Ah that makes a lot of sense, thanks.

Do they? Presumably they’d open source and upstream their firmware or at the very least provide longer software support if that were the case.

Who on Earth refers to electric vehicles as “e-cars”? Lol

EVs or BEVs is the terminology I’ve always heard.

That aside, I don’t really see how European companies can compete at the low end without slapping tariffs on Chinese goods. Europe doesn’t have the benefit of things like forced labour.

Also, I think it’s unwise to allow our reliance on China to grow even further. We’ve seen from Russia that making a hostile nation integral to our economies not only makes us reluctant to hold them to account properly, but it also causes us tremendous disruption if we do go about severing ties.

There is literally nothing stopping you from doing this, while also transitioning people away from petrol cars to much, much cleaner cars.

Not everyone is privileged enough to live in a city. Especially not one that has great transport links and lots of stuff nearby.

Cars will be around for decades, whether you (or I!) like it or not, so it makes sense for them to be as low-impact as we can make them.

Phew. I can rest easy now. I was constantly mashing F5 to find out if they’d offer Stroll a seat.

Why? Wayland has been working well on non Nvidia hardware on Gnome the entire time I’ve been using it - since 2016.

I truly don’t understand the people who make hating Wayland their entire personality.

You’re in the minority and stuck in the past. Be thankful the devs are keeping X11 as an option for you.

Nope. 2 days.

Announcement that having sex with children is bad, actually: 14th September 2019

Resignation: 16th September 2019

E: not really sure why you’d downvote a factual statement. Go look at his blog for those dates. Please stop defending this. Raping children is a bad thing.

The post should be renamed as The incomplete list of European news websites blocked by Russia on the 25th of June 2024

If my screen recorder software doesn’t put an “UNREGISTERED HYPERCAM 2” watermark at the top left corner, then I’m completely uninterested, smh

They won’t do E2EE until it’s part of the standard. That is being worked on.

Google only has it because they have an extremely proprietary, non-standard RCS implementation. Tbh, Google should’ve open sourced this and had it as part of the RCS standard, but they didn’t.

And yeah the EU isn’t going to force anything on iMessage because it’s literally irrelevant outside of the US. I don’t know anybody who seriously uses iMessage tbh, despite like 40% of people here using iPhones.

Indeed. USB-C is already a lot more feature-rich now than it was when initially designed, yet it hasn’t necessitated moving to a different port or broken protocol compatibility with older USB versions.

I’m just pointing out that even if we decide to move beyond USB-C, the law already allows for that.

I truly don’t understand why some are against the law pushing for a standard here. Would these people like it if different branded lightbulbs used different sockets? Or their TV, toaster, washing machine, playstation etc all used different plug sockets? Or only Volkswagen garages had fuel nozzles that fit into Volkswagen cars? Standards are a good thing.

Oh yes I’m almost as smart as the geniuses involved in EU tech laws that wanted to spy on all your encrypted conversations.

Do you mean the one that was proposed and then was immediately shot down? Try reading beyond the scary headlines. Any representative can propose a law, doesn’t mean it’ll get voted through and enacted.

Could is not the problem. Nearly all of today’s problems could be solved through effective legislation. The problem isn’t could they, it’s would they and who would push for the updated laws.

Like I said, the law doesn’t need to be updated as it was forward-thinking in its design. It already allows for emerging standards. And why would they decide not to update it if they didn’t have that provision? Why would they do that?

Omg you are so SMART! How is it that ONLY YOU have thought of this?!! You should, like, rule the world or something, because you’re clearly so much SMARTER than everybody else!

Ah wait no, the EU directive already has allowances for newly emerging standards and isn’t actually tied to USB-C specifically. I.e. if a USB-D came out, it could be used without changes to the law.

This India one is likely the same, or can be easily amended if it isn’t.

And new standards take time to propagate in the market. USB C was designed in 2012 and the first phone with it was in 2015, from some unknown Chinese brand. It took major brands until 2017! And other devices took even longer than phones. Do you really think they couldn’t update USB-C to D in the law in a timeframe like that? Of course they could.

There’s plenty of evidence that he’s pro paedophilia, which I have posted elsewhere in this submission.

I think people need to stop this hero worship.

