They’re trying to make their own distro fully BSD-licensed, so that it can be distributed without end users having to deal with copyleft restrictions.

And now you’re about to nerd-snipe me into checking if control characters are valid for user names in ActivityPub

Call me unsurprised if @Xylight added it as a way to test for rendering errors across Fediverse clients

By the way, if you want to replicate this effect for fun and profit, the control character you’re searching for is U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE (or RLO for short)

For the record, I noticed because I use Friendica:

I understand why are they trying to do so, but it still feels odd to see a project removing GPL’d code

…Did you add an unescaped RTL toggle character on your user name?

Most of my disappointments with Linux come from the proprietary bits to be honest. Both the hardware drivers, and the games and other apps. And even the few times I’m let down by open-source apps, it’s because of abilities from their proprietary counterpart that they are yet to implement.

Specifically, they want to be able to use the utils without having to open-source the derivative works. Same reason why Google is developing the Zircon kernel for Fuchsia OS, by the way.

Waiting for the phone to ring has never been so exciting

There’s this game, Vampire Therapist, where you play as a vampire with knowledge of CBT. Good thing it wasn’t “Vampire The rapist”, where you’d play as a vampire with knowledge of the other CBT. store.steampowered.com/app/248…

Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance. The only correct take is a full boycott

If it weren’t for point 2 I would have recommended Searx. And if it weren’t for point 1 I would have recommended Ecosia, Qwant, or Mojeek.

And even then, it would have a hard time competing against the base PS5 unfortunately. AI has risen the cost of everything for everyone, turns out

Not sure if making a statue to whatever the British call “liver tea” would be recommendable though

And now we wait six years until it lands on Debian Stable. For sure I ain’t moving my home server to Sid just for this

As if all competitions weren’t immoral by nature

I didn’t know Chip’s Challenge got a Lynx port of all things, I could swear it was strictly a PC game! Enjoy!

And people ask why did I bother to set up dual-booting, it’s because of these shenanigans

Because the only way to be completely clean of problematic companies is to not use any.

Which is why I’m weaning myself off of media, in general. Haven’t been able to afford streaming in like a decade, for starters.