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by ddevault 5y ago
I would not go so far as to day that email cannot be used privately, but I would say that it is very very difficult to use email privately. I agree that most people with highly confidential needs would be better served by another system, th
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by ddevault 5y ago
ProtonMail has been fraught with problems for a long time, and it's good that serious issues are being brought to light. Their marketing is very good and critics of them have struggled to communicate to users for a while. The most impo
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by ddevault 5y ago
The cost of journal access does not in any way pay for the research itself, and neither the researchers nor the peer reviewers ever see a dime. It is money which is stolen from science and from the public.
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Emacs discusses web-based development workflows(lwn.net)
14 points by ddevault 5y ago|1 comments
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True, but the term has evolved nonetheless, and its present meaning is related to the OSI. Language evolves. I would argue that this definition has settled upon a useful, objective meaning, and that its utility ought to be preserved by usin
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by ddevault 5y ago
You have a right to distribute the software you right under any terms you wish. If you are sick of tech giants using free software without giving back, then you're entitled to use some other licensing model. But you cannot change the m
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by ddevault 5y ago
You can make that case, and you're entitled to distribute your software under terms that prevent this. But this is the deal you sign up for when you make free and open source software. If you want to make another kind of software, th
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by ddevault 5y ago
>First, the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) came for your newsletter (Mailchimp). Then, they came for your cloud storage provider (Cloudflare). And on Monday, the Hamburg DPA said using Zoom could be incompatible with the GDPR’s da
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by ddevault 5y ago
I am the designer of this programming language. The project is not yet ready for broader distribution, and a disclaimer on the home page asks visitors to refrain from sharing the website. I have asked the mods to remove this link. If anyone
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by ddevault 5y ago
I have moved my channels to libera.chat: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/ I set up a bot which herds people on Freenode, shoot me a PM (ddevault) if you want me to /join it to your channel as
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by ddevault 5y ago
Sorry? How is this unrelated? SourceHut provides similar services without the spyware. Seems highly relevant to this thread.
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by ddevault 5y ago
Whoops, good call. Made some edits.
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by ddevault 5y ago
>You're asking people to document their own bias, so I think it is only fair to point out yours. I think I have been pretty open with my own perspective in TFA. >Do you believe that cryptocurrency as a whole is an abject disaster
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by ddevault 5y ago
>Yes, there are scams. But even in 2017 ICO days these were easy to spot - wailing and teeth nashing over ICO scams was dumb then and still is now. https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/
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by ddevault 5y ago
>So it seems Drew is biased here, he is biased because his service is being used by thieves to make money. Thieves using my service to make money is what pushed me over the edge into writing this piece, but I have a well-documented histo
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by ddevault 5y ago
Author here. It's hardly ruining my business, it's just a nuisance. I have long denounced cryptocurrencies since well before this incident, including on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&pref
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by ddevault 5y ago
It's both. The software doesn't get written unless the programmers do it. You are accountable to the code you write.
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by ddevault 5y ago
Awesome! Thanks!
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by ddevault 5y ago
We're moving builds.sr.ht to only support paid users from May forward because of crypto mining abuse. Background here: https://man.sr.ht/ops/builds.sr.ht-migration.md I've been in touch with many other people
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by ddevault 5y ago
Exactly this. The C++ committee needs to stay the hell away from C.
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by ddevault 5y ago
Specifically, my left foot. It's more annoying than you'd think: I've had people in and out of my apartment with rulers for weeks, and taking my shoes on and off all the time is a hassle. I finally sent them all packing when
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by ddevault 5y ago
Hm, I'm not a lawyer, but the answer is... kind of. It's a bit complicated. I can understand a valid interpretation for either answer.
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by ddevault 5y ago
It's basically a glorified list of regexes. I'm sure you'll live without it.
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by ddevault 5y ago
Minio's development culture has a very self-interested feel to it, like it's their thing moreso than the community's thing. Combine that with the corporate pandering it's designed for, and this was a long time coming.
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by ddevault 5y ago
No one has a right to a viable business model. If it makes a negative impact on society, we can and should regulate it. Ads are a pox on this Earth.
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by ddevault 5y ago
It's handled in small private codebases. Secrecy is a necessary component in this effort, because the attackers can just change their shape to evade our abuse detectors if they could read the code.
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by ddevault 5y ago
From the language specification.
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Parsers all the way down: writing a self-hosting parser(drewdevault.com)
9 points by ddevault 5y ago|3 comments
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by ddevault 5y ago
It seems tautologically obvious, but I can elaborate anyway. The benefits that led this project to choose an open source approach applies to other domains as well. If they believe in those merits, then they should naturally be apparent in t
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by ddevault 5y ago
I thought I'd share this month's update mainly because it includes pictures of penguins.

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