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by ddevault 6y ago
>If Firefox need to cut costs to survive, this is part of keeping Firefox working for us. See also: >Investing in a 400% increase in leadership salaries and bonuses during record-low market share
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by ddevault 6y ago
Some ways they have not kept Firefox working for you in 2020: - Laying off 25% of their engineers - Investing in a 400% increase in leadership salaries and bonuses during record-low market share - Adding more advertising to an end-user appl
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by ddevault 6y ago
I consider piracy to be a form of civil disobedience. Why shouldn't we capture the value even if it would normally be sold to us in an unethical way? Personally, I don't use nonfree software, pirated or not, but I have no qualms w
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by ddevault 6y ago
>I think that business model could work well for 1-2 person companies, but how well would it scale? I have no reason to suspect it would not scale up. In fact, the larger the force behind the software, the more difficult it is for a comp
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Chiaki: Cross-platform PS4/PS5 remote play client(sr.ht)
3 points by ddevault 6y ago|0 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
"Comes with source code" != "must be given away for free". You can charge them to download the source code. You can charge them to download pre-compiled executables. Someone else could build it and put it up online, but
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by ddevault 6y ago
It should be illegal for this to use an opt-out approach rather than opt-in. If it's my data, you should be legally required to pay me to use it, at the price I demand, or not use it at all. Only with my consent, and not at the threat
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by ddevault 6y ago
You're free to sell software at any cost the recipient is willing to pay, at least such that it squares with your concience. However, if you don't sell the source code with it , I consider that unethical. Land is a finite resourc
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by ddevault 6y ago
>At what point in the process of making software does proprietary software become unethical? The start. >If I open a restaurant and sell food, but don’t publish my recipes, that isn’t unethical? No - this is also unethical. >If I m
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by ddevault 6y ago
Proprietary software is inherently unethical, so I support anyone teaching people how to pirate it. YouTube did the predictable thing, but not the right thing.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Not very wise of you to depend on Discord and Google Sheets instead of more open alternatives when you're organizing a group whose purpose is to literally preserve the victims of corporate censorship.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Only if we can't shift society to accomodate the changing job market and take care of people who have been made obsolete. Ideally by enjoying the fruits of our collective labor and ditching the "everyone must spend more than half
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by ddevault 6y ago
Some HN readers can grok Japanese :)
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by ddevault 6y ago
Some people don't have eyes.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I am the author of this issue and I don't really know what you're talking about. Terseness is something I value in bug reports as a maintainer myself. I don't want to read someone yarning on about the breakfast they were eati
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by ddevault 6y ago
Ads are never, ever reasonable. Never let other companies brain hack your users. It's unethical and an awful UX. No one is ever pleased to see an ad. It's not like we can't do instant messaging without ads. I have used IRC ev
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by ddevault 6y ago
Ranked choice was rejected in MA because it was poorly explained to voters and they voted against it because they didn't understand it. A vote against ranked choice is a vote against your best interests, and that's an objective fa
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by ddevault 6y ago
Exactly. This isn't science. Sometmies science finds uncomfortable results, and if it's not truthful about them, then it's not science.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Can I ask you to send me an email? I'd like to follow up on this comment in private. I can be reached at sir@cmpwn.com
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by ddevault 6y ago
It's not because people aren't voting - it's because our votes are not equal. We don't have "one person, one vote" here - we have "one dollar, one vote", and those with more dollars get more votes. Ci
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by ddevault 6y ago
Right - but you fix the bug. You don't add a tolerance.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Agreed. Flaky tests are a bug and the only agreeable solution is to identify and remove the non-deterministic inputs.
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by ddevault 6y ago
This web server seems to be broken. https://web.archive.org/web/20201220135644/https://pijul.org...
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godocs.io(godocs.io)
5 points by ddevault 6y ago|0 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
EU law applies to EU citizens abroad, so unless you have a means of detecting the nationality (not the location) of the user, this is still illegal. Plus, even for EU visitors who decline consent at the prompt that you received, they still
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by ddevault 6y ago
> This website stores data such as cookies to enable necessary site functionality, including analytics, targeting, and personalization. By remaining on this website you indicate your consent. This is illegal.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I've been many times! It is beautiful, but I really wish we had access to better dark sites in the US East.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>This seems to be an argument for not buying new computers. That's exactly what this is an argument for. It's also an argument for programmers to accomodate this.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I mean "capable of running useful software". There are vanishingly few use-cases which actually demand the resources of newer computers - 99% of software with high system requirements is due to programmers who have grown fat on th
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by ddevault 6y ago
Vast numbers of perfectly servicable computer hardware is thrown out all the time. We would be well served to use this time to get used to reusing and extending the life of the hardware we already have. And, as software engineers, we need t

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