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by Reelin 7y ago
My understanding is that Vulkan is specifically supposed to be as low level as possible in order to facilitate device manufacturers creating new hardware and to give developers fine grained control over things if they want it. I believe the
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by Reelin 7y ago
> GPL v3 is toxic. DRM is toxic.
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by Reelin 7y ago
Well I could just be unaware of some functionality they have, but all those tools do is version things. There's no integration with reference managers like Zotero (that I'm aware of), and no tracking of interrelations or metadata.
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by Reelin 7y ago
I'll preface this by clearly stating that Zotero is absolutely indispensable; I wouldn't be nearly as organized without it. It's very important to me that such tools be open, and Mendeley in particular is a complete disaster
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by Reelin 7y ago
The standard in the US is much more limited than your wording seems to imply. From the page you linked, the two key requirements are: > (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action > (2) is likely to
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by Reelin 7y ago
I don't think we actually disagree on any of the basic facts or technical details here. (Well actually I do disagree with your general claim about minimum bandwidth guarantees not being possible on shared systems, but that's proba
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by Reelin 7y ago
> And like most other people in the US I have cable option, DSL option, several cell providers, and a couple satellite options. According to the FCC and many lobbyists, sure. That doesn't match what I see reported in the media thoug
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by Reelin 7y ago
> such guarantees are impossible on any shared medium Nonsense! My ISP could most certainly sell me a guaranteed minimum speed on their portion of the network at all times of day! In fact, this is precisely how commercial provisioning of
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by Reelin 7y ago
> You can avoid any particular ISP as well. I take it you aren't from the US? When I said "Might as well decide not to purchase electricity from the local utility...", I wasn't embellishing. > the companies that do
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by Reelin 7y ago
> Symmetric NAT is just pointless. Fair enough, I don't know enough about usage of different NAT types to debate such things (and never intended to). Regarding tracking, I'm still not sure that we're talking about the same
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by Reelin 7y ago
> NAT is a massive piece of technical debt. Well at the ISP level, yes, absolutely! Regarding privacy, your response seems very focused on web browsing. I agree that NAT plays no role there - it's at a lower level. I was referring o
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by Reelin 7y ago
That looks really interesting, but apparently they are terrible at picking names. Their website talks about ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). Searching for this leads to the identically abbreviated (and apparently already well established)
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by Reelin 7y ago
> NAT is like literally Satan. NAT is merely a tool. Using it to restrict user activity is bad. Using it on your home network to preserve your privacy (ie how many devices you have and what each is doing) is good. There are also other us
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by Reelin 7y ago
The fact that you can't avoid them? I can (at least hypothetically) avoid Google. Maybe not really practical, but at least in theory. How are you going to avoid your ISP? Might as well decide not to purchase electricity from the local
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by Reelin 7y ago
> ... using network management to in good-faith give a better experience to everyone ... But that's very much NOT what is going on these days (in the US at least). Providers advertise a plan at a certain speed with "unlimited&q
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by Reelin 7y ago
> isn't going to be particularly security-focused: no attestation, no trusted boot This is only true initially, presumably due to time and funding constraints. From the FAQ ( https://puri.sm/faq/ ): > What are
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by Reelin 7y ago
> ... if we want it to mimic HN comments, we'd need to spend the same amount of GPU time ... These models are often much more general than you seem to be thinking. There's a base model which is incredibly computationally expens
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by Reelin 7y ago
Larger blocks of text are often quite eerie or surreal now. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/bxe3rn/i_...
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by Reelin 7y ago
> your local friendly NIMBY I think you misspelled "telecom lobby"... https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
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by Reelin 7y ago
This is all really disappointing - they ought to mention it up front in their FAQ. I hope they (or someone else) submits a v3 with tighter definitions that can close the SaaS proprietary source code loophole without introducing a compromisi
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by Reelin 7y ago
From your own quote: > they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with That's literally the entire point here (if I've understood correctly). If anyone tried to falsify even the slightest detail, including Hon
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by Reelin 7y ago
It seems there are indeed serious issues with SSPLv1 that I was unaware of. That being said, the loophole in the AGPL that they are attempting to address is also a serious issue. The rewording in v2 > “storage software and hosting softwa
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by Reelin 7y ago
Upon rereading the bit you quoted, I agree that could be an issue. I had initially misinterpreted "all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available" to mean it was limited
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by Reelin 7y ago
> What happened — The incorrect camera being shown was once owned by the same customer. After the customer deleted this camera, there was a bug where we did not completely clean up the user-device association for Alexa viewing. This resu
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by Reelin 7y ago
Check mongoDB's SSPL FAQ ( https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license... ). As far as I'm concerned, SSPL is superior to AGPL in that it catches all the bits that make your software actually
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by Reelin 7y ago
> None of the proposed licenses significantly curtail the possibility of having internal deployments of software or linking against the software in commercial software. Actually... The Fair Source License (Sourcegraph, https:/&#x2F
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by Reelin 7y ago
> The whole agenda of the guy writing this is to move open source projects to being no longer open source The situation seems to be much more complex than what you portray (ie "we don't like open source"). Take the SSPL fo
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by Reelin 7y ago
> The encrypted digital trail cuts the need for paperwork and makes it quick and easy to check the certification and origin of a part ... > Many websites list used aircraft parts but omit details like final prices or provenance docume
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by Reelin 7y ago
If only it was just a typo. > ... the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world ... > ... that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world,” said Assistant Secretary for Fossil
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by Reelin 7y ago
> Do you think a standard/protocol for communication between platforms and password managers would help solve this problem? Does the Freedesktop Secrets API Specification resemble at all the type of thing that you're envisionin

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