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by cxr 6mo ago
> I don’t get the point of these RFC “gotcha” posts The author is pretty clearly trying to rely on something that is guaranteed by the spec (zero-length path components in a URI) but frustrated by poorly behaving implementations that tak
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by cxr 6mo ago
> That is entirely my point. If the author wants to disable merge slashes then they need to replace the RFC I linked to with one that explicitly says what to do or not do using strong verbiage that is explicit as I explained. That doesn
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by cxr 6mo ago
> This assumes that „the reverse proxy requests a different URL upstream from what it got as a request“ is wrong. Who says that it is? For this case (double/multiple slash "normalization"), the author of this post is sayin
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by cxr 6mo ago
Both you and the original author cite the same RFC to support your arguments. Passages from RFC 3986 comprise the bulk of the original post. The difference between the support for your argument and theirs is that they call out the specific
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by cxr 6mo ago
> That’s purely a server side configuration issue When it's the default, it's not a case of someone having configured nginx to do the thing described, as is their prerogative. It's nginx's defaulting to doing the wro
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by cxr 6mo ago
nginx is frequently used as a reverse proxy and not "the server" (or only to the extent that it's the client-facing server). Its defaults assume that it's fine to do a "normalization" pass to remove double sla
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by cxr 6mo ago
I know what they were talking about. It was clearly intended to be a cheerfest for Rust. > I don't think you can get "equivalent tooling" for such things the languages you list without raising interesting questions about
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Rust does so much more than preventing runtime memory errors. It sure does. Like making your build times slower (and bigger) than if you were using the equivalent tooling for Pascal, C, or Zig.
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by cxr 6mo ago
∃ ≠ ∀
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Fil-C is slower and bigger It's not any slower or (proportionally) bigger compared to the experience you would have had 20 years ago running all sorts of utilities that happen to be the best candidates for Fil-C, and people got al
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by cxr 6mo ago
I believe that you have run into difficulty with some person(s) not understanding that $2 bills are real money. I don't believe that they've been anywhere nearly as much of "a pain to spend" for you as you're statin
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by cxr 6mo ago
There's no such thing as piracy of the public domain. You're either hopelessly ill-suited to grapple with this topic or you're a troll, so I won't comment further. If you're actually sincere in your beliefs, then t
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by cxr 6mo ago
I'm not sparring with you. You are wrong. Oberon is an operating system, and "Oberon is an operating system" is a fair and accurate statement. I don't expect you to relent on this—I'm too well acquainted. You&#x27
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by cxr 6mo ago
> this relationship cannot make such works GPL without violating copyright By definition, for content in the public domain, there's no copyright to be violated and no rightsholder with any recognizable/enforceable claim to IP t
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by cxr 6mo ago
I'd rather more like to imagine a software packaging/distribution regimen whereby dropping a patch(1)-compatible patch file into "an appropriate folder" meant that it would instantly take effect the very next time you ru
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by cxr 6mo ago
> "Oberon is an operating system" was indeed evident > I was about 5 links deep before I figured out what Oberon actually was You aren't being consistent.
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by cxr 6mo ago
> No, it is not evident: this is not correct. It is evident. It is correct. You aren't making this any better.
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by cxr 6mo ago
> even if the reader hadn't heard of ETH Zurich it could be reasonably inferred that ETH Zurich is an academic institution, probably in Zurich, where Oberon was successful. Part of writing is trusting that the reader is a rational
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by cxr 6mo ago
Move the goalposts harder, please.
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by cxr 6mo ago
> The notion that a knocked-over person is best supported by a library sounds quite strange from my perspective. A person struggling needs first and foremost to shelter, food and access to hygiene. Libraries do not provide any of that. &
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by cxr 6mo ago
> that didn't take anything away from Helsinki residents That's the real problem I have with the false promises of places like Austin's Central Library and other Oodi-likes. The biggest threat to libraries and the social g
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by cxr 6mo ago
It would "seem" that "everyone" loves Austin's downtown Central Library. Reality: they don't.
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Why would somebody wanting to escape a high-risk environment, or some knocked-over adult go to a library? … is this a joke? Regardless of the bizarre mental place from which only such a bizarre question can arise[1], the answer to the
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by cxr 6mo ago
This is the future of libraries, and it sucks. Austin's downtown Central Library is like this. It sucks. They are not places for reaching the future. Previously: > So many environments nowadays, even the ones that are ostensibly
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by cxr 6mo ago
> It's deception, plain and simple, to claim that the software has all the benefits and promises of open source when it does not. From "The SSPL is Not an Open Source License" < https://opensource.org/b
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Laws are only as good as their enforcement The claim is that those licenses are deemed no-touch within those companies—it's the companies themselves that insist on the software and their business not mixing, e.g. Apple continuing
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by cxr 6mo ago
A DCO bearing a claim of original authorship (or assertion of other permitted use) isn't going to shield them entirely, but it can mitigate liability and damages.
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by cxr 6mo ago
Copyright infringement and plagiarism are not the same or even very closely related. They're different concepts and not interchangeable. Relative to copyright infringement, cases of plagiarism are rarely a matter for courts to decide
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by cxr 6mo ago
> I decided for the minified version because it's smaller. That's the purpose of minification, after all. Mm... the purpose of minification, when it's not (also) being used for obfuscation purposes, is tied directly to the
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by cxr 6mo ago
Intentionally not edited to add: Why are you using minified dependencies (like uPlot.iife.min.js[1] and uPlot.min.css[2]) for a desktop application? uPlot is also open source (released by Sorokin under MIT), but why aren't you followin

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