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schestowitz__"if RMS is a hero, then lxo is like levels far above RMS"Mar 28 02:47
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schestowitz__> Thanks, I've put in the changes you proposed; great ones!Mar 28 02:47
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schestowitz__> Sorry about all the obvious typos, I hoped to still catch you in thisMar 28 02:47
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schestowitz__> I'll let you know once I gather all the feedback I've asked for, andMar 28 02:47
schestowitz__> decide when to publish it.Mar 28 02:47
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schestowitz__>     They have allowed people to sign the petition without touching GitHub.Mar 28 02:48
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schestowitz__> That's how I signed. But since the page itself is hosted at github, IMar 28 02:48
schestowitz__> suggested that they use some sort of a mirror site. I'm not sure howMar 28 02:48
schestowitz__> Bill would get his arms around https://rms-support-letter.github.io/Mar 28 02:48
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schestowitz__> <https://rms-support-letter.github.io/> , but you never know.Mar 28 02:48
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schestowitz__Yes, I don't want my name on Microsoft pagesMar 28 02:48
schestowitz__> I don't see your name?Mar 28 02:48
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schestowitz__Re: Stallman LetterMar 28 02:49
schestowitz__> Good afternoon.Mar 28 02:49
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schestowitz__> Would you be willing to speak out in support of Richard Stallman in theMar 28 02:49
schestowitz__> face of a coordinated attack on FSF and himself? You can sign an openMar 28 02:49
schestowitz__> letter supporting them here: https://rms-support-letter.github.io/Mar 28 02:49
schestowitz__> <https://rms-support-letter.github.io/> (you can sign using github,Mar 28 02:49
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schestowitz__> Thank you!Mar 28 02:49
schestowitz__https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/maahv0/richard_stallman_is_coming_back_to_the_board_of/Mar 28 04:49
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schestowitz__I am one of the few people who is extremely happy that Richard Stallman has come back to the FSF.Mar 28 04:49
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schestowitz__Such a shame.Mar 28 04:49
schestowitz__The LibrePlanet organizers and staff were not informed.Mar 28 04:49
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schestowitz__And on the third day (well, not third day, but you get the idea), Technolojesus was risen according to the scripturesMar 28 04:49
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schestowitz__Second venue of the Christ haha!Mar 28 04:49
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schestowitz__Rare good news in this subMar 28 04:50
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schestowitz__About time. He did nothing wrong and the people who stabbed him in the back should be shunned for their willful cooperation with a vicious smear.Mar 28 04:50
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schestowitz__What was the smear about?Mar 28 04:50
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schestowitz__"The Fsf is returning to the Fsf"Mar 28 04:50
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schestowitz__"The FSF is returning to the building formerly occupied by the FSF."Mar 28 04:50
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schestowitz__The name of this sub is particularly appropriate for this article.Mar 28 04:51
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schestowitz__I'm getting a self-signed cert for that site with the following SHA-256 thumbprint: BA47DEE6AE066F2BD80D51BF957E60416A8149A3A2F31FC2795A415ADA421704Mar 28 04:51
schestowitz__Does anyone publish verification of that cert?Mar 28 04:51
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schestowitz__Followers of the Church of Emacs rejoice and sing the Free Software hymn! The prophet St IGNUcius has been resurrected. Our computers can once again be blessed and exorcized of evil proprietary software that have possessed them!Mar 28 04:51
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schestowitz__    sing the Free Software hymnMar 28 04:51
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schestowitz__Good. The entire fiasco was complete bullshit to begin with.Mar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__But... but... some people on Twitter told me that they've been having PTSD from the moment they heard of RMS's existence and that's the reason why they never contributed to free software.Mar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__Do you think this will be good or bad for GNU Hurd? I am really looking forward to 2021 being the Year of the GNU/Hurd DesktopMar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__Hopefully, it would feel great to have more than a couple major free kernelsMar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__To reply to your question, I don't know. Myself I feel a little more inspired.Mar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__If GNU/Hurd sounds promising, it might get some donations from rich people or industry etc.Mar 28 04:52
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schestowitz__GNU/Hurd would need resources to progress. Who would give the money? Can we make a crowd funding site with no non-free javascript and collect money for steps such as GNU/Hurd USB support?Mar 28 04:53
