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It's a kind of corruption referred to as "self-dealing." As directors of LibreOffice, they should be looking for the best deals for LibreOffice. Contractors (or any employee) are always…

I have no idea what this flood of personal-use software is that you think normal people want to produce. Normal people don't even think about software doing a thing until they see an advertisemen…

What relevance do either of those claims have to the claim of the comment you are responding to? Are you trying to imply that having more things means that each of them will be smaller? There are more…

If you don't believe that people should be able to sell themselves into slavery, you should start by offering your list. If you do believe that people should be able to sell themselves into sla…

The 30 Under 30 Fraud Watch https://30u30.fyi/

It wasn't a mistake, they did it on purpose.

Zero of them are right-wing populists. They share absolutely no characteristics or policies with anyone who had ever been called populist before 2015, both when the term was invented (as a description…

British nuclear subs were running Windows XP until at least 2017. It's easy to google, but the best article about it is No, Trident doesn't run on windows XP ( https://ukdefencej…

> You will pick up enough of multiplication tables through doing maths You will not do maths casually until you have memorized enough multiplication to make it not torture. You will not pick up m…

If AI is still too stupid to show people how to work with it, and to notice their lacks and anticipate their needs, it can't have become that indispensably useful. The entire point of AI is to ac…

> I would rather pay people and websites for content. I do not think that this is a workable model. Firstly, because it leads inevitably to monopolization, because you don't want to pay 50,000…

GIMP is annoying/difficult to learn well, just like Photoshop is. Correction: GIMP is annoying/difficult to learn well, but not nearly as bad as Photoshop because it is organized logically a…

I'd also like to add that we forget that we're doing it, or at least I do. Once you set something up like that, there's never any reason to get rid of it; nobody is positively discrimin…

Because it can't?

> you've had the Patiot act sanction the NSA to have free reign for this sort of thing for the past 25 years. This is not true. No part of the Patriot Act required all people all private messa…

It isn't corruption or the exposure of corruption that is the crime to European elites. The crime is doing something that will cause voters to choose something that they do not want the voters to…

No, they won. Piracy stayed at a microscopic level rather than becoming the usual way people got things. It stagnated, and maybe shrank. That's why they don't want to go into the piracy stop…

> what if the RIAA et al go to ISPs and saying they will pay them to continue monitoring this stuff and if they bring them to court, sue them and win they will give them a cut of the winnings? This…

> almost all of my friends working in critical domains like as a judge or engineer or lawyer or even doctor, they seem to trust ChatGPT more or less blindly. We do not live in a meritocracy, becaus…

Silent sudo passwords are not a real problem. I wouldn't give up the slightest whiff of security over them. This is one of the things that I see that I have a minority position on, and it lowers …

They understand English. They just don't want to stop doing what they want to do. This is a quality that they share with everyone else on the planet by definition, but they think they're mor…

I've got the impression that the big US exports are ones that play into big American stereotypes, e.g WTR, Baywatch, Friends. Not even that they see these shows and get programmed with these ster…

I'll reply to what I want, and I think I pulled out the actual content of your post. The rest of it just seems to be strange pronouncements you are making about what people should and shouldn…

I have no idea how you've generated this principle. I'm going to ignore the noise. 1) "The victims of these policies aren't infants; they will be adults in about five minutes."…

> But open weights don't undo the infringement -- they just make a potentially infringing artifact publicly available. This is true when talking about the infringement of the copyrights of oth…

> The reason is because arxiv is growing significantly leading to 297,000 deficit in operating costs for 2025 alone. Dollars? So 300 people's cable bill? That's basically nothing. They&#x…

Not to say it, but instead to choose to say something both interesting and directly responsive to the comment you're replying to.

So what? Are you arguing that since we think we're all special that we should be accepting that other people think they're special? Meanwhile, people getting laid off (just so the jobs could…

Yes, there's no way that somebody could have a product called OpenOffice that is literally an Open Source version of Office. Impossible. The legal purpose of trademarks is to serve the same purpo…