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| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> the ssg??? | Jan 14 01:59 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Anyway, I see in the news that Dilbert's author has died. | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I really, really wish I had saved the last three strips where he | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | kept going on about he who controls Bytedance's Tiktok controls the world. | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | With the lead time between drawing and publication, his cancellation would | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | have started almost exactly timed with those strips getting to the newspapers. | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He helped add fuel to the fire, but the cancellation had started already. | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 14 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | good people die faster | Jan 14 03:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0 | Jan 14 04:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "That might be true for some cases, but not for me. If I overestimated my abilities, wouldn't it make sense for a team lead to make sure that I received all the resources necessary so that I could succeed? Instead, I had team leads "forget" to give me these resources on numerous occasions, and instead I was given them by technical teams. | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And yet, this team lead would constantly ask me to be on projects with him, then take credit for my work. Doesn't sound like I was overestimating my abilities. It sounds to me like he didn't want me to succeed independently. | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @14p+1ked3sgr0 | Jan 14 04:21 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | What will be the demographics on this next one about to kick off? | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jan 14 04:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @14f+1ked3sgr0 | Jan 14 04:21 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Def Met team has god like talents | Jan 14 04:21 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hey Roy, | Jan 14 05:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Got your key fine using wget | Jan 14 05:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > please confirm decrypt | Jan 14 05:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > regards, | Jan 14 05:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ACK | Jan 14 05:14 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> The microSD card on the main RPi here seems to have burned out finally. | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> I'm replacing it and restoring from scattered backups, but that may | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> take hours. I hope I can do it before the scheduled power outage. | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> That's one of the reasons I got a laptop (used) for those tasks. | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > This is a RPi4. The RPi5 can use an SSD. | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Regardless, I think it's back up and running. | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Hi, Roy, | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I think things are back online here. I had to pull two temperature sensors. Those will get tested separately and maybe reinstalled as summer approaches. " | Jan 14 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598991 | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | teekert 16 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It really should be like that indeed. Where is RMS? Is he working on GPLv4? | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | If model training is determined to be fair use under US copyright law—either legislated by Congress or interpreted by Federal courts—then no license text can remove the right to use source code that way. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | RobotToaster 11 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > then no license text can remove the right to use source code that way. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | At least in the US. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Quite what happens if another country ordered, say chatGPT, to be released under the AGPL since it was trained on AGPL code, who knows. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | trashb 14 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You can follow him on https://stallman.org/ What is he doing? I believe still giving talks and taking stance on current day political issues. Additionally I believe the last few years where quite turbulent so I assume he is taking life at his own pace. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | oblio 15 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | RMS is probably greatly behind the technical news at this point. I mean, he's surfing the web via a email summary of some websites. Even if he doesn't condone of how the internet is evolving, he can't really keep up with technology if he doesn't "mingle". | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He's also 72, we can't expect him to save everyone. We need new generations of FOSS tech leaders. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I am gen-z and I am part of the foss community (I think) and one of the issues about new generations of FOSS tech leaders is that even if one tries to do so. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Something about Richard stallman really is out of this world where he made people care about Open source in the first place. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I genuinely don't know how people can relicate it. I had even tried and gone through such phase once but the comments weren't really helpful back then on hackernews | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558430 (Ask HN: Why are most people not interested in FOSS/OSS and can we change that) | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | teekert 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As much as RMS meant for the world, he’s also a pretty petty person. He’s about freedom but mostly about user freedom, not creators freedom. I also went through such a phase but using words like “evil” is just too black and white. I don’t think he is a nice person to be around.l, judging from some podcasts and videos. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | trashb 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If there is one thing Stallman knows well is the way he uses words and I can assure you if he calls something "evil" that is exactly the word he meant to use. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > user freedom, not creators freedom | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In his view users are the creators and creators are the users. The only freedom he asks you to give up is the freedom to limit the freedom of others. | Jan 14 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | teekert 13 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | RMS asks you to give something up: Your right to share a thing you made, under your conditions (which may be conditions even the receiving party agree on), nobody is forced in this situation, and then he calls that evil. I think that is wrong. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I love FOSS, don't get me wrong. But people should be able to say: I made this, if you want to use it, it's under these condition or I won't share it. | Jan 14 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Again, imho the GPL is a blessing for humanity, and bless the people that choose it freely." | Jan 14 05:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video] | Hacker News | Jan 14 05:20 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-stallman.org | Richard Stallman's Personal Page | Jan 14 05:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Ask HN: Why are *most* people not interested in FOSS/OSS and can we change that | Hacker News | Jan 14 05:22 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hi Dr. Schestowitz and Mrs. Schestowitz, | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I’m not sure there’s much else to say beyond | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > thank you - thank y'all for continuing to cover | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > our event and for supporting LibreTech! | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This kind message from you, too, we'll respond to in due course. We're busy covering some big scandals this month. | Jan 14 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | best wishes, | Jan 14 05:27 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | he did say something rather bad but it got buried | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I suspect that aside from that he was worried about what had happened | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to gary trudeau and doonesbury and intended to ride out cheeto's tenure | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | by kissing ass instead of being a gadfly | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/scott-adams-dilbert-creator-dies-rcna253792 | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Why did Dilbert get cancelled? If you believe the news, it | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | was because I'm a big ol' racist," according to Adams' website. | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "If you look into the context, the point that got me cancelled | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is that CRT, DEI and ESG all have in common the framing that | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | White Americans are historically the oppressors and Black | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Americans have been oppressed, and it continues to this day. I | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | recommended staying away from any group of Americans that | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | identifies your group as the bad guys, because that puts a | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | target on your back." | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | but, again, that all happened right before his panels about Bytedance's Tiktok | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | were going to press. | Jan 14 15:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nbcnews.com | Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator and conservative commentator, dies at 68 | Jan 14 15:54 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ^quote | Jan 14 15:54 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The strip's site got pulled down before anyone it seems read his final panels | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I must have been one of the few. | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And, as mentioned, I regret not saving the last three. | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.html">Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical Dilbert Comic Strip, Dies at 68</a></h5><blockquote>His chronicles o | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.</blockquote></li> | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | he said something about Cheeto, but to paint him as just "racist" based on that seems highly selective | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i think it weas the pedestal thing | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i put the strip in daily links | Jan 14 15:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | culd be like "dalai lama pedo" thing | Jan 14 15:55 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | cpc finger on "rage cycles" | Jan 14 15:56 |
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