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by bentley 4y ago
That’s a much more interesting source since it aggregates objective facts and statistics. Do you know of a comparative analysis of these stats with equivalents in other countries?
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by bentley 4y ago
> they haven’t been sued “into the ground”. Not for lack of trying. The baker in question has been beset with over‐the‐top cake requests, and there have been several lawsuits against him since the famous Supreme Court ruling. In fact, in
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by bentley 4y ago
Under US law, the standard (established in Brandenburg v. Ohio ) is whether the speech is likely to result in imminent lawless action.
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by bentley 4y ago
I don’t think any of those bullets are strictly untrue. The question is whether in combination they actually demonstrate a serious threat to press freedom relative to other countries.
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by bentley 4y ago
I always find it instructive to view these reports at the source. I developed this habit in 2018, when Reporters Without Borders (who maintain the Press Freedom Index you linked) published a report of the six most dangerous countries for jo
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by bentley 4y ago
The King James Bible is actually under perpetual Crown Copyright in the UK.
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by bentley 4y ago
They could make that argument, but wouldn’t succeed (speaking from the US legal viewpoint, anyway). The only copyright held by the publisher would cover the additions and changes; the original work would no longer be copyrightable.
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by bentley 4y ago
I counter: it should be okay for anyone to retroactively edit books. The problem here is not that the books are being made worse, but that the copyright holders are the ones doing it, they’re the only ones who can legally publish the book
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by bentley 4y ago
Lengthy copyright is a big part of the problem here. Another recent censorship kerfuffle was over Dr. Seuss—one of the books in question was published when my grandmother was in diapers, yet the copyright holders have exclusive control toda
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by bentley 4y ago
How stable would this interface be? If stability is a concern, exposing a greater surface for user interaction would surely slow down development as these interfaces would have to be reworked with care. If stability is not a concern, then
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by bentley 4y ago
And which of these proprietary Clang forks have greater C++20 compatibility than free software Clang? The only proprietary fork of LLVM in the compatibility table you linked is less C++20 compliant than free software Clang. So unless you
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by bentley 4y ago
When you fix a bug in X11, you keep it in your one‐star‐on‐Gitlab personal fork under GPLv3 to prevent it from ever making it into HP‐UX, rather than contribute it to the upstream project, where tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals
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by bentley 4y ago
What you’re implying is a fault exclusive to “non‐copyleft fans” happens in copyleft‐licensed projects too, like MongoDB, which was AGPL before it decided to switch to an even more restrictive license to counter hosting service companies.
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by bentley 4y ago
This whole thread came about from a project writing its own non‐GPL code from scratch, and GPL fans subsequently complaining about it.
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by bentley 4y ago
You’re suggesting the reason Clang isn’t yet 100% C++20 compliant is that it doesn’t use a copyleft license?
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by bentley 4y ago
Kaya is the girl at the beginning who meets with Ashitaka secretly after he’s been banished from the village, and gives him the necklace as a memento.
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by bentley 4y ago
Does a furnace put out enough CO₂ to worry about? The main concern is usually CO.
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by bentley 4y ago
Indeed. The proper thing (also read as: the friendliest way for distro packagers) is for software projects to generate and publish a tarball themselves as part of their tag+release process. That provides multiple advantages. Unlike GitHub’s
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by bentley 4y ago
> XHTML 1.x was well implemented in most browsers and was highly used by a subset of web developers. Well, the XML part wasn’t. Serve your XHTML as text/html and it was “supported” by virtue of being treated like HTML with some mino
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by bentley 4y ago
> And you really believe … Huh? What I fully believe is that downloading a source tarball over HTTPS, verifying its checksum, and extracting it will take less time than cloning the repository from Git, then verifying the checksum of all
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by bentley 4y ago
GitHub had no releases feature for many years. Most maintainers aren’t aware of the option, and of those who are, I doubt many are even aware that GitHub’s autogenerated tarballs are not stable or that they don’t include submodules.
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by bentley 4y ago
Package builders work on the scale of thousands of packages. The increased time and CPU usage multiplies greatly. “Complicated” is indisputable. Cloning a repository is absolutely complicated. Fetching a single file over HTTPS is as simple
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by bentley 4y ago
We’ve regressed from the previous norm of open source projects providing stable source tarballs with fixed checksums, sometimes even with cryptographic signatures.
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by bentley 4y ago
I would also appreciate stronger advertising of the ability to turn a Git tag into a GitHub release and upload stable source code files to it. Maybe even a button in the GitHub releases interface to “generate source tarball and attach as st
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by bentley 4y ago
Indeed. I remember when Canonical was heavily pushing bzr and others were big fans of Mercurial. Glad my package manager maintainers didn’t waste time writing infrastructure to handle those projects at the repository level. Nobody had to, b
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by bentley 4y ago
> And if you don't trust your http layer and/or Github's certificate, then you should not trust their archive anyway. The nice thing about checksumming the tarball is that once you’ve done so, it doesn’t matter whether you
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by bentley 4y ago
> This is a feature; run `autoreconf -vfi` at build time, so that you don't depend on the maintainer's idiosyncratic autotools setup and local macros, and so that you can reliably regenerate it all if you want to change configu
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by bentley 4y ago
It’s generally a bad idea to process (extract) a tarball of unknown provenance. Verifying the tarball is from a known source beforehand mitigates the risk of, say, a malicious tarball that exploits a tar or gzip 0‐day.
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by bentley 4y ago
Sadly there has been a sharp uptick in software that provides no release tarballs anymore. With the rise of GitHub many upstreams choose to make a tag and let people download the autogenerated tarballs, despite the fact that they won’t cont
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by bentley 4y ago
Of the 11,656 packages in OpenBSD’s package repos, 2,984 are built from source originally hosted on GitHub or Sourceforge. That’s a full 25%. Moralize all you want about where these upstreams should host their software, but why claim that t

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