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Ричард Столлман, будучи доктором философии в области физических наук, ввëл в обиход физическую величину ГНУ для измерения числа степеней свободы у тел, для которых это число невообразимо велико?
Идея состоит в следующем. По аналогии с тем, как количество вещества измеряют в молях: МОЛЬ — это в точности N_A молекул, где N_A — постоянная Авогадро (имеющая, между прочим, с 2019-ого года точное значнение в системе единиц SI), — Столлман придумал ввести постоянную N_S, определяемую как число степеней свободы молекулы ДНК антилопы, относящейся к биологическому виду Connochaetes taurinus (полосатый гну). В настоящее время это один из самых редких видов антилоп, обитающих на поверхности нашей планеты. Некоторое время назад полосатые гну находились даже под угро
зой вымирания (но в настоящее время им не угрожает опасность исчезновения). Тем самым, выбирая биологический вид для определения новой физической величины, Столлман решил поддержать этих чудесных животных, облябовавших саванны южной части африканского континента.
В качестве производных величин RMS предложил использовать килогну, мегагну, гигагну, определяемые, соответственно, как 1024 гну в 1кгну, 1024 кгну в 1 Мгну и 1024 Мгну в 1 Ггну. Например, у плазмоидов, возникающих на Солнце в периоды наиболее мощных солнечных вспышек, число степеней свободы оценивается числами, имеющими порядок существенно больший даже, чем несколько Ггну. #свобода #наука #rms #GNU
Back then, #Stallman selflessly left #MIT and #FSF to protect them from the mob justice, so that "joint back-stab", published in that specific moment was not just a sort of virtue signaling but a plain attack.
So much that, two years later 9 of those people signed the infamous "RMS open letter" calling "for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation" that dared reinstantiate RMS and even for "Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project" out of lies.
The powers in place in 2021 were quite evident: just look at the sponsors of the signing organizations to find Google, Meta, Microsoft and all of their friends.
CC: @ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
guix.gnu.orgThe #Guix leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.
I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for this personal attack to a neurodivergent #hacker such as #RMS.
It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend Minsky's memory from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on #BigTech social media) against RMS himself.
Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed an even worse attack built on top of lies.
These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.
Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among #Stallman fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly protected commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to #opensource and to the current use of #FreeSoftware by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.
Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for #GNU system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by #ESR to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of #hackers.
But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.
So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019.
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
guix.gnu.orghttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/
https://stallman.org/discord.html
#freesoftware
#fsf
#gnu
#rms
#stallman
#stallmanwasright
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🦣 @Siucraym@mastodon.cloud
Happy 72nd Birthday to Richard Matthew Stallman! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
#CakeDay #RichardStallman #rms
A fundamental issue, a sort of language barrier, is that to a #hacker software is speech.
So the invite to study and modify the code is an invite to a conversation (and often a political one).
While you interpret the invite to fork as a way to counter a criticism, it is a validation of the value of such criticism. It's like saying: "hey, that's a great idea, but I don't have the energy/skill/resources/time to try explore it myself: why don't you give a try yourself? It will be fun!"
That's also how you can distinguish a free software built from hackers by a corporate open source with the same license: if you announce a fork, the hacker will be happy, because you are using and studying their work and giving back by exploring new paths, while the corporation will cry about the community split and similar bullshit.
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#FreeSoftware is neither a solution to people problems nor a new identity: it's a gift.
A gift with political hopes and sometimes with some rules for reciprocity (#copyleft) designed to maximize the benefit that tje whole humanity get from such gift.
But still, just a gift.
Free Software hackers don't want to turn every people into hackers (#RMS is pretty explicit about that), and this is likely one of its worse limits. In fact, #FSF talk about it as an ethical choise instead of a civic duty.
What they were missing is that a "freedom" that only few people can enact is in fact a privilege.
Unfortunately, in a cybernetic society where the overwhelming majority of agents defining the evolution of the world is constituted by software (thousands automatic agent for each human), people who cannot program, cannot really understand how the world they live in is ruled and by who.
