Blikkentrekker

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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
> That said, we all enjoy the fruits of their labors ... Well, we also enjoy the issues. When you talk to them they are extremely uncompromising in practice and extremely tribalistic. I think “tribalistic” is maybe a better word for wh
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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
“ I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is
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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
Not only that, the situation with Wayland also made me kind of afraid of the future of open source because it dawned on me that many of the figureheads in open source are actually simply put mentally unstable and extremely zealous and lack
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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
The python 2 to 3 situation was a similar colossal mistake of honestly incompetent developers who really enjoy programming in their free time who don't understand that time is money for most people. By comparison, Rust with its edition
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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
It's really simple, then I have to use GNOME or KDE or any other thing that is on Wayland which I don't use. AwesomeWM, Xmonad, Fluxbox, OpenBox and many other interfaces just aren't on Wayland and have no intention to be bec
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by Blikkentrekker 7mo ago
> What will get you in trouble in the UK is threatening violence against people or posting hate speech that encourages others to do so. But this is also true in the USA and in most countries. The line is quite thin and ambiguous though
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by Blikkentrekker 10mo ago
All that can be regulated though. In many jurisdictions, it's forbidden for lawyers or pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products with it being regulated what counts as an advertisement and putting oneself into the phone book
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by Blikkentrekker 10mo ago
Advertisement also more or less puts a wrench in the theory of capitalistic competition in that companies would be incentivized to create the best product for the lowest price supposedly. They're now just incentivized to create the bes
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by Blikkentrekker 11mo ago
> LGPL should only pose a problem if you explicitly want your program to be used with non-free software. And then only if said non-free software doesn't give you a way to rebuild it yourself, should you want to modify the LGPL prog
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by Blikkentrekker 11mo ago
Copyleft doesn't work well with Rust's ecosystem of many small crates and heavy reliance on libraries alongside static linking. If one library be GPLv2 and the other GPLv3 they couldn't be used together in one project. LGPL s
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by Blikkentrekker 11mo ago
There are also so many G.P.L. violations and nothing is done about it. I think a big issue is also that it's hard to show actual damages with this kind of copyright violation. It's obviously copyright violation but what damages ar
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
Which I feel honestly in part explains why so many prominent figures in Free software development seem to have some mental issues to be honest. They in a way remind me of that person who at one point was responsible for over half of all edi
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
Yes, I'm well aware of that, Plasma can be installed on many distributions. How exactly is K.D.E. making their own software distribution benefiting the development of Plasma? This really feels like they first decided they wanted to mak
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
No, KDE does not need its own distro, that's the issue. They don't need their own method to distribute it which benefits no one. The idea of a distribution for this specific purpose is best left in the hands of some organization w
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
It does I believe? I've never tried it myself but I've heard multiple voices say that once you go into the terminal the entire Gentoo stack is just there with portage, equery, qapps and such. In fact, from what I understand it is
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
That seems like a good niche to exist indeed and many people would probably misunderstand its purpose by it being called a “KDE distribution”. It would perhaps have been better if it were created by some independent group for this purpose a
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
Ehh, I always took the “don't reinvent the wheel” advice in context of “wheels” being very simple things that everyone can create but no one wants to spend time on. It's typically not really a learning exercise to say implement qu
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
The thing about writing standards is that if you write standards compiler writers vehemently disagree with, they will just not implement them, and they disagree with it because their consumers do. A standard typically documents what is alre
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by Blikkentrekker 1y ago
I have to say, I've read the discussion this generated and it's a bit scary how no one seems to know whether type punning through unions is undefined or not in C, or rather, my conclusion reading it all is more so that many people
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
That said, I wouldn't mind an upgrade to the standard of say say if the link be printed above the code in human readable form in some way, the reader would refuse to open it, or at least be configurable to refuse to open it if they not
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
As far as I know the only form of code execution they support is by the URL datatype which carries the same risks as wel already mentioned anyway.
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
It runs inside a web browser though. This is no different from visiting an arbitrary link and running whatever arbitrary code in the Javascript sandbox of that link and one already knows a q.r. code an take one to an arbitrary link.
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
> but some people seem to find it useful. Honestly, it filled a very specific hole for me that I found nowhere else. Everyone is talking about the “unfiltered content” and all those things but to me it was mostly just topical. It was r
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
> This is a pretty good take! It's because you could verbally attack and fight the 4chan idiots with a swarm of common sense and be lauded for doing that job. This is actually a big reason why 4chan never messed with my sanity and
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
It wasn't hard to find things no, but the narrative one often reads is that it's the mainstream consensus there to the universal opinion rather than a fringe opinion which exists and isn't banned from having.
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
I'm saying I searched and I couldn't find it but what I did find was many news websites that reported it but said they couldn't confirm these rumors themselves and said they were just that, rumors. I found threads about it on
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
> 4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers. It only seems odd because many people interpret this through a U.S
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
Well, so you say, but every single news website that I can find willing to say something on the matter is either The Daily Mail and similar things that also say they based their information on leaks on “social media rumors” or more reput
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
It doesn't even describe /pol/. This is what 4chan thinks of /pol/ but when you actually go there there is a pluriformmity of opinions and it's indeed mostly just about current events. The biggest good thing th
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
So you were able to find the leak? Because I see reports that it was hacked repeated as fact everywhere on Daily Mail -tier reliable news websites and Reddit posts, but they are all based on “rumors on social media go about that there was

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