Lol, if we start excluding tech based on the inventors mental illnesses we are gonna end up bashing rocks together to make fire.
Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that being trans is a mental illness, only refuting that mental illness is not a reason to discard ones contributions. Apologies for any offence.
let me tell you about the guy who invented bashing rocks together …
Pretty much lol. RMS went off the deep end so no GNU, Torvalds used to call people devil cunts so no Linux kernel. Theo probably did something to upset somebody lol. Maybe we can just use TempleOS and become computing hermits?
Goes back further than that, Turing was gay, so anything building off his works must also be transitively gay.
To add to the modern examples, Reiser murdered his wife, which really puts “devil cunts” into perspective :D
Goes back another 100 years before that. Lovelace was a woman, who in her time wasn’t supposed to be doing anything at all
Back then people still believed in the “woman hysteria” thing, right? Ngl sounds very “mental illness” to me.
Well, using the same metrics would mean TempleOS is waaaaay out of the question.
Maybe Terry Davis was the real world Wonko the Sane?
Does being the last sane man on Earth make you crazy?
About as much as having a single functional eye in a country where everybody is blind makes you king.
Except all our hardware is made by major corporationw and there are no major corporations that work totally ethically and morally
Hmm maybe we’ll run FreeDOS on breadboarded (vintage) 8086s and live in caves 😂.
A Microsoft (stolen) design and the most evil CPU arch?
At least caves might be ethically sourced.
Freedos is not MSDos though. And how is x86 evil?
Have you ever tried programming in straight x86 assembly? :P
RISC-V is a good start though
pretty hard to do computation on a pdf. which is what risc-v is. You need someone to design and build a chip according to what’s in those pdfs
You know there’s tons of real chips out already and more coming all the time?
ARM is as much just a spec at heart.
and arm do not manufacture chips. Usually tsmc or samsung do. The fact that chips exist is orthogonal to the argument of who ends up manufacturing them
Yes but who is going to manufacture that chip and board and components?
3D printers, eventually?
Perhaps, but that’s quite far away still
I like the idea of RISC-V, but I need something like a Raspberry Pi except RISC-V. I can accept a little jank, but it needs to be “good enough” if you catch my drift.
Have you seen the Star64?
Are there any performance benchmarks for the Star64?
Pine64 claims the chip to have performance similar to certain Cortex-A55 processors, which would put the Star64 on par with the Raspberry 4 series. Is that true?
OpenBSD got a grant from the DoD, and then Theo posted his opinions of the post-9/11 US government, and they put a stop on the check before it even crossed the border. He pissed a lot of folks inside the Beltway off that day.
It’s so easy to be called *phobic these days. It reminds of those relationships in which people feel like they are walking on eggshells.
I’ve filed a report to GitHub on this guy, I assume you did the same but ugh, people suck.
binex-dsk is now shadowbanned on GitHub
I remember back when I thought all FOSS was part of the FSF, and that itself was formed of hippie liberal progressives. Had a rude awakening when I found about the MIT vs GPL rift, and then another on HN when I realised half the people in software were just there to make money.
I had a period where I didn’t really understand the GPL or what it was trying to do. All I knew is that it was ““viral”” (whatever the hell that meant!) and that, supposedly, trying to use it would forever bind you and your creation to who knows what unforeseen legal horrors. I mean, look how long it is! It’s frightening! I wanted absolutely nothing to do with it at first.
Then I got a clue and actually read it. It’s quite straightforward. For almost all serves and purposes it’s basically just MIT plus copyleft. All the legal density is just an effort to squash every conceivable loophole to the copyleft directive. I’m no longer afraid of it, I think it’s pretty cool.
The thing I want to know now is why so many projects think their shit don’t stink and that they need to pollute the FOSS ecosystem with their own stupid permissive license that is functionally identical to the MIT license.
Could be they like the idea of being in control of the license or something like that
Could also have to do with running a gauntlet of lawyers to be allowed to open some code you wrote.
[Completely unrelated to the content] How the heck is this post managing to crash two out of my three lemmy clients?
It’s probably Wayland
Evil Wayland is making their app crash
Maybe they don’t support multiple images at once?
Make sure to report it 🤠
same for me
Jerboah works fine. Really after trying around its the best
Have you tried Eternity?
Yup, makes no sense as I dont need multiple accounts for privacy, yet. And its broken in many features
Sorry for the Windows emojis lol, I’m on a computer shop as I post this on lunch break
I would never have known if you hadn’t told me. XD
I dont understand, give context, who is binex-dsk and why should I care?
Can we please stop making anything about how people feel about their selves?
Ah, the James Damore archetype of an engineer. I bet they get wet dreams imagining themselves as the Howard Roark of programming (and just as delusional).
It is not nice to generalize.
Holy shit that is bad. I don’t use wayland, but that’s only because it freezes randomly on my 1650. (It’s probably bc it’s on an optimus laptop). I hope this person gets their github account banned.
If you’re against Wayland, you are against peace freedom and democracy !! Also probably anti-Semite communist antilgbt brexiter , oh and racist of course !!