So, like it or not, hacking is a prerequisite to a full citizenship in a cybernetic society just like reading and writing was in an industrial one in the last two centuries.
We can pretend otherwise, and the billionaries running #BigTech corporations are more then happy if we do. But ultimately, we are going to be alienated, if we don't start fighting back.
@lfa@hostux.social"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone" - RMS
Sadly I have to admit that I'm one of those who thought they could ignore politics for a long time until I realized that it's wrong and even unethical to do it. Stallman was right
nge? Wrk Tgether
@freeschool@qoto.org#Quote "The mob wants blood and it doesnt seem to matter whos."
"But in this day and age people want instant retribution for wrongs as well as perceived wrongs and are perfectly willing to bypass due process. Just fire them! Now! Someone said they said something bad!"
#Quote "The mob wants blood and it doesnt seem to matter whos."
"Its not why did #Epstein run a brothel on an #island but how come he was able to engage in sex trafficking, coercing of minors and all of that under the nose of quite a lot of #politicians." 
#RMS #comments in 2019 #debate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
Some really interesting points and #quotes in there without even judging the right or wrong in this specific debate ...
nge? Wrk Tgether @freeschool@qoto.org#Quote "...in risk management you don't count your wins - you count your losses."
"It's not the 99 times when your parachute opens that you stress about. It's the other 1%."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
Some really interesting points and #quotes in there...
@thebluemarble@pol.socialZ wiekiem robię się prawdziwym Stallmanistą. Przestaję akceptować jakiekolwiek narzucone ograniczenia odnośnie tego, jak mam używać swojego komputera. DRM w jakiejkolwiek formie jest już dla mnie nie do zaakceptowania - Spotify czy inne subskrybcje na e-booki odpadają. Jeśli to postępująca choroba, to za jakieś dwa lata pewnie zainstaluję Trisquela na librebootowanym Thinkpadzie X200 i zacznę poprawiać ludzi, że używam GNU Plus Linox xD
#komputery #RMS
(or maybe when you properly #rms it it's lower?)
nge? Wrk Tgether @freeschool@qoto.orgLouis Rossmann vs. Richard Stallman ? [People's Movement]
An interesting comparison you make between these two but not sure about how in comparison is for you other than being a known speaker -
Louis Rossmann is the kind of person we could all learn from. Richard Stallman is also.
Both do great work in many fields (Louis much more vocal nowadays maybe I think). They share a lot but not totally same fields? You could explain more why these two.
#RMS / @rms is good at speaking but lost "the people" side of contact for now (my opinion after trying with him)... I think he STILL has big opportunity as I see it if he can do some cringe work with us to really inspire all levels ore personally.
MORE BELOW IS OPTIONALLY
EXTRA / DEEPER LEVEL....
I have sent him things he has read which I could detail a bit BUT he measurably ignores do this people work in a 2-ways systems / more personal thing like a Mother Theresa or Gandhi) is 100% lacking or didn't have any answer back on the movement being more people than computers in the future (since we have plenty solved in computing or making more mess and really the users were always the weak points even on Fediverse doing computer-only stuff).
So I think I can respectfully speak on his behalf (measurably and got some response back which is great from a high level person) and can say he sticks to computing and his online account is basically evidence of that as a PURE re-posting of Guardian links and news (almost only) and somehow he is expecting people to do something without re-connecting ourselves in our personal lives.
So yeah your comparison is interesting (say more) but for years @rms is just a Guardian links machine here and apart from some great talks I have on him, he's a limited source and without personal context (even if he used me or others to spread he works / mentality to avoid being occupied by it).
SUMMARY If you can't use the movement - you don't really have one / it's slow progress.
ANY THOUGHTS?
I long for the day someone corrects me to say "your wrong / he's changed" or that's not the way to to it.
Because less people work = less change as WE are the problem too )not even google but us) and he falls into 're-blogger' category instead of long-way around people builder / worker in these fields which is the best healing stuff for all the cancers...
WHAT CAN I MEASURE ABOUT RMS?
