But that doesn’t deserve to count as a separate distro. At best it’s just a variant, like the relationship between Kubuntu and Ubuntu.

Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let’s Encrypt, and F-Droid

I wish I could upvote this twice: once for continuing to drive (and improve) an old car, and then again for modeling it in FreeCAD instead of some proprietary shit.

That sounds like an aspirational goal, not an enforceable rule.

He literally invented the concept of Free Software. So yeah, of course he’s extreme about it!

I mean, maybe, but previously when I’ve said that it’s typically gone over like a lead balloon. Even in tech forums, a lot of people have drunk the kool-aid that it’s somehow suddenly too dangerous to allow owners to control their property just because software is involved.

Thanks!

Welp, that’s embarrassing for me. Good catch!

Maybe, if that two-step determination of liability is really what the parent commenter had in mind.

I’m not so sure he’d agree with my proposed way of resolving the dispute over liability, which would be to legally require that all self-driving systems (and software running on the car in general) be forced to be Free Software and put it squarely and completely within the control of the vehicle owner.

What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don’t use it so I don’t know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I’d at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.

Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.

It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it in lynx so that JavaScript doesn’t run. There’s absolutely no way in Hell he’d be on corporate social media.

(I’m not joking, by the way.)

Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m looking for, but my google-fu (or rather DDG-fu) is failing me. That’s why I’m asking for help.

You’d think an appropriate chart would come up in a simple image search and not require archive.org. I don’t think it’s been memory-holed; I think I can’t figure out the right search terms.

Because I do journalism, and sometimes I even do good journalism!

In that case, you wouldn’t happen to know whether or not Teslas are unusually dangerous to bicycles too, would you?

0. A legal system exists in which the people who build, sell and drive cars are not meaningfully liable when the car hurts somebody

That’s a good thing, because the alternative would be flipping the notion of property rights on its head. Making the owner not responsible for his property would be used to justify stripping him of his right to modify it.

You’re absolutely right about point -1 though.

There was a great chart that showed this sort of phenomenon, I think across a range of issues, but I can’t find it. Can anybody help me out?

Republicans are brainwashed. This sort of thing happens all the time with them, on almost every issue.

It’s always – always – projection.

I used to think it was only sometimes projection or often projection, but lately I’ve realized I was wrong. I literally can’t think of an accusation the MAGAs have used that hasn’t been projection.

That would be punishing yourself compared to switching to Jellyfin, though.

I was literally just researching how to do that yesterday (told you I was serious). It turns out that those threaded holes in sheet metal with the little dimples so there’s more thread than the sheet metal thickness are made with “roll taps” or “forming taps,” not “cutting taps” (which is what your tap and die set probably is). Instead of creating chips, they push the metal out of the way to form the threads.

By the way, similarly thickened but unthreaded holes are made with something called a “friction drill.” It doesn’t have any flutes, so it just heats up the metal until it gets soft and gets pushed out of the way. Kinda neat.

Anyway, I just ordered a 6-32 forming tap off AliExpress; I’m gonna see if I can add some more motherboard standoff holes to one of my computer cases because it’s big enough for an EATX board but isn’t drilled for it.