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I just learned that Nmap is almost GPL except that they revoked the license specifically for SCO group for their SCO–Linux disputes.

This got me thinking, what do open source programmers think of evil companies or horrible people using their software?

Don't get me wrong, FOSS software by its nature can't be controlled or strictly prevented of being used. But in case of companies like SCO, that is a thing that at least can cause them headache and they risk getting into legal trouble. A programmer for example can modify GPL to make so that his software can't be used by Microsoft or Facebook, but it is GPL for everybody else.

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I found out that this tool http://www.convertlit.com/ provides a program with a funny name. I wonder if there are similar programs with offensive names or puns like this one. For example, I remember reading a fortune output saying something along the lines of

man Why did you get divorced? 
man: Too many arguments.

And of course, there is the cliche touch grass.

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It'd be interesting to find similar one for the Fediverse.

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[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Everyone is talking about rm -rf / and damage to storage drives, but I read somewhere about EFI variables having something to do with bricking the computer. If this is possible, then it's a lot more damage than just disk drives.

Edit: this is interesting SE post https://superuser.com/questions/313850

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[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

Yet another reminder that the cloud is just a fancy name for someone else's computer.

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submitted 1 year ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

I found this old project from 2018 that redesigned Reddit into a frontend similar to Outlook. Would be fun to see this on Lemmy especially since we have a lot of frontends.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Vim keybindings aren't memorization as much as they are muscle memory.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

"You will own nothing. And you will be happy"

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago

Ah, the old debate of "display current state" vs "display current action"...

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Nice. This feature is similar to Android wallpaper color theming.

And I thought Xorg already had this feature in Xresources, but apps do not respect it.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Manual bug reporting by manual log selection.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

No more simple web for you. You have to accept the full bloat.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Yes. I keep checking https://sub.rehab for my niche communities.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Trust no one. Not because you're paranoid, but because you don't need to.

Trust no one and just use KeePassXC.

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Percentage is just a fancy form of decimal point. I just multiply them together then move decimal digit to the left twice.

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