Unless you're a teenager or actually writing about kpop that directory full of those girl's images looks ridiculous and screams creep.

Creepy website. I bet those women didn't consent to having their pictures being used like that. This isn't /g/.

Are you worried about their legal rights in the images?

If you're part of a performing group, having images of you splashed all over accompanied by statements of how much people like you ("Who is the most talented Twice member and why is it Nayeon?") is generally considered to be a good thing.

>having images of you splashed all over accompanied by statements of how much people like you

If only. These are selfies of women being used in the logo space. It changes to a new selfie every time you reload. Very creepy.

It looks like they're pictures of women from K-pop/Korean popular media groups overlayed with the site's name. It doesn't look like they're really selfies in the sense we understand it. They're not random people.

Well for a website about a permissively-licensed operating system, the author clearly has no problems violating copyright licenses by using these girl's photos in branding.

It looks like they're pictures of women from K-pop/Korean popular media groups overlayed with the site's name. It doesn't look like they're really selfies in the sense we understand it.

Do you have a screenshot of what you’re referring to? I can’t see it

Pop stars are known to be fairly discreet and private people.

Those look like pictures take from movies and popular media?

I guess now I just learned they are members of a Korean girl group. Not sure they'd approve of their pictures being used to promote "linuxreviews.org".

Doesn’t matter if they approve it or not, they almost certainly signed a release form, whoever owns the copyright gets to decide what use is allowed.

Most likely they are not the copyright holders so there's nothing to approve. Why so obsessed about random k pop pictures?

Would you describe it as creepy if these were a bunch of images containing popular anime characters instead of kpop band members?

I agree in that living in Korea they probably have to use Internet Explorer...

Kim Tae-yeon wants to be free

Try explaining that to Rhea from RedHat. She seems to believe the opposite

"A skill perhaps, to which women are born vastly inferior. There are separate categories in physical sports for a reason - men and women are not the same, neither physically, nor mentally. In both ways one could say that women are weaker"

https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/d61qfu/open_letter_...

On the top post on that link:

"Red Hat urges the FSF board to seize the opportunity during its current leadership succession by appointing a president and members of its board that are more diverse, including from a national, racial and gender perspective."

at least in my country's constitution discrimination based on race/gender is forbidden (No person should be limited by law or granted privileges based on his sex/race/nationality/... . Statement like this is exactly that. I imagine other countries have similar laws - how are things like that acceptable?

The fact is that we live in a society

Normies galore after that RMS Twitter drama

You're missing the point of free software. You own it and can change it how you like. It's not problematic this is how it was made to be.

Here's two examples of how distros patching software has been helpful for me.

1) SquirrelMail (abandoned) patched to work with PHP 7.3 thanks to FreeBSD contribs

2) Abiword patch builds in the AUR that fix a broken default install.

Is the point of free software to create as much variations of a program as possible?

I'd rather see that useful changes are merged upstream, or projects are forked. If this had happened, you wouldn't even need to patch, and this would save an enormous amount of manpower that is wasted on trivialities.

This "problem" you talk about is not a problem in my view but rather a essential freedom in free software.

People's computers are like their cars we like to customize and mod them because it's cool and remember, you own it so it gives a sense of pride.

My problem with the proprietary software is that they compete by creating incompatible standards for the same thing to fight each other while I'm suffering implementing them or using them and having to jumping from one to the other.

There was a glimmer of hope at the start when the focus was on just getting the full free software stack working. But then it went back to making near-exact copies of the most trivial parts of it.

Why nobody ever copies the hard parts?

You must be joking, she wrote the article silly.

On the internet to promote herself with a photo of them at the end. I felt a strong sense of irony at the end of the story.

That’s what I felt as well. She seemed to state that it was a relief that her phone died, yet somehow still managed to have a photo of them.

I don't get that at all. She seems like a caring mother. Of course she is going to show them the things she knows. We are only human.