I’m still only a little over halfway through the documentary, but here are the main new things I’ve learned so far:

1. Even if all the uncertainty and instability stops right now (which it won’t, short of Trump being removed from office entirely), we are going to be absolutely fucked in 3-6 months not only with higher prices, but probably also outright shortages just because every business will have a big gap in their procurement pipeline due to the couple of weeks of uncertainty that already happened. And it’s not just going to be computer components; it’s going to be consumer goods of every kind.

2. Everything about this seems almost designed to murder small businesses.

Watch the Louis Rossman segment of the video, where he actually makes a pretty good point about why the price doesn’t go back down: https://youtu.be/1W_mSOS1Qts?t=5774

The gist is that his successor isn’t whoever the Chinese Communist Party says it is (either directly or by trotting our that kid they kidnapped decades ago who hasn’t been seen since).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy

Yeah. And “issues” means “issues,” which is not the same as “bad.”

It’s just a figure of speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Acknowledging that a concept is complicated is different from being opposed to it. You deciding to interpret the statement the latter way instead of the former is your own problem, not theirs.

INB4 Republicans “help” them by condemning their mold-filled and rotting homes and kick them out into the street.

Alpine and its components are fully open source, you can make whatever changes you want to them.

Who is “you?” That’s the important question.

There’s always this big debate about whether GPL or BSD licensing provides “more freedom,” but that’s the wrong way to look at it. The correct way to look at it is that copyleft licenses provide freedom for end users by prohibiting developers from obstructing their freedom, while permissive licenses provide freedom for developers by permitting them to restrict access to the code for downstream users.

Using permissive licenses in Alpine doesn’t make Alpine itself not “fully open source,” but it does mean that Alpine helps facilitate non-Free downstream uses. In other words, somebody could take Alpine, customize it for a device, and then sell that device to the public without making any code available except for a kernel that they wouldn’t even be able to use on said device because of DRM. I’m not okay with that.

No, because your premise is incorrect. This person is completely in support of the concept of independence, but simply rejects the notion that car-dependency provides it. Real independence is achieved by removing the dependency on cars.

Sounds like it is fit for purpose.

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GPLv3 is resistant to Tivoization. GPLv2 is not.

TL;DR: “Tivoization” means giving you the source code for the firmware of a particular device, but using DRM to prevent you from actually being able to make changes and run that modified code on the device.

Considering that the entire Free Software movement started because Xerox wouldn’t let RMS improve the MIT AI Lab’s laser printer, you should be able to see how DRM clearly runs counter to everything the GPL is trying to accomplish.

I want the software to serve me.

Free Software is literally your only option, then. Everything else serves its corporate master first.

if Signal ceased operations in Denmark over its refusal to work with law enforcement

To be fair, the fact that that’s even technically possible means the developer has too much control over it and it isn’t decentralized enough.

Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

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

Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.

That’s the neat part: it does!

Trump’s cronies must’ve bought the dip, so it’s time to switch back to pumping mode again.

I’m not quite as cynical as you, but you’re certainly right about at least one thing. Trying to use fascist oligarch-controlled platforms to organize against them is terrible OPSEC, that’s for damn sure!

[black] resin printed keycaps and white air dry clay pressed into embossed lettering in the keys and finally sealed using nail polish to create a professional double-shot looking keycap.

Oooh, that’s a neat technique. Gonna have to remember that one for later.

And that’s why Alpine should be considered harmful. Copyleft is important, folks! musl and BusyBox are just ways to facilitate even more enshittification, Tivoization, and other corporate abuse than the GPLv2 kernel already does by itself.