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Thoughts on the Joint Statement on the GNU Project(lists.gnu.org)
2 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
The most alarming thing about witch hunts like this, is that big social corporations have all the means to control which panic will spread or be shunned. And if Stallman's FSF colleagues endorsed the panic and pressured him into resign
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Moral Panic(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
It is useful to have a way to represent structural and semantic information in email text (paragraphs, headings, quotes etc.), but not custom layouts and styling — that should remain under full control of the reader.
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by Fice 7y ago
> for as little as $5/mo, which includes 1TB/mo of data transfer. There are even much cheaper virtual server offerings, as one probably doesn't need 1 GB of RAM and a dedicated IP for personal VPN or proxy.
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by Fice 7y ago
Scheduling jitter does not cause jitter in audio, because audio is buffered and the buffer is consumed by audio device using it's own clock. Yet OS has to fill the buffer in time or underrun will happen, which will be audible as crackl
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Let Users Login via Email(grumpy.website)
3 points by Fice 7y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 7y ago
The problem here is not so much about open vs closed-source. GitHub is a large centralized social network controlled by corporation, and we should never expect a corporation to behave ethically because ethics too often contradict with comme
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by Fice 7y ago
Pop culture, that's it. A rather known and obvious approach at web development needed a catchy name and dedicated promotional website so that webdevs know that's cool and trendy. Alan Kay said in 2004: «You could think of it as pu
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by Fice 7y ago
Users are not protected from malware distributed via Chrome Web Store and Google Play. This "security" is intended not to protect users, but to protect proprietary apps and data from users , the true motive is DRM rather than sec
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Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility(softwareheritage.org)
168 points by Fice 7y ago|7 comments
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Coinhive Proof of Work Captcha(coinhive.com)
2 points by Fice 8y ago|1 comments
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by Fice 8y ago
Email is the last massively used open and independent communication system on the Internet. Unfortunately, many irresponsible users allowed Google to monopolize it by flocking to Gmail, and now Google is taking advantage of their position.
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by Fice 8y ago
For me the ability to edit code structurally (rather than in terms of plain text) in a uniform way is a great advantage of Lisp syntax.
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by Fice 8y ago
Alan Kay and Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) had a discussion about the idea of "data" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722
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by Fice 8y ago
Neither Signal nor Telegram are acceptable communication systems. Both are isolated and fully controlled by a single company, both require mobile phone numbers and unduly trust mobile carriers for user authentication (at least by default),
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by Fice 8y ago
It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400291 Thinking about it I came to realize that there is a much deeper cultural problem: it became the norm for users to run lots of opaque untrusted code on the
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RSS-Bridge: the RSS feed for websites missing it(github.com)
24 points by Fice 8y ago|2 comments
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by Fice 8y ago
My mistake, I misread the docs. Anglican can actually be considered to be an embedded DSL. > An important design feature is that it is 'anti-DSL' --- the syntax is exactly the Clojure syntax. This is not "anti-DSL", t
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by Fice 8y ago
Wouldn't a language with support for continuations (Scheme or Racket, speaking of the Lisp family) be a better choice for the task and allow this to be implemented as an embedded DSL rather than a separate (even if it is tightly integr
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by Fice 8y ago
Looks like a collection of random contributions that were not evaluated for their aesthetic quality. For better examples of crowdsourced art see Fedora supplemental wallpapers: https://fedoramagazine.org/submissions-now-ope
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by Fice 8y ago
But Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3, which means, that you can combine GPLv3 and "GPLv2 or later" libraries with code under Apache 2.0.
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by Fice 8y ago
It's the great advantage of Lisp syntax that it supports structural editing in a complete and unified way, and paredit enables the leap from editing code by manipulating plain lines of characters to directly editing code as hierarchica
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by Fice 8y ago
It's harder to find contributors for a project that is not hosted on GitHub.
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by Fice 8y ago
The developer identities that link developer activity across all projects, the network of forks.
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by Fice 8y ago
I'm glad to see Fossil mentioned here. Yet the real problem is not in the technical aspects and possibilities of project hosting migration, it's the dependence of the majority of open-source developers on GitHub's centralized
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by Fice 8y ago
Also in Russian it is commonly called "судно на воздушной подушке" which literally translates to "vessel on air cushion".
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by Fice 8y ago
For me, one of the big advantages of email (which makes it my preferred electronic communication medium) is that it does not assume immediate reaction. I can read my mail once a day, reply to the messages that need to be replied to, and for
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by Fice 8y ago
«60% of my fav links from 10 yrs ago are 404. I wonder if Library of Congress expects 60% of their collection to go up in smoke every decade». And the discussion that follows about how to preserve not just the bits but also their meanings:
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by Fice 8y ago
There is also a possibility, that at least some of the "leaks" are in reality marketing ploys orchestrated by the company.

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