Jonah

Free software is, at its core, about the users having control over their own use of the software - the software isn’t controlled by some owner and licensed by the users, but instead all users have equal ability to understand and use the software. If you consider communism to be political, then free software is political, because free software is communism in its purest form.

Unity would probably work under windows 11, since Windows is generally good at backwards compatibility. However, I can’t confirm myself since I don’t use windows or Unity. Perhaps ask if your son would consider using Godot instead of Unity in case it doesn’t work (or even if it does, since Godot is the better engine for most use cases anyway IMO).

Communism for the rich, capitalism for the poor

There’s no limit on when an abortion is or isn’t ethical. If the foetus is developed enough that it’s possible to induce early birth (without risking the parent), I think that should be done (so that would cover your 8.9 month example), but in general the parent has the right to change their mind on the pregnancy at any time.

None of these things are remotely controvertial except by the far right.

Edit for context: they were complaining about some very uncontroversial things (ie. this as well as the same company recognising Russia as the aggressor against Ukraine, and one other thing that I forget).

From personal experience, the Cowboy Bebop opening text (around 700 characters) is the most I could fit on a QR code while still being able to print it and scan it with my phone, in case that helps.

That implies the existance of a fungible Tolkien

Just to add: Coil and Flattr.

Another useful link is the proposed web standard web monetization which Coil, Mozilla, and the Creative Commons are involved in.

On the subject of Flattr, they seem more like an alternative to Patreon but you choose how much you pay in total each month instead of how much you pay to each creator.

So there would be a single identifier that you sent to every website, and those websites would report visits to a central authority, which would then generate a list of all of the websites you visited and at what frequency? I fail to see how that ‘enforces privacy’.

I could see this working for something like youtube, where it already makes sense for them to track the videos you watch. If there was an option to pay a small fee that got distributed amongst the channels that I watched (with a small cut to youtube if I must), I would probably take it. I have many doubts about doing it for the whole internet, though.

Compared to what a fully malicious group could have done, this is quite benign. They published the list of email addresses that they used to make the commits and announced what they’d done. They also weren’t trying to introduce any actual vulnerabilities. Even though I don’t agree with the way they did it (especially not telling anyone first), hopefully the fact that they managed to do this will act as a wake up call for the Linux kernel (and other open source projects).

I feel like the fact that a handful of students could cause so much trouble kind of proves the point they were making

That sounds like a lot of effort to go through when you could just install your favourite flavour of Linux and be done with Microsoft forever

Nah, they hire artists who actually do know how to draw and then they waste their talent by forcing them to draw in that style