JimDabell

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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> I'm saying that the claims made by the OP are true, and there's nothing anyone can possibly say about the bigger movement that can contradict those claims, because the movement, and what it is, and what it's like, are a
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> > >> You're claiming the terms laid out in the OSD were motivated by hopes of cultivating a community. > > I didn’t say that. > If you don't think the statement's true I didn’t say that either. Is it re
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> I'm curious whether you classify chromium, AOSP, or sqlite as open source. They are open source software, but they aren’t following the social norms of the open source movement. They are within their rights to develop as they see
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
> You're claiming the terms laid out in the OSD were motivated by hopes of cultivating a community I didn’t say that. I didn’t bring up the OSD at all. In fact I was explicitly talking about a broader concept than simply license ter
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
I’m well aware of the OSD, but we are talking about social norms, not distribution terms. Direct from the OSI: > The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
You’re getting open source and free software mixed up. As I said, Open Source was a reformulation of Free Software to make it more business-friendly. Free Software is fundamentally a moral stance (it is wrong to prevent sharing); Open Sourc
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Open source is not merely a license choice. It is a reformulation of free software to make it more attractive to businesses. The entire point behind open source is that it is more effective for businesses to develop software collaboratively
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
Or you want to produce demo videos in multiple languages.
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
A much more comprehensive article on this subject is here: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946966
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by JimDabell 5mo ago
From the article: > So I built local.vibe — a friendly dashboard and local .vibe hostname for every local web app on your Mac. No more localhost:3000 vs localhost:5173 roulette. > The whole thing communicates over a Unix socket acting
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
Theft is theft, but learning is not theft. Neither is fair use, and neither is copyright infringement. But learning most definitely is not theft.
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> In the past apple as made it difficult for users to know how to do this The mechanism to add a web app to the home screen has remained pretty unchanged from iPhoneOS 1.0 (2007) to iOS 18 (2024) – you tap the action button (sometimes ca
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
That might be true for the tech giants but it’s not true in the typical case. In our case, we didn’t care which platform people used, and if anything, the owners of the apps preferred people to use the web because many of them were selling
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
No. There were no ads, no invasive tracking, no obnoxious pushes to move people to native – we didn’t care which platform people used. People just genuinely prefer native apps to PWAs. This should not be a controversial statement. If you sa
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> Such a conclusion cannot reasonably be made from the data you have presented. I’m responding to somebody who presented the following with absolutely nothing to back it up: > Make it a PWA. This will make it accessible to many more p
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> Make it a PWA. This will make it accessible to many more people. Nobody wants to install an app. Nobody wants to install a PWA either but they will at least use a "web site" (a surprising number will install it if it's g
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
The manuals were great. I taught myself C/C++ in the early 90s mostly from the big stack of Borland books that came with Turbo C++. It’s hard to imagine learning something like that these days by simply sitting down and reading referen
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
You’re avoiding my point. What you said: > The spec is still in draft because Apple refuses to let it move forward …is simply untrue. Apple cannot stop it from being a standard by refusing to implement it. As long as anybody else is wi
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> The spec is still in draft because Apple refuses to let it move forward This is untrue. Web standards need two independent implementations. Google can’t convince any other rendering engine besides their own to implement it. It doesn&#x
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
Other parents have different opinions to you about the value of this.
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> Most people trust their kids to generally not do bad things. Okay, so trust them not to access age-gated sites using your credentials then.
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
Zero knowledge proofs are when the prover can prove the statement is true to the verifier without disclosing more information beyond the statement. It doesn’t mean the prover cannot talk to other systems to produce the statement.
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> It is my understanding that this is not possible. I would be happy to be shown to be wrong, but to me it seems like you can either prevent people from lending out their credentials, or you can preserve the anonymity of the user, but no
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
I’m not sure what you are saying I am mixing up. The article links to the source code repository here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android... That links to the tech spec: > The solution leve
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
You are looking for different things to VCs. You are looking for markers that show software quality over the long-term. They are looking for markers that show rapidly gaining momentum over the short-term. These are often in opposition to on
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
Note that this is an implementation of eIDAS: https://www.eudi-wallet.eu/ The point of this is that you can use the credentials on your phone to prove that you are an adult to a website using zero-knowledge proofs to avoid
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> You have to be deeply ensconced inside an impenetrable bubble to do that to yourself. I largely agree with your point, but I’m afraid you are the one in the bubble. Detecting AI writing is a rare skill, not the norm. It’s glaringly obv
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
Not every conversation has to be a conversation about AI.
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
> Brits are masters of malicious compliance. My favourite example of this was when Thatcher passed a law banning the broadcast of Sinn Féin. The BBC responded by dubbing the audio with actors’ voices. So you would watch the news and see
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by JimDabell 6mo ago
This is an article about an encryption software project getting their Microsoft account terminated. It’s not the place to spam a completely off-topic complaint about the AI use of a service completely unrelated to the project.

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