<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@publius" class="u-url mention">@<span>publius</span></a></span> we should have higher moral and practical aspirations here than “arguably better than a kleptocracy”.</p>

<p>thank you ali express, I understand completely</p>

<p>years of insisting that volunteers owe things to huge companies that aren&#39;t paying them has, empirically, not worked out, you need to try a second idea</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mhoye" class="u-url mention">@<span>mhoye</span></a></span> </p><p>Ironically, of course, the proportion of the Soviet economy devoted to the military was much higher than in the USA, to the extent that they had little else — and the same continues to be true of Russia.</p>

<p>we have got to stop talking about open source software this way man. someone who published work with an explicit label on it saying &quot;this comes with absolutely no warranty&quot; and is not being compensated is not part of a &quot;supply chain&quot; <a href="https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114723318068853623" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/11</span><span class="invisible">4723318068853623</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> he may only need to bowl 10 balls at England 😆</p>

<p>&quot;The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse.&quot;</p><p>We used to have these things called blue books. You went to class and wrote your final exam essay by hand. </p><p>That would be hard on everyone. Students aren&#39;t familiar with handwriting. Teachers would have to work harder to get ChatGPT to read the essays.</p><p>But it is not &quot;technically impossible&quot;!</p><p><a href="https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of</span><span class="invisible">-the-student-essayand</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention">@<span>davidgerard</span></a></span> I do not have any firmly-held position on this, but wow... aside from writing about Xlibre bringing out antivaxxers like pale squirming things after lifting a large rock...</p><p>*Sheesh* the personal abuse I&#39;ve had from the GNOME and Wayland fans after _daring_ to point out problems in their babies. </p><p>I never had to start blocking people on the Fediverse before, but now I do.<br /> <br />Thou Shalt Not Criticise Wayland. It Is The Truth And The Light. Thou mayst Not Criticise GNOME Unless Thou Art One Of The KDE Tribe For That Is The Only Other Clean Tribe In The Eyes Of The Lord.</p><p>The Xlibre followers are often Not Nice People, but the folks that Wayland criticism uncovers are not that much less unpleasant to deal with.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys" class="u-url mention">@<span>smurthys</span></a></span> Though in that case he should have brought him on earlier this AM.</p>