Jonah

Free software is, at its core, about the users having control over their own use of the software - the software isn’t controlled by some owner and licensed by the users, but instead all users have equal ability to understand and use the software. If you consider communism to be political, then free software is political, because free software is communism in its purest form.

Unity would probably work under windows 11, since Windows is generally good at backwards compatibility. However, I can’t confirm myself since I don’t use windows or Unity. Perhaps ask if your son would consider using Godot instead of Unity in case it doesn’t work (or even if it does, since Godot is the better engine for most use cases anyway IMO).

Not deleted enough, though. Youtube has its own big alt-right problems

Communism for the rich, capitalism for the poor

1. I don’t think anyone really says that. Most people people in the mainstream would say that religion has a place in many people’s personal lives, just not in legislation.

2. Saying that people should face consequences for harmful things they say is not the same as opposing free speech.

3. The mainstream still thinks that society is a meritocracy, it’s only leftists who’d say that success is primarily based on luck (with birth being a major element of that, because it determines your place on a lot of privilege scales such as economic, racial, gender, and many more)

4. You literally can change the world without cleaning your room. Do you think they hold bedroom inspections for everyone before they’re given power? “Hold on, Mr. Putin, you can’t declare war on Ukraine: your bedroom isn’t tidy enough.”

That’s rich coming from the guy who unironically said “Up yours, woke moralists. We’ll see who cancels who.”

There’s no limit on when an abortion is or isn’t ethical. If the foetus is developed enough that it’s possible to induce early birth (without risking the parent), I think that should be done (so that would cover your 8.9 month example), but in general the parent has the right to change their mind on the pregnancy at any time.

I don’t think 1984 is supposed to be a critique of socialism - more a critique of authoritarianism. Ingsoc is socialist in the same way that nazis are - in name only. Animal Farm is more about socialism that 1984 is, and I think its message is that authoritarians can use socialist rhetoric to gain power and then turn around and start exploiting the working class just like capitalists (as we see in the real world in China, Russia, and a lot of state capitalism in general) rather than something like “socialism bad”. All in all, I don’t think Orwell was anti-socialist, I think he was anti-authoritarian, which is why some of his books were banned in both the US and USSR.

None of these things are remotely controvertial except by the far right.

Edit for context: they were complaining about some very uncontroversial things (ie. this as well as the same company recognising Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine, and one other thing that I forget).

From personal experience, the Cowboy Bebop opening text (around 700 characters) is the most I could fit on a QR code while still being able to print it and scan it with my phone, in case that helps.

What about the “sources” section of said page about the Uyghur genocide?

What’s the benefit of using Qwant over Duck Duck Go? I’ve been using the latter for a few years now and haven’t had problems, but I’ll switch if there’s a better option.

Based on something Linus (Sebastian) said during a LTT video about a surface laptop with rounded corners, Windows doesn’t recognize the corners as rounded either. It just draws to the screen as if the corners are there and hopes that it works. You can even move the mouse off the screen by moving it past the edge in the corner.

That implies the existance of a fungible Tolkien

I think when people talk about UBI replacing wellfare, they’re mostly talking about things like food stamps and disability pay. Basic infastructure like public transit and basic necessicities like free universal healthcare and education would not be negatively affected.

Just to add: Coil and Flattr.

Another useful link is the proposed web standard web monetization which Coil, Mozilla, and the Creative Commons are involved in.

On the subject of Flattr, they seem more like an alternative to Patreon but you choose how much you pay in total each month instead of how much you pay to each creator.

So there would be a single identifier that you sent to every website, and those websites would report visits to a central authority, which would then generate a list of all of the websites you visited and at what frequency? I fail to see how that ‘enforces privacy’.

I could see this working for something like youtube, where it already makes sense for them to track the videos you watch. If there was an option to pay a small fee that got distributed amongst the channels that I watched (with a small cut to youtube if I must), I would probably take it. I have many doubts about doing it for the whole internet, though.

Compared to what a fully malicious group could have done, this is quite benign. They published the list of email addresses that they used to make the commits and announced what they’d done. They also weren’t trying to introduce any actual vulnerabilities. Even though I don’t agree with the way they did it (especially not telling anyone first), hopefully the fact that they managed to do this will act as a wake up call for the Linux kernel (and other open source projects).

I feel like the fact that a handful of students could cause so much trouble kind of proves the point they were making

That sounds like a lot of effort to go through when you could just install your favourite flavour of Linux and be done with Microsoft forever