When you have to restort to #AnnaArchives instead of #ArchiveOrg .. cause Archive.org implements DRM. Booo..
And yes, "Borrow a virtual book" is DRM.
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Alfred M. Szmidt
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06software freedom or bust / lisp machine revolutionary / sauerpunk gnu hacker / wizard of zymurgy / professional curmudgeon
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LM-3 (MIT CADR, Lisp Machine):
If you use power tools to make furniture and other things you have no honor. (Veiled LLM rant)
I am starting a new movement, Human Computing. Where we reject computers doing our work and automating our tasks.
Our brains have evolved over millennia, we do not need to outsource calculation to computers.
We should not use compilers to translate our code to what we cannot understand.
Don’t automate what you can calculate yourself!
#Satire #Emacs #HumanEmacs (https://human-emacs.org/) dumb shit by people with too much time on their hands.
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@androcat@toot.cat The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix.”
https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html
@hailey@hails.org
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot "The imperative style was very much frowned upon"
It really was not. It was the normal way of writing code. Bunch of TAGBODY, GOTO and other things. SETF pre-dates Common Lisp by many years.
Here is some old fun EH code: https://tumbleweed.nu/r/attic/sys46/file?ci=tip&name=lispm2/eh.316&ln=120-149
That uses SETF.
@janneke@todon.nl @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church
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@yayaver Walking 10k everyday should be considered normal. It is not much.
But …
Why do you cook every night? Clean every day? Meal prep, making lunch boxes., cleaning should be considered automatic and not something you spend time on. Do you consider brushing your teeth or showering a chore?
Taking care of your loved ones, why is that an issue? It is the most wonderful time one can spend.
Work hours, ain’t fun,, but that is when you recharge, why be productive for a black hole.
Does truth still exist?
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@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services Here is some parts of it: https://www.fsf.org/about/fsf-relationship-framework
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot the verdict is still out on that…. Only a human can hold copyright, and if a machine or animals creates something then it falls outside of the scope of copyright. Maybe.
See the case where an ape made a picture, and the person setting up the camera wasn’t deemed the copyright holder.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute
@petealexharris@mastodon.scot
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@androcat@toot.cat What joke? That is not what GNU means, and how we define in English, not Math. *plonk*
@hailey@hails.org
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@redstarfish@social.linux.pizza hurts to ”star” such a terrible decision by the Debian project. When Debian was started, the goal was always to be entirely free software, this was long before the traversty that is contrib/non-free…. #RIP Ian
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@Bumblefish @yayaver If you can take an hour lunch each day, you have time for all of the above. The rest is excuses,
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@privateger That "clever" nonsense can be elided under the GNU AGPL.
"10. If the Program as you
received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is
governed by this License along with a term that is a further
restriction, you may remove that term."
The extra terms are clearly "further restrictions" -- so ..
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@privateger Good thing that you can remove that nonsense pursuant the GNU AGPL under the same section. =)
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@FediVideo @fsfe@media.fsfe.org @fsfe
"(NOTE: FSFE is not affiliated with FSF in the United States. They are totally separate organisations.)"
That is quite the stretch, to the point of a lie. The FSFE is a sister organization to the FSF. The FSFE has several obligations under the FSF.
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@Bumblefish I think it is fair to say that you have no idea of what facism means. Got no better insults?
@yayaver
DPB — what would a good name be for a destructive version? #Lisp #LispMachine
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@mcc@mastodon.social Musk being sent to Pretoria seems fair. Musk doing forced labor seems what 2025 would become a good year.
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@Ardubal@mastodon.xyz it is what I have been using … was trying to rattle the schemers. ;-)
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@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games
“We can't use any copyrighted materials in our presentations, …” — CC-BY-SA is a copyright license.
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@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games and this is why the internet sucks, abusive people like you. It has nothing to do with gender.
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@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services I was around when the FSF Europe was founded. The only reason why they can even call themself FSF(anything) is because an agreement between the FSF and FSFE. With that, there were some obligations made.
Not at a computer, but some oogling should find the relevant texts.