M2Ys4U

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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>Vance came from Venture Capital, not big tech. There's a difference? (I'm joking... but only half joking)
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
And if this doesn't prove that valuations are bullshit, nothing will.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>Given that single user instances are largely nonviable due to the abundance of blocking in the 'verse Yeah, that's nonsense. I've been running my own single-user instance since 2018 and server blocks by other instance adm
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
Well Rochko is stepping down as CEO as part of the restructuring, which is a fairly big development.
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Matt Mullenweg Should Resign (2010)(web.archive.org)
3 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
No, it's not. Files are available under the CC BY-NC-SA licence which, because it does not allow commercial usage, is not open source.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
It still surprises me that people can't immediately spot that comments like that are slop. I don't know why it still surprises me, given the frequency at which it happens, but still.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
The UK doesn't use any form of electronic voting. I don't think anywhere even uses electronic counting machines any more either.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>The article cites “mechanical systems” as being infallible, and reading that language, it reads to me as some archaic legislation that never got updated for computer software. It's worse than that. The law was fixed in 1984[0] and
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A Cumulative Culture Theory for Developer Problem-Solving(osf.io)
2 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
If there's a Wikidata QID associated with it then one can also use that to look up names in other languages
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French govt gives thumbs up to nationalising Atos(theregister.com)
1 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
(in mice)
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
There is already a term for this type of software licence: Proprietary. I don't think we need a new class of licence that tries to extract the goodwill generated by the free and open source community, without adhering to the moral unde
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>But it would be absurd to think that if everyone was really more productive at-home, companies would still be forcing everyone back in the office. To draw this conclusion one would have to assume that companies are measuring productivit
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Google loses court battle over first EU antitrust fine(politico.eu)
5 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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EU Commission scores stunning court win in €13B Apple tax row(politico.eu)
5 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>The results show that QUIC and HTTP/2 exhibit similar performance when the network bandwidth is relatively low (below ∼600 Mbps) >Next, we investigate more realistic scenarios by conducting the same file download experiments on
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Google faces antitrust charges in UK for 'self-preferencing' its ad exchange(techcrunch.com)
4 points by M2Ys4U 2y ago|0 comments
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
The last 300 years have seen copyright laws being ratcheted up and up and up. I think it's a fairly safe bet to say that trend will continue for the next 75 years, even if it's not inevitable.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>In the meantime, the copyright duration could be shortened. There's a better chance of you winning every lottery on Earth twice in a row than copyright terms being shortened in this century.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
Well we already have UPRNs[0] but they're a little unwieldy for human use. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
JSON-LD isn't the only way one can embed these metadata (though I think most tooling prefers it now). For example, Microdata[0] is one in-line way to do it, and RDFa[1] is another. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
The EU does not require data to be hosted locally, though.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
>A user who runs the program in such a way that visitors communicate with it from remote stations obviously is required to enter into the license also and comply with its requirements. Only if the user modifies the program. The remote
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
Under British law, however, courts presume that a computer system is working flawlessly unless proven otherwise, so if computer says guilty it'll be tough to convince a jury that you're not. And that was made even harder by the ma
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
And Malta
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
The EU obviously does have a tech industry. There's a difference between having global-scale hyper-corporations based in the EU and having an industry, and conflating the two is a silly thing to do.
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by M2Ys4U 2y ago
For people who unironically use the word "based", yes.

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