Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: AI spam cannot be copyrighted, so cannot have an open source license, so cannot be open source. It does not fit in this community.

If a thing cannot be copyrighted then it is in the public domain, so it must be open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(package_manager)

There are many, varied motivations for contributing to open source projects, and most of them aren’t a sense of altruism.

It’s great PR to market open source in utopian terms, but the reality is far more complicated.

The Apache web server wasn’t created out of the goodness of people’s hearts but out of mid-90s internet startups’ need for a reliable, scalable platform on which to profitably run services.

Thank you. 📺 How To: Leaving Enough Slack In Your Service Loop (Overview & Examples)

However it was involved in some controversies where the dev team showed themselves biased

This is meaningless without specifying what bias.

This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.

The most reliable way to know is to run Mint on a USB stick and try it.

I once had a conversation with developers of the AWS platform about how it was Turing complete without using any actually billable features.

Hardly anyone but Ubuntu users use snap, because snap was created by Ubuntu, and their efforts to get other distros to adopt it never gained traction. Debian users are especially uninterested in using snap, and some people on Debian are ex-Ubuntu users who switched because they didn’t like snap.

alias is for aliasing commands. If you want to “alias“ arguments, use shell/environment variables.

$ docs=/media/docs
$ cd $docs

The recent attack didn’t have to do with cryptographic signatures. It was a supply chain worm, with GitHub Actions being the vector. https://snyk.io/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised/

There are ten thousand Linux distributions—some of which are shit—and only one FreeBSD.

I was just now years old when I learned that mg (AKA MicroGnuEmacs) comes with OpenBSD & MacOS.

• https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/mg
• https://github.com/hboetes/mg

Mostly no. That’s more Hollywood fantasy than real life.

How to smuggle all three volumes of Das Kapital into prison with just thirty dollars, a condom, and some lube.

I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.

[the linux kernel developers group] bent over backwards to comply with the american government’s overreach when they kicked out russian developers.

I though that was mostly due to Linus being a typical Russia-hating Finn, but I never investigated.