Arrested for felony possession of cuteness

Sentenced to 30 minutes of snuggles

ALAS, THAT WAS MYSTIQUE, NOT MAGNETO. MAGNETO IS IN ANOTHER PLACE. GO! X-MEN!

MISTER TORGUE IS ALWAYS IN ALL CAPS. EXPLOSIONS!!!

WE GET SIGNAL

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

GET YOUR ROCK OFF MY MAP

UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN LIVING. CRY, THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER!

I don't want to have children, but if I knew I was going to get Alzheimer's at 65 I would plan to leave this world at 64.

Indeed, it is in reference to its long wings, not a penis. There are several other insects and birds whose scientific names include this term.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/longipennis

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?t=ftsa&q=longipennis

Maybe if we didn't spend all our money on... whatever this is, money wouldn't be so tight.

The slur filter targets derogatory words, not "bad" words in general. The regex can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/utils/slurs.rs

Yes Town

Danny Devito always should have been Eggman. He is well known for his connection to eggs. I still think he should have been Detective Pikachu although there's a good reason why they couldn't have used him.

I had to chuckle (unlike Knuckles) at that scene. For me, when Tails used his holograms, it reminded me of this although I don't really think it was intentional.

Satan: My child will pay for movies

Jesus: [QR code]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qrposting

I'm a little bit on the fence about this. I use linux-libre on my desktop and laptop (because I bought hardware specifically for it) but I recognize the limitations of linux-libre for "normal" users or Windows migrants, so I'm loath to try to suggest a linux-libre distro as a beginner's GNU/Linux.

I'm thinking having vanilla Linux with non-free drivers/firmware would make libre distros more accessible to "normal" users, so I'm not sure I'm 100% opposed to this. However, I'm cautious of this being a slippery slope. Someone says they need Steam or MS Office or Discord or whatever other non-free thing to function correctly and distros are now pressured to accept non-free userland programs, because they already made the concession to allow non-free firmware. There would need to be an acknowledgement that enabling hardware to function is a special case and not an invitation to allow all sorts of other non-free stuff in the distro.

With Guix System, which is an FSDG distro (more strict on software freedom than Debian), there is a third party channel that offers vanilla Linux with non-free firmware alongside other non-free userland software. I've considered separating Linux into its own channel and advertising it, because while I'm open to allowing non-free firmware for the purpose of enabling hardware I'm still vehemently against non-free software elsewhere.

"prpl" (protocol plugin) is the term used in libpurple for a plugin, so it would appear it's using libpurple as the backend, thus purple-matrix; however, that plugin is deprecated as of a week ago.

edit: I was mistaken, it appears to be using the javascript SDK.

Igor

This is not reddit. Please engage with other members as fellow humans and do not dismiss them as "bots" or "shills"

The "Freedom Phone" despite the name isn't such a device, it's just a rebranded budget Android phone.

The "Freedom Phone" seems to me like either an elaborate joke or a grift.

I feel inclined to point out that ACRA, the crash reporter he mentioned, is a libre crash reporter that is commonly used in libre Android applications including the F-Droid client itself, generally in an opt-in manner and using a local email client instead of making a call to an external http server. Its presence isn't necessarily an indicator of evil although since they do not publish the source code for this Signal fork, it isn't clear (pun intended) how ACRA is being used here. Note that they aren't obligated to publish the source code to the public, but they are required to provide attribution and a written offer for the source code to anyone who obtains the binary. None of that is present in the download page or in the screenshots provided although it may be hidden somewhere in the app itself, but I don't feel inclined to look for it personally.

It's a safe, friendly, and diverse place.

We’re a collective of individuals upset with the way social media has been traditionally governed. A severe lack of moderation has led to major platforms like Facebook to turn into political machinery focused on disinformation campaigns as a way to make profit off of users. Websites with ineffective moderation allow hate speech to proliferate and contribute to the erosion of minority rights and safe spaces. Our goal with Beehaw is to demonstrate and promote a healthier environment.

I guess if you had to categorize it you could say it's a general purpose instance, but one with a governing philosophy different than conventional social media.

