People need to start refusing to do this
brandon
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brandon@piefed.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.English
8·13 days agoYeah, the ‘for reasons I don’t quite understand’ bit was intended slightly sarcastically.
brandon@piefed.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu.English
381·13 days agoOne issue with this is that uutils is licensed under the MIT license, instead of coreutils’ GPL license. In fact, for reasons I don’t quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license. This will contribute to long term erosion of the rights granted by the GPL to software projects and users.
brandon@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential electionsEnglish
4·29 days agoNo, these states agree to commit their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. This would make it impossible for one candidate to win the election having lost the national popular vote.
brandon@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential electionsEnglish
31·29 days agoIt does not end first past the post voting. If it went into effect it would essentially mean that the popular vote would determine the outcome of the presidential election, by forcing the electoral college results to match. The popular vote would still be first past the post.
brandon@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Manhattan DA Launches Sexual Assault Probe Against Eric SwalwellEnglish
4·1 month agoI don’t know the details of the allegations, but it’s possible that the assaults occured in New York.

He posted some Tweets about how he believes ChatGPT (or whichever AI service he uses, I can’t recall) is sentient, and of course, female.