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Derp.

Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.

Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data… privacy my ass.

A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn’t written by me.

Here’s the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. It makes points that are mistaken or confused.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

We don’t use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.

He actually added to the pasta…

It’s all 404 now, all the github pages are gone, the repo is gone.

*btw

Last time I compiled a kernel it was on a bus-overclocked K6-3/500 (higher bus, lower multiplier).

Get Brother. Epson works but it’s more fiddly, I haven’t tried a Canon in a long time.

You’re going to use a 10 core 64GB machine as a firewall? Do you mow your lawn with dynamite also? 🤣

It does not require an internet connection to use!

It’s messed up that that’s a selling point.

Because it needs an extra dongle that isn’t free and most headphones use an ordinary audio jack.

Charging while listening.

And above all, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Not really, no.

There’s a confidentlyincorrect community calling your name.

Edit: Or it might be calling my name if that’s a minus not a dash… I think I misread, sorry.

Everyone who had ever had one, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo.

What distro forces you in to a DE?

Mint has been pretty good for me. They didn’t follow along with Ubuntu and snap everything, but if you don’t want to touch anything Ubuntu there’s a version based on debian directly.

Get a Brother laser aio.

It has the same signature.

What do you mean by ‘data privacy friendly’? It’s a file manager.

we fully support you in expanding Linux capabilities rather than imitating them

Just in case anyone is confused by that statement, it’s the distros that dropped x86 32-bit, the kernel still has it.

However, I didn’t know what I was doing, and broke my computer just as the professor foretold.

A rite of passage.