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by brainwad 14d ago
Like the OP says, it's being hidden form scrapers. Like you I don't see a reason for normal users to be concerned.
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by brainwad 15d ago
Well, they already know your credit card issuer, it's not that wild. Really Visa/MasterCard should offer age verification on their network... They have all the necessary components.
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by brainwad 15d ago
GNSS signals can be relatively easily faked because the original signals are very weak so overpowering them doesn't require much broadcast power.
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by brainwad 16d ago
And only 1852m at sea level; since it's an angular distance it's a bit longer in the air and a bit shorter underwater (~ 29 cm per km of elevation change).
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by brainwad 16d ago
Mercator is also useful for tiled maps, which is why web Mercator is a standard. The tiles always have nice north/south and east/west bounds and there is no difference in rendering depending on longitude or latitude. For software
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by brainwad 18d ago
Allegations that the model plagiarised itself, while reflecting poorly on humans, don't make the AI any less impressive. It was the one doing the breakthrough on both sides, after all, not the human prompters.
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by brainwad 18d ago
I mean... none of these humans have priority. The result is due to the team of LLM agents.
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by brainwad 18d ago
Yes, but the value of local presence is only the marginal value of the local advertisers over foreign ones. It's not all the revenue from the country, and it can be possible to be not worth having a local presence but still worth opera
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by brainwad 18d ago
BTW, Australia has shown the limits of sin taxation with our very high tobacco taxes. They got so high we induced a criminal black market in tobacco, that now is very hard to eradicate and is causing gang warfare, etc. Given we now have the
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by brainwad 18d ago
Facebook already has a "friends only" feed - https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr . It's the only thing I still use, and unfortunately it's cluttered with events that people I knew 15 yea
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by brainwad 18d ago
They could still book global advertisers, in particular other foreign companies that also pulled out of the relevant jurisdictions.
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by brainwad 18d ago
Australia is and always has been a nanny state. It's cultural.
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by brainwad 18d ago
Well, I don't watch shorts... but I do open my phone and read HN sometimes, when I don't want to actively participate in the (current) conversation. Which also shows that "curated" feeds will not solve this particular pr
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by brainwad 19d ago
Their custom software probably runs fine under Wine? Also, if it's actual custom software, they might have the source and could even recompile it. And also, the software of the Swiss government is usually surprisingly good quality, so
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by brainwad 20d ago
I don't understand how that's supposed to work - then you can't distribute under the compatible license; only under a weird hybrid of that license and non-conflicting EUPL terms. Seems to defeat the purpose of the compatibili
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by brainwad 20d ago
Why? MIT license or public domain helps the most people, because anyone can use it. It being usable by corporations is purely additive, it can't subtract from the number of people you'd help with a copyleft license.
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by brainwad 20d ago
The causality is wrong here. You chose to work for free with no reward, and _then_ companies found your work and used it. Presumably you started out working for free because it was intrinsically rewarding (otherwise: stop doing work you hat
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by brainwad 20d ago
But the EUPL itself says that derivative works may be distributed under the LGPL instead, as long as those works are derived from both a EUPL and LGPL parent. This seems kinda trivial to abuse and the author should have noticed this clause
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by brainwad 20d ago
> somebody in the chain is selling that software to the end customer Not necessarily? Any infra software is invisible to the end consumer. It's bundled into the price the customer pays for what they see, but they themselves don&#x27
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by brainwad 20d ago
Ok, but unlike hobby gardening, open source maintainers actually write the core software we all rely on. That's where the analogy falls over - the "hobbyists" are producing a sufficient bounty already, without a profit motive
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by brainwad 21d ago
CC0 is an explicit attempt to emulate public domain in license form, isn't it?
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by brainwad 21d ago
Why do you think so much open source software is written, if you need a profit motive for software to be created? Also, let's be real - human written (and therefore copyrightable) code is dying already. When the machines can write anyt
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by brainwad 21d ago
Copyleft software couldn't exist. But all software would be free by default, because all source would be in the public domain, and all reverse compilation of binaries would produce public domain code.
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by brainwad 21d ago
Yeah, I'm assuming most people here aren't selling proprietary code to customers directly. I assume most professionals here work somewhere that sells SaaS or uses the software they develop internally only.
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by brainwad 21d ago
Most hackers here are not relying on copyright to make their living. Either you work on open source but make your living off services on top of the code, or your code is a trade secret protected via contracts. Not to mention that everyone u
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by brainwad 21d ago
The something was the collapse of the USSR, right? "The end of history" etc.
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by brainwad 21d ago
In a way that is likely to get them hammered by the government but which is unwanted by paying customers? Yeah I don't buy it.
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by brainwad 22d ago
Handicaps can be positive, e.g. in fixed distance racing one way to handicap is to "give" a starting distance to the racers who are slower than the scratch racer; in this system a higher handicap is more of an advantage. Since the
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by brainwad 25d ago
And if I want to run the stock OS I paid for, with apps of my choice? It feels like a bait and switch to lock down the OS like this after you've sold the device.
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by brainwad 25d ago
Also apt supports multiple repositories and you can add your own. The Play Store app only supports Google's app repository and doesn't interoperate.

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