overview for angelmountain

Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Pretty sure all law firms do that nowadays. And they are quite stupid if they don't. As long as they check the output...

Why are popes always really old? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because old people die soon, so it's difficult to really mess stuff up. It's like an automatic failsafe.

[Deleted] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No because once outside of the US people realise the country is shit and they don't want to come back anymore, so this will not work sadly enough.

What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Linux. For desktops I like it as well, but I can understand some arguments against it. However, for all other cases there is hardly any match. The internet basically runs on it.

What's something you love the smell of? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

2-stroke mopeds

Am I a jerk for telling my son he should find another dream (career)? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Depends where you live. In America? Yes you're a jerk because you are questioning the American "dream". Anywhere else? As long as you explain why and support your kid in whatever choice he/she makes you're fine.

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I assume Facebook runs on Linux, as does the rest of the internet?

I wish Linux distros use a license that prevents this nonsense.

(I know including ethics in a license is a bad idea, but still...)

Men of the Harlem Hellfighters decorated with the Croix de guerre by France in WW1 for valor in battle, photo taken postwar, 1919 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Harlem in New York or Harlem west of Amsterdam?

Anon hates smartphones in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't think capitalism/communism is a binary thing. I think (hope at least) there are more options.

I also think that the problem with smartphones is that they are designed to get you "hooked". The companies doing that are hoping to influence your behaviour so you will buy more of your stuff. And because we live in a society where capitalism is seen as holy and just, we let them.

I think we don't really have a free choice anymore. Companies know how to always win, they are too good at influencing through advertisement and design choices. And without actual free choice capitalism does not work. Anyone telling you that we have a free choice to not buy a product or to not use a smartphone, lies. A choice is not free if companies can and do spend millions of dollars to influence my choice.

Also, capitalism requires a free market to function. But a true free market will always end in a monopoly, because the biggest company can always buy the other smaller companies, again breaking the free market. So there is a catch-22 problem in the system.