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schestowitz__GNU/Hurd works best on virtual machines. It works also on real hardware. However, it has no USB support, but can connect to internet. I would love to use Hurd on my Thinkpad T400 or some other laptop. If somebody could install for me, I would pay.Mar 28 04:53
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schestowitz__I like to think that most people who were understandably angry at RMS cooled down and saw that he didn't really do anything too bad once some time had passed and they looked at it more dispassionately. But not everyone. Expect some angry rants.Mar 28 04:53
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schestowitz__I thought he was a racist, sexist homophobe? The people on the internet told me! He basically wrote Mein Kampf!Mar 28 04:53
schestowitz__Also in a serious note: Who's "Mr. Oliva"? I've never heard of him, though I'm quite bad with names.Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__Well, the accusations I remember were that he was a sexist creep, and I haven't heard anybody respond to those reactions...Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__To be clear, he stepped down after it was shown he alleged that one of the underage girls being trafficked by Epstein consented to sex with Marvin Minsky. sourceMar 28 04:54
schestowitz__It's not some frivolous non-story-- he was seen as defending something pretty vile. The controversy threatened many ties the FSF has with other groups/projects, not to mention donations. Just being entirely pragmatic, if he returns without any apology or backtracking, this puts the FSF at risk.Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__Isn't it marvellous? The world's not all bad after all :)Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/maorj2/richard_stallman_is_coming_back_to_the_board_of/Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__I don't like the guy but the digital lynch mob that formed to attack anyone who has any association with him was ridiculous:Mar 28 04:54
schestowitz__> Sarah Mei then went through the board members involved one by one, digging into each of their histories, and tweeting what she viewed as fire-worthy infractions. The crimes included: “being super involved with Wikipedia,” retweeting a “hideous” New York Times editorial, and being friendly with famed democracy activist and law professor Lawrence Lessig. Publicly calling out each board member in turn with a clear implication:Mar 28 04:54
schestowitz__associate with a thought criminal and you too could be in jeopardy.Mar 28 04:54
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schestowitz__Hannah Wolfman-Jones and Nadine Strossen wrote a good article on Stallman's case last May. Strongly recommended if you haven't read it yet. https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-webMar 28 04:55
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schestowitz__    "I don't always read mailing lists, but when I do, it's because Richard Stallman is claiming the negative reaction to his abortion joke makes him a victim and scares women away from open source"Mar 28 04:55
schestowitz__I had to dig around about what supposed "abortion joke" he made. It's this - the context is abort():Mar 28 04:55
schestowitz__    Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program.Mar 28 04:55
schestowitz__What it's actually about: Mexico City policy, aka Global Gag RuleMar 28 04:55
schestowitz__    The “Global Gag Rule,” otherwise known as the Mexico City Policy, requires that any overseas organization receiving U.S. aid not have anything to do with abortion. Doctors, midwives, and nurses could not even mention the word abortion—much less provide abortion services with their own funds—even if it was legal in their country, or if a woman asks.Mar 28 04:55
schestowitz__TL;DR It's not an abortion joke, but an out-of-place commentary on a rule that tries to censor NGOs.Mar 28 04:55
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schestowitz__gonna be honest, I'm not thrilled, dude is a super creepMar 28 04:55
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schestowitz__Awful news. Even if we pretend that Stallman did nothing wrong, the FSF as it currently is is unfit for purpose.Mar 28 04:56
schestowitz__There are loads of cool software packages using GPL, but for the majority of newer stuff made the GPL is near totally absent. Its coasting along on the inertia of past projects but all the stuff on the up and up (LLVM, TypeScript, Rust) has the GPL almost nowhere to be found.Mar 28 04:56
schestowitz__This is a disaster.Mar 28 04:56
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schestowitz__What about Linux? Isn't that GPL, and new versions come out frequently?Mar 28 04:56
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schestowitz__Yeah, this has been specifically pushed by the corporate agenda of some big players for a while. LLVM is one branch, and there are others, e.g. Android dropping glibc in favor of their bionic. Piece by piece they're trying to displace GPL projects from every important area of software there is. You know if they could kill Linux they would, too (Google is trying exactly that with their Fuchsia thing, I guess, thankfully nobody isMar 28 04:56
schestowitz__really buying it yet). I don't really want to see what happens when they succeed everywhere.Mar 28 04:56
