Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Sure, if your definition of "meat" is frozen chicken nuggets or those sawdust & gristle pre-made burgers. I've tried all these meat alternatives and they're nothing like actual meat, both in taste and texture, and they come with the added bonus of being ultra processed.

Let's see the cloned meat. I'm really curious to see if that's any good.

This is great news, and I might be tempted to use it if I had some reassurance that the mail servers (and the organisation that controls them) weren't subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

"Paulatics". Clever.

Can confirm. There's a strong contingent of my neighbours that have said that they hate having to drive, and that the only thing keeping them in their cars was the absence of a safe & practical alternative.

I'm quite happy with EuroDNS. They even include free email housing if you want it.

You're being rather unreasonable here, responding to other threads, making out of context comments, "narrating" and referring to me as a "wasp". I'm happy to have a civil conversation with you on this one day, but it's clear that you're not ready for that yet. I'm out.

I think you're conflating "happy people" with "people living under a democratic system of government". These are not necessarily the same thing.

The "material" presented was a series of articles citing the same study that polled the citizens of the US and China to ask if they thought their government was democratic. This does not change the meaning of the word, but rather outlines the general ignorance of those using it.

You make an excellent point about the US system, though I think we agree that the US is a shit model for democracy regardless.

Ah, I must have read the Wikipedia page wrong. I thought it said "slim minority". Well it's good to hear the Greens aren't in bed with this!

Well if we're going to agree to live in a world where words don't have meanings anymore, then sure, China's a "democracy".

If however we want to have an adult conversation about it, then we need to agree on the meaning of words, and "democracy" is literally "rule by the people". Given this (admittedly broad and forgiving) definition, China with its autocratic , centralised rule by a one-party government for which the public has no peaceful means of deposing is objectively not a democracy.

This isn't to say that the US is much better of course, but you don't do yourself any favours by measuring yourself against the dumbest kid in the class.

They're both terrible, though at least the US has free(ish) and fair(ish) elections.

"Chinese democracy"

Edit: it's clear that the majority of those in this community aren't interested in living in a world where words have meaning, but for the minority, I offer this recent report from Varieties of Democracy that unsurprisingly classifies China as a "closed autocracy" because it:

• Has no multiparty elections for the executive
• Lacks fundamental democratic components such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and free & fair elections

Interestingly, Canada is not listed in the "liberal democracies" category, since we lack judicial and legislative constraints on the executive.

Also, the US stands to lose its democracy rating in next year's report, so maybe then China will be as "democratic" as the US.

What is the Green's position on this? The NDP are a minority government and the Greens have just enough seats to topple it, so I have to assume they don't think this would be worth it?

Ah yes the tried-and-true defence against violent, expansionist fascists: nonviolence. /s

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure I'd be happy in a fully remote role where you've got hundreds of employees voting on how you build stuff, but I know that there are lots of people who dig this pattern, and they're clearly doing Good work.

True, but the mere existence of an AGPL project that follows the MIT one might be enough to convince would-be contributors to choose our version instead.

It may also be more likely to be adopted by non-corporate Linux distros that favour the AGPL over MIT (Debian for example) which in turn could help make the AGPL version the dominant one.

Hoooooly shit. Yeah, fuck this guy.

The best example I could point to would be BSD. Unlike Linux, the BSD kernel was BSD (essentially MIT) -licensed. This allowed Apple to take their code and build OSX and a multi-billion dollar company on top of it, giving sweet fuck all back the community they stole from.

That's the moral argument: it enables thievery.

The technical argument is one of practicality. MIT-licensed projects often lead to proprietary projects (see: Apple, Android, Chrome, etc) that use up all the oxygen in an ecosystem and allow one company to dominate where once we had the latitude to use better alternatives.

• Step 1 is replacing coreutils with uutils.
• Step 2 is Canonical, Google, or someone else stealing uutils to build a proprietary "fuutils" that boasts better speeds, features, or interoperation with $PROPRIETARY_PRODUCT, or maybe even a new proprietary kernel.
• Step 3 is where inevitably uutils is abandoned and coreutils hasn't been updated in 10 years. Welcome to 1978, we're back to using UNIX.

The GPL is the tool that got us here, and it makes these exploitative techbros furious that they can't just steal our shit for their personal profit. We gain nothing by helping them, but stand to lose a great deal.

Here's a fun idea, let's fork these MIT-based projects and licence them under the AGPL :-)

My shit is custom and rather elaborate.

From left-to-right:

• name@server-name
• Uptime (multiplied by 10 and rounded to the nearest integer to save space)
• Percentage disk space available on /
• Number on established network connections
• Git branch : commit
• Python virtualenv
• [new line]
• date and time

The code for this is on GitLab.

1. Politics is not a game show. He's a candidate, not a "contestant".
2. While in Canada "engineer" is a semi-regulated term, globally this is not a thing. I live in the UK now and am regularly referred to as an engineer despite having never completed an engineering degree at university.
3. There are plenty of reasons to shit on the Conservatives, but this is a reach, a reach well past a wide array of low-hanging fruit.