beojan

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by beojan 6y ago
> While it may technically be possible under certain circumstances, I find it very hard to image how a piece of legislation could be crafted that would successfully override the arguments made here. Something along the lines of "The
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by beojan 6y ago
> As an aside, HN comments with nothing to say except CSS comments is so shameful. I see two top-level comments of this sort, and they're both at "I can't read it" severity.
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by beojan 6y ago
One of the best things about CVMFS is the idea of LCG views which are coherent installations of a large number of packages. This more or less eliminates the need for package management and guarantees that someone else can reproduce your e
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by beojan 6y ago
I expect if you are offered the Oxford/AZ vaccine and refuse it, you would not later be offered one of the mRNA vaccines.
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by beojan 6y ago
Everything's been pre-ordered (at least in the west) so I doubt price will be a key factor.
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by beojan 6y ago
In this case its more of an LLVM / no stable ABI issue.
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by beojan 6y ago
That is the type of thing Google (and Wolfram Alpha) tries to do now.
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by beojan 6y ago
`curl | bash` downloads an installation script and runs it as it's being downloaded, with no opportunity to read the script and ensure it does nothing malicious, and has no inadvertent bugs that could cause damage.
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by beojan 6y ago
I think LGPLv3 has anti-tivoization provisions. That said, I don't see how Gtk's license has anything to do with The Qt Company's recent antics. I'm in no way advocating people choose Gtk over Qt.
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by beojan 6y ago
I'd guess they really want to get rid of the LGPL option (which was introduced when Qt was owned by Nokia and presumably they were more interested in Qt as a platform to develop their own products on than as a revenue stream), but the
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by beojan 6y ago
> which is a shitty thing to do when you're not a mom&pop shop but a company like... Why? That's the whole point of LGPL, it doesn't matter how big you are, so long as your users can replace your copy of Qt with a modi
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by beojan 6y ago
Your software would have to be very locked down to preclude using LGPL libraries.
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by beojan 6y ago
No, the deceleration on hitting the ground is a lot more than 1g.
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by beojan 6y ago
He didn't steal bitcoin, he stole giftcards (/ codes) and tried to use bitcoin to launder the proceeds. Evidently it didn't work.
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by beojan 6y ago
> If anything, you’d fear that Brother’s software [e.g. drivers] would suck even worse than everyone else’s; but somehow, it doesn’t. On Linux it certainly does. For some reason I can use network printing on my Brother laser from Windows
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by beojan 6y ago
Proprietary doesn't mean it's anyone's full time job.
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by beojan 6y ago
How does this relate to Qt? I see that both founders worked for Trolltech and your other reply says SixtyFPS uses Qt styles on desktop (all Qt styles or just the ones shipped with Qt?) so clearly there's a close connection there. Does
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by beojan 6y ago
> In other words, I'm not aware of a permissive license that's the same as BSD/Apache with the only difference in that also says "use it as you wish but you must mention my name when you're a commercial enterpris
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by beojan 6y ago
Yes? You pay monthly, not just once on signup.
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by beojan 6y ago
NordVPN's ads have made it onto TV, and a lot of TV ads nowadays are for gambling. Nevertheless it certainly is easier to regulate advertising if it isn't dynamic.
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by beojan 6y ago
Spacemacs is actually quite a bit slower than it probably needs to be (by which I mean "slower than Doom emacs [ https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs]" ).
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by beojan 6y ago
You could always dual boot.
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by beojan 6y ago
In large bodies of code, you might not notice the warnings if they weren't errors.
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by beojan 6y ago
You can't be ruined if you can only lose a percentage of what you bet.
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by beojan 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of US desktops were Windows. Their users are probably also less tech literate than the Mac users.
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by beojan 6y ago
Not just Perl. Curses is what most TUIs on *nix are built in. It's a C library with a few different implementations.
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by beojan 6y ago
> rg Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) on the other hand is written in C.
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by beojan 6y ago
I think you misunderstand me, I think the LGPL is a perfectly good license for Qt and I have little sympathy for those who aren't willing to abide by it (not least because Qt is a rather large library, and there's no excuse for ev
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by beojan 6y ago
> I needed to open a browser and agree to some inane ToS or watch an ad, or something, before I could get unadulterated Internet access. This is pretty common for public WiFi.
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by beojan 6y ago
It would be misleading to call Qt the fruits of the labour of (the current) Qt Company. It is licensed under the LGPL though (however much its current owners may want to change this, they can't because of the KDE Free Qt agreement), wh

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