josephcsible

What scares me is that I can picture some parents having read this and thinking it was good, serious advice.

Why do you think that? It's a risk-reward balance. Why wouldn't increasing the reward tip the scales?

But most children don't. So why not let children who don't live with anyone high-risk go back to a normal life?

> what about the grandma they hug when they get home from school? Why not say "don't go to Grandma's house" instead of "don't go to school"? The former is way les…

> the CDC wants to play it safe Isn't having a policy that significantly reduces the number of people who will take the vaccine the opposite of "playing it safe"?

Pfizer and Moderna only used cells from aborted babies to test their vaccines. Johnson and Johnson uses them to produce doses of their vaccine.

For point 3, that's true of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, but not the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. Also, what about this reason? "I don't think the vaccine is effective, since we stil…

You're mixing up two completely different meanings of "unsubscribe". Gmail's unsubscribe feature is to stop you from getting emails from a mailing list. It's powerless against…

Do you think Pixels are locked down, or do you not consider them "good ones"?

Nobody's trying to force you to manage your iPhone. All we want changed is to have the choice to manage ours if we want to.

Why don't you like that idea?

As long as we're pretending things that will never happen anyway, let's also pretend there's a Berne Convention 2.0 to cut out basically every suitable host country. Alternatively, how …

So make that illegal too. Basically write the AGPL into the law.

Isn't there a difference between using an electronic device and basically littering one?

Warranties are for things that break on their own. If the manufacturer of a physical product broke into your house and smashed it with a sledgehammer, they'd absolutely be on the hook for what th…

If I buy a movie on a DVD, should I be allowed to sell it when I'm done with it? If so, what's the difference between that and selling a digital copy when I'm done with it from the cop…

Apple is big enough that if they told the MPAA "unless you let us distribute your movies DRM-free, we're not selling them to consumers", the MPAA would probably budge.

> there is still a distinction made between this and "physical ownership" (e.g. no right to inherit / sell the content). Are you saying this like it's a good thing?

Imagine you bought a bunch of physical books from Barnes and Noble, and then later did something to get yourself banned from all of their stores for life. (If it matters, assume that what you did was …

I'd be in favor of the law having a clause like the "No Surrender of Others' Freedom" clause of the GPL. Basically saying "If you provide movies like this, then you must make …

When you rent something, you're supposed to be told very clearly up front when your last day when the thing is.

I like your ideal policy, but I don't see a way we can move closer to it on our own, unlike the everything-is-AGPL end state.

The only additional obligation that the AGPL requires is that you not restrict to others the freedoms that it grants to you.

You have it backwards. The "control" you're speaking of is actually the thing that the AGPL withholds, so if you care about users having freedom but not control, then it's exactly …

What do you think the word "free" means exactly, in the context of software freedom?

The source for compiled JavaScript or WASM needs to be provided even with just the GPL rather than the AGPL. The loophole in the GPL only applies if the code is actually running on someone else's…

What's your definition of "free"? Because it's certainly not the same as the FSF's.

I disagree that "it hasn't been provided to you". Imagine a regular desktop program that you can only use through RDP or VNC. Is that not provided to the user either?

There's a strong case to be made that grsecurity is violating the GPL by doing that: https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c... …

Consider "Service as a Software Substitute": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... Do you consider it a problem? If not, why not? If so, what …