I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

We also need a SCO Unix version. To go with the statue of Natalie Portman, naked and covered in hot grits

How can you invest in a country where your profits depend on the mood of the president?
Ask the oil companies about this. Or Steel. Or any industry that runs afoul of the crazy green enviro people

This is how the free market ACTUALLY works

Youre right about the crypto coin. He shouldn't be doing that. What he should be doing is creating paintings and selling those as an artist.

MAGA did not start the culture war. The left did when it wanted to redefine sex and and gender

Since when did /. start hating Elon? Every comment on this thread is hating on Elon in some way. What a bunch of cry babies

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Here's how you do it: You call it disinformation.
Then you can deplatform it.
Are you new here?

The elephant in the room is that all of these services are "moderated". Which means CENSORED.

The people figured this out a long time ago. Only the blind whistle past this issue. Whether you like it or not, X is the only platform that allows free speech. On X, you can say whatever you want as long as it's legal. You can even express your hatred for Elon.

None of the other services operate like that. All of the rest censor hate speech, disinformation and all the other legal speech they just don't like. ie: they operate like Reddit

Credit card surcharges are illegal in many states. Instead, the vendor offers a cash discount. That's how it's done legally everywhere

That's a fancy long way of saying you are against free speech.

You and your ilk can go away, We will never accept your idea that free speech only goes one direction and is only for selected groups (like yours!).