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    11 minutes ago

    The problem here is that the kids are equating “coding” to “github”.

    Which is a fault of most educational programs being ran by corporations (and everyone else following the corporate) which is a fault of capitalism

    Oh, we get you 5 dolla dolla grant. But you must sign up for GitHub, Slack, EasyEDA, Figma, OnShape. And then verify your ID, preferably with persona. Also, we store everything on Airtable.

    Example (shameless self plug) (“code club” no different) (one founded yesterday in a garage to be gone in 2 years is little different)


  • South Korea - country

    WW3 - currently only hypothetical war, the third one of world scale

    Samsung terms and conditions: the terms and conditions Samsung wants people to sign in order for the people to use Samsung services, the company is based in South Korea

    There’s no fucking loop here, it’s common knowledge with little fact one may deduce from the meme.









  • Copy pasting my other reply about the same thing:


    I would argue that BSD licensing keeps projects more free of corporate influence if started by hobbyists.

    Corpo forks BSD/Apache/whatever software, doesn’t publish source, nerds don’t use it and look for the original, the end.

    Corpo forks copyleft software, publishes releases on GutHib with literal zip files in the repo semi annually. Original maintainer gets taunted with “but the corpo one has feature X, the code is free, you should use it”. If they don’t merge it, they get labeled an egoist and people go use the corporate one. If they do merge it, eventually the entire project gets bloated and barely readable, is held together by @redhat.com patches, and eventually all development is just corporate decisions. There’s no escape.

    You know, we are all victims of it ourselves. I am using Firefox rn. There was little to no “conversion” as they started out corporate. They have patches merged from the Tor people for actual privacy, although removed from the settings because “meh, nobody would want that” (sponsors would disapprove). The privacy they are marketing for normies is a list of like 20 domains.

    Yeah uh so we are very private by default, there’s no google tracking but if a site loads an ad or a youtube embed there’s google tracking, also we block embeds for privacy except specifically youtube.

    It’s all corporate decisions. While I don’t use the specific variant(s) and didn’t observe it, I once saw the Firefox home page on someone else’s device. It was football stats followed by “sponsored links”. I thought it was Edge for a second.

    And there’s no escape. Web pages are no longer actual pages oftentimes, they are fat blobs of 3 language conversions on top of each other targeting only the specific 3 (sometimes 2) big brand web browsers as the backend: Firefox, Chromium and Apple’s Webkit fork. They are all corporate. The fat blob generators are also corporate.