Zambyte

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811.
by Zambyte 1y ago
> How would a novelist make money Maybe selling books? Maybe other jobs? The same way that they made money for thousands of years before copyright, really. Books and other arts did exist before copyright! > and why would someone pay t
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> publishers would add annoying DRM to mitigate lost sales, etc etc. People would just delete the malware (DRM) out of the source code that is no longer restricted by copyright. If your argument is that copyright is good because it disco
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> Copyright isn't about distribution, it's about creation This is exactly wrong. You can copy all of Harry Potter into your journal as many times as you want legally (creating copies) so long as you do not distribute it.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
"Early access" doesn't work in this context, but yes for the other means.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> You don't simply make software because you love it, right? I can't speak for Stephen but I absolutely do. I program for fun all the time. > Should people not be able to make money off their effort? Is anyone arguing otherw
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Amazing. Have you considered reading the articles I linked? They aren't even that long.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> And if we got rid of copyright law, wouldn’t we be in that exact place, where people wouldn’t be allowed to make money off of creative endeavors? This is addressed in the second article I linked.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> If an artist produces a work they should have the rights to that work. That would indeed be nice, but as the article says, that's usually not the case. The rights holder and the author are almost never the same entity in commercia
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I'm not, because that's not what I asked for.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
It took me a while to be convinced that copyright is strictly a bad idea, but these two articles were very convincing to me. https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/24/Alice-in-Wonderland.html https://drew
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Zero (0) years for corporate copyright, zero (0) years for human copyright is the golden zone in my book.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
In my opinion, the most useful way to use LLMs for learning (anything, but including programming) is to have it explain things in terms of what you are familiar with. You can give the model context of things you know are relevant that you d
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Nobody wants to be seen in the Swasticar for the chance that a decade of failed promises is just about to come to fruition.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I haven't read the article yet, but this seems to conflate compile time evaluation with metaprogramming. Not all comptime evaluation is metaprogramming. I would argue the majority of comptime programming as it is used in Zig isn't
825.
by Zambyte 1y ago
https://www.ferretdb.com/
826.
by Zambyte 1y ago
Specifically for video? Ollama runs great on my 7900 XTX.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_specification
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by Zambyte 1y ago
This comment confused me a lot, because Signal has encrypted backups, just not cross platform. Looking into it more, it seems that iOS only has a "transfer" option instead of allowing backups. It's hard not to suspect this is
829.
by Zambyte 1y ago
Signal already has exactly that? That isn't the same as a plain text export like the GP was saying though.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Glad it went well! I'd still be using it if it weren't for the fact that Guix didn't play very nicely with it when I switched to that. Might give it another shot at some point though, it was very nice.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
And why do you think Zig (and Odin, but I'm not really familiar with that one) is not comparable in complexity to C? If you start with C, replace the preprocessor language with the host language, replace undefined behavior with illegal
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I didn't realize fish was written in Rust, and it was my primary shell for a few years. Looks like they couldn't resist the rewrite it in Rust meme :-D https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/c
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Cool :D anyone get a chance to try this out with Zig yet?
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> It protected works to reward authors during their lifetime. This was the pitch by the (printing) companies that established copyright to gain a legal monopoly on copying. > Instead of supporting the small fish, copyright law can rei
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> The concept of copyright first developed in England. In reaction to the printing of "scandalous books and pamphlets", the English Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662, which required all intended publications
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "in it's modern form". You seem to suggest there was a previous form that was not invented by corporations, but I don't believe that is the case.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Nice, I am a member at a makerspace in MA that would be interested in holding an end of 10 install event too. I'll have to look into organizing something.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I have spent 2025 only taking my phone out of my sock drawer if I am going somewhere I don't know how to navigate to without GPS. It's fine. The biggest things I missed were not having a camera, which I remedied by buying a point
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by Zambyte 1y ago
The article doesn't really say anything about the "cultivating memories" part. I find that living in the moment, plus writing down shortly after is the best way for me to remember things with high fidelity.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
10 free redactions per month ? 10 per day seems like a much more reasonable low amount. Why is there even a limit on number of uses for local compute? Why is it impossible to see the price? I'm glad this works for you, but it seems li

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