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by waterfowl 4316 days ago
this is great for its audience(true gnu believers) and idk why every other comment is defensive like you feel personally slighted by some peoples' decision to avoid unsigned/licensed js code running on their machine without explicitly feeding it to a runtime(don't tell me they should curl down 'source' and dependencies and check licenses before viewing a page, this actually does it for them!).

If you don't care about GPL/"as in speech"/etc then it's not for you, don't install it.

RMS is a zealot but he backs it up with his crazy ass longsoon unlocked bootloader laptop from china(and other unusual practices, look up his speech rider sometime)

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I love the speech rider. Thank god somebody brought it up!

I really enjoyed the part about not buying a parrot. Something along the lines of "If we haven't explored other options, then please don't book a hotel for me. I would rather stay at someone's house if someone will have me at their house. If there is someone with a parrot, I will generally prefer to stay with that person. Please also nobody should go out and buy a parrot, if you're not completely sure what you're getting into; having a parrot is a big commitment especially since they are very emotional creatures, and you can scar a parrot for life if you don't know how to take care of it. Also chances are the parrot will probably outlive you, so just don't go out and buy a parrot. It's a big decision and should not be taken lightly."

You know that's got to be in there I'm sure because someone actually did go out and buy a parrot for him once.

>crazy ass longsoon unlocked bootloader laptop from china

He's upgrading to a Thinkpad X60 with Trisquel GNU/Linux and Libreboot.