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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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GNU has been saying this for over 20 years
Richard Stallman was ahead of the times, although sometimes problematic.
Haha
“LAMP system”
“LAMP” stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP”—a common combination of software to use on a web server, except that “Linux” in this context really refers to the GNU/Linux system. So instead of “LAMP” it should be “GLAMP”: “GNU, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.”
Stallman is very upset the he doesn't get enough credit for creating GNU. Most "Linux" desktops use GNU as the base system. Linux is the kernel. Stallman created GNU in the 1980s with the express intention of creating an Operating System which gave users total control over the computer. He was radicalized by printer drivers. Stallman's philosophy emphasizes have freedom over technology.
In the 1990s, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel. Linus doesn't necessarily care about freedom, he stated that the purpose of Linux was to have a OS which doesn't cost money. At the start of the 1990s, Linux was a kernel without an OS and GNU was a OS without a kernel. People started to combine the 2 together, which was illegal to distribute at the time because the GNU license says that it's only allowed to be distributed with other software under a FOSS license. It wasn't until 1993 that Linus Torvalds applied the GNU license to the Linux kernel, allowing the GNU system and the Linux kernel to be distributed together for the first time.
Slackware is the oldest distro and refers to itself as a "Linux" despite using the GNU system. Debian is also among the first distros and refers to itself as "GNU/Linux". Android phone OS is an example of a system that uses the Linux kernel without the GNU system.
Stallman is really obnoxious about emphasizing that people should care about freedom. I think that's why he tries to insert the word GNU into everything.
Of all the things to be obnoxious about, caring about freedom is a pretty good one.
Yeah, haha I was laughing because its a copypasta meme. One time I saw Stallman give a talk, he ate powdered donuts the entire time and over the course of the lecture became completely covered in powdered sugar. After he left there was a remaining halo of powdered sugar that we tried to preserve but that maintenance department vacuumed it up lol.
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!"
That specific quote is fake, but it's a basically accurate summary of his views re:GNU/Linux
I mean I like the spirit he has, but holy shit he needs to shut the fuck up he wont be able to change the name of Linux in popular culture and it's just annoying at this point.
Linux in popular culture? Stallman invented the culture. He created the system which runs most web servers in the world. Stallman created GPL, which is arguably the most influential software license in history. Stallman invented "open source" 13 years before open source was even a term. Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, Open Source Initiative was not founded until 1998.
The license that Stallman created is what forces companies to release the source code of their products. You ever seen the "open source" page on the Apple website? That's because Stallman's GPL requires them to release the code of the GPL softwares that they use.
The reason that Stallman's vision of software freedom has been suppressed is because it hurts company profits. Capitalists suppressed the GNU ideology because they wanted to make GNU/Linux into a profitable concept. Capitalists don't want you to have freedom over your computer software.
The so-called "Open Source Initiative" was, by the way, also part of the capitalist suppression of the GNU ideology.