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I have to reconnect mine because I was just shipped a CD with a song on it I can’t find online anywhere…

I remember the feeling when I first used a GUI to “run” a “program” instead of using an interpreter. It felt like a pain in the ass.

Valve is merely the least bad corporate overlord. But they sure do control the shadows on your cave wall.

Where do you think dietary cholesterol comes from?

This is where cognitive dissonance takes people. He’s less interested in his theory’s predictive power than he is in its ability to distract him from reality.

Your body makes shit, too. Don’t eat shit, dummy. That isn’t reason enough to conclude it is safe to eat.

Don’t want to stop being cruel and violent? Want to keep committing atrocity against vulnerable individuals while destroying human-supporting environments on Earth, for absolutely no practical benefit to yourself? Well good news! Investor-driven medical research is here to protect you (and only you) from the consequences of your monstrous choices!

Run it in a VM. That’s the only way you’re going to accomplish the workflow you are attempting.

They come around more often than the Olympics.

People who resort to name-calling are poo-poo heads.

It’s not like RAM has never been this expensive before. It’s still at a historically low price.

Hell, no. If there were “true competition,” Apple would sell out and move to a new industry entirely.

I moved from FreeBSD to Linux, for GPU rendering in Blender. If it wasn’t for GPU drivers, I’d still be on FreeBSD.

Apparently I was unclear by what I meant by “commercial porn”, which was: porn that you pay for. If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.

100% of commercial porn sites have always required you to identify yourself.

I will not be responding to comments.

Then fuck off. Like, actually. We’re not here for you to use to meet your emotional needs and not actually contribute.

There was a “we” that produced the first public licenses – amateur and enthusiast software developers, who previously were simply publishing things to the “public domain”. And “we” had clear goals in doing so, which we often wrote directly into our ad hoc self-written licenses. They weren’t handed down by God, there is a mortal history, and living people here were part of it.

I agree that the GPL should be viewed as a cultural artifact, not a legal one. It’s just the spirit of shareware, but without money involved.

In context of the many failures, I don’t think this establishes anything.

The original intention of public licenses was never to prevent code from spreading in any circumstance. Rather, that’s the “innovation” of copy-left. We just wanted a way to share our code without putting the people who used it into legal hot water. We didn’t want to control or manipulate people, using our code to extort a particular behavior out of them. We just wanted to share our code. I think copy-left makes sense in certain situations but I don’t think it should be the default option of a person wanting to contribute to culture.

like the GPL successfully enforces

I’m not aware of the GPL being legally tested to where you can claim that; there are a lot of open questions, and it has failed to protect works from AI companies, for example.