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by aethertron 5y ago
My inbox a good place for me to learn about the existence of a new issue of something, but a poor place to actually read said issues, to keep track of what I've read, and manage a 'library'. I want e-reader-like features:
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by aethertron 5y ago
>Moral rights are part of the Berne Convention, it's not limited to Europe. Not everywhere has unalienable ones. You can waive them in the UK and USA, which is what publishing under a FOSS license implies, to an extent. Anyway, mora
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by aethertron 5y ago
Then they're incompatible with FOSS. If someone - releases code under MIT/GPL/whatever, declaring that their work may be changed and redistributed - then later asserts their moral right to NOT have their code changed and redi
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by aethertron 5y ago
Fair enough. I'd say these channel takeover shenanigans disqualify freenode from being a good candidate for a software project's home or HQ. It makes me doubt that any IRC network can be rightly considered for that role, if this i
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by aethertron 5y ago
Really strange to call an IRC network 'home'. It's infrastructure. And it's (generally) not a private space for its users. More like a cafe or a co-working space than a home.
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by aethertron 5y ago
Parallel Universe blog is 404'd :(
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by aethertron 5y ago
The series did deteriorate, but I liked book 4. It's a romance. I recommend it to all young fools, or those who can fondly remember being such.
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by aethertron 5y ago
The future's now. Try posting emoji on HN!
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by aethertron 5y ago
"Do you use an international keyboard layout?" No, I use a national (UK) one.
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by aethertron 6y ago
Sorry to hear this is inflicted on you. What industry sector? (I used to work in an office doing web development with music on all day. Didn't mind it then. Now I work at home in silence.) https://pipedown.org.uk/ this
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by aethertron 6y ago
In this story, wasn't Zameer was defrauded into paying for a phone that the seller had no right to sell? The seller didn't completely own it. So Zameer isn't really the owner now. Despite that, I think it would have been cool
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by aethertron 6y ago
Readers might be interested in the fan-made remakes, some intended as faithful recreations of the old games running on modern systems (Lemmix), and some geared towards loading custom levels with enhancements like the ability to framestep (f
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by aethertron 6y ago
There are lots of different gaming communities of varying qualities (and toxicity levels). You paint with a broad brush, but this is understandable when the most visible aspects of online gamer culture are on the big, barely-moderated socia
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by aethertron 6y ago
Not a crypto key (I hope). In JS, objects (dictionaries) are key-value pairs.
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by aethertron 6y ago
Turn off JS then go to twitter.com. There's the evidence/docs.
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by aethertron 6y ago
I can't put a number on that either. I could probably put numbers on very specific things I'd miss out on. But I'd never run out of those.
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by aethertron 6y ago
> Society and accommodation could make up for 90% of the downsides Why not 100%? For every downside you can come up with, can't you imagine some possible way for society to make up for it? Here's a simple one: calculate the val
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by aethertron 6y ago
I like the food analogy, let's extend it. We have ingredients lists on packaged processed food, but we have more than that: the ability to buy ingredients, learn recipes, make recipes, and cook. We should have the ability to put what w
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by aethertron 6y ago
> All the social model aims to do is think about a separation of the impairment itself and the ways in which society may make it worse. The aim is merely a change in thinking? I'm pretty sure one aim is to get more resources to supp
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by aethertron 6y ago
In the case of HN, what is the bad effect? HN's formula may be hidden but I think we have a good sense of its inputs: recency, upvotes, moderation to remove crap, and perhaps some boosting to promote YC interests.
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by aethertron 6y ago
Did you know there are folks out here arguing for an even stronger version of this position? The 'social model of disability' is the name for the wider notion that includes the neurodiversity argument/paradigm to which you re
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by aethertron 6y ago
Oh, so Apache will handle user management. Fair enough. I was serious, didn't realise you'd go as far as to move away from the stateless state of HTTP.
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by aethertron 6y ago
Where does stuff get saved in this read-write web you imagine? You mention fixing Apache -- does that mean every Apache server must accept edits from every anonymous contributor? You also mention a 'distributed filesystem' provide
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by aethertron 6y ago
> I want to have one folder for storing all my writing. I want to organize that folder the way I think fits best with the content. Then I want to point the site generator to that folder and it should figure out the rest by itself. Same.
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by aethertron 6y ago
If you don't have files, you don't need a file system http://web.archive.org/web/20081120092935/http://www.memetec...
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by aethertron 6y ago
That list of commandments for software updates is pretty good. But we'll be disappointed if we rely on each software vendor to voluntarily conform to them. Some of these could be enforced at the operating system level, I think. And I d
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by aethertron 6y ago
I will tell you my thinking, and you can decide whether to call it 'lazy'. The styles are 'revealing/sexy'. There exist clothes for men that fit that description, but they are less popular. Because they send out a m
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by aethertron 6y ago
> Do you really want to be using 20 year old software? Yes. When a piece of software is working the way I want, I don't want to change it. I want to keep it indefinitely. Aren't there games from 20 years ago you'd like to
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by aethertron 6y ago
The male equivalent of those styles can be found in the realm of gay fashion.
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by aethertron 6y ago
Which part of the article confused you?

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