Emmanuele BassiJul 7
I've said it before, but I have to say it again: my days of not taking the FSF seriously are certainly coming to a middle
Show threadEmmanuele BassiJul 7
The amount of pretzeling logic in that paragraph is staggering; I'm surprised the entire page didn't collapse under its own weight straight into a singularity
Show threadEmmanuele BassiJul 7

"The calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs"—so it's TLS, used by your web server.

"A program which does calculations that user does not want done is a form of malware"—I assume the FSF is switching to bare HTTP or Gopher, then, because I certainly didn't ask my web browser to use encryption to read that bunch of crap.

"Proprietary software is often malware"—where the hell does that sentence come from?

Show threadle petit printf 🇺🇦🇨🇿👃💨Jul 7

@ebassi > "Proprietary software is often malware"—where the hell does that sentence come from?

possibly things like the most popular proprietary document reader stealing every document you open?

Show threadEmmanuele Bassi
@lkundrak content aside, which still doesn’t apply but whatever, it’s the non sequitur that makes me wonder what on earth is that about
Jul 7 at 5:49pmToot!
Show threadElias MårtensonJul 7
@ebassi @lkundrak if you read the statement, removing the word 'often'n it makes sense. It's not correct, but it at least becomes a statement that makes sense and can be refuted.
Show threadle petit printf 🇺🇦🇨🇿👃💨Jul 7
@loke @ebassi the statement is indeed out of place, but given how prevalent stealing data from the proprietary apps got, it's sort of easy to prove right as it is, isn't it?