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Cake day: December 5th, 2023

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  • The “free” part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.

    I remember seeing a thread about redis on r/linux where lots and lots of people were basically defending Amazon as if from an anarcho-capitalist position. This confused me as I always saw foss (and foss users) as leaning socialist and anti-corporate.

    I spoke to someone about that and they linked me this article (and the article linked in the first sentence) which really opened my eyes.

    The TL;Dr is basically:

    FOSS is not socialist. The free software movement is right-libertarian / “anarcho”-capitalist, and the open source movement is neoliberal; neither of these is even particularly close to socialism.










  • IBM argued that its patent, initially used to launch Prodigy, remains “fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content.” Known as patent '849, that patent introduced “novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy,” which made it “more efficient than conventional systems.”

    According to IBM’s complaint, “By harnessing the processing and storage capabilities of the user’s PC, applications could then be composed on the fly from objects stored locally on the PC, reducing reliance on Prodigy’s server and network resources.”

    The jury found that Zynga infringed that patent, as well as a '719 patent designed to “improve the performance” of Internet apps by “reducing network communication delays.” That patent describes technology that improves an app’s performance by “reducing the number of required interactions between client and server,” IBM’s complaint said, and also makes it easier to develop and update apps.

    All I can say is yikes.






  • It’s easy to understand them when you realise that their entire ideology starts at “anything the US does or says is bad” and continues from there.

    • The US supports Taiwan and is against China? China good, Taiwan bad.
    • The US supports Ukraine and is against Russia? Russia good, Ukraine bad.
    • Israel, Palestine, same thing
    • Bosnian and Rwandan genocide happened? Well the US says so, therefore they didn’t.
    • NATO bombed Serbia over their attempted genocide in Kosovo. NATO is the US, so Serbia didn’t do anything wrong, but Kosovo is bad.
    • And so on, and so on…

    Once you look at it through that lens, even their most wild takes suddenly become very consistent.