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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43562 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video...
(Gee, thanks Ubuntu for expiring this bug. It's not like there's been no activity because NOBODY IS FUCKING WORKING ON IT or anything!)
The vast majority of Americans believe that an education should ultimately end with a marketable skill, and as a result students are dissuaded from paths of study that do not end with a directly marketable skill (art school, liberal arts, music school). In a minimally viable education the pressure to not study these things goes away however there is no incentive to produce a student with marketable job skills. I think this is okay because school should have never been about job training.
An education should prepare you for job training and job training should teach you a marketable skill. This is not a new concept; guilds, apprenticeships, and trade schools have existed for centuries. What is necessary is to de-stigmatize these paths in the modern age and divorce the concept of education from that of job training.
Oh, really? Then would you mind explaining the following pieces of software that let you download videos from YouTube?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideorep... http://downloadyoutubevideo.org/ http://keepvid.com/ http://saveyoutube.com/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloa... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtu...
Sure, you could say that you'd have to know about them, but all of the above can be found searching "download youtube video" from Google.
Let's take a look at what really went down here. First, Lunduke decides to ask Richard Stallman about moving from working on proprietary software to Free software while continuing to make. Second, Stallman answers and says that he thinks having Free software is more important than making money, and that if somebody really cared about Free software that they would be willing to take a job in a factory or some other profession to meet their needs in life. Third, Lunduke decides that Stallman hates children and is a lunatic.
Quoting from the linked piece: "Good at making software that helps people and brings joy to others? Don’t do it. Go work 'in a factory' even if you are going to do a terrible job at 'working in a factory' and couldn’t support your family that way."
Stallman never said anything about not working on software that helps and brings joy. Merely that it ought to be Free software. There are plenty of companies out there selling Free software and support. Just because you produce Free software doesn't mean you can't make money doing it.
This is a classic case of an interviewer just not getting it.
I've worked on publicly funded projects and in the private sector. The publicly funded projects were the worst for pointless reporting, accounting, and paperwork.
In the private sector, the boss pops his head in and asks what I've done to day and what I'll finish by the end of the week, and we adjust goals. It takes about 5 minutes a week to do this.
When I was working on a publicly funded project, there was a report to be filed every day that took an hour of my time to do, a report to be filed every week that took about three hours over the course of the week, meeting with management to make sure that the first two reports were complete, accurate, and not fudged which took an additional two hours a week, and an end of the month assessment for both spending and time clocked in that took about twelve hours over the course of a month.
So guess where I'm more productive.
I have an encrypted laptop that boots from a read-only USB key that is attached to my keyring. It will only boot from this keyring (and a backup CD-R that I have), and the system and the boot media are never stored together. Before USB keyrings became common, I would have the boot media be a CD-R.