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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • You aren’t the only annoyed one!

    In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700. Stallman had modified the software for the Lab’s previous laser printer (the XGP, Xerographic Printer), so it electronically messaged a user when the person’s job was printed, and would message all logged-in users waiting for print jobs if the printer was jammed. Not being able to add these features to the new printer was a major inconvenience, as the printer was on a different floor from most of the users. This experience convinced Stallman of people’s need to be able to freely modify the software they use.

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  • To add more info. I have open federation. No allowed or blocked instances. The curl requests on the troubleshooting page all return fine obviously. And federation is definitely working since I am federating with lemdroid. Every other community in any instance I’ve tried stays on “subscribe pending”. I get no comments from them and no new posts unless I purge the community and subscribe again.

    I’ve tried lemm.ee lemmy.world lemmy.ml sopuli.xyz.

    Allowed languages on my instance are all of them, but my profile is set to undetermined and English.