For those who didn't follow it, it's not that it's a contact binary that is so neat in and of itself, it's that when they modeled it, they determined that, the collision that formed it was less than 5 meters per second (less than 11 mph / 18 kph). Like a parking lot fender bender, but with the cars being ~750 billion tonnes.

Indeed "driving" as an active pastime is really gone in North America. It's been a real problem for car makers in the last couple of decades. They used to be able to advertise to and appeal to the driving lifestyle people. But recent generations just don't care that much about driving, other than being a means to an end. One car is very much like another. There's no lifestyle branding that works anymore. The number of teenagers getting drivers licenses has been falling for years.

Maybe not an abacus, but definitely a slide rule!

I have a friend who has driven a manual most of her adult life yet really doesn't know how to correctly run a manual. Or at least has a lot of bad habits. But hey it keeps the mechanics in business changing clutches.

It is generally possible to download without uploading. You'll just likely get a dribble of data when you do.

AGPL is a plague. GPL, I tolerate, though I have a strong preference towards v2. But AGPL has no redeeming qualities. The hypothetical world where someone creates a closed-source fork of a web service, convinces everyone to use it, and then holds their data hostage just isn't particularly plausible.

Meanwhile, AGPL precludes any interesting integrations, custom in-house authentication systems, using custom database backends, and all sorts of other stuff that potentially is useful to keep company-proprietary, but that has no impact whatsoever on the hypothetical freedoms that the AGPL is intended to protect.

It's a license that is so toxic that even companies that are strong proponents of open source with large open source offerings have outright bans on letting AGPLed code anywhere on the premises.

As far as I can tell, the main benefit of AGPL is for companies that create code and want to release it to the public as "free software", because by requiring contributor agreements, they can keep their own branch proprietary while forcing everyone else in the world to comply with the AGPL, thus ensuring that the only company that can create their own proprietary features is them.

It's definitely an interesting case, but it doesn't fit the original description. The GPL didn't prevent Linksys from strangling the free version of anything. No free WiFi routers ever existed, and Linksys did not destroy demand for the Linux kernel or the GNU C library.

Also, nothing in that case forced Linksys to open anything. They could have switched to a BSD kernel and C library, and they would have been in compliance. They chose to open it because they figured it was an easy way to make the case go away, and it could produce good will in the community. And it ended up being a minor windfall for Linksys.

Dear child rape enthusiasts still supporting Donald Trump, please die immediately. Thank you.

Yeah, but you support trump, so we know you don't actually care about sexual anything. You're pro child rape.

It was a nice theory but it didn't pan out.

The design you're talking about is 250 years old. It's antique. Notably, the technology of legal language has come very far since. The constitution leaves many questions unanswered to the extent that today any fucking video game EULA is at least ten times more determinate.

It's not productive to use "retard" as an insult.

I propose using "rapeublican" instead.

It's a pragmatic FINANCIAL decision. Five of the top funders of the Linux foundation are hawking LLMs. Linus is typically compromised by the usual capitalistic conflict of interest.

Instead we eventually hired someone who has only read Hitler's book to run our country

We already have, from a leadership perspective anyway

Of course he does. Corporations have made him wealthy. Wealthy people can afford not to have human-centric principles.