i'll paste my reply from mastodon:

gotta follow FOSS tech, endless wonder ✨

i initially read this as "middle ages" (like the 5th century) and was so confused

words cannot convey how much i love this post

huh, according to the provided link:

It is possible that Kennedy could have contracted a parasitic worm in his brain, according to a medical expert, although it wouldn't have been "eating his brain." However, parasites such as tapeworms do not consume brain tissue, as Kennedy suggested during his deposition.

FUTO is majority proprietary software (including the keyboard!), wouldn't surprise me 🫩

almost a dollar of donations already for that one too, wow

i'd go with a subscription instead of the one-time fee

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

https://my.fsf.org/join

(also try searching [your distro] + donate 😉)

some distros ship kate, and that's a super good pick for code editing

gentoo for small computing power?? no offense, but that's bonkers 😹

this reminds me i should update my kernel

me on gentoo:

https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/5/5d/James_Franco_First_Time.jpg/600px-James_Franco_First_Time.jpg

vivaldi is proprietary, bonus evil points for being chromium-based

artix mentioned!!!

as an artix/gentoo user, where would you place gentoo?

AI companies i believe

honestly i should have reacted with a more whimsical emoji than '💜'

next time 🤦‍♀️

BB guns and christmas? you'll shoot your eye out!

why do the colors swap between panels?

a starcraft linux meme 😻

awesome, i've been waiting years for this!

people kept saying duolingo was fine since their goal was to make learning accessible, but i knew duolingo was always going down the road every for-profit corporation goes. here we are today: they are an AI-driven company that seeks to maximize profits through government contracts

it's different when they become informed and choose to remain part of the problem for convinience ☹️