I don't agree with this position but I also don't agree with the attacks against them for having this position. It's not "pathetic" that they don't implement features you want. The point of free (libre) software is that you don't have to share the position of the upstream developers, as you can make a fork that has the features you want. That is what has happened with NewPipe.

*insert joke about Windows being malware*

Unfortunately this is an uphill battle, even here people are just going to call the system "Linux" because of brand loyalty or just because that's what they're used to.

Keep in mind also, "Linux" is not strictly speaking incorrect as long as you keep in mind, it technically refers to just the kernel, or more broadly to the family of systems that use said kernel (the definition Wikipedia gives it, which is repeated in the sidebar here). GNU/Linux systems are a subset of Linux systems, but Linux systems also include Android and Alpine variants as well as things like OpenWRT and other embedded applications. Linux is a very versatile tool.

Just keep in mind, Linux is not an operating system or platform in and of itself, none of the userland libraries or applications are "part of Linux," you can't really make apps for it (nor should you really want to), you can't treat different Linux systems as interchangable (especially if one or both aren't GNU/Linux) and just because a particular Linux system isn't your preferred type of Linux system does not make it "not real Linux" (looking at you !linuxphones@lemmy.ml )

> no F-Droid link

> no source code repository

That's a pretty sneaky box. I wonder what's inside it? It might be another box.

Water man!

I don't respect any "privacy" organization that promotes proprietary software or is actively hostile to the Libre software movement.

Cargo Cult? You mean the Rust Evangelism Strike Force?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe anyone has been site-banned for any of that. The bans that I see in the modlog are for things like trolling, harassment, slurs, racism, etc. I would expect any decent instance to prohibit such behavior.

I know the vegan community has a strict policy against non-vegans or omni-apologia but I am not aware of anyone being site-banned for that.

Someone search-and-replaced "he" and "his" with "they" and "their" without the "match whole word only" option (a feature on most text editors). This resulted in words that contain either substring being changed to nonsensical words.

In my experience, the main reason mobile websites suck is because they do so by design, in order to push users to install an app. Lemmy developers have no incentive to do so.

This argument makes sense for natural language (where one can argue that a word "is a real word" or that a word means something simply because it is commonly used in that manner), not so much for proper nouns in my opinion. Linux is a specific thing, created by a specific person (who named it after himself), developed by a specific team for specific purposes. Whether or not people mistakenly believe other unrelated things are also Linux doesn't change the truth of what Linux actually is.

If "the vast majority of people" mistakenly believed the Earth was flat or that the sun revolved around it, that does not suddenly make it so. "The vast majority of people" being ignorant should be taken as an opportunity to address that ignorance, not perpetuate it.

Linux should be referred to as GNU/Linux

Stallman never suggested this, of course. He draws a distinction between Linux, which is a kernel, and GNU, which is a userspace, and suggested that GNU/Linux should refer to an operating system that is the combination of Linux and GNU... which is what this article seems to do.

Assuming the app is Libre, they are under no obligation to publish binaries or source code to the public - only to their own users (i.e. patrons). However, those patrons have the freedom to modify and distribute the app themselves.

The point of Libre software is that the user has control over it. Anti-cheat software is explicitly designed to control the user (i.e. to prevent them from cheating) and thus can't realistically be Libre. You can argue that preventing cheaters is a desirable outcome for the game's population but it stands that anti-cheat must be proprietary in order to work.

A compromise could be if the game is mostly Libre but has a proprietary anti-cheat module that is necessary to play with other anti-cheat-enabled players/servers. If you don't care about anti-cheat you can just remove the module.

Apple can be the most privacy friendly company in the world (it isn't) and it still wouldn't make up for them being hostile to user freedom and right-to-repair.

Guix updated this package on February 17 according to the commit log.

commit f47125d2868315acc40379c8e859fb60d6942dad
Author: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date:   Thu Feb 17 21:08:45 2022 -0500

    gnu: WebKitGTK: Update to 2.34.6 [Fixes CVE-2022-22620].
    
    * gnu/packages/webkit.scm (webkitgtk): Update to 2.34.6.

Reminder that flatpak is not "platform independent" it is a platform (well, more accurately, a meta-platform I guess). I'll stick with Guix.

It's hard-coded.