There is only one other in the “notable individuals” section of the English-language southern elephant seal wikipedia article. But, there are a lot of other wikipedias…
Arthur Besse
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1·7 hours agoThanks. Sorry to see my assumption was correct; that does indeed sound a lot like when they were called OSSO two decades ago.
Notably absent from the list of things they might open source soon is their current “Lipstick” UI, the graphical shell itself.
All of the stuff they plan to open source are things I didn’t even figure out were still closed from my 5-10 minutes of research before writing my previous comments. It is difficult to estimate the number (do you know how?) of other small closed components which they can dribble out over the next years to maintain users’ false hope that they will one day have an actually-open-source operating system.
we’ll see though
my advice is: don’t hold your breath.
Sorry if this sounds bitter, but it’s because I am - I naively believed that OSSO might actually ship a free OS one day (to be fair they didn’t say they would either, but they helped us believe that they might… in effect saying “we’ll see” for years while releasing bits here and there) and it was frustrating to realize that it was never a real possibility.
Got a link about it? Have they just said they plan to make it “more” open, or do they actually plan to make the full OS actually be free software, like AOSP, pmOS, or most of the other things on, eg, the pinephone software page? (note that sailfish is also listed there, but iiuc its UI and some other bits remain closed-source).
The so-called lolrus was actually a southern elephant seal named Minazo. He was born in Uruguay, but spent most of his life in Japan where, measuring 4.5 meters long and weighing around two tons, he was said to be the largest seal in the country. Minazo died in October 2005 at the age of 11, and made his meme debut posthumously in June 2006 on YTMND. To this day Wikipedia considers him “one of the most famous southern elephant seals”. Merzbow released a two-volume album (1, 2) in his memory.
It is the direct descendant of Nokia’s OSSO (“Open Source Software Operations”) division, both in terms of people and software.
Unfortunately they’ve been saying on and off that they plan to slowly open source more of it literally since they first started… which was [checks calendar] now 20 years ago.
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2·24 hours agothe correct spelling is zealand
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As a conservative, I’m beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys?
Republican bigotry, tariffs and defense spending, through readers’ eyes.
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Nick Fuentes holds a rally in Lansing, Michigan, on Nov. 11, 2020. (Nicole Hester/AP)
Robert P. George’s Dec. 7 op-ed, “There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn’t one.,” argued that conservatives should stop promoting “white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry.”
You know what this means. It means it’s too late. Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they’re bigots. And I’m pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn’t going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay.
I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?
Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants? Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren’t? I’m hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I’m not so sure about that anymore.
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i suspected this was slop so i did a reverse image search...
…and found another photo of the original painting (from 2005, by Braldt Bralds, appeared on the cover of Der Spiegel) which is higher res and has more color:
fair point, i’ll try to refrain from it next time
and we’ll open source the hardware and software interface specs so anyone can design, 3D-print, or produce their own modules
oh cool, people can make open source “other half” add-ons for the proprietary “first half” of the phone itself 🙄
i wonder what percentage of jolla customers still mistakenly believe SailfishOS to be open source? (most of the ones i’ve met did…)
I doubt it; it would be odd if they were named after a fictional Dutch-American :)
Dutch is the adjective for things from the Netherlands, and also the demonym for people from there. The demonym for Denmark is Dane and the adjective is Danish.
1 reason it’s wrong to me: https://nosystemd.org/
Under “Notable bugs and security issues” there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.
There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks… using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.
This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.
I thought about linking its wikipedia article but tbh I recommend watching it without any spoilers/preconceptions. Watching a free movie online is pretty low commitment… you can start it and see if it grabs your interest :)