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by alexvoda 3y ago
> The sandbox is the world at this point, closed software is retreating every day to smaller and smaller niches. You use browsers developed in the open, on websites built with opensource software. Even on mobile, the foundational framewo
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by alexvoda 3y ago
What I find tragic is that the FSF has refused to be anything other than a platform for Stallman. Stallman will be Stallman in all his weird and egocentric ways. This is a case of the ship choosing to go down with the captain.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
You are missing GPs point. The default today is not the Unix model, it is the Windows model and increasingly the SaaS model. You have none of the 4 freedoms by default. GP argued that by law by default you should have at least freedom 0 and
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by alexvoda 3y ago
The most idiotic example of their stance with regards to microcode is related to Spectre and Meltdown. They deliberately removed warnings: "Another significant change in this release is that it was pointed out that there were error me
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by alexvoda 3y ago
The LAGPL should require a recipient (who only provides a service) to only release source code for the changes they made to the LAGPL project but not require them to release source code for anything built on top. The same way someone distri
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by alexvoda 3y ago
1. My point is that by doing so they are not and have never been as ideologically pure as they and others believe they are. They are taking a pragmatic utilitarian stance instead of one based solely on ethics yet they chastise everyone else
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Actually, in that case that would not be a properly normalized key because the mass number (counts both protons and neutrons) depends on the atomic number(protons). Also it gets fun if you want to store anti-particles too.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't even believe Stallman is as ideologically pure as people like too believe he is. I think he is much more attached to his own ideas and realisations than he is to the overarching idea of software freedom. And to su
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by alexvoda 3y ago
What about "not aware that other people are doing far worse"? I think both options have an effect and whether that effect is positive or negative depends on the level of empathy vs. sociopathy.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Was just about to comment this but I checked first if someone else did it.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I only use 4'th gen water which is fully declarative.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Also, maybe the company should rename from FairPhone to Fair or FairTech.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Yet expecting the HN audience to be curious and to criticize a review for laking scientific precision when it was posted here is very much in line. We should strive to be more curious and to demand more science.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
> Cans from the fifties and sixties still work. Nobody wants to use them; they are heavy, uncomfortable, have poor performance, need an amp to drive, and use huge old school connectors. They are from a time when music was enjoyed seated
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by alexvoda 3y ago
GP post regarding 1 is just a manifestation of the illness in the US of considering companies to be people. You should not have empathy for a company.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Differences in funding also matter.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
And people wonder why all logos today are boring. Of course they are boring if reification has become the norm. Maybe just because something is cursive and italicized does not mean that it is automatically feminine.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Also if you have oodles of money then creating a problem for everyone instead of solving a problem for everyone appears to be a viable strategy.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I can understand trying to have a calming discourse whose message pretty much amounts to "c'est la vie". But even if that is not your intention, it can come out as dismissive. Many people do worry about the future for very go
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by alexvoda 3y ago
"Anything is better than nothing" has become an excuse to do nothing and profit in the age of AI. It is the same grift as used by faith healing and woo. If anything is better than nothing then a placebo(nothing) is better than not
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The Sad Story of OAuth 2.0 and Open Standards(xahlee.info)
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by alexvoda 3y ago
This is one question I keep hoping to find people who have good answers for it but all answers I found so far have been disappointing.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
This reminds me about issues raised by Sabine Hossenfelder with regards to grand unified theories or with theories of everything or string theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4mH3Hmw2o https://www.youtube.c
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by alexvoda 3y ago
I do not find macOS or Windows to be polished. Linux isn't either. They all just have different areas of roughness.
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by alexvoda 3y ago
Indeed: https://gist.github.com/motorailgun/cc2c573f253d0893f429a165... Of course you can also do a cursed setup with 2 partitions: windows on Btrfs and Linux on NTFS just to maximize the chaotic nonsense.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Can you release an archive of the ~5000 torrents and their descriptions?
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by alexvoda 4y ago
And just how many of the F-150 owners have anything tow-able, let alone of that tonnage?
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by alexvoda 4y ago
It is not "software developer fetishism", it is plain and simple ownership, property rights. If I buy a car I expect to own the car and be able to do whatever I want with it especially on private land, as long as I don't inte
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by alexvoda 4y ago
This is a failure of imagination. On a federated network where you can have your own server/pod (think PeerTube or Diaspora) you absolutely can have a custom recommendation algorithm. And for news you can have custom filters in your RS
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I think you should be able to program your own car and that should be the default. And I think that can be made safe too. It does not mean that any change should be allowed on the road. But there could be a system where you pay a fee and se

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