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How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?

People are being really hypocritical.

You want a free open source social network. But when people you dont like join it, you hate it. That is not how it works, its not how FREE in FOSS works.

Meta can join, they can do whatever they want. It literally the point of this social network. If you dont like it, then go to a social network that is not FOSS, but is heavily moderated, because that is what most of you really want.

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We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less

Interesting read, although a bit too preachy at times.

In my opinion, this is a utopian point of view that does not work in real life and glances over a lot of good things of GPL.

Linux and a lot of open source would not be here today, in this shape, without big companies using it for their commercialized software. You really think Microsoft would contribute to Linux source code if it can not use it commercially? You really think ANY company would contribute to ANYTHING if they can not commercialize it?

Linux is what it is today because not only volunteers, but companies depend on it being stable and feature-full. If companies did not care to contribute to it, it would be dead and only a pet project of few volunteers.

Who would pay all these people to work on it? Sure, some of them would work for free as a hobby, some of them coud get paid from donations. But its nowhere near enough to make Linux or any other FOSS project big and popular.

Until people need money to survive, AGPL will never be the most popular license and it should not if you want to have FOSS.

And what is so bad about it? You still have base open source code that they use to make their software, make your own. You are mad because companies take open source code, and charge for it. Then, you take it and make the software free.

You want everybody to use FOSS, sure. Who will be customer support? Who will fix and be responsible for stuff when they dont work? How will you pay these people?

Free as in, free to do whatever the fuck you want with it. Not free as in free to do whatever you want, except make money to survive.

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I would argue that waiting for FTL is a very good strategy.

Its not there because you can no longer ignore them, but it means they are ready to leave their star system and are ready to joing the galactic community. Its also a kind of a test, as developing an FTL requires certain understanding of both science and technology, and as Harkonnen explained very well, this insures that those people have a sufficient level of intelligence to be an equal participant in the galactic community.

Also, its not really ignoring them. Its shielding them from the more advanced technology and problems that they are not ready to face. Also, they have rights. They have rights to live and to evolve at their on pace. Any such world in Federation teritory is protected from any interference by a FTL capable species. Otherwise, they would be enslaved like in Stargate universe.

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I love having an entire live TV channel dedicated to re-runs of old Star Trek episodes

I used to have channel that would only run Sci-fi shows on repeat without any breaks or ads.

Few of the shows that ran on it: ST:TNG, ST:DS9, ST:ENT, ST:VOY, ST:DIS, Stargate: SG1, Stargate:Atlantis, Stargate: Universe, Dark Matter, Expanse,

And they would go in cricles, like one episode of each show. Sometimes they would do a marathon and just play the entire show in few days. NON-STOP, NO-ADS Sci fi goodness. Best TV channel i ever had.

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[Final Update] My insurance won't cover UTIs for males. Yes, I'm in the US.

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From what I know about Russia and how life is there ( I dont know a lot), I would say a good thing about it is the food, which is very good in my opinion. Also more objectively, it has much more afordable healthcare (more to the point of this post) and a really good public transport system (at least in Moscow and St. Petersburg). Also, Moscow is a beatiful city with some amazing architecture.

Would I live there? Hell no! Especially not now. But I hope one day when the war ends (hopefully in favor of Ukraine), I can visit it and enjoy the good things it has to offer.