Richard Stallman thinks paedophilia is ok or even good. It should be fine to find that view reprehensible whilst at the same time acknowledging that he has some good ideals when it comes to software, and his role in GNU was huge.

People in the Linux world treat him as a deity figure and therefore treat any words against him as blasphemy. It makes them reject and dismiss the whole bestiality/paedophilia is good aspect of him, when they really shouldn’t as that is a rejection of reality.

If you just view him as a flawed person, rather than some deity figure, then it’s easy to accept that he’s good in some areas and less good in others.

Thing is, do we believe his sudden change of heart? It only happened once his job was on the line. He U-turned on his views that sex with children is fine just 2 days before he was forced out of his role.

To me, that reads as a last-ditch attempt to save his job, as opposed to a genuine sudden change in worldview for an opinion he held and championed for decades.

You know, like when a questionable politician has racist twitter posts from 5 years ago brought up in an election campaign and they’re like *“Whaaaat? No no no I don’t believe that anymore. I’m a changed man! Vote for me pls.”

But maybe he really did change his mind 2 days before he was forced out of the FSF/MIT, and I’m just being pessimistic.

I have really mixed feelings on this.

On the one hand, I have to be pragmatic. The truth is that the internet kinda needs at least some ads to be viable. Hosting stuff and creating stuff isn’t free. It needs to be paid for somehow, and I doubt people are willing to pay a fee for each site they visit (not that the infrastructure exists for that anyway!)

Accepting that undeniable truth, I guess we should push for ads to be as uninvasive and privacy respecting as possible. Which is what this project is.

If this takes off, it would certainly be a net positive, and it could even pressure the likes of the EU to force Google/Meta/others to adopt the same kind of thing. It would also be good from the perspective of Mozilla lessening their reliance on Google.

That said… I can’t help but feel Firefox is playing with fire here. A lot of their users hate ads (same, ublock origin ftw), and they might view getting involved with this very poorly, risking Firefox losing even more market share.

And I know the ads will be private, but despite that I think any ad associations at all with Mozilla products risks undermining that reputation.

They should be very cautious with this.

Unfortunately he’s said a lot more than that.

Richard Stallman on paedophilia:

“The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia’ also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally–but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”

RMS on June 28th, 2003

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)

RMS on May 25th 2003

“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

RMS on June 5th, 2006

“There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”

RMS on Jan 4th, 2013

People need to understand that you can be a champion of FOSS, and have some great ideas in terms of software liberty, while also having some really shitty views in other areas.

It’s why people should avoid celebrity worship. Just because an engineer/sportsperson/actor/artist/CEO does something you like, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a good person, or devoid of human flaws.

I’d say the quotes above show he absolutely believes children are capable of consent. Why else would he use phrases like

• “it’s fine so long as nobody is coerced” (as if there are any situations where an adult can have sex with a child without there being coercion)

• “willing participation in pedophilia” (children can’t consent to sex!)

• “the arguments [against having sex with children] seem to be based on cases that aren’t voluntary” (None of them are voluntary! CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT!)

It doesn’t mean he supports it.

He explicitly said it should be legal, and also alluded that parents are just prudish if they don’t want their children to be having sex. It’s very clear he supports it.

You’ll be able to find this stuff in the articles that went around when he was pressured to resign from the FSF and from his role at MIT. It’s primarily quotes from him on his own site, stallman.org.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. Stallman is absolutely a defender of having sex with children.

Richard Stallman on paedophilia:

“The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia’ also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally–but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”

RMS on June 28th, 2003

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)

RMS on 25th May, 2003

To be fair for that one, he doesn’t specify whether 14 or under is fine for an adult to have sex with. It’s certainly possible to interpret this as child-child relations only, but given his other comments where he says adult-child sex is fine, I decided to include this one.

“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

RMS on June 5th, 2006

“There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”

RMS on Jan 4th, 2013

I understand that Stallman has excellent views on liberty in software, and he’s made enormous contributions to FOSS. But that does not necessarily mean he’s a good person or that all of his views are good ones. People are flawed. IMO his views on the morality of having sex with children aren’t good ones, but I recognise that I agree with him in other ways.

Forgive me for my cluelessness, but what exactly is the state of feddit.de that is forcing this move?