GPLv3 is less proprietary than GPLv2, in the sense that it does a better job at protecting end-users from being abused by device makers that would try to close up their Linux-based system.

Imagine having such a hard-on for letting corporations exploit your work in abusive Tivoized products that you stoop to retaliation against a company that’s actually trying to protect their customers.

They know it’s better than v2.

#goals

In most of the places French is spoken, it is the second language (instead of English or Spanish). Only place I can think of off the top of my head where Francophones would likely also know English is Quebec and, I guess, France itself.

The other languages in the sorts of places I was talking about are mostly ones like Arabic, various sub-Saharan African indigenous languages, or Polynesian.

Yeah, that’s the thing: “which language is spoken by the most people” is an easy question to answer, but “which language (or combination of languages) lets me communicate well enough to get by in the most places” is much harder because the statistics aren’t necessarily collected in a way that lend themselves to that kind of analysis.

For example, Hindi is spoken by a whole bunch of people, but I’m pretty sure the vast majority of those people also speak English, so if you already know English you don’t actually need to learn it.

Depends on the route you want to take while traveling. For example, if you want to circumnavigate in a sailboat through the tropics, French is a great choice because France includes a bunch of tropical islands:

French is also widely spoken in Africa, IIRC.

No, you don’t deserve that privilege!

It really went downhill since the resonance cascade.

kleptoplasty

I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).

I learned how to make a really simple PCB in KiCad a few minutes ago, by watching this video. The thing I wanted actually existed already and I could’ve bought it from Aliexpress, but I realized I could save about $40 re-drawing my own version and ordering from JLCPCB instead, so that’s what I did.

It means a change either applied completely and successfully, or not at all (think “atomic transactions” in databases).

standard verical PC case

Excuse you! Standard PC cases are horizontal:

Read mrmoneymustache.com.

I think we should take another look at Slashdot’s moderation and meta-moderation system:

• Users couldn’t just vote on everything; “modpoints” (upvotes/downvotes, but also with a reason attached) were a limited resource.
• Comments scores were bounded to [-1, 5] instead of being unbounded.
• Most importantly, what wasn’t limited was that users had the opportunity to “meta-moderate:” they would be shown a set of moderation actions and be asked to give a 👍 or 👎 based on whether they agreed with the modpoint usage or not.
• Users would be awarded modpoints based on their karma (how their own comments had been modded by others) and their judgement (whether people agreed or not with their modpoint usage).

Admittedly the exact formula Slashdot used for awarding modpoints was secret to prevent people from gaming it, which doesn’t exactly work for Lemmy, but the point is that I think the idea of using more than one kind of signal to determine reputation is a good one.

Think about it, you outlast planets and stars. When those go dark, but you don’t die…nothing to do but float in space.

LOL, that’s just the beginning – only on the order of 10¹² - 10¹⁴ years. After that, you’re going to be waiting around for proton decay (10³⁶ - 10⁴³ years), all the way up to 10^10^120 years* for the final heat death of the universe.

(* Anybody know how to get Lemmy markdown to do nested superscripts?)

going to HR over this seems ridiculous

It’s not.

More to the point, you should do so before he beats you to it, complaining that you’re not being a “team player” or something.

That’s redundant.

Or you could be trans, apparently (3^rd panel): https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-3-2020

Knitting is a form of computing and computing is women’s work. So yeah, super gay, just like all the other programmers. ^/s