My 'measurement of #RMS quickly:
a) I have sent him short and long writing and literally he reads the parts he wants and avoids clear blocks of text in this psychological / people work
b) Isn't currently willing to consider feeding fans / use them differently other than just computers as the focus - which a lot of computer-people have made the mistake of - basically not linking back to people in the loop!
A BIT LONG BUT movements are not always about the short and plenty of opportunity to use everyone to upgrade their skill, not just their computer software. (Tapping the side of my head summarise the end of this writing)
nge? Wrk Tgether @freeschool@qoto.org"Now that #corporations dominate #society and write the laws, each advance or change in #technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users."
- Richard Stallman / #RMS
@rms
Shows incremental targeting, slowly but surely approach...
"This has literally been true ever since it was first said, and for each new year and each new technological advancement, this law still stays true."
Said by @lian_drake in video comments #quotes page:
How bootlickers make the world worse
nge? Wrk Tgether @freeschool@qoto.orgDump "The Guardian" newspaper a bit ? #DumpThe Guardian
www.dumptheguardian.com
(= archived copy 
)
Example link (shows archived copy) for "The Guardian" article:
And especially since @rms (aka #RMS) has his whole profile based on The Guardian like a mirror of links... 
Working with people for the way... not just infinite Guardian links and adverts with it.
Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use…
www.dumptheguardian.com“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Him, is in fact, GNU/Him, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Him.”
nge? Wrk Tgether @freeschool@qoto.orgFew questions around RMS and working with actual people as a movement...
TL;DR.
Few questions around RMS and working with actual people as a movement (so people and their mentality worked on personally - not just computers and from a distance)...
@jxself @rms
So people and their mentality need to be worked on more personally I think - not just computers anymore and from a distance the mostly-computer work has it's limits... Agree?
And since you're a fan also some more questions please? (rewrote this a bit)
Here's what I'd ask in a few ways, so you can see what I'm getting out (no hate in asking)...
1. How do you or RMS think computer-only ways (or even computer-first ways) are going to get us to what is a human mentality or psychological problem where humans need to help humans understand it (not just 1 way videos either)
( so he's done great work but without looping more people into HUMANity and more meaning between us, how does that go beyond repeating and people never gettign it sometimes? )
Aren't users the problem or won't they be the main problem left after all the software is perfected?... i.e. there's limits to computing right in social setting? And even with perfected software it's the mentality of the people like a #therapy needed. To help hold their hand? Even with answer some people just can't make jump or feels too alone so need #assistants to #guide them.
#support #handholding
(and if not him then his fans doing the hard work with his nod as a kind of effort of mutual support at lower levels he can't / might not want to reach (which I see him as almost actively blocking) as he could a run test or two and build trust between people instead of keeping the distance (and yes all is risk but distance kills everything between people and worst in the long-term).
2- Have you seen his account? It's just an echo of Guardian links all the way down. Screenshot here:
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/113539022106836524
I mean that's what famous people do I guess, 1-way stuff and echoing what is already out there ON MAINSTREAM NEWS?...
BUT STILL devise a method or something with the lemmings... test people out, half-endorse and then ditch them reasonably after testing IF there is a reason. Most of us are amazing once you find things in us or see our offerings...
3- What is freedom when almost all of us are working alone or for #State?
To ignore your fans and not use them is a blunder or missed opportunity in a 'movement' - but also not feed and use your fans seems part of it you must do...
AGREE? (RMS doing all the work mostly or only those head down in computers - is that enough?)
4 - Have I miss something new about RMS relative to this people work, let me know.
Summary - In whatever way, I think we can patch ourselves together... Helps if 'head of the snake' directs a bit...
Thanks - I wrote this fast (and re-edited it few hours later it simplify it) - I don't mind if you write with speed either just to get back to me.
A "movement OF PEOPLE?"/ plenty of space to test / improve ?
Has #RMS has quite measurable reached limits? Can we see evidence of it?
It's like those politicians that avoid "we the people" in actually doing things with a bit of their authoritative / educated help... and talking about it constantly.
#support #handholding #distributing #work #interaction #helpdesk #p2p
Thanks again