I love “California disaster” arguments. I have some MAGA relatives that currently live in California, they decided to move and in 2022 in summer visited non-“marxist” states. And you know what? They ended up staying.

I live in California for 25 years now and I love my state. The most opinionated about how shitty California is are people who never been here.

He didn’t hold both chambers. The two “democrats” who supposedly won in Senate even changed their party affiliation after winning.

1st. He didn’t win by 5 million, he won by 7 million. 2nd what you’re talking about wasn’t result of popularity, but how our election system is messed up, where some votes matter more than others. trump not even once won a popular vote. Even against Hilary he lost by nearly 3 million.

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Constitution only matters if it is being enforced. And 2017-2020 showed us that very few Republicans were willing to do that.

Currently SCOTUS is debating whether president has absolute immunity (in other words, if he can commit any crime, including murdering his political opponents) something that is absolutely against our constitution, yet they have to debate it.

Yeah, sure. And what prompted trump to show up in DC in January 6th, which before 2021 was day that didn’t have any special meaning in US history?

I highly recommend “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by historian Timothy Snyder If you can’t get a book or audio book the author also reads it on YouTube.

For writing an application GPL is fine if you don’t want anyone to profit from your work and if they make changes, contribute back.

Things are a little bit more complex if you are writing a library or code that is meant to be included in another application.

If you use GPL you might get rejected even by other open source applications, as GPL might be understandable as it will change license off the application or be outright incompatible.

This was the case with cursor library after author changed license everyone stopped using it: https://github.com/GijsTimmers/cursor/commit/885156333ac9ca335a587b1dd08964074313f026

The most ironic thing is that he created package from stack overflow answer:

https://github.com/GijsTimmers/cursor/blob/master/cursor/cursor.py

The original author never said they are releasing copyright or are making it public domain.

This is not “perfect is enemy of good” it would be if I was arguing about MIT vs GPL etc.

By signing CLA you’re surrendering copyright to the company and this allows them do do whatever they wish with your contribution, including switching back to closed source.

Hashicorp was able to change license of their products exactly thanks to CLA.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out. As long as it is some organization that can’t be bought it should be fine. I didn’t included that because it makes my response more confusing.

Essentially CLA gives the entire copyright to specific entity and that entity in case of FSF it likely could use it for fighting violations, while some startup likely intends to change license when their product gets more popular to cash out on it (for example what Hashicorp did recently before selling to IBM)

They just want to get profit from the purchase but they are no longer competitive.

Looks like they are looking for suckers to contribute to their code base for free without even making it actually open source.

IMO at this point WinAmp does not offer anything beyond name recognition and nostalgia. Isn’t qmmp essentially an open source version of WinAmp?

I disagree.

CLA gives them total ownership of the code (all contributors are surrendering their copyright), and allows them to change license at any point in time, including making it closed source.

If you’re contributing code to a project with CLA you’re not contributing to Open Source, you’re working for a company for free.

Is it possible that the suggestions Windows is giving you don’t perceive them as ads?

Don’t you have any news, and other suggestions on the taskbar, lock screen etc? Also, are you in the EU?

What about according to the text on that damn page?

It’s actually already banned in multiple countries, especially for anyone in government positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok

The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would “inevitably come back to bite the US”.

If instead of getting anything they are opting to get $0, that actually confirms the “paranoia”.

The fact that the two countries that are most accused of spreading disinformation (including using Western’s own social media) not only provide their own alternatives, but also bans Western social media shows that West wasn’t paranoid enough.

There’s also: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

Like everything with Nix, you pay a little more upfront to get a great experience later.

They are not missing the forest for the trees. I forgot this is Lemmy.ml (they chose ML for Marxist Leninists). Supposedly they are communists, but they are actually pro totalitarianism and anti West.

They themselves don’t even give a damn about Palestinians, but will cheer whatever might hurt the US and the West.