ArneBab

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by ArneBab 10y ago
for obvious fixes, that’s not actual power: They could not do that if the correct answer weren’t obvious. If I offered a new car for 10€ — obviously it should have been 10k€, so others cannot expect me to fulfil that (ask your local police)
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by ArneBab 10y ago
In addition to what doublec described: I use Freenet for confidential communication with friends. Encrypted Freenet traffic provides a cover which not only masks when we talk and what we talk about but also whether we talk at all. For detai
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by ArneBab 10y ago
There is the Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/ It allows donating to free software projects without burdening the developers with the administrative cost of accepting donations. It currently supports
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by ArneBab 11y ago
The possibility to use it to attack clearnet systems is actually what sets apart Tor from Freenet. That’s why any secret service needs Tor to work, but Freenet is mostly uninteresting to them. You can only communicate with it. The broken wi
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by ArneBab 11y ago
There’s already apt-get over Freenet: http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:USK@oRy7ltZLJM-w-kcOBdiZS1pAA8...
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by ArneBab 11y ago
I’ve been using Sone for years, and once the Spam-blocking in Freenet is set up (this provides reusable IDs), Sone works great and is a joy to use.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
and when they complain, what would the answer be? Would there be a complain-button next to the deprecation warning?
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by ArneBab 11y ago
If you look at the edits in the past month for emacs wiki and wikemacs, emacswiki is still the place to go: http://wikemacs.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&da... http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?
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by ArneBab 11y ago
You will have multiple Emacs versions on your devices — all using the same .emacs.d with only minor patches. And your friends will use your adaptions, too. Emacs isn’t just a text editor. It is an environment for elisp programming.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
Using an old version often isn’t feasible. For example I lost sound support on my Gentoo OLPC because I had to update my Emacs to 24 to support my .emacs.d from my desktop without endless compatibility issues. Emacs 24 required a new udev,
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by ArneBab 11y ago
You might want to read a less harried account on the history of Scheme than this. Wikipedia names continuations, tail recursion in the standard, hygienic macros and a shared namespace for variables and procedures as defining differences bet
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by ArneBab 11y ago
Add the little Schemer
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by ArneBab 11y ago
answer to what makes guix different (for me): I can install it as a user on top of my existing distro. Like PyPI done right; for the whole system.
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BY-SA and GPL: CC closed the chasm in the sharealike/copyleft community(draketo.de)
4 points by ArneBab 11y ago|1 comments
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by ArneBab 11y ago
If you have a better source, feel free to share it. This is a datapoint which strongly disagrees with your claim. It might be flawed, but that does not make it invalid. Do you have data which supports your claim? That RMS says that you can
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by ArneBab 11y ago
I agree that it’s important to have more paid developers of Free Software. I disagree with your shism between open source projects and getting paid. People should get paid for improving free software, because many others know that they bene
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by ArneBab 11y ago
They can make an unfree project which pulls users and contributors from the free project, essentially killing the momentum of the free project.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
WebKit did get released after the KDE developers attacked Apple for violating the license of KHTML.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
why do you need anyone to agree with your changes with a copyleft library?
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by ArneBab 11y ago
"Merge first, fix later" I agree with merge first fix later, if you have sufficient work hours to actually do the fix: in the Freenet project we lost many contributors, because their code wasn’t merged in time, so they just lost i
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by ArneBab 11y ago
Open source or free software is a stance. If you say Open Source it implies that the choice of a copyleft license is a strategy to improve your return of code, but the default is “just be open”. The goal is to get other people to support yo
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by ArneBab 11y ago
You left out part of the sentence: “clone of some software”. Freedom is a goal in itself, and “clone” defines how it’s the best: be directly usable to someone who knows the other software.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
“Most people suggest Apache” Do you have metrics for that? I doubt your claim, given that the GPL is the most widely used license? GPL 2 and 3 and LGPL 2 and 3 alone are 40% of the licenses in the black duck stats: https://www.bl
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by ArneBab 11y ago
If I don’t need anynomity, I would choose the Download mesh from Gnutella. If I do need anonymity, Freenet is a very good choice.
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by ArneBab 11y ago
So this should be a user choice: Do I run my request through my download public accellerator or do I only get it from the server. That would be similar to always providing a torrent for every single file — just without needing a torrent ser
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by ArneBab 11y ago
how does it avoid timing attacks when running over Tor?
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by ArneBab 11y ago
Do you remember the download mesh? http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/developer/tmp/download-m... 3 additional HTTP headers for fully distributed downloading. The server provides an URN and some IPs from particip
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by ArneBab 11y ago
You get a little bit of security by trusting Apple. But Apple does not give you the option to also trust someone else. You trade your freedom against short-term convenience. On the long-term it means that you have to accept all decisions Ap
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Freenet Communication Primitives: Part 1, Files and Sites(draketo.de)
4 points by ArneBab 11y ago|0 comments
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Freenet 1468 stable released
11 points by ArneBab 11y ago|0 comments

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