> Look at Van Gogh - an incredible artist who died unappreciated & broke, in a mental asylum. All of his fame came after his death.

I'm not sure this sounds attractive to most people.

Ah, the science frontier. Just imagine the possibilities now!

I'm telling you, that environment variables you have are NOT real!

Too much politics involved for my taste.

It seems that I can't use it to promote Slavic content, because Slavic as a tradition can be right-wing in Moby's world.

If you're a content creator, I don't think going into this rabbit hole is worth it.

Plenty of proud left wing Slavs for you to choose to promote

I'm not sure Moby would agree.

What reason do you have for thinking Moby would find all Slavic content right wing, even if it featured left wing figures?

I don't see any relation with "reverse-engineering". It's just a bunch of animated widgets that look like on other sites.

The sender didn't specify the version in his request, so I find it natural that they've sent him the latest version.

The author mentioned this exact problem. Quoting:

> There was a problem that I noticed right away, though: this text was from the GPL v3, not the GPL v2. In my original request I had never mentioned the GPL version I was asking about.

>The original license notice makes no mention of GPL version either. Should the fact that the license notice contained an address have been enough metadata or a clue, that I was actually requesting the GPL v2 license? Or should I have mentioned that I was seeking the GPLv2 license?

This is seemingly a problem with the GPL text itself, in that it doesn't mention which license version to request when you mail the FSF.

A Sid Caesar skit showed doughboys celebrating and one shouted "World War 1 is over!"... when they made GPLv2 maybe they didn't anticipate creating future versions (although yeah, if you're already on v2 you should foresee that).

There is a GPL v.1, and it may have been so numbered at initial publication:

<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html>

Well to be fair, that's not the full license notice, that's only the last paragraph. There should a couple more above that one and the first paragraph says the version of GPL in use. That said I think the license notice is also just a suggested one, it's not required that you use that _exact_ text.

How does a sender who only has a GPLv2 license notice even know that there is a v3? Should they first send a letter asking which versions are available?

If the sender requests GPLv2, he should receive GPL version 2.

If the sender requests GPL, I find it natural for him to receive version 3, because it's the latest version. At the time of receiving the license, he gains knowledge about the existence of version 3 (the header on the print says the GPL he received is version 3).

If the sender has a notice about GPLv2, it means that there's a high chance that there's also GPLv1. This should be a sufficient hint that requesting only "GPL" is not sufficient, because the sender should be aware of the risk of receiving GPLv1 if he won't mention the "v2".

GPLv2 by default means GPLv2 or later, so GPLv3 is perfectly valid indeed.

That's actually not true. GPLv2 by default means v2, not v3, unless you explicitly allow "or later."

Linux is actually the famed example of v2 but not v3.

the usual license header has something along the lines of "either version [23], or at your discretion, any subsequent version", which clearly explains that there are specific versions with distinct rules. Many people opt not to include this clause because they (understandably) don't want to automatically agree to a contract that hasn't even been written yet. However if they fail to make the version clear that's on them.

Anyways I don't think this defense would ever fly in court. As soon as the plaintiff's lawyers produce evidence that you are aware of GPLv3 (such as pointing out that you have GPLv3 software on your PC or phone) the judge is going to see that you're trying to game the system on technicality and sanction you. Judges really don't like this sly loophole BS where it's extremely obvious that you're feigning ignorance for the sake of constructing an alternate reality where you hypothetically never knew there was a GPLv3.

OpenBSD userland used to teach Linux?

Wouldn't it be better to either teach BSD with current toolset, or to use GNU tools to teach Linux?

> Note that after a hotplug event, the user DOES get a prompt about an update. However, it is an opt-OUT prompt, meaning the update will install in 30 seconds unless "abort" is clicked.

I agree that calling it "0-click" is not a lie, but I also think it's a little bit dishonest.

High probability the target interprets prompt as routine automatic update notification and does nothing.

It's not clear what would actually happen, but it also seems plausible that the hotplug event gets triggered by merely (un)plugging a USB-C charger while folio is closed.

I had this literally happen with a popular app from the Google Playstore. They sent an in-app notification and looked 100% like a routine update.

You confuse Europe and the EU. It's not the same thing.

> "Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?"

What a silly question. "Who do I call if I want to speak to Earth? There's no such person? Therefore there is no such thing as Earth."

> So what is an "European" ??

Same thing as African, Asian, American.

VSCode remote editing trojan is the only remote editing mechanism that actually works.

Tramp might be good in imagination, but in reality it's just a poor plugin that sometimes works, and even if it works, it's only good for some use cases.