schestowitz__The FSF has certainly not been very visible in fighting the anti-GPL trend, although I'm not sure there's much they could do anyway. They just have no real power. The big companies with their deep coffers have learned now that they can lure communities away from GPL projects by just investing tons in shiny bells and whistles for their competing project. Not really sure if there's any good way to stop the trend. Heck, maybe StallmanMar 28 04:56
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schestowitz__Rust is on the up and up? I thought usage was still in the fractional percentages.Mar 28 04:56
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schestowitz__    There are loads of cool software packages using GPL, but for the majority of newer stuff made the GPL is near totally absent. Its coasting along on the inertia of past projects but all the stuff on the up and up (LLVM, TypeScript, Rust) has the GPL almost nowhere to be found.Mar 28 04:56
schestowitz__I don't see how that's related to Stallman, though.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__People see the GPL as more-or-less commie-shit, unfortunately. In the 90s, most stuff was totally proprietary. Then the corporations realized they could outsource a lot of work by making things open source, but in a way that they didn't have to agree to any obligations, so the liberal licenses have had a huge surge in use.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__I highly doubt that Stallman, himself, ever really held back the GPL.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__But, in any case, I agree with you that no exciting new projects seem to be GPL. Why do you suppose that is and what can/should be done to promote it better?Mar 28 04:57
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schestowitz__You don't really know what you are talking about, do you? The FSF does not produce software. That's the GNU Project. And the GNU Project is extremely far from being the only entity producing software under the GPL License. And a shitload of projects under the GPL are not declining nor today nor anytime soon.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__Plus the mission of the FSF is not exclusively the usage of the GPL...Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__So it may be actually be considered a good news for completely other criteria than a random mix issued to show you know that Stallman is linked to the FSF and the GPL, and signal that you may not like copyleft or something like that :DMar 28 04:57
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schestowitz__Wow. This post is one of the highest rated comments on this thread.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__That's what this subreddit has devolved into.Mar 28 04:57
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schestowitz__Can FSF do anything about it? I don't really know, they don't seem to have the resources for any offensive move. I would bet on staying as resilient as possible in hope the "GPL is virus" crowd comes to senses by themselves. They already started to suspect something went wrong with no-copyleft licenses.Mar 28 04:57
schestowitz__Even if it could, is Stallman leaving moves it to the correct direction? As Stallman was leaving, I tried to check several comments from those who was staying in FSF. There were many nice words about inclusivity etc. But I don't remember any of them said anything freedom. How they intend to keep software free.Mar 28 04:57
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schestowitz__Huh, I would've thought the whole Epstein thing would've been the last we heard of him. But I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, dude is pretty crazy about getting into the limelightMar 28 04:57
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schestowitz__Im not in the loop: Stallman and Epstein ?Mar 28 04:58
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schestowitz__The people here evidently didn't read the original conversation. Minsky (a friend of stallman) was accused of a assaulting a girl. Stallman said that words like assault are unclear and that the accusation is that the girl was coerced into having sex with him and that most interpretations would agree that Minsky would have been unaware of the coercion. Someone mentioned that in the virgin islands having sex with a 17 year old isMar 28 04:58
schestowitz__assault under the jurisdiction. Stallman said that they are discussing the ethics or morality of the situation, and that that does not change with the jurisdiction.Mar 28 04:58
schestowitz__That is what the controversy was about. He never defended Epstein, he's called him a serial rapist and has asked for his encarcelation.Mar 28 04:58
schestowitz__A big part of the controversy is having this conversation in an MIT science forum.Mar 28 04:58
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schestowitz__i really do wish free software was a viable alternative for meMar 28 04:58
schestowitz__i dont think it has anything to do with rms heading up fsf or fsf for that matterMar 28 04:58
schestowitz__personally, their track record of attracting extremists and corporate backlash leaves a lot to be desired in terms of results (you know that little thing that some of us in the private sector have to worry about because we dont live in cushy cocoon of macarthur grants where we get to spew fire&brimstoneTM from our ivory tower)Mar 28 04:58
schestowitz__i would love to use only free software at my enterpriseMar 28 04:58
schestowitz__what is fsf doing to help make that happen? not a thingMar 28 04:58
schestowitz__what will they be doing about that once rms gets reappointed to head the organization? the exact same thingMar 28 04:58
