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groupies?
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 19:51 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:47 |
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also does he have a home?
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 19:52 |
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no. there are many stories of people inviting him over for a conference and then he refuses to leave for like a month until he secures another place to squat
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 20:06 |
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Truman Peyote posted:nobody who eats chinese food could be a bigot i used to work with a guy who would order "ch*nk food" for lunch and ask if i wanted to join the order. i always declined. primarily cuz this was the midwest and midwest chinese food is usually awful but also the racism. in the early 2000's ACM at my tiny university invited stallman to come speak and i don't remember anything other than he made the gnu/linux point repeatedly in his presentation. presumably he + the organizers went out to the only chinese food restaurant in town afterwards. i probably went home and ate veggies and hummus or something who knows.
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# ? May 5, 2021 09:24 |
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the first date i ever went on was to a chinese restaurant. makes you think
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# ? May 5, 2021 09:29 |
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fart simpson posted:the first date i ever went on was to a chinese restaurant. makes you think was it with rms
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# ? May 5, 2021 18:24 |
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that seems cool, op rms would be interesting to talk to imho
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# ? May 5, 2021 19:15 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:that seems cool, op i feel like all the interesting things rms has to say have already been said
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# ? May 5, 2021 19:26 |
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someone should ask "how does it feel to piss your life away on a tantrum over a printer driver?"
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# ? May 5, 2021 20:07 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:was it with rms i wish...
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# ? May 5, 2021 20:08 |
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I attended a talk RMS gave at UW several years ago (I wasn't a student it was just the venue). It was extremely cringy, surface level and awkward. Naturally there wasn't any nuance to anything and the talk easily could have been written 20 years ago, no hot takes on modern issues etc. New grads shouldn't work for Apple, Microsoft, whoever because they hate freedom, they should all live in an office provided by MIT free of charge. I especially remember him awkwardly auctioning off some GNU plushy to try and raise money.
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# ? May 5, 2021 20:28 |
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ADINSX posted:I attended a talk RMS gave at UW several years ago (I wasn't a student it was just the venue). It was extremely cringy, surface level and awkward. Naturally there wasn't any nuance to anything and the talk easily could have been written 20 years ago, no hot takes on modern issues etc. New grads shouldn't work for Apple, Microsoft, whoever because they hate freedom, they should all live in an office provided by MIT free of charge. $50 for this adorrrrable gnu that needs a hoooome
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# ? May 5, 2021 21:47 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:$50 for this adorrrrable gnu that needs a hoooome thats exactly what he said and exactly the way he said it
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# ? May 5, 2021 21:55 |
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was the pushy actually rms? sounds like a way to hustle up a free couch
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# ? May 5, 2021 21:57 |
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for all I know it was a package deal, someone in our session paid 100 dollars to find out
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# ? May 5, 2021 21:59 |
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Free (as in accomodation)
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# ? May 5, 2021 22:01 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:that seems cool, op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ&t=1737s
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# ? May 5, 2021 22:03 |
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has anyone asked rms how it feels to be gnunemployed?
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# ? May 5, 2021 22:09 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:he is a nice guy to hang around with and you quickly figure out how to stop him from going on controversial tangents. Please do not attempt to humanize rms
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# ? May 5, 2021 22:20 |
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i will not attempt, i will succeed he is an unfortunate sperg who will never know love or true happiness
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# ? May 5, 2021 23:24 |
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ADINSX posted:thats exactly what he said and exactly the way he said it he'd sometimes get stuck and repeat it over and over again, but he'd be talking about a cup instead of a plush adooooorable cup sounded weirder
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# ? May 5, 2021 23:25 |
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rms was largely right about a lot of things wrt to his areas of expertise (computers, and the narrow band of politics around them) and wildly out of his depth about virtually every other possible facet of life on planet earth. I agree with the sad nerd who was never wanted and was never forced to grow up assessment.
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# ? May 5, 2021 23:44 |
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i would wager its very frustrating to see your lifes work - retaining the freedom of software from commerical interests - get hijacked as the primary shared development model for megacorporations like apple, facebook and google.
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# ? May 5, 2021 23:48 |
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"retaining the freedom of software from commerical interests" i think is a bit of a conflation. for rms there's nothing that says free software cannot also be commercial, he'd be cool with windows if it was distributed under GPL, i mean he actually gave a talk at Redmond fairly recently about that kind of thing. software absolutely needs to have a place in the commercial space, he's not so short sighted as to not realise that honestly i think for him the more frustrating thing is hearing people say "open source" interchangeably with "free software", because sperg.
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:00 |
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oh and he absolutely snaps at you like a bolt of lightning if you say "open source" or "intellectual property" or "i use linux"
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:02 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:"retaining the freedom of software from commerical interests" i think is a bit of a conflation yeah i dont wanna get into the weeds on this but sure. What I'm tryin to say here is that he has a big problem with non-gpl licenses and that's all anyone uses and I can imagine that this feels like someone hijacked your lifes work after you did all the heavy lifting.
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:04 |
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alright i getcha, i actually care about the free software thing so sometimes i forget i'm in yospos at the same time though, i think he does look at say, android phones, and sheds a silent tear of pride...."i made this"
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:08 |
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using a laptop built by slave labor because it has a free bios is the most rms thing ever
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:17 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:alright i getcha, i actually care about the free software thing so sometimes i forget i'm in yospos so do i so here's my manifesto about it https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h__zP17eMoSXntHq6Jo7nKxRB8DoCOcVZ794Qd4LEA4/edit
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# ? May 6, 2021 00:18 |
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rotor posted:I can imagine that this feels like someone hijacked your lifes work after you did all the heavy lifting. that happens to literally everyone on the planet who has ever had a boss or worked for a corporation. everyone just goes to the bar and gets over it. rms is the only guy who won't loving shut up about it.
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# ? May 6, 2021 01:18 |
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Sagebrush posted:that happens to literally everyone on the planet who has ever had a boss or worked for a corporation. everyone just goes to the bar and gets over it. rms is the only guy who won't loving shut up about it. thats not really so much a great parallel but i'm not gonna argue with sagebrush about it
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# ? May 6, 2021 01:41 |
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his "life's work" has been complaining to people that nobody wants to do things his way.
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# ? May 6, 2021 01:49 |
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Sagebrush posted:that happens to literally everyone on the planet who has ever had a boss or worked for a corporation. everyone just goes to the bar and gets over it. rms is the only guy who won't loving shut up about it. communists also won’t shut up about it
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# ? May 6, 2021 05:09 |
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Sagebrush posted:that happens to literally everyone on the planet who has ever had a boss or worked for a corporation. everyone just goes to the bar and gets over it. rms is the only guy who won't loving shut up about it. stop trying to make ppl like rms
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# ? May 6, 2021 05:37 |
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Nobody Interesting posted:i went to an rms talk in london and went along with the group of sycophants that gathered around him at the end. you do realize that you were one of those sycophants right
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:08 |
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bernie sanders dot com posted:The time has come to substantially expand employee ownership in America. Study after study has shown that employee ownership increases employment, increases productivity, increases sales, and increases wages in the United States. This is in large part because employee-owned businesses boost employee morale, dedication, creativity and productivity, because workers share in profits and have more control over their own work lives.
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:21 |
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Gnossiennes posted:you do realize that you were one of those sycophants right absolutely
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:21 |
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bernie lost, go to the bar and get over it
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:25 |
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Stringent posted:bernie lost, go to the bar and get over it i will never get over it
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:36 |
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rotor posted:i will never get over it
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# ? May 6, 2021 06:44 |