whitehatbofh

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Burn, baby, burn (imgflip.com)
 

You know you love to see it

Article: We need more of Richard Stallman, not less in c/programming@beehaw.org
[โ€“] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

No worries. It's all good. ๐Ÿ˜

Article: We need more of Richard Stallman, not less in c/programming@beehaw.org
[โ€“] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's Eric S Raymond (ESR) not Richard Stallman (RMS). ESR was an early and influencial voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), advocating for a distinction between Open Source and Free Software, acknowledging the GNU Public License (GPL) would not work for all parties, some flexibility was need.

RMS is a GPL purist and against any form of compromise. Both made a huge impact and helped make the world and internet better. But they both contributed in very different ways.

Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml in c/technology@beehaw.org
[โ€“] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Use a URL shortener like bitly.

https://bit.ly/3CqHoSB

Does anyone else find Jerboa to be incredibly energy efficient? in c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yah, I've got the same experience. ๐Ÿ™

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Apollo Dev Announces and Explains his Decision to shut down on June 30 (www.reddit.com)
 

A post to a news story about Apollo shutting down at the end of this month was already made, but I thought that the original post by the Apollo Dev was worth also citing. This is a VERY interesting read, though long. He also has audio recordings of all his dealings with Reddit of late.

"Trust' and 'distrust' buttons -rather than 'like' and 'dislike' buttons- could reduce spread of misinformation on social media, experimental study suggests in c/technology@beehaw.org
[โ€“] whitehatbofh@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Slashdot, one of the first predecessors to reddit, had ratings good comments like, "insightful", "informative", "funny", "redundant", "off topic", and more.

I always thought it was much better than just I'll or down vote.

https://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml