’d get chaos, followed by complacency.

1. I didn’t ask a single question about communism.
2. The question that you originally responded to was IMO about early socialism and revolution. It assumes that people have something to give (besides labor) and you picked up on that when you referenced robbing.
3. You’ve moved the goalposts. First you conceed that yes there will have to be “theft” (your word not mine), then when I agreed with you (while not being so judgey as to call it theft), you pivoted to “no, we only start counting what happens after we’ve seized power. Everything before that doesn’t count” (paraphrasing of course).
4. I agree with you that if you laid out a timeline and point to where the economy would be reorganized, it comes after seizing everything at gunpoint. Obviously you can’t reorganize till you’ve taken ownership. That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen.

I’m not taking a normative position here. I’m not saying anything about morality, or good guys and bad guys. I’m offering up moral frameworks to justify those actions. My takeaway from Robin Hood wasn’t that he was the villain.

I just don’t get why you’d act like the idea is NOT to take from the ownership class at gunpoint when that’s the whole idea. None of the rest of it works unless you do that. Just say it with your whole chest. Don’t bitch out.

That’s the singular aspect I’m judging.

But Unicode or text based identifiers might.

That’s a bit of a cop out. “There’s no Robin Hood at that specific point because it’s already been taken at gunpoint by the time we dole it out”.

That doesn’t erase the fact that they’re very much is a Robin Hood figure with a gun. And if you want to seize everything at gunpoint You should at least be up front about it.

If your point is true and right in virtuous you do not need a spin on it.

According to Senator Durbin there are over 100,00 “files”. It would take thousands of hours.

You could use a script, but then you’re back to the same problem. You still have to ensure nothing’s coded into it.

I think the best you could do with 100% certainty is cherry pick select documents if you had the ability to search them.

That’s what I was getting at. Don’t soft pedal it.

“There WILL be a Robin Hood type taking shit at gunpoint”.

Out of curiosity how do you guarantee you’ve stripped out all identifiable marks if you don’t know they’re there?

Not that I doubt your claim, but I used to water mark screeners for pre-release movies so if they turned up on torrent sites we’d know where they leaked from. We used unique pixel markings on pre-selected frames. I couldn’t imagine how anyone would know to look for them or recognize them for what they were in a 2k image unless they already knew what and where to look.

That’s a fine perspective to have. But it is the textbook definition of robbing someone at gunpoint.

They have something of value that you want, you don’t want to exchange said value for it, so you take it by force… at gunpoint.

Maybe there’s a moral justification for that. Maybe you think they don’t deserve it, or you need it more, or you think their ownership of it represents it’s own form of theft… But they’re definitely getting robbed at gunpoint.

That’s a pretty rose tinted view. It is, generally speaking, “collectivized” at gunpoint.

Yeah. That was so clear (IMO) that It didn’t even occur to me that this person may not already know.

Maybe in the case of windows 11 that will be true, but in the past that has not been the case. When Windows 8 came out regular users were “upgrading” new machines to windows 7.

As a supply chain guy, I’m confident my procurement skills of bitching at vendors about off spec shit goes back to the days of Ea-Nasir.

Vapes - A shitty, ewaste laden, version of smoking. Where unknown chemicals are vaporized and inhaled. This took off under claims it was a healthier alternative to smoking. This is going to look like radioactive toothpaste in hindsight.

Cable boxes - 30 years after high speed Internet, 25 years after ffmpeg, and 20 years after streaming… millions of people still pay $150 a month for a shittier, curated version of television that mostly required specialized hardware and drilling holes in your house.