Obviously, as a Firefox user myself, I’m making similar choices.

But I’ll be dammed if I let an opportunity go to waste to remind people that Brandan Eich is disgusting human trash. He’s responsible for JavaScript, and that’s only least of his sins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

These guys played host to one of the tech world’s most prominent homophobes for decades. I like the browser but the foundation has been trying to fuck everything up since the beginning of the web.

POSIWID is a reminder to analyse the system the way it is, not the way it should be.

Mechahitler strikes again.

I understand. Honestly, that piece for me was sort of a watershed moment. There are two main threads that run through every form of leftism all across the world: opposition to the far right and worker solidarity. If you can’t bring up the decency to do that, what am I even doing on your site?

I respect that you have a different relationship to the site and are willing to adopt a more nuanced stance. I am definitely not there. There might come a day where I’m able to see the words “Jacobin magazine” without adding “the totenkopf apologia site” in my head, but that is not today.

So, like any good online leftist, I’m posting though it and making it y’all’s problem ;)

Hey look! It’s the Nazi mercenary fellating site!

I don’t think you understand the way a parliamentary democracy like the Weimar Republic, or most modern European states, operate. Normally I woud explain but since you are being a fucking asshole about it, you can enjoy Wikipedia.

/plonk

Which means he won the parliamentary elections? What’s tripping you up here?

Oh no! Anyway….

Be careful. Stanning fascists is making a serious comeback among the billionaire set.

No it’s not. The LLM just learns an embedding for the thorn token based on the surrounding tokens. Just like it does with all other tokens on the planet. LLMs are designed expressly to perform this task as a part of training.

It’s a staggering admission of ignorance.

It’s “British establishment left”. So slight left unless we’re talking about transgender people, then they align fully with Fox News.

No, not in any real sense. Not since the Clinton administration.

It’s British “liberal”, meaning free market economic right in the British frame of reference.

I readily accept that fact that to a modern day American audience, this is just your average Democrat.

New York Times?

I’m not being facetious here. They have made a big rightward lurch, and are basically sitting where the WSJ used to sit.

Xellennial here. Please overlook us. Being “the middle child of history” (remember that quote?) does us just fine.

Nothing to see here. Go bother gen Z.

The terfs will not be missed.

Yes, but this suit about a different matter (access to source code) which is a user right in the license. It’s the whole point of the GPL. In this suit the users (ie. The buyers of the devices that have received the binary distribution) obviously have standing.

The problem with relicensing is that the “authors” of a creative work (remember, this is copyright law) are changing the terms of the distribution, and the authors are allowed to do that. The issue at hand is whether the person doing the changing of the terms is allowed to make this change on behalf of “the authors”.

The users may be impacted by this decision, but they are not a part of the decision making process. Hence, no standing.

What you need in a relicensing is someone that asserts (co-) authorship of the work. That’s a much taller order.

That’s true, but only contributors have standing to do something about it. Unless there are contributors with contributions that are not easily patched out that are willing to make a case out of it, we’re stuck with the last GPL version.