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schestowitz__We don't need this creep around.Mar 28 04:58
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schestowitz__I didn't expect discussions of child rape today...Mar 28 04:58
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schestowitz__Do you have a particular "Child Rape Day" circled on your calendar?Mar 28 04:59
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schestowitz__I'm not defending adults sleeping with 17yos (or more accurately being skeptically that it's rape) but I think it diminishes perception of how truely horrifying child molestation is when we group these two things together.Mar 28 04:59
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schestowitz__I know Stallman for his advocacy for FLOSS and I stand by him. Welcome back, RMS. Thank you for standing up for our freedom. Thank you for fighiting to defend our freedom.Mar 28 04:59
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schestowitz__Agreed. It's ridiculous that he was forced to step down in the first place.Mar 28 04:59
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schestowitz__Fuck Richard “I don’t see anything wrong with child pornography” Stallman.Mar 28 05:00
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schestowitz__    Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.Mar 28 05:00
schestowitz__    The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.Mar 28 05:00
schestowitz__source, because some people can't be arsed.Mar 28 05:00
schestowitz__Also, for context, Dubya is George W. Bush - the then-president of the USA.Mar 28 05:00
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schestowitz__The little birds and their loins rejoice! Guess what, co-workers? Foot snack parties!!! Inappropriate dancing with a guy in a GNU (Gnu's Not Unix) costume may occur.Mar 28 05:01
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schestowitz__Leaving aside Stallman's questionable past comments (which are pretty indicting, to be fair), I'm pretty sure the reason for his return is his view on software freedom and what the laws concerning copyright and other computer related subjectsshould be. Like it or not, I personally believe that his ideals are what pushed a lot of the projects that FSF is now running: like their push against DRM (the defective by design initiatie) orMar 28 05:01
schestowitz__their attempts at classifying JavaScript libraries according to whether they are or are not free. Not to mention the linux libre initiative, along with other similar projects like libreCMC or their android fork (although the latter two have very little hardware support).Mar 28 05:01
schestowitz__He has strong opinions over what should and shouldn't pass and, frankly, I think he has better conviction than the majority of other people on this planet.Mar 28 05:01
schestowitz__His technical skills or what he's done recently are not relevant now, it's his vision. Which makes sense for someone with such a positionMar 28 05:01
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schestowitz__Welcome back Stallman!!Mar 28 05:01
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schestowitz__what does this mean for GNU Hurd?Mar 28 05:01
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schestowitz__No idea why anyone would choose to simp for Richard Stallman.Mar 28 05:01
schestowitz__Even if you’re a free software advocate, the man has not contributed anything of value for over 30 years.Mar 28 05:02
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schestowitz__"Mar 28 13:20
schestowitz__To put it simply: I suffered from nocturia, and about two years ago, I bought a small fountain, and, overnight, my nocturia disappeared.  The cascading water creates mechanical sound waves that stimulate urinary function, and alleviate nocturia.  And, rather than continue to use a small fountain, I came up with the idea of putting a pump in a trashcan.Mar 28 13:20
schestowitz__I am convinced that bathing the body in mechanical sound waves from cascading water has urological benefits, aside from the other benefits people claim they get from fountains.  I've done quite a bit of research on the internet, and one of the great believers in flowing water was Leonardo da Vinci.   http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/artleonardo.htmlMar 28 13:20
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-witcombe.sbc.edu | H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: Leonardo and WaterMar 28 13:20
schestowitz__You might not know much about nocturia, but, believe me, it is a problem that researchers and doctors and companies all over the world are heavily involved in.  Ferring, the Swiss pharma company, commissioned this RAND Corporation report that says the annual cost of nocturia is $79 billion.   https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/nocturia-effects-on-health-and-productivity.htmlMar 28 13:20
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.rand.org | How trips to the bathroom at night affect health and productivity | RANDMar 28 13:20
schestowitz__I guess your focus is on radio waves, not mechanical sound waves, but maybe you know somebody who might be interested in this discovery.Mar 28 13:20
schestowitz__I have ideas about how this discovery might be commercialised, and my published PCT application is at https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2021030158 , and I have a little website at fountainmagicforyou.comMar 28 13:21
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schestowitz__> Please update this site to modern web standards. The wholeMar 28 14:43
