Lammy

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by Lammy 8mo ago
> If you have the right to turn off PRs Joke's on you; I already do shut down every PR automatically on my projects with the repo-lockdown bot: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/repo-lockdown Making m
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by Lammy 8mo ago
This exact thing happened to me once at the hotel bar in the Santa Clara Convention Center / Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> People have a right to propose changes to broken things they use. Here's the root of your misunderstanding. “Broken” is subjective, relative only to you. > it's right there is name of the feature "Pull Request",
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> If you want to host public projects, you will always have some responsibility to the public. I disagree with this completely.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
Wrong; unsolicited PRs from people who want me to maintain their needs for them are what's hostile. Take the project as-is, fork and maintain it yourself, or pay up.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
Too late to edit, but here's the inarguable truth straight from the mouth of the Open Source Initiative, that the term was the direct product of Netscape's desire to get people to work for them for free: https://opensou
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by Lammy 8mo ago
Macromedia Flash MX was also the first version released after Adobe started running scared and fighting dirty with a look-and-feel lawsuit against Macromedia Flash 5 for its use of tabbed UI palettes: https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> there are multiple PRs to address that, but the maintainers give no good reason for not accepting it. Congrats on discovering the difference between “““Open Source””” (pro-corporate; a way to socially engineer people to do work for you
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by Lammy 8mo ago
Great way to visualize the decline of software quality over the last twenty years: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%22Something%20went%20wr... Notable inflection point right around the time unlimited data became an afte
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by Lammy 8mo ago
I am the person I'm defending.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> although Flash Player died a long time ago They still maintain it for China actually: https://gitlab.com/cleanflash/installer
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by Lammy 8mo ago
If they don't want to be replied to like they believe in absolutes then they should not speak in absolutes. I'm so tired of having to “““assume””” that people would be inclusive of me and my needs when they outright say the opposi
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by Lammy 8mo ago
I see you've never had chronic respiratory issues or you would know that's not true.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> I think most people in the US are paying at least $350/month What an absurd statement. Mine has gone down in the past several years, and I pay around that per 6 months.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
Cars are great for people who do have all their limbs but lack the stamina to walk long distances, stand for long periods of time, carry large weights, etc.
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by Lammy 8mo ago
> Park outside of the city, walk/bike/scooter/mass-transit within Very telling how these arguments are always the most ableist shit you've ever heard and yet people seem to think they're Very Progressive for maki
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by Lammy 8mo ago
“Just” lol That would be two things that would have to be compromised and redirected simultaneously to malicious versions. Way more likely to be noticed too because one of them would be GitHub, and unless they mirror the entire rest of the
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> What if they just compel Microsoft to backdoor Windows/WinGet against you? You are confusing cause with effect. Leaking this type of fingerprint data over time is what allows users of Palantir-like systems to decide you're so
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by Lammy 9mo ago
I use a package manager that checks the hash of the downloaded installer against what's recorded in the package listing for that version. WinGet has been built in to Windows since one of the 2018-era releases of Windows 10: https:&#x2
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Sorry for assuming you'd be able to extrapolate from one example. It could be at any level of the funnel from your local machine to the wider Internet. Closer to home: this sort of fingerprinting could defeat things like MAC randomizat
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Vindicated once again for turning off any update checks the moment I install any new piece of software. Even if this sort of (obviously rare) attack is not a concern, it baffles me how few otherwise-intelligent people fail to see the way th
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> The author claims they can be had for only 20 USD online. That seems too good to be true! In my experience, the cheap eBay MLX cards are DellEMC/HPE/etc OEM cards. However I also encountered zero problems cross-flashing those
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Hence the name, I assume.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> They're hard to type. Globe key + E on Mac, Windows key + period on Windows, Ctrl + period on GNOME, Super key + period on KDE, yada yada.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
They literally got caught colluding to depress wages. You're a fool if you expect that their goals have changed.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Please stop validating the language of the oppressors
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> It seems like 5%/year is sort of industry norm. That's because the people running these companies learned the hard way not to write their collusion down, so now they just all totally coincidentally act in the same way that
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by Lammy 9mo ago
Corporations exist to support the lives of humans, not the other way around.
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> The next version ran on the Macintosh computer as a "desktop accessory". It was called NekoDA Article neglects to notice/mention the pun; It's simultaneously “Neko DA” as in desk accessory† and “nekoだ” as in ‘to be’
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> People buying ads are their real customers, users are there to be exploited. It's one level further. The global intelligence apparatus is the real customer, and they economically reward those who would build the most-surveillable

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