It’s just a figure of speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Alpine and its components are fully open source, you can make whatever changes you want to them.

Who is “you?” That’s the important question.

There’s always this big debate about whether GPL or BSD licensing provides “more freedom,” but that’s the wrong way to look at it. The correct way to look at it is that copyleft licenses provide freedom for end users by prohibiting developers from obstructing their freedom, while permissive licenses provide freedom for developers by permitting them to restrict access to the code for downstream users.

Using permissive licenses in Alpine doesn’t make Alpine itself not “fully open source,” but it does mean that Alpine helps facilitate non-Free downstream uses. In other words, somebody could take Alpine, customize it for a device, and then sell that device to the public without making any code available except for a kernel that they wouldn’t even be able to use on said device because of DRM. I’m not okay with that.

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GPLv3 is resistant to Tivoization. GPLv2 is not.

TL;DR: “Tivoization” means giving you the source code for the firmware of a particular device, but using DRM to prevent you from actually being able to make changes and run that modified code on the device.

Considering that the entire Free Software movement started because Xerox wouldn’t let RMS improve the MIT AI Lab’s laser printer, you should be able to see how DRM clearly runs counter to everything the GPL is trying to accomplish.

That’s the neat part: it does!

Trump’s cronies must’ve bought the dip, so it’s time to switch back to pumping mode again.

And that’s why Alpine should be considered harmful. Copyleft is important, folks! musl and BusyBox are just ways to facilitate even more enshittification, Tivoization, and other corporate abuse than the GPLv2 kernel already does by itself.

Last time I saw any movie outside of my house was at a drive in. My city still has one, and I prefer it to the indoor movie theater.

Admittedly, that was several years ago (probably even pre-covid), but that’s not the drive-in’s fault; that’s because all the movies these days are shitty sequels, prequels, remakes, and live-action versions of perfectly-good animated films.

It also reminds me of Pol Pot/the Khmer Rouge killing everybody who wore glasses.

Don’t the MAGATs realize RFK Jr. is a dirty pinko commie?

Fair enough!

That said, as a general principle I don’t think it’s all that useful to talk about what Trump and his cronies (accomplices? co-conspirators? henchmen? whichever has the worst connotation) claim is the intent of their plans. Instead, we should relentlessly redirect the discussion back to what they actually do. People need to understand what’s actually happening and stop giving them undeserved benefit of the doubt.

There didn’t seem to be a normal pitchfork emoji, at least not that I could find. 🤷

There’s a correct manner to handle this

🔥🔱?

The only two explanations for this behavior I can come up with are: Either the US is actually bankrupt and Trump is trying to forestall the inevitable, or he is trying to impose an economic system on the world that favors the US even more than it already does, in an excess of hubris.

Really? You really don’t think “sow chaos in order to pump-and-dump the entire economy in order to enrich himself and his cronies in the short term, everybody else be damned” is within the realm of possibility? Or, Hell, even “intentionally crash the US economy at the behest of Putin,” for that matter?

My favorite is this version:

Home users doing it is bad enough, but why the fuck is any business tolerating ads and spyware distracting their employees‽

There isn’t a housing shortage overall. There’s a housing shortage in places people want to live, because NIMBYs insist on zoning restrictions that prevent developers from being allowed to build enough density to meet demand. Abolish that market manipulation and a lot of the problem would be substantially solved (along with a whole bunch of other problems like traffic, pollution, and obesity, too).

It would be nice if you could put a warning in the instructions that you’re not looking for a sob story (unless, of course, you like having “misled by a shitty guidance counselor” as a weed-out criterion).

Trump Has Exposed Exploited Created the Fragility of the Global Dollar System in order to exploit it at the expense of the United States’ long-term economic prosperity

There are several other articles posted on this topic that don’t have credulous, Trump-sucking headlines. Therefore, there’s no good reason to upvote this one.

I get that OP isn’t trying to push a pro-Trump narrative given his commentary on it, but picking Bloomberg as a source was an unfortunate choice.