I'm not particularly militant about Linux distros, but Alpine is one distro I disapprove of in particular. The reason is that it isn't GNU/Linux -- it strips out (copyleft) GNU libc and coreutils and replaces them with permissively-licensed alternatives. I think that (whether intentional or not) it caters too much to corporate interests that exploit "open source" without truly respecting the users' freedom, and therefore its popularity is potentially harmful to the Free Software movement in the long run.
Can I get an ELI5 on what these services do? I'm currently just using a wildcard to forward all the email for my domain to a (not particularly private) webmail account (so that I can sign up for stuff with addresses like service_name@mydomain.example instead of my_name@wellknownwebmailservice.com), and I'm not sure how these relays are different from that.
Not Olympics; some other international sports thing. Paralympics? Commonwealth Games? Some other competition that happens in the alternate years when an Olympics isn't? IDK.
When you call the fascists what they are, it gives them an opening to derail the conversation trying to quibble over the definition of "fascism."
Sometimes it's worth debunking their No True Scotsman fallacies, but other times you accept their "alt right" euphemistic synonym because it's more important to preemptively minimize their trolling opportunities.
That's true, but only in the sense that theft and copyright infringement are fundamentally different things.
Generating stuff from ML training datasets that included works without permissive licenses is copyright infringement though, just as much as simply copying and pasting parts of those works in would be. The legal definition of a derivative work doesn't care about the techological details.
(For me, the most important consequence of this sort of argument is that everything produced by Github Copilot must be GPL.)
Yet another bad consequence of building our cities wrong. If we fixed the zoning code to make them walkable, we wouldn't "need" traffic stops in the first place.
It's amazing how car dependency is an underlying causal factor in nearly every problem in the US, from climate change, to obesity, to the housing crisis, to apparently even police misconduct.
We need to go back to washing and reusing (not recycling, reusing) containers. It's absolutely insane that we invent some of the most durable and resilient materials known to man and then make "disposable" single-use packaging out of them.
WTF happened to bottle deposits, anyway? Bring them back, especially at a price high enough to get people's attention (say, 50¢ or more), and watch the problem solve itself.
Grocery volumes (Milk, dairy products, shampoo, basically anything purchased in a container)? litres.
Meanwhile, here in the US, we've got soda in liters but milk in gallons. Udder madness!
Carpentry measurements? Inches.
It amuses me that in metric countries, construction materials like plywood are often standardized to strange non-rounded measurements like 1220 x 2440 x 13mm because it's actually just 4' x 8' x 1/2" in disguise.
Wrenches? whatever fits!
Interestingly, I can't remember the last time I needed SAE wrenches. Even my old '96 Ford Ranger is metric, I think.
The Java hate is not about wanting to type fewer characters; it's about FactoryFactory-type boilerplate nonsense adding conceptual bloat that obscures what the unit of code is actually trying to accomplish.
Haha theremin go eeeeeeeeeeeeee