But if the guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.

They might mean that, but they didn’t say it. I don’t think they did mean it. I think they just don’t want people to forget the “problematic” aspects of someone before we go all worship mode on him.

It’s like how my partner will interject–he’s canadian!–if I mention some actor. Like she just doesn’t want me to forget that context, but other than that, I can carry on.

Maybe they did mean that, though and I’m missing some context from somewhere else in this thread.

Well it’s very evocative, you should be proud.

Do you have like a blog or something? Good bit of writing, this.

Randomly reminds me of some of the freakier social scifi to come out of Asimov’s typewriter. I remember one Robot story where the audience insert protagonist goes to an outer world colony where the incest taboo is not only missing, but it’s considered a faux pas to avoid sex with your family. One of the characters is in deep consternation because he doesn’t want to have sex with his daughter. Anyway, the protagonist and audience are naturally disgusted, but clearly it stuck in my head.

Academically… I don’t know. Because of my upbringing, I just can’t see it is as anything other than a severe moral crime. But I guess I could imagine a very very different world from our own where it wouldn’t be the weirdest fucking thing imaginable to even talk about it.

But that’s me bending over backwards to get inside the head of someone I think I like, like our buddy Stallman here.

Thank you for this gift.

Yeah just having a larf, in the style of the op.

And then your prompt is all messed up, and your output is missing \rs for some reason, so output prints like:

$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x  2 lentil lentil Desktop/
                                   drwxrwxr-x  4 lentil lentil doom/
                                                                   drwxr-xr-x 17 lentil lentil Downloads/%

Feather gauntlet. Some beeswax terminals emulate it if you run kill -SIGFET $(pidof <your-gaunt-applet-here>).

Don’t get me wrong - I am super sentimental, and can really get lost going down memory lane. I spend probably most of my mental life living in the past. But yeah, I guess the stuff I do preserve (99% text) just doesn’t take up much room at all.

I usually head the file, which at worst triggers the feather gauntlet

Genuine question, do people actually care about backing up media that much? I don’t get it. Everything I actually care about personally I can fit on a thumbdrive and a box of notebooks.

I mean if they’re utilities, we shouldn’t let a board decide what should rightfully be in the hands of the voting public. Really they should welcome a stable (OK maybe not so stable in the US atm, but generally…) owner as the government.

Doesn’t that make it even more selfless?

Joke so good it made me stop scrolling for the night.

I love how easy it is to just make cookies yourself too.

When it’s billing data I can see it, but if it’s a notification that someone sent you a message, you know there’s no reason they can’t include the message text. They just want your engagement (looking at you, LinkedIn).

Yeah if you don’t mind running a bunch of non FOSS plugins. What you want in 2025Q3 is Brix – it’s like Bgrams if the Slorp team made it. Full, batteries-included Bgrams/animal/CURT3 interop. Yeah.

The one guy who maintains it is a solipsist who doesn’t believe any of us exist, but you can’t argue with his results.

Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I still cringe at the memory of the one time I forwarded one – it was something about Bill Gates, but I can’t remember the details. Anyway, my uncle replied back to me with something wholesome like

Nice to hear from you [mad_lentil], although I doubt this offer is genuine, you never know! Maybe we’ll all be rich this time next year. Say hi to your mom and dad for me, thanks.

It had never occurred to me that someone would lie on the internet rofffflllll. I was SO humiliated.

You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.

My eye just twitched