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by Fice 10y ago
The programming community became globally dependent on a single commercial company. Using GitHub would mean contributing to that dependence and monopolization even more.
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by Fice 10y ago
Being removed from one of many interchangeable hosting services is one thing. Being removed from the one central service that everyone around insists on using is another. GitHub, due to it's extreme popularity and centralized nature, i
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by Fice 10y ago
This is not about how hard or easy it is to move from GitHub. What scares me is that it is increasingly hard to participate in the open source/free software community without using GitHub, and it is increasingly hard to find contributo
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by Fice 10y ago
This is scary. For increasingly many potential contributors a project effectively does not exist if it is not on GitHub. And, being a huge centralized service, GitHub is very susceptible to censorship (e.g. repos being taken down via DMCA o
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by Fice 10y ago
But it works. Somehow the free software movement survives and still makes influence in the modern IT world where it seems everyone holds convenience above ethics (how many people believe that privacy is good and mass surveillance is evil an
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by Fice 10y ago
You can use an RSS feed to email converter. I use Feed2imap ( https://github.com/feed2imap/feed2imap/ ) to collect feeds from many sites and Notmuch ( https://notmuchmail.org/ ) to sort and index the
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by Fice 10y ago
Because Emacs is an OS the way it should be — an extensible system with a unified UI instead of a pile of separate and hardly interoperable applications.
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Scale: Pharo Smalltalk in the shell(github.com)
4 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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OOP: Why the bashing?(clojuregazette.com)
4 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 10y ago
They do not love or hate Linux, open source, or anything, they just do whatever makes more money. It's business.
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by Fice 10y ago
Federation does not solve the problem. Eventually most users will flock towards single most popular instance of a federated service. Email is federated, but most users betray it by choosing the most popular provider (Gmail). And Google will
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by Fice 10y ago
Centralization really is a social problem. Among alternatives, most people will mindlessly choose the most popular one, while extreme popularity of something should instead be a reason to avoid it or at least to be very cautious about it. N
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Fedora is on diaspora*(fedoramagazine.org)
1 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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Go-ipfs 0.4.0 has been released(ipfs.io)
4 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 10y ago
Removing net neutrality is like allowing supermarkets to buy separate lanes on crowded city roads exclusively for use by their customers.
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by Fice 11y ago
There is no "New Kinder Gentler Microsoft". Corporations just do what they see as more profitable. They do not make decisions based on morality per se, but they try to maintain a certain public image when it helps profits.
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by Fice 11y ago
Emacs can transparently edit remote files: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode All you need is a machine accessible via ssh, and you won't have to trust centralized proprietary services.
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by Fice 11y ago
The comment I replied to was about Cloudflare. But what really concerns me are the website owners who betray their users by allowing their HTTPS traffic to be MITMd, no matter if they use Cloudflare or something else. Also it is not accepta
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by Fice 11y ago
Cloudflare is MITM. It is unacceptable for any website that respects its users' privacy.
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by Fice 11y ago
1. ipfs.io is not a critical part of the system. If it becomes unavailable, the information can still be retrieved via a local node or another public gateway. 2. With a decentralized system like IPFS, availability of the data does not depen
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by Fice 11y ago
Why depend on a centralized service when there are easy-to-use decentralized alternatives? $ ipfs add myfile.txt added QmeeLUVdiSTTKQqhWqsffYDtNvvvcTfJdotkNyi1KDEJtQ myfile.txt # Access via a public gateway $ curl https:/&#x2
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‘Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says(motherboard.vice.com)
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by Fice 11y ago
And Apple will probably be all right with this, they may even cooperate secretly.
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by Fice 11y ago
> Quickly slapping up a counterfeit and selling it as a brand-name thing won't work. Wouldn't it be enough to just display an UEFI boot message to notify users when non-original battery is detected?
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Sly: 2D/3D game engine in Guile Scheme(dthompson.us)
2 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 11y ago
Don't know if it's already usable, but I really like the idea.
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Colaua: GNU social conversations in static HTML pages(elvil.net)
2 points by Fice 11y ago|1 comments
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Pagure: DIY Git project hosting(fedoramagazine.org)
3 points by Fice 11y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 11y ago
In a content-addressable network your computer seeds the content rather than serves it. You do not need a properly managed server for that. It does not matter whether the original node is accessible, information can be retrieved as long
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by Fice 11y ago
Another problem is why we at all need to rely on any third-party hosting services while we have our own computers connected to the Internet. In this regard, I have high hopes for content-addressable distributed systems. Currently, IPFS [1]

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