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Only 3 Easy Payments of $19.95@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-07-17 07:45:10)
@zzt yes I'm sure Linus will violate the golden rule just to piss off some anti-AI chuds
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[object Object]@zzt@mas.to (2026-07-17 07:24:11)
“just fork it if you’re not happy,” says the unjust man, so you fork it
he breaks API compatibility, gets another half-million from his corporate sponsors, and sends a bunch of weirdos to harass your fork until further development isn’t possible
“just fork it if you’re not happy,” says the unjust man
Aria :gphn_yell: 🏳️⚧️@aria@fedi.derg.world (2026-07-17 06:41:54)
wip
hands are hard.
and feet.
...and clothes.
:gphn_flat_x_x:
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せるたす@secchin@misskey.io (2026-07-17 06:00:34)
:sparkles_rainbow:きりたんキラキラ金曜日:sparkles_rainbow:
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange (2026-07-17 05:15:44)
The Free Software movement never escaped from its origins: the early ‘80s MIT AI Lab. Two things were true in this environment:
Back when most computers had tens of KiBs of RAM and 1 MiB was a huge amount, programs were simple. Very few programs were so complex that one person could not completely understand them.
The AI Lab was full of some of the most talented programmers in the world.
This meant that the only obstacles for these people being able to fix bugs and add features to any program were access to the source code and the legal rights to modify it. Once you have those, any program was understandable by that group and they could modify it however they wished.
For the next 40 years, the FSF focused on these two things. The world around them changed. These two prerequisites were never enough for most people (what do 90% of computer users do if you give them even a modest 10,000 line C codebase and tell them they can change it however they like?) and now they aren’t enough even for competent programmers.
When Linus says ‘fork it’ to folks who don’t want LLM-extruded code in their kernel, he knows full well that it is almost impossible to fork a 40 MLoC C (and Rust now) codebase that averages more than one CVE per day and have something useful.
The Free Software movement is struggling now because it obsessed over licenses, which was never a path that would succeed, and ignored the hard problems:
How do you design environments that enable end users to modify their software?
How do you engineer software so that it is cheap and easy for a random user to maintain a fork that meets their specific needs?
How do you foster communities where people want to share improvements, so forks don’t proliferate even when it’s easy?
How do you create an environment where everyone sees the benefits of user-modifiable code to such a degree that trying to sell anything that doesn’t come with these rights is commercially impossible?
Instead of tackling any of these problems, t
Curious Ceri :bbfcR18: 🔞@curiousceri@fedi.miawgogo.me (2026-07-17 05:07:59)
bloated from watermelon and pepsi
(felt like posting unlisted as its hot)
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abadidea@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange (2026-07-17 02:44:52)
Odin how is this even physically possible
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Reply to @tavi@freeradical.zone
tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-17 02:15:38)
like,, I'm imagining,, frontend for sqlite, you make tables, then you define operations on them with,, idk,, R maybe. R spits out other tables or graphs etc. maybe that wouldn't be,, as friendly of an interface as excel, but it'd be,, not as hard to implement. The point is, you'd have your data, your processing and your results all in one thingy. you could also do python. pick your poison type thing
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tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-17 02:13:28)
it's weird that all of the open source options suck so bad. gnumeric actually seems like someone cared about it when making it. but they all have crashed and or frozen on me several times, and they all have really weird design flaws that i encounter basicaly immediately.
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tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-17 02:08:27)
considering pirated office 2010 on wine
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tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-17 01:48:03)
I have come to the conclusion that they all suck a lot. libreoffice might just suck the least.
MUS MUS 🏳️⚧️@anteumbra@yiff.life (2026-07-17 01:20:09)
God bless Bunny for helping me through difficult morning meetings 😭
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Reply to @odoben@meow.social
Odoben@odoben@meow.social (2026-07-17 00:12:23)
how to wash soup
Reply to @tavi@freeradical.zone
tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-17 00:10:19)
i think I'm going to make my own spreadsheet.. with blackjack and hookers
あま湯@osanpo@misskey.design (2026-07-16 23:25:34)
:blobcat_flowercrown:
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Luwucie@Luwucie@troet.cafe (2026-07-16 22:14:01)
"I just like the colors"
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vitalis@vitalis@dirtyknight.life (2026-07-16 21:56:11)
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tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-16 21:07:18)
like it doesn't have to have an excel-ish workflow, I just want something i can put data in, and then get stats and graphs out of
tavi cat@tavi@freeradical.zone (2026-07-16 21:06:36)
libreoffice calc does the job.. but it feels bad to use. Not pleasurable. the performance is,, surprisingly bad, the UI is terrible, and the documentations is,, meh.
it has me wondering if there's another open source spreadsheet-like thing that would fill the role
VeselijLis@VeselijLis@bark.lgbt (2026-07-16 21:04:11)
Xenia the Linux Fox 🦊 :ablobfoxbongo:
Finally finished this commission!!!
#furry #furryart #art #Xenia #xenialinuxfox #fox #furryfox
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Reply to @LLENN08@misskey.id
mothball蛾玉 (*Latest Fad)@moth_ball@shitposter.world (2026-07-16 20:21:06)
@LLENN08 no u
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Misa Nayaka@LLENN08@misskey.id (2026-07-16 19:32:34)
Paypal me
:handwithgunalign:
S T E L L A R :bun:@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be (2026-07-16 19:23:15)
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N33R "Wehrpflichtentziehung durch Verstümmelung" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: @N33R@fops.cloud (2026-07-16 16:06:21)
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Volker Weber@vowe@social.heise.de (2026-07-16 16:04:47)
Meta does not want you to know that you can improve the quality of these AI glasses by just microwaving them for one minute. Pass it on.
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vel@vel@gib.schmus.is (2026-07-16 14:53:11)
:neocat_melt: I cannot live another day without air conditioning.
:neofox_uwu: It says tomorrow's gonna be hotter!
:neocat_baa: Hotter?
:neofox: Like yesterday.
:neocat_think: Yesterday?
:neocat_glare: Yesterday you said you'd call Sears.
:neofox_flop__w_: I'll call today.
:neocat_gun: You'll call now.
:neofox_nervous: I'll call now.
Julia :v_bi: :therian:@julia@eepy.moe (2026-07-16 12:50:17)
Trans guys rule
Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to (2026-07-16 11:41:50)
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Reply to @hazelnoot@enby.life
Spike@pastthepixels@is.potatoe.ca (2026-07-16 11:29:31)
@hazelnoot they wear them like this
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Reply to @hazelnoot@enby.life
Hazelnoot@hazelnoot@enby.life (2026-07-16 11:07:13)
If a :neofox: wore socks, would she wear them like this:
:neofox:
🧦
or like this:
:neofox:
🧦🧦
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