LightFog

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by LightFog 3y ago
This doesn’t seem to cover the ‘social’ or community side of software freedom though. Sure you have the freedom to make life tough for your future self for short term gain - but by embracing non-free software you are ultimately limiting the
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by LightFog 3y ago
Isn’t ’giving up convenience in the name of freedom’ one of the core trade-offs you’re expected to make with free software? People buy into the ‘free’ bit of FOSS to varying degrees of course but it is disappointing that so many FOSS proje
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by LightFog 3y ago
It’s an interesting piece - but yet another one lamenting annoying ads blocking screens - while showing an annoying ad that blocks your screen.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Because the information leading to the comment is not necessarily in the code itself? E.g ‘we did this because of business constraint xyz’
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by LightFog 3y ago
Nor Club de Fromage - quite the let down.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Has this aggressive churning ever actually produced a successful product at google? From the outside it’s hard to see how incentivising it is of any benefit to the company?
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by LightFog 3y ago
Hopefully it returned a 418 to anyone attempting to use it for snooping.
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by LightFog 3y ago
The more complex you make it the better your job security eh? Maybe they’ll even give you a whole team to look after it all. Absolute madness.
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by LightFog 3y ago
100% agree - there is so much similarity between those projects. They will be defended to the hilt but you only start to see the tangled vines when you try to build something without them. If you try to pull them out all other software goes
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by LightFog 3y ago
Where is this nuance articulated on their site? All I see is mention that it can be used as a ‘fully featured stack’ or ‘pick and choose’?
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by LightFog 3y ago
I tracked some issues raised when Zoom was trying to get screenshare working with Gnome and Wayland. It was pretty clear the Gnome devs had no interest in UX feedback for video-conferencing apps. And people wonder why those apps suck on Lin
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by LightFog 3y ago
There are many reasons artists make their work available for others - enriching hustlers who crap on the artist’s work while making a buck is probably low on the list though.
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by LightFog 3y ago
…with payment and attribution as appropriate. Any decent shop will have policies around this - it is not a free-for-all use what you like. It is absurd to suggest otherwise.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Yes artists - on small scale and often with some form of attribution or acknowledgement. This is industrial scale copying - often with some other motivation than creativity alone and with active steps taken to avoid even having to think abo
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by LightFog 3y ago
Just basic human decency is all - who cares about that.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Regularly - including at random times not related to sleep. It also randomly blows away mounts on the underlying VM from time to time which means recreating the machine and any images - and every time on qemu update. There have been some ve
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by LightFog 3y ago
It’s not uncommon for high performance object stores to bypass POSIX FS semantics and provide kernel patches etc - eg lustre do this.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Whatever about other aspects of RMS he has been pretty consistent on his opinion on the spirit of the GPL and its relationship with free software since its inception. It has been a common tactic over time to question the spirit of the GPL t
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by LightFog 3y ago
Hey don’t shoot the messenger- if you want to say that the person who wrote the GPL’s opinion on its ‘spirit’ is wrong then go ahead https://fossforce.com/2023/10/richard-stallman-talks-red-hat...
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by LightFog 3y ago
My reading of it was more ‘I think they shouldn’t do that’ rather than ‘we are going to try to stop them doing that’. A morality vs legality kind of thing.
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by LightFog 3y ago
“In my eyes this move is perfectly within the spirit of the GPL” - The original author of the GPL disagrees with you - going from his recent responses.
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by LightFog 3y ago
This BMI compiler dependency seems quite the limitation, surely this was a chance to tidy and unify name mangling. So we can’t import binaries across even minor compiler version changes?!
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by LightFog 3y ago
Porting existing codes is still a massive effort and there is low faith in long-term support from Google based software and hardware. I’m not aware on much (any) TPU use in scientific HPC.
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by LightFog 3y ago
“So. Much. Noise.“ This comes across as very dismissive of your user’s concerns. Maybe worth giving your ego a break for a few hours and embracing empathy for your users.
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by LightFog 3y ago
It is simple on the CLI with podman using the ‘platform’ argument. They were confusingly only referring to Docker it seems.
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by LightFog 3y ago
You are not - it is basically non-functional on Mac. I try to stick with it but the reliability of Podman Desktop on Mac is awful - it can’t be doing RedHat’s brand any good releasing and promoting something so poor.
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by LightFog 3y ago
I doubt it - for 3D CAD there are STEP/IGES etc. Most of the 3D printing issues are from triangulation/voxelization of analytical surfaces rather than interchange format.
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by LightFog 3y ago
Thanks for the extra context - and just in case my comment came across as very negative or blanket anti-telemetry, I think you are building an awesome tool and the sensitive approach to actually handling metrics seems totally reasonable. Ho
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by LightFog 3y ago
Some apps collect full memory dumps - on Windows at least there is nothing stopping them. That will indeed contain your bank details.
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by LightFog 3y ago
‘Whatever the reason, nightly and beta failed to be an effective canary’ - Im also curious about this? It is typical to try to move quality ‘left’ - which would imply understanding this issue and fixing it. But the focus seems to be on addi

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