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schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/jamesabernard/status/1327141645549232130Nov 14 00:47
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schestowitz>> Jesus fucking Christ, I'm trying to listen to Bruce Hornsby and theNov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> record whores are only allowing the remastered version to play.Nov 14 01:34
schestowitz>>Nov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> The remastered version sounds like it's playing from a toilet. They'reNov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> flattening the dynamic range so it's like an amped up music box, itNov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> sounds so crap they might as well autotune it.Nov 14 01:34
schestowitz>>Nov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> These people badly need to kill themselves. Seriously, swallow the gunNov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> barrel and pull the fucking trigger. It's not enough to control ourNov 14 01:34
schestowitz>> culture, they have to destroy it as well. Fucking die already.>Nov 14 01:34
schestowitz> This capitalism thing is really ugly.  This way you can pay for the songNov 14 01:34
schestowitz> you want to hear, yet remain unsatisfied so you will pay top-dollar forNov 14 01:34
schestowitz> the authentic original sound, if you are the kind of fool who reallyNov 14 01:34
schestowitz> really wants-to.Nov 14 01:34
schestowitzRecording quality went down for  financial reasons.Nov 14 01:34
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schestowitz> In the sequel, the Matrix is replaced with Microsoft Teams and whenNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Morpheus and Neo get in, they spend the first two minutes in the MatrixNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> saying "Hey, can you hear me?" "I can hear you neo, but you sound prettyNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> choppy" "Wait, I'll leave and come back..."Nov 14 01:49
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schestowitz>Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Then Morpheus turns into Richard Stallman, and says "You know, youNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> should really use Jami or BigBlueButton if you want chat software thatNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> respects your freedom" and Neo says "Where can I get those?" andNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Stallman says "They're developed on Github."Nov 14 01:49
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schestowitz> Finally Neo says "If this is about freedom, why are we basically in anNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Azure Cloud full of green monochrome screens?" Then Stallman turns intoNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Agent Smith, who then starts shooting "bullets" at Neo that turn out toNov 14 01:49
schestowitz> be donations to various organisations.Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz>Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz> Then Bruce Perens beams in and says "What do you guys call this thing,Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz> anyway?"Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz>Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz> And Neo says, "THE ARISTOCRATS!"Nov 14 01:49
schestowitz Bruce had/has a blog/site called technocrat.Nov 14 01:49
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schestowitz> The AGPL isn't compatible, and GPL stuff could only be relicensed ifNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> there was copyright assignment-- which there typically isn't on GPLNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> software, outside GNU.Nov 14 08:56
schestowitz>Nov 14 08:56
schestowitz> So you would be effectively throwing away most GPL software in theNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> process. Otherwise it's not dead, it's still on lots of projects.Nov 14 08:56
schestowitz>Nov 14 08:56
schestowitz> But I get what he's saying-- that the original devs will change theNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> license, which they could do. Only I don't think that this is the mainNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> concern with those devs at all. The ones that are concerned already areNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> using the AGPL. But I probably misunderstood what he was suggesting atNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> first, due to us having different ideas about how feasible it is toNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> change the license on existing projects with lots of contributors. SinceNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> we are talking about up to all GPL-licensed software, "lots ofNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> contributors" certainly applies to enough of those. Either way I'm notNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> particularly anti-AGPL. It's a license that some devs clearly want, andNov 14 08:56
schestowitz> it's from the FSF.Nov 14 08:56
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schestowitz"Nov 14 12:32
schestowitzJust opened my mail client again to tell fig how much I enjoyed his latest article.Nov 14 12:32
schestowitzTom, your latest article was opened by a human (non-bot) over 4,000 times so far.Nov 14 12:32
schestowitz"Nov 14 12:32
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