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by dTal 3y ago
The passport control officers care, yes. That's their job. Once it got escalated past them, onto Putin's desk, Snowden wasn't going anywhere. Why would he let a juicy trading chip like that go?
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by dTal 3y ago
>He would have had the chance to go to trial and defend himself and seek whistleblower protection status No, he wouldn't. Google "snowden fair trial". He has always said that he is perfectly willing to come to the US and d
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by dTal 3y ago
If you're making a comparison with the US, there is the severe flaw that not everyone in the US has a high salary either, which means they're extra doubly screwed, and then all the high-salaried people still have to live in a co
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by dTal 3y ago
> I prefer not to believe in very many things simply because belief's the end of the logical process. I think it's worth acknowledging that belief in some types of things makes them real - "self fulfilling", if you
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by dTal 3y ago
1) Space doesn't help you, it only postpones the inevitable. Eventually the ravenous maw of your exponentially growing civilization will run out of stars to harvest, trapped as it is inside a light bubble growing at 1c, its volume expa
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by dTal 3y ago
The point is that there's no such thing as a (meaningful) good or service that doesn't require some amount of a tangible and finite physical resource - human time, if nothing else. The economist's position - and yours, appare
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by dTal 3y ago
Bit of a difference between "global lockdowns can happen" and "we can all sense the impending global lockdown coming". Could a lockdown happen again? Sure, if there were another pandemic. But "we can all sense the i
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by dTal 3y ago
If that's "wealth", then "wealth" is worthless. When you have a capped number of humans, and every last one of them is jacked into the Matrix and has everything they could possibly want - what is there left to grow?
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by dTal 3y ago
LLMs feel a bit like if someone invented the jet turbine in 1920. People are super impressed, they're bolting them to biplanes and model Ts to see what they can make them do, world records are being broken, there's breathless deba
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by dTal 3y ago
I think the ridicule comes from the fact that it had the feel of a regurgitated ELI5 explanation that someone had given to him. You can't exactly call it inaccurate, but it was a bit like hearing "an airplane is like a big metal b
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by dTal 3y ago
> I can't remember the last time I encountered a library or program in my work that was even LGPL licensed, let alone GPLd I don't know what line of work you're in but this seems quite unlikely. GTK and Qt are both LGPL (a
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by dTal 3y ago
I see your point, in the sense that local software is in theory more permanent, more reliable. But the issue is more subtle that you are describing. Is the local-first program* free software, or proprietary adware? Is its sole function to c
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by dTal 3y ago
> Last time I looked into it, a desktop website couldn't enable check deposits with a webcam. Why not?
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by dTal 3y ago
On cursory inspection, the git repo [0] seems fairly active. Not sure why they wouldn't have made a release. [0] https://invent.kde.org/office/calligra/-/commits/master/
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by dTal 3y ago
Calligra Words looks nice. I trust anything KDE.
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by dTal 3y ago
Generally, if you modify either the Linux part OR the proprietary part on a smartphone, the machine will fail to boot (i.e. the software will not run). This is a deliberate design goal, cryptographically enforced, and it is not implemented
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by dTal 3y ago
Depending, as always, on the packet size and the distance. An interesting thing to note is that according to their graph, pigeon transit time is non-linear at large distances. Obvious possible explanations include pigeon fatigue and increas
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by dTal 3y ago
Can you delete the proprietary software, and if so does the Linux still run? Can you modify the Linux part, and if so does the proprietary software still run? If those two criteria are satisfied I think you could probably successfully argue
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by dTal 3y ago
It boils down to the distinction between "derived work" and "mere aggregate", which is currently legally vague. This vagueness has allowed all sorts of shenanigans that violate the spirit of the GPL.
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by dTal 3y ago
We are specifically addressing what happens when you take a Linux kernel (or any other GPL code), modify it, and bundle it with proprietary software, in such a way that neither the free nor proprietary software function without the other. I
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by dTal 3y ago
I was perhaps unclear. I meant a firmware blob in the sense of an OS image that includes Linux, such as might be downloaded as an update to your smartphone.
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by dTal 3y ago
On the contrary, we've known for nearly a decade: https://www.theverge.com/2014/7/17/5912287/edward-snowden-sa...
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by dTal 3y ago
TiVo, like all such products, ran proprietary software "on top" of the Linux kernel (and "underneath", typically, in the form of a closed source bootloader). As far as I know, no company bothers to apply such DRM unless
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by dTal 3y ago
Funny because that's exactly how most commercial Linux-based products work, including and especially Android smartphones. In my opinion, tolerating TiVo-ization was a major and possibly fatal misstep for GPL enforcement. What is a firm
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by dTal 3y ago
>Any nation with the capacity to build a robot army will also be socially mature enough to not want to commit robotic genocide against their surrendering foe Prediction: this will age badly.
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by dTal 3y ago
Worth noting that not all heritable traits are reflected in DNA, thanks to epigenetics.
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by dTal 3y ago
You mean an X1 Tablet? The one with the 3000x2000 screen? I found it to be a somewhat disappointing Linux machine. The rear camera does not work, neither the built-in microphone. I was never able to get its GPS working either, after going d
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by dTal 3y ago
It's not "open source" because it's not free software. We do not have access to the training data (source code). We cannot make new versions by editing the preferred representation. It's a big closed source blob rel
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by dTal 3y ago
It's worth noting that the sexual environment in McMurdo is... distorted. You have a bunch of adventurous, thrill seeking types, isolated from civilization, and extremely bored a lot of the time. They fuck. A lot more than you'd t
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by dTal 3y ago
The ISS has a crew of 7, micromanaged to death from the ground. McMurdo Station is a town of anywhere from several hundred to a thousand people. They are not comparable social situations.

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