Oh, dammit. Thank you.

Man, we really need to make “The Church Cathedral and the Bazaar” required reading.

You clearly have missed the entire point of Linux, which is the freedom to do with your machine as you like. The endless number of choices for specific tastes is the result of people having the choice to write their own thing.

When consolidation happens, when people say “make my choice for me, I can’t make decisions” we end up with super constrained setups like MacOS, Windows 11 and stupid Gnome the way it is now; no choice, do it our way or not at all.

And the answer is still freedom. It’s obvious in the plugins and addons for gnome that get it to do basic customizing you find in, say xfce as a toggle in the settings. You find it in the myriad of softwares written for windows and mac that let the user do what they want to do.

And I will likely not be the first to point out to you Linux doesn’t “aim for desktops”, linux isn’t an organization the way ms and apple are. And it likely never will be.

Newbies will be scared and confused no matter what’s in front of them.

Casaos is a Chinese commercial “loss leader” software added to tons of Chinese brands. It is not intended to make money by itself, it is intended to sell more home nas market gear like zimaboards.

It’s also not an os, despite its claims and confusing terms on Wikipedia.

Last, casaos sends telemetry to Chinese IPs, a fair amount more than most software, based on what I saw with tcpdump alone.

I’m not sure how casaos made its way into the “open source os” space, but none of what you’re saying is new.

They aren’t “doubling down”, this follows that very testimony from Dr. Lee.

Whether nurse Letby was responsible or not, the hospital allowed the deaths to continue, despite multiple nurses and doctors bringing their concerns to management.

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Copyright protects attribution for the purposes of gain from reproduction, sale, adaptation and presentation. All of the cases of licensing likeness currently upheld are in place to protect gain (or prevent use for gain) from that likeness.

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to imagine people will find creative ways to make money on such a huge and presently mostly untapped resource. Especially from vulnerable people.

It shouldn’t be.

This kind of reframing of the words (by Denmark, not you) has led in the past to the abuse of what something is called to reshape slavery in modern times.

On the surface, this seems like a great idea: give the people autonomy on their likeness and its use.

What if you’re in debt? Sell your likeness? Should companies be allowed to lure ppl with commercials about making money by selling their likeness? Should we create laws about extortion and coercion that include forcibly making someone give up their likeness? Short-term likeness “rental farms”? What if the terms of the likeness are a different financial mechanism like a reverse mortgage or a lease? International laws agree on all these terms?

We also collectively determined that slavery is illegal, but it still happens by exactly manipulating the mechanisms to get at the resource: come work in the Arab Emirates. Come to Canada, send money back to your family. If you pay me $5k, I will get you out of this hellhole to a country where you can have a job, money, freedom… But you have to spend 6 weeks in a shipping container and give us 6 months of work when you get there.

The only way to make a person’s likeness an inviolable right is to make it an inviolable right… With no monetary value.

This is going to lead to folks licensing their features for money.

Yeah, I get your meaning. I forgot to acknowledge that.

I’m not doing that.

Staying quiet because it will make daddy angry to talk about it is still abuse.

Toddlers also have to learn object permanence and that the world will still talk about toys, even if they don’t have any. People will bring the annexation threats up, because it was top of mind and, quite frankly, scary for us for a few months.

And we’re allowed to do that.

If Trump can be laughed at by literally the entire UN in 2018, he can withstand some talk of what he himself brought about.

Despite the jokes and fitting comparisons, Donald Trump is not a child, he is an adult, and must (not should) face the ramifications of his words and actions.

“It was just a prank, guys.”

Parrot is a pentesting setup, it isn’t practical or appropriate as a daily driver.