schestowitz__> site is incredibly dated and fails to render properly in currentMar 28 14:43
schestowitz__> browsers. For a purported software and web design company that isMar 28 14:43
schestowitz__> pretty dumb.Mar 28 14:43
schestowitz__> On 28/03/2021 08:10, Jean Louis wrote:Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> * Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> [2021-03-28 07:31]:Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 00:53:45 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>>> If you feel the same pain watching the attacks on RMS that you feltMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>>> watching the mob at the US Capitol then you are a witness to a crime.Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>>>Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>>> https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-arrest-and-prosecution-for-cyberbullying/Mar 28 14:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-debian.community | Molly de Blanc, arrest and prosecution for cyberbullyingMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>> Calling for the arrest of someone whose speech you do not agree with,Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>> even if you consider it libelous, is wrong.Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> Mike, did you send that same message also to the other side?Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> Do you know more about that conflict and what was done or what can beMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> done to solve the conflict?Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> Why don't you initiate as assistant there, a meeting of Molly de BlancMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> and RMS, I somehow think they could solve those issues byMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> speaking. Maybe something good comes out of it.Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> JeanMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>>Mar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> P.S. Otherwise, if nobody initiated mediation between parties inMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> conflict, at least one of those parties, in this case Molly de BlancMar 28 14:46
schestowitz__>> is inititating hate propaganda campaign, cyber-bullying by law (notMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__>> mentioned as in relation libel) -- and that is creating more and moreMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__>> conflict. You will have to bear it. There will be more created unlessMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__>> conflict is solved. I think you can help on solving it.Mar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> The police report is not for defamation.Mar 28 14:47
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schestowitz__> The petition is an act of vilification.Mar 28 14:47
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schestowitz__> The perpetrators set up these meaningless front organizations, such asMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> the Open Source Initiative, as sock puppets to amplify the defamationMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> and vilification of a sole individual.  When multiple associations bandMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> together like that, when those organizations serve no other usefulMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> purpose, it would appear to violate laws relating to conspiracy and gangMar 28 14:47
schestowitz__> behavior.Mar 28 14:47
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schestowitz__> These are incredibly serious crimes, the petition is only a symptom of it.Mar 28 14:47
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schestowitz__> Regards,Mar 28 14:47
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schestowitz__>> "if RMS is a hero, then lxo is like levels far above RMS"Mar 28 17:34
schestowitz__> Doh.  Is she trying to inflate my ego to induce me to betray rms? :-/Mar 28 17:34
schestowitz__>Mar 28 17:34
schestowitz__> I have no clue of what she's talking about WRT drug cartels, FWIW.Mar 28 17:34
schestowitz__> Either she mistakes me for someone else, or I had no idea I was gettingMar 28 17:34
schestowitz__> into any of what she says.  Either way, I don't deserve that credit.Mar 28 17:34
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schestowitz__> The blog post is now live atMar 28 17:34
schestowitz__> https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2021-03-28-pursuing-justice-and-freedom.en.htmlMar 28 17:34
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schestowitz__> My money is betting on "crank".Mar 28 17:55
schestowitz__Yes, hence I abstained from naming and did not cite anything except the parts about Linux and Kappos conflict of interest.Mar 28 17:55
schestowitz__Every now and then cranks send me stuff about their ridiculous patents.Mar 28 17:55
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XFaCE<schestowitz__> > Doh.  Is she trying to inflate my ego to induce me to betray rms? :-/Mar 28 20:03
XFaCE@schestowitz__: who is the "she" in this case?Mar 28 20:03
MinceRprobably AriadneMar 28 20:08
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schestowitz__MinceR: yesMar 28 23:10
schestowitz__the post gives enough context, as does the mailMar 28 23:10

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