beleza pura @ bunitor @lemmy.eco.br

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sure, but it didn't get much attention until gcc switched to gpl v3 from gpl v2 and apple decided to jump ship to it

my point is that competitors to gpl software are always advertised through their technical merits (valid or not), but the point behind their development is getting rid of gpl-licensed software

not sure how it would be more difficult to make money using gpl tools

it's interesting how the move away from the gpl is never explicitly justified as a license issue: instead, people always have some plausible technical motivation. with clang/llvm it was the lower compile times and better error messages; with these coreutils it's "rust therefore safer". the license change was never even addressed

i believe they have to do this exactly bc permissive licenses appeal to libertarian/apolitical types who see themselves as purely rational and changing a piece of software bc of the license would sound too... ideological...

so the people in charge of these changes always have a plausible technical explanation at hand to mask away the political aspect of the change

it's been a trend for a while unfortunately. getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now. there are also the developers that think permissive licenses are "freer" bc freedom is doing whatever you want /s. they're ideologically motivated to ditch the gpl so they'll support the change even if there's no benefit for them, financial or otherwise.

sadly, i think that's exactly the reason why so many gnu coreutils/libc/compiler competitors keep croping up: people want to get rid of the gpl as much as possible. if they could replace the linux kernel with a non gpl variant they would

not that the people creating the projects necessarily have this intention, but the projects are certainly being picked up and sponsored mainly for that reason

finally someone saying you shouldn't daily drive debian testing

it's back

can you use that on linux?

you should report a bug to friendica bc your link didn't reach me on lemmy

doesn't midori use webkit?

i think they're only banning explicitly nazi and ws shit

it's webkit behind the curtains, so no

jfc

i fucking hate the way domain ownership is handled right now

i was signed in, but it's still kinda fucked up that showing nsfw posts is opt-out. also, they're not even blurred in the old interface

makes sense

btw, servo's rendering of lemmy is getting really good. there's some missing stuff (and i couldn't get replying to work), but it's really cool to see

(though we can definitely discard servo as a small browser. it's eating up almost 700 megabytes of ram rn, compared to netsurf's 100 megs)

i'm not sure. is really a small browser? to me it's falls more into the under construction browser category, like ladybird

oh, cool! this is the best render of (old) lemmy so far

(p.s. why do we have to have porn on the homepage)

cool. weird default colors, though

(for some reason, my instance won't load, so I had to open lemmy.ml to take this snapshot)

they aren't controlling what you do, though. they're just refusing to enable far-right content. software isn't a natural right that is taken away when someone refuses to help you do what you want. it is a fruit of labor that enables you to do something you wouldn't be able to do otherwise

i miss being able to block instances so much