You think Americans don’t know what Capitalism means? We know better than Milton Goddamn Friedman did.

Cue the “This is not capitalism, it’s crony capitalism!” calls.

Most people aren’t aware, but Axon already does AI-assisted surveillance software too.

The first thing I did when I moved into my new place is disable all the Ring surveillance crap the previous tenants installed. Luckily I have no “smart” appliances to worry about.

Hey, a non-response deflective joke! I see you too went to middle school!

If they truly intended it to be a neutral question, then they used a particularly bad choice of phrasing.

Most people understand the CIA is a tool of imperialist violence/authority, but framing that as “how does it feel to x” is clearly a condemnation of the association being pointed out, which in this case would only matter if that association itself in some way taints the topic it was brought up in response to… I.e. the definition of feminism by Steinem.

You were not going to give me the benefit of the doubt, don’t expect anyone who is genuine to believe otherwise.

You’re free to be as cynical as you like.

“is ai” is very obviously a simplification, but is also the reality of where they have chosen to go.

It’s not a “simplification”. A simplification is still roughly the same meaning. “Coded with AI” and “Is AI” are unrelated statements, not more or less nuanced versions of each other, any more than “Bill is driving a racecar” and “Bill is a racecar” are.

Except GPL doesn’t say, “keep it free”, it says “keep it GPL”. Public domain is also free, but GPL’d code cannot be made that, except by the original “licenser”.

And while I can’t speak for other countries, the USA’s copyright regime, which is what would be relied upon to actually enforce the GPL in the US, is entirely built to serve business interests, which makes the GPL’s actual utility in enforcing “freeness” of software dubious at best.

GPL doesn’t give the original owner any power over others it just requires the code which was born free to stay free.

In the US at least, this is untrue; the only entity with legal standing to enforce (via lawsuit) the GPL on a piece of software is the creator(s). Obviously as GPL ‘flows’ through redistribution, that becomes more nuanced, but it’s always limited in standing of who “owns” the improperly-redistributed version. That is absolutely power that is unique to the ‘owner’ of the software.

These questions will dog him the rest of his tenure.

Sure, because they cared about controlling the direction of the political movement, same way they influenced the Civil Rights movement. But once again, unless they are implying that the definition of feminism as offered by Steinem, quoted above, is part of a CIA influence op, or tainted by their influence, then what’s the point of bringing that up?

GPL is bad because it perpetuates the concept of durable intellectual property ownership/ licensing over supposedly “Free” (as in libre) code. Durable licenses are all bad. Unlicense is the only true FOSS license in common use, with an ‘F’.

“Free, but you must do these things” is not actually Free.

Notable and very honorable examples of projects that use Unlicense are youtube-dl and yt-dlp (and obviously, those are not programs intended to benefit corporations).

Now you have heard an argument against GPL that is not about corporations.

I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt until I saw your responses.

“Is AI” is meaningless drivel. Software does not become “AI”, and an OS is not and cannot “be” AI.

What you mean is, “Debian devs use LLMs to code”, which has no impact on or correlation to whether Debian will include age or ID verification. No one ordered the devs to use LLMs, so that is not evidence of their “compliance” with authorities, as you seem to imply.

These snarkily-delivered insinuations have no value; they’re not educating anyone about the topic, they’re not arguing anything of substance, they lack basic technical understanding of what they’re criticizing… they’re just a feel-good gotcha for you.

If they can identify it, sure. But OS fingerprinting is not perfect through a browser, and can be tricked pretty readily.

Exactly. Hoard now, watch/read/listen later (and now as well).

You’re not limited to tech that complies with laws.

Are you implying that feminism is a CIA initiative?

Absolutely.

If you’re a guy, you’ve heard guys talk about women when none are around. Maybe it’s coworkers, maybe it’s family, but the culture of misogyny is not some on-the-wane thing, it is alive and well.

Bruh, you done been black pilled.

Torn on this.

On the one hand, it’s great that Europe is building a coalition free(er) of US influence.

On the other hand, talking about admitting Canada and even possibly Australia as (pseudo) members despite being in no way Europe, certainly adds fuel to the perception that it’s less “European Union”, and more “White People Union”.

I don’t know, Unlicense is still an OSS license, and imo that’s what vibe code should mostly be.

And I thought I was chronically online…