audience already agrees that complicity in genocide is an acceptable tradeoff to software freedoms

I talked about that to show one possible counterbalance between liberty and usages which are probably not explicitly wanted by the authors.

Another common example of freedom/restrictions is someone wanting to have their software permissively licensed while also not allowing cloud vendors to resell access to it. That’s how you end up with licenses like Elastic’s.

Or, if you want another example of “free”, look at the distinction between the GPL and the BSD license as it applies to Sony and the Playstation. One of the reason Sony chose BSD for the basis of its gaming system is because the BSD license allows for commercial usage. In that sense it is MORE free than the GPL, which would not allow the type of usage Sony did with the Playstation without conferring more responsibility to Sony, for instance, releasing their source. Under BSD they have no obligation to do so, hence it is more free in that respect.

My whole point is a lot of people say “I want my software to be freely licensed” but they do not realize that they may be unintentionally opening the door to usages of the software that they do not want to see.

One should not pick a license that allows for unfettered usage of the software if you have certain ways you don’t want to see it used.

As a final parting example, look at Prusa and their printers. They release the firmware and designs as open source. They they later get angry when companies clone their designs. This is permissible under the license. This is making Prusa want to lock down their future designs to avoid that usage.

Anyone considering licensing of their own software should think very carefully about what usages they support or object to and license the software accordingly. If you release your software as BSD licensed and some company comes along and makes a billion dollars with it, you aren’t owned a cent under that agreement. If this makes you angry, don’t pick BSD.

Freedom comes with uncomfortable ramifications. This is inescapable. Freedom includes doing things that a given individual isn’t comfortable with. If you’re not happy with this trade-off, don’t use a license that allows “any” usage.

Meanwhile, poor Jellyfin just quietly doing the job.

That doesn’t undermine my point, that proves my point. Making something “FREE” (as in libre) comes with the consequence that people can use it for whatever they want. I assume you don’t agree with bombing Gaza, hence it is a perfect example of “freedom” leading to poor outcomes.

Simply grabbed it, and without contributing anything to the project did nothing except stripped the branding and then go sell it.

Unless this is specifically called out in the license, this is an activity allowed by many permissive open source licenses. If they knew that this type of activity was unwanted initially, then they didn’t choose the proper license.

Easy, because they want the social credibility of being open source, but also later, when the project gets big, they want to dictate exactly who uses it and how.

If you care about how your software is used to this degree – don’t open source it! Every open source package I have ever made has come with a permissive license, because I want people to be able to use it however they wish. That’s actual freedom. Unfortunately, a subset of “however they wish” can also be “used to bomb Gaza”, but that is the cost of liberty and freedom. You have to take the good with the bad.

Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!

Why can’t people be punished for being anti-lgbt? There is no non-religious reason to belive so

The non-religious reasons aren’t discussed as often in the US but they do exist. As a great example, look at the USSR. Very not-religious and very, very against homosexuality.

I love stuff like this because it shows the cognitive dissonance on the right really, really well. They hate foreigners and imported stuff EXCEPT just for times like this, when it makes a lot of sense for the USA to get this “gift” from a foreign nation that doesn’t seem to line up with what MAGA says a country should be like.

It’s exhausting to keep up with. Are Islamic countries “based” now?

Trump said this in 2017: “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Does he no longer feel that way? Are we supposed to like them now?

If Walmart really loved Trump, they’d sell their items at a loss to own the libs. Well, I guess I can’t be too surprised, another woke corporation making excuses to jack up the prices. Trump said China’d pay the tariff so I don’t see what Walmart has to do with it.

He didn’t save the world the first time (despite promising he would drain the swamp within days) so why would anyone think he would do it the second time?

I can tell you, but I’d be lying.

Ah, the twisted logic here is that since it doesn’t “cure” COVID it’s “FAKE”. (since REAL vaccines cure and/or perfectly prevent the targeted disease, without any side effects)

Well, one thought is that when he heard the shoddily constructed carbon fiber and titanium composite pressure hull collapsing, ALMOST CERTAINLY one of his last thoughts were “oops”. It would take some CRAZY delusion if that didn’t happen.

postscript: And yes, I know that total compression takes on the level of milliseconds at those depths… I’m just wondering if there was any creaking or “pops” like had happened on earlier dives.

Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’ Shipping data shows container traffic from China to the US is collapsing / A shopper looks at nearly empty egg shelves in a grocery store.

Are people consuming eggs that they get in containers from China?

Something in me refuses to believe that these people knowingly and intentionally harm women.

One thing I think that goes too far is people either think misogynists represent 0% of 100% of men. It’s neither. There are some men that are extremely prejudiced against women and will cross the street just to bother them, and then there’s a huge slice of men that support women as best they can.

I mean, if nothing else, incels definitely exist and they would treat the women in this situation wrongly. Do you think no one is an incel?

Is this the same fatigue that Trump feels when fact checkers are present? He’s always annoyed because the fact checkers frequently pipe up to correct him, but apparently it hasn’t occurred to him they would be silent if he told the truth.

Sure, but close doesn’t get you the seat.

was less than 2% behind

You wouldn’t believe how many people say it was a “blowout”.

To me, if it was a baseball game and one team did 2% better than the other, I don’t think that’d be called a blowout, but the election was…

A woman can definitely be president in America. But as long as people like you blame the losses on that, the actual reasons these candidates are losing will never be fixed.

I agree, I can’t say this is 100% a cope but it’s a partial cope. Look at when “Ghostbusters” was rebooted. I’m sorry, that’s a really terrible film. However, at the time, if you said that you were likely to get someone to pop up and say “That’s just because you hate women!” No, that’s because that movie was fucking horrible and happened to have women in it. How many people are still watching that film now? Is it remembered fondly?