The number of assholes falsely claiming copyright on public-domain stuff is too damn high!

To be fair, Github sucks at conveying that sort of info to begin with, and OP linked to a particular plugin instead of the main project. Once you actually get to the main project’s main page / README file, a “dashboard that displays your feeds” seems straightforward enough.

I wish they had an eco chamber! Their echo chamber is vehemently against that, though.

“Don’t breathe this!”

Better yet, why don’t they just write the shit competently and correctly the first time?

And don’t tell me it’s too hard; that’s the way real software engineering used to be done when stuff shipped on physical media and couldn’t be patched, and still is done for stuff that actually matters (avionics, etc.). They just want to pretend PC-level half-assery is acceptable because it’s cheaper.

Yet more for the mountainous pile of proof proprietary software cannot be trusted and is therefore fundamentally not fit for purpose.

Same here; IIRC it was about the time M$ started backporting “telemetry” to Windows 7 that I switched and never looked back.

Haven’t felt the need for a Windows VM, either.

Me waiting for Emily to start a Linux channel

Oh, that was real? I saw the title on a video in my feed and assumed it was some kind of clickbait.

WTF is a “privacy-focused code editor?” They’re just glorified text editors! They run locally! They don’t connect to the Internet at all! How would they be anything other than “privacy-focused” by default? Why is this even a question?!

I fucking hate this timeline.

Anyway, to answer your question: emacs, obviously. Or vim if you’re evil, I suppose. Or just whatever the Hell you want, because if your editor even has “terms of service” or a “privacy policy” of any kind something has already gone horribly wrong.

I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.

Have you seen the job market for programmers lately? It feels like it’s almost all for AI slop, abusive rentier middleman business models that add no real value, defense war contractors, or all of the above at once.

That’s not to say that it’s acceptable for people to work those jobs with a clear conscience; it’s to say that for a bunch of people the only ethical options would be to remain unemployed or leave the industry.

Unlocking the phone voids the warranty?

No, it doesn’t. Motorola apparently claims it does, but they’re lying. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act requires them to honor the warranty no matter how you modify your property unless they can prove your modification caused the fault you’re trying to claim the warranty for. They don’t just get to presume it because you flashed the firmware.

That’s the thing, whether or not they’re valid depends on the person you’re asking.

No it fucking doesn’t! There are people who think that, but they’re wrong.

Moral relativism is bullshit.

Nah, that one just explains the mechanics of how it works. The video I linked is so good because it goes into the implications of it and explains how it is a fraud perpetrated against the populace that makes everything worse for nearly everyone, including the party perpetrating it.

Here’s a link to the specific timestamp where he gets into that part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdQjqUXuDc&t=468

Hank Green has a good video about that. I thought I understood gerrymandering before, but I didn’t fully appreciate all the implications until I watched that.

As long as it isn’t fucking Chromium, that’s good.

That’s neat!

It’s not about preventing sideloading installing software in the normal way¹ by someone determined to do it.

It’s about spreading FUD and propaganda demonizing the idea of device owners actually having control over their property instead of abdicating their rights and ceding their privacy to technofeudal overlords like Google.

¹ because “sideloading” is itself already a propaganda term

The trouble with zsh is that it’s permissive-licensed, which makes it strictly inferior to GPLv3 bash no matter what other features it might have.