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by boramalper 5mo ago
> I definitely cringed when Zig moved to Codeberg! If anything Codeberg’s legal structure (being a non-profit) and vision makes it a lot more aligned with the objectives of free and open source projects than GitHub in the long run (which
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by boramalper 6mo ago
> The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. You can open the link and see it for yourself; what other "verification" do you need?
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by boramalper 6mo ago
> I wrote SQLite, and I think it should be pronounced "S-Q-L-ite". Like a mineral. But I'm cool with y'all pronouncing it any way you want. :-) https://stackoverflow.com/a/49656730 So it’s actual
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by boramalper 6mo ago
So? If the app is using reproducible builds and is also audited not to contain any backdoors, what do networks have to do with it?
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by boramalper 6mo ago
How so? Reproducible builds are a thing.
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by boramalper 6mo ago
> Most of the privacy claims (of all type of apps) are essentially garbage anyway I think that’s a sweeping generalisation.
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by boramalper 7mo ago
> The wallets “definitely [look like] someone with some degree of inside info”, said Ben Yorke, formerly a researcher with CoinTelegraph, now building an AI trading platform called Starchild. Ben Yorke is the only expert I see mentioned
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by boramalper 7mo ago
Yet another instance of people jumping to comments based on the title of the submission alone. They don't mention GPL even once in that post...
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by boramalper 7mo ago
Unironically, I'd love to have a captcha here for comments and submissions.
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by boramalper 7mo ago
They explain it in Private inference [0] if you want to read about it. [0] https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
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by boramalper 7mo ago
If you're interested in "private AI", see Confer [0] by Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal private messaging app. They go into more detail in their blog. [1] [0] https://confer.to/ [1] https:/&#x2
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by boramalper 7mo ago
> only b is worth speaking of. In b, isn't having someone in a position to make a choice much better than no one? Actually, you're right! I thought the proxy can nominate/decide that any other license can be used in the fu
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by boramalper 7mo ago
If you are an individual developer, please don’t do this. I think proxy delegation is best suited to an organisation (ideally to a non-profit) whose lifespan is longer than of a solo developer and more likely to have “checks and balances” t
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by boramalper 8mo ago
I see, I agree with it too. I think that's why many tech projects prefer a "private company owned by a non-profit foundation" structure such as Mozilla and Signal as the examples off the top of my head.
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by boramalper 8mo ago
Agree on wanting to see more tech companies being cooperatives but not sure what you mean by this: > That'd be the ultimate hard-mode for a business that was dedicated to being rugpull-resistant.
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by boramalper 9mo ago
Microsoft admitted that it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty [0] "on June 18 before a [French] Senate inquiry into public procurement and the role it plays in European digital sovereignty" as the CLOUD Act "gives
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by boramalper 9mo ago
> Whether any one country should be global police or not is a very difficult question to answer I don’t think it’s that difficult to answer, and the answer is “no” for two main reasons: 1. I don’t think the US has the greater good of hum
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by boramalper 9mo ago
Lots and lots of locals were equally excited, if not more, at the beginning of Arab Spring…
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by boramalper 9mo ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Regardless of your opinion on Maduro, you can still acknowledge that the head of a sovereign state being captured in an unannounced/unnamed military operation by a superpower is wrong from a principled st
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Stripe Acquires Metronome, a Usage-Based Billing Platform(metronome.com)
20 points by boramalper 10mo ago|1 comments
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by boramalper 11mo ago
See: Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022) by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manuf...
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by boramalper 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/4utMS
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Completes $1B Share Sale(bloomberg.com)
4 points by boramalper 11mo ago|1 comments
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by boramalper 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing! I continue using Redirector [0] on Firefox for other stuff but it didn't occur to me to set one for Twitter. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
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by boramalper 1y ago
Deloitte named a Leader in Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Services by IDC MarketScape https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/about/recognition/analyst...
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An AI Addendum(pracap.com)
2 points by boramalper 1y ago|0 comments
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by boramalper 1y ago
This reminds me of Mondex: > Mondex was a smart card electronic cash system, implemented as a stored-value card and owned by Mastercard. > Mondex allowed users to use its electronic card as they would with cash, enabling peer-to-peer
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by boramalper 1y ago
I find MongoDB's ESR (Equality, Sort, Range) Guideline [0] quite helpful in that regard, which applies to SQL databases as well (since nearly all of them too use B-trees). > Index keys correspond to document fields. In most cases,
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by boramalper 1y ago
Untrusted doesn’t always mean adversarial IMO, even a bitrot can invalidate your entire input and possibly also trigger undefined behaviour if you aren’t prepared to handle that.
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by boramalper 1y ago
Here is the public announcement: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-... > UPDATE: We’ve received notice from Salesforce that our Slack workspace WILL NOT BE DOWNGRADED on June

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