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by ddevault 6y ago
A platitude can often be worse than nothing at all. You've "solved" the problem, and now we can all go back to ignoring it. I'm more interested in real, scalable, sustainable funding solutions, than in continuing to give
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by ddevault 6y ago
The article I wrote is about the GPL, not about the FSF. In my comment, I specifically said that free software (GPL being one of many licensing tools for free software) is as important as ever. The FSF has accomplished very little in the pa
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by ddevault 6y ago
Linux is one of the world's most popular open source projects and represents the collaborative efforts of tens of thousands of software engineers. $10,000 per month might pay for two full time engineers. Thankfully, that's not wha
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by ddevault 6y ago
The FSF's time has probably passed. However, free software exists independently of the FSF, and is as important as ever.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Citation needed. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=flashlight Click through some of these and see what permissions they ask for. Full network access, run at startup, view network connections, GPS location, rea
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by ddevault 6y ago
That... is not what's happening here. That narrative is bordering on delusional. App distributiors are distributing malware. The vendors and the app developers are spying on you because it's profitable to sell your data. They keep
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by ddevault 6y ago
They might be "cool with it", but only out of ignorance that there are better models. Your argument boils down to "might makes right".
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by ddevault 6y ago
>This will be a tiny niche phone Yes. So what?
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by ddevault 6y ago
The benefits go both ways: the community also reaches out to the developers. A lot of software is added to repos without any input from the devs. The plain truth of the matter is that commercial app stores are malware distributors, and comm
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Features that haven't been fully baked would be pushed in to the current release because people wouldn't want to wait another 6 months to see their work come to fruition. Only if Rust has an awful leadership team organizing th
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by ddevault 6y ago
The Linux kernel is one of the world's largest collaborative projects, and it shows. The strength of Linux is that tens of thousands of people work on it, and it can be expected to support virtually all technology you might want to app
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by ddevault 6y ago
Honestly, SQLAlchemy was the biggest design mistake we made in sourcehut, and we're working to remove it now. SQL tends to be the bottleneck, and ultimately we just want to write SQL queries which do the right thing, so that we can con
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by ddevault 6y ago
There's no need to bend to Google's monopolist bullshit. Use F-Droid.
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by ddevault 6y ago
https://l.sr.ht/XhOm.png If you actually want people to read your content, then don't put it on Medium. Not to mention that it's bloated as hell, requires JavaScript, burns batteries on mobile devices, and is fu
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by ddevault 6y ago
For the love of God, stop using Medium. I don't understand how authors don't know better by now.
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by ddevault 6y ago
There is a middle ground. At sourcehut we don't use Docker, but we do use CI/CD and automate deployments. We have something like 12 dedicated hosts colocated in a local datacenter and we use virt-manager to host virtual machines -
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by ddevault 6y ago
Why not just put the PEM encoded key straight into this file instead of putting it at a separate URL?
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by ddevault 6y ago
No one has a right to a viable business model. There are other ways to make money. I also oppose companies like Nestle monopolizing water supplies to sell back to communities at a premium. If they're not allowed to do that, then their
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by ddevault 6y ago
I would strongly recommend against generalizing a study about WFH in Japan to the rest of the world. Japan's working culture is unique (and uniquely fucked up). WFH is severely stigmatized, and even working from the office is entirely
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by ddevault 6y ago
There are many reasons to use an emulator. You could play your own games on a new platform, or without having to pay for the hardware (a gaming PC which can run an current-gen emulator is expensive enough!). You could use it to play or deve
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by ddevault 6y ago
I had an opportunity in 2019 to get lost in the Franklin Institute after hours with a couple of friends. Most of the lights were off, not a soul to be found, and some of the normal passageways were locked. The only signs of life was near th
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by ddevault 6y ago
Well, I don't. So, tough luck for all concerned.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I think it's reasonable to expect a better response. This is a matter of their system behaving incorrectly - not of, say, some conspicuously absent feature which I would like to have. It is their responsibility to ensure that their ema
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by ddevault 6y ago
I don't understand your argument. The joke is meant to be illustrative of the problem, to inspire empathy in an otherwise unempathetic party. This requires an understanding of the unpleasantness of the situation. If I did not communica
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by ddevault 6y ago
If they said they'd work on it, and asked me to wait patiently, then yes, I would definitely do that. Instead, they mischaracterized the problem, offered wrong advice and conclusions, and ultimately they gave this: > We have forward
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by ddevault 6y ago
Yeah, and if you think that's bad, then it makes my fucking point.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I am entitled to not receiving unwanted emails, as is everyone else. This is a right guaranteed to us both by common courtesey and by law. I also recommend you review the HN guidelines regarding personal attacks. https://news.y
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by ddevault 6y ago
You and I seem to have different standards for "taking it out" on or "berating" someone. Even if the "threat" is taken at face value, the possibility of receiving a few unwanted emails per week is hardly a harr
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by ddevault 6y ago
This is a joke made in an attempt to engender some much needed empathy from the team on the issue. Naturally the tech can refrain from sharing. GitHub is supposedly a tech company, and supposedly works for developers. I would expect better
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GitHub refuses to help me unsubscribe from thousands of notifications(drewdevault.com)
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