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I will always remember Luke Smith as the perfect example of what happens when you fall for every single /g/ meme at once, without carefully analyzing them first. He owns four ThinkPads at least. While I see nothing wrong with them in themselves, as they are admittedly pretty good value for the price, four is just mindless consumerism, contradictory to his "philosophy". He started using every single shitty pseudominimalist, ncurses-based program, used a shitty riced out i3 setup of dubious actual productivity (like all tiling wms), then fell for the full Suckless meme and went in even deeper. Then he started making videos pooping on Python and praising C, which is ironic considering he is not even a programmer by his own admission. He effectively spent years trying out, configuring and hopelessly trying to integrate tens of meme programs to build what is, combined, effectively a shittier Emacs, just like most of /g/ was doing in their "productive" desktop threads a year or two ago. Then he read the Unabomber manifesto and blindly accepted it without constructively analyzing it first, same with the anarcho-primitivist ideology that was all the rage about a year and a half on 4chan and 8ch. While he stated on his website that he "didn't browse 4chan much anymore" it was obvious this wasn't the case. Then he went and took the memes way too far, and unironically went to live in isolation. While I see nothing wrong in itself, the actual reason he did it is massive cringe. He has the mentality of someone 10 years younger than he is, yet he acts like a literal boomer jokingly criticizing "zoomers" despite he himself being the worst example of a millennial. He attacks "nerds" when it't painfully obvious he's deeply unhappy with himself, as it was obviously self-directed criticism thinly veiled as an edgy dabbing video. He is a perfect example of someone you should avoid becoming at all costs.
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His Monero Superchat program is pretty cool tho. He studied languages before he became a /g/tard so I think him reading latin and greek manuscripts triggered his RETVRN autism. He made interested enough to get the Lingua Latinx books by Hans H. Orberg
!bookworms
https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/shadowchat
https://archive.org/details/lingualatinxpers0000oerb_x3i0
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Nice copypasta
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You can type 10,000 characters and you decided that these were the one's that you wanted.
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He's not an NPC, he's literally a RuneScape default PC
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Holy shit, the Linux tiling scheme tester dude went full AnPrim? That's hilarious. Maybe he'll evolve and be running around talking about LLMs in 10 years.
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You forgot to mention his schizo Christianity arc.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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other people throw away their three year old macbook air. two of his thinkpads are probably 10 year old models, and all four together were cheaper than a new macbook air.
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Based Luke
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His buying four ThinkPads was the worst crime. They're not even that good anyway.
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i thought that the point of them was that you could get one for like 200 bucks and they work bc the old ones are bricks.
also they used them in space
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Linux nerds harp about them because they were more likely to be compatible with their neurodivergent flavor of Linux, back in the day.
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thinkpads are the only reasonable laptop choice besides macbooks, and they're a lot cheaper.
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what I've seen from him seemed pretty reasonable. e.g. "don't waste your time distro hopping"
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its his life, man. let him do what he wants.
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Always preferred the Do What The Frick You Want To Public License (WTFPL)
https://www.wtfpl.net/
Every few projects Compliance runs Black Duck or whatever software license software they decide to use at the time to ensure we're not using any licenses that could cause them issue.
CTO of General Motors gave me such a look when I was reading through the licenses currently in the software and then asked me what WTFPL stood for. I told him and he was wide eyed looking at me "can we reword that"?
I told him we can do whatever the frick we want.
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He's doing whatever the frick he wants.
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Clearly not a web developer.
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Im a fan of the beerware license, it's wtfpl but you're obliged to buy the creator a beer if you meet.
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I don't want "people" buying me crap beer.
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Time to post the meme again
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Two sides of every coin Literally the biggest promoters of an entirely open stack but "no that's wrong we gotta fork it"
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who's the cuck now?
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I think GPLv3 has anti-tivoization
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True, but SSPL explicitly guarantees your rights to the entire stack. If there's any encumbrance to you setting up an identical instance - it's no good.
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i think programmers just object to using smaller licenses because it's like "rolling their own crypto" or using a small crypto library. it's security related and they don't want to have to think about it, they just want the legalize or crypto magic to be compartmentalized into its own black box.
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Its not programmers actually making the decision, the in house or contracted lawyers will give them a list of approved licenses and you're not going to get management to pay a lawyer to put a new license on a pile and wait a month before rubberstamping it and charging them for the month. Companies aren't willing to trust an autist software dev who assures them they can use this cool project he found because he insists the law is like a logical program.
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it's the same thing
pretty much everybody feels this way (devs/mgmt) the only exceptions are the extremely neurodivergent
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SSPL is blatantly punitive in a way that gpl3 and even agpl3 isn't. GPL derivatives require you to open-source your version of the software in question while SSPL requires you to open-source everything running on your machine. If you use a proprietary dependency licensed from someone else then this isn't even possible, so you just can't run the software at all. Stallman and the FSF and OSI are right to say it goes too far.
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"I'm a free software purist but I'm 100% fine with companies using my copyright in service of their secret sauce which they will never ever release"
I still believe that if this was the official AGPL 2.0, people would be clapping their hands and jumping up and down at it.
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SSPL is not used by actual free software purists because it presents a uniquely onerous burden on anyone who wants to use it for real economic activity, and free software purists typically want their software to actually be run, if for no other reason than that people who run software are more likely to contribute to it. SSPL is used exclusively by SaaS companies who want to sell commercial licenses to enterprise users. They used to use AGPL for this, but then people realized you could actually just comply with the AGPL and it wasn't that bad, so the SSPL was cooked up as a replacement that would be maximally radioactive to any user with an application bigger than a home server.
If these companies were honest, they would offer their product as proprietary, commercially licensed software with public source availability and a free license for noncommercial users, but that doesn't let them cash in on open-source branding or free labor contributions from the community.
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The full screed is pretty funny
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/
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All open source should be in the public domain so I never have to hear about this shit again
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They made a license for that - CC0 (applies in jurisdictions with no "public domain") or the ISC (basically an MIT/BSD license without boilerplate covered by the Berne convention)
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that's the https://based.cooking guy? fricking based
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I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say
I DONT GIVE A FRICK ABOUT THE FRICKING CODE! i just want to download this stupid fricking application and use it https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock#installation
WHY IS THERE CODE??? MAKE A FRICKING .EXE FILE AND GIVE IT TO ME. these dumbfricks think that everyone is a developer and understands code. well i am not and i don't understand it. I only know to download and install applications. SO WHY THE FRICK IS THERE CODE? make an EXE file and give it to me. STUPID FRICKING SMELLY NERDS
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The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" license is the best license to use.
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