🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@mur2501 Not much, the usual quantity.

Wow, nothing could be further from the truth (replying to @pants ). Inclusiveness and diversity are one of my top priorities, yet I support him.. What you really mean is that I dont have the same priorities as you when it comes to inclusiveness.

I have spoken to a **lot** of people about RMS and your statement seems ignorantly disconnected with their sentiment. Not one of them mentioned anything about men's rights, and while cancel culture is sometimes mentioned it doesnt seem to be the primary motivating factor. In fact every single person I spoke to on other side seemed to care about the future of FSF more than anything else.

One anecdote on our server is an openly bisexual man on our server supported RMS and received very disgusting intolerant hate male of the strongest language possible for his stance, apparently this is a thing as many people supporting RMS has received the same, yet I have heard of no one against RMS being harassed in a similar manner. This right here exemplifies, I think, why people are supporting RMS, because the people who tend to be doing the hate and destroying the diversity are the very people who tried to cancel RMS in the first place.

More over, there simply isnt a good argument against him. Some of his comments that people dont like he has either changed his mind on later, or has been largely irrelevant tot he topic and certainly not hateful or prejudice even when it might be wrong or uninformed (which isnt that often).

In short, we have some very hateful disrespectful people trying to force other people to their will even when they are a minority voice and RMS is largely supported, their tactics have been unacceptable and empowering people who behave like petulant toddlers in discussing this very issue (re: the hate speech towards RMS supporters) is the very reason many of us oppose it, particularly when RMS has been the greatest driving force of FSF to begin with and the vast majority of signatures against him are from places like microsoft that have been toxic to FSF from the get go.

@bonifartius

Hummus makes my tummy glow, such a great snack!

@Kovaelin Everyone is coming out of the woodwork lately. I think maybe its because the end of COVID is in sight so people are being social again and they have been dormant for so long that they are being uncharacteristically social and reaching out
to people they wouldn't normally do so.

@anon00110

Isnt everything when it comes to education discovery, either of information/understanding of a topic or of yoursef?

@marathon

@anon00110

I think in that case its a few factors, but the most important is the approach the child takes, and the instructor has a lot of influence on thats.

Generally teachers arent too flexible, they suggest a very specific style, and that style is heavy on memorization. This also tends to fail for intelligence. Intelligence requires a level of curiosity and a determination to observe how you learn best and adjust it to your strengths. So either a child needs to learn this for themselves (which is hard when instructors penalize them for this most of the time) or they have to have an unusually adept instructor who knows better.

@marathon

@marathon I think intelligence is largely learned but how easy it is to learn is the genetic lottery.

@szalayricha might explain the change in acceleration yes, but still happy the support letter is winning :)

@szalayricha Yes total and all I know is at that link, so not sure what is up with the spikes.

A chart showing the signature count as a graph comparing the #rms open support letter vs the anti-stallman letter... yay the letter in support of stallman is not just winning, but it seems to be growing in support where the other letter has lost steam and stopped growing.

The link below includes the script used to generate the chart

https://linuxreviews.org/Open-RMS-Letter_Chart_Generator

@Algot

Sensitive, I timed myself as well at 3 seconds

@thabisomoyo Great to have you here, I hope so! Let me know if you have anyquestions the site isnt just open-source but it uses an open protocol that is very unique (decentralized). It can be confusing at first but it is really a very powerful new paradigm.

@stux landing on mars is easy, landing in one piece is the hard part :)

@mur2501

0xDEADBEEF and varients are one I always enjoyed. It goes back to the early days of the internet, at least the 80s. It is one of very few phrases you can spell out in hexadecimal.

@stux

@mur2501

That would be "@mur" which was so creative and popular it was replicated by 2501 other people :)

@stux

friend: "Did you catch that octopus yourself"

me: "Yes, but he was dead at the time so it wasnt terribly difficult to be honest"