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by amiga386 1y ago
> Firefox [...] may perish because of underfunding Hindsight is 20/20, but remember that Google has paid Mozilla 3.8 BILLION DOLLARS in the past 10 years alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#
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by amiga386 1y ago
You can always use another library with more limited use-cases if you're worried about scope. There are thousands of libraries for making HTTP requests, many of which are language-specific and much more ergonomic than libcurl. Howeve
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by amiga386 1y ago
No, we don't. AI slop is a worldwide phenomenon. Looking at just the users who submitted the reports on curl's AI slop list: * 4 users accounts are now closed/banned, so I don't know their activity * 12 users have only s
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by amiga386 1y ago
> It also seems like we cannot detect whether a piece of text was generated with LLM Based on reading those same reports, I think you can totally can detect it, and Daniel also thinks that -- or at least, you can tell when it's ver
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by amiga386 1y ago
Firstly, no, people do expect big business to act legally. Businesses should not "lie and do all kinds of shady things", and it's up to regulators (and those they harm, using the courts) to hold them to account. Secondly, I
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by amiga386 1y ago
Truth (in English law) is merely a defence to an accusation of libel or slander, and it is not an absolute defence. If you say or print true things about a person, that lowers their reputation in the eyes of an ordinary person, and yo
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by amiga386 1y ago
I'm going to have to pull you up on this detail, as you seem to care about the details. Fujitsu/ICL won the contract to develop and run Horizon. They got a commission on every EFTPOS sale. They paid for all the computers, all the
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by amiga386 1y ago
I haven't listened to the podcast, but I think you may be oversimplifying. The origin of Horizon is that ICL won the tender for a project to computerise the UK's benefits payment system -- replacing giro books (like cheque books
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by amiga386 1y ago
A simple example would be that the function glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS) crashes the original Quake engine and many licensees, because it's expecting no more than a 256 character string. The driver looks to see if a known old game is cal
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by amiga386 1y ago
> money should be regulated by governments It should, but nobody can quite agree on exactly what should and shouldn't be allowed. Fraud, everyone agrees no. Porn, drugs, guns, gambling, foreign work, etc. everyone has a different op
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by amiga386 1y ago
Mea culpa, I'll keep it in mind for next time (though the real Eevee is a Pokemon)
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by amiga386 1y ago
I'd not heard of UbuWeb before, but it sounds likr an interesting project for curating a cross-media avant-garde art collection (although it has now finished?) "Electronic Music" is a bit of a misnomer. I think most people wo
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by amiga386 1y ago
But can't you see what he actually wants? He wants normal banking and money transfer... but just to anybody , and for any reason . As an example, he'd like people to be able to pay him to draw bespoke furry porn for them. Or a
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by amiga386 1y ago
And yet... Perl is good with its chained operators acting on lists? print join '', sort { $a cmp $b } grep { !$seen{$_}++ } # = uniq <STDIN>;
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by amiga386 1y ago
Between "Readme" and "0 stars" on https://github.com/SharonBrizinov/test-oops-commit/ Looking at some of my projects, it's entirely empty, or only has a few items, so I suspect it was intr
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by amiga386 1y ago
A more useful example I found: REPEAT ... UNTIL CtrlC() OR (IF m:=GetMsg(wnd.userport) THEN ReplyMsg(m) BUT 1 ELSE 0) Which means loop until Ctrl-C is pressed, or an IDCMP message comes to the window (which must be replied to
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's only doing what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator does in C Why you'd use it? Probably for reducing statements to expressions, e.g. PROC lower_delta(a1,a2,b1,b2) IS (da:=a2-a1) BUT (d
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by amiga386 1y ago
> separate language, not a dialect of English Of all the languages spoken in the UK and Ireland that argument attracts, I've never heard anyone claim that about Irish - an actual Gaelic language. > The vast majority of graduate
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by amiga386 1y ago
You could do this too! If you don't feel you have the coding chops for it, read Usbourne's WRITE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE PROGRAMS FOR YOUR MICROCOMPUTER and you'll learn all the secrets of adventure game programmers! https:/
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by amiga386 1y ago
I once wrote an (Amylaar LPC) enemy who, if you attacked him and he was near death, would summon two comrades to fight for him. Unfortunately, they're immediately hostile so you start attacking them too, and _they_ get near death and s
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by amiga386 1y ago
Let me be clear: it shouldn't be about sides or ideologies, but recently in some places it has been blatantly about ideologies, promoted by one side while they were in power, and this has enraged the base of the other side, who have
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by amiga386 1y ago
As Dennis from Monty Python and the Holy Grail would say, "come and see the violence inherent in the system!" The thinking is rooted in exploring the full breadth of coercions available to the state, with both actual and implied
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's not "can you provide the screen DPI to a window?" people bemoan, it's "can you draw one window across two screens with differing DPIs, transparent to the application?"
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by amiga386 1y ago
> cutting off access to essential goods or services forces compliance That's still underpinned by violence. Why would the providers of essential goods or services willingly comply with a state's demands to cut off your acce
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by amiga386 1y ago
This is why the monopoly on violence is often formulated as "the monopoly on legitimate violence" or " legal use of force" If you you don't pay your drug dealer, he can't take you to court, because his entir
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by amiga386 1y ago
If you do read Drew DeVault's The Stallman Report , please also consider reading the rebuttal at https://stallmansupport.org/ and perhaps consider reading the DeVault Report at https://dmpwn.info/
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by amiga386 1y ago
SourceHut isn't under Dutch law because it's the best legal jurisdiction to run a code hosting service from. It's because the sole trader who runs this particular code hosting service personally moved to the Netherlands, so
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by amiga386 1y ago
All countries exist as distinct entities because they can maintain what Max Weber called the monopoly on violence within their geographic bounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence https://
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by amiga386 1y ago
I was driving myself mad; xterm was released in 1984 and it didn't really matter there was no XDM because there because you merely needed a window manager to tile your xterm windows... But sure, the definition of "X terminal"
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by amiga386 1y ago
Sonic fans spend money regardless of game quality. It's the same reason for the decade-long glut of capeshit. Hollywood found that (people who were then) teenage boys could be relied upon to show up for a superhero film, no matter how

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