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by dilandau 6y ago
Stallman was right. Holy shit.
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by dilandau 6y ago
And yet they have all the time in the world to spend on an invasive daemon that pulls updates OTA without user consent. Plus all the other bullshit they've tried (Mir, unity, juju or whatever it's called). Thankfully Debian is sti
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by dilandau 6y ago
>snapd not open-source. Red herring. The Linux Mint teams' main complaints have to do with issues around the way snap wrests control from the user. >I will remind people that the most popular PPA to this day is a Java PPA being
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by dilandau 6y ago
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Think of it as a map, and similarly, the map is not the territory.
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by dilandau 6y ago
What, Aramaic? The Vulgate? Wycliffes?
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by dilandau 6y ago
I wrote a bible desktop application and pulled in a bunch of translation and commentary from the swords project. I recommend looking into it if you're after the underlying data, nicely structured.
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by dilandau 6y ago
An apology, to the cancel crowd, is merely an admission of guilt. There is no such thing as redemption. By the time someone apologizes, the mob has moved on to a fresh outrage. In their wake are ruined reputation and careers.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Audacious. It's compatible with the skins, even.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Looks pretty cool. There is interest in CDE as well lately, it seems (NsCDE as well as CDE proper). Beyond aesthetic reasons, it's hard to understand when one would really use these for daily driving. Anyone using this or CDE able to o
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by dilandau 6y ago
Lowering the barriers to open-source contribution has allowed in people who have absolutely no business being there. If you have standards, you get accused of gate-keeping. Thanks for mentioning the T- website specifically, it takes a lot o
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by dilandau 6y ago
Replying to myself to highlight antirez's own comment upthread: >Yep it's the open source, and in general the "spontaneous" development world, that happens without big money, just for hacking. This "place" o
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by dilandau 6y ago
This implies that a lot of the politicization of open source projects has to do with outsiders making power plays (for in group status or just because narcissism). I think this is part of it, for sure. I also think it can also manifest when
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by dilandau 6y ago
Probably the roving mobs on Twitter who occasionally brigade project issue trackers and mailing lists. Check out the master/slave post he wrote a while back. Or just the toxic nature of some open source communities, especially on Reddī
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by dilandau 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes, because this is spot-on. Anonymous paper-folding image boards and other places like that are already celebrating the arrival of newcomers. It's like sending a petty offender to priso
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by dilandau 6y ago
This is the comment I wish I had made. This is just clickbait. The "GitHub down" schadenfreude has really gotten tired.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Honest and thoughtful retrospective, obviously with no hidden agenda, and written with humility. Fantastic stuff.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Just look at FB's stock over the last week. Wew lads, this is actually pretty big. From ~245 to 215 at market close today.
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by dilandau 6y ago
In some markets it is necessary to put the same length of fiber-optic cable between the colocated servers, so that being closer to the exchange's cabinet doesn't translate into an advantage. So obviously we're talking about e
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by dilandau 6y ago
Amazon is just a digital flea market, with all that the epithet entails. Shit-quality Chinesium stuff, counterfeit everything, fake customers, fake everything except the price. All amzn cares about is dominance, and they are winning unfortu
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by dilandau 6y ago
Is it a power-grab or an attempt by individuals to gain social status? I think that it has all those trappings, but underneath is a deep addiction to anger, outrage and the rush of adrenaline that accompanies it. There is also a sort of rel
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by dilandau 6y ago
No I would not say it did. Being publicly shamed, kicked out of a conference, fired, and having your name posted all over the place are the kinds of things that tend to stay with you. Remember, we're talking about a stupid dick joke be
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by dilandau 6y ago
Or make a private joke to your friend about a dongle.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Both of those are right on point, and match my observations within my own circles. For me stallmans cancellation was a big turning point. I'm using a pseudonym everywhere now. I can't risk someone pulling up a comment or post year
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by dilandau 6y ago
Overwhelmingly it is the identity-politics/SJW crowd that seems to be going after individuals, targeting the vulnerable, and attempting to ruin actual lives.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Banning someone from an internet forum or project is one thing. Trashing a person's reputation and character through a targeted internet campaign (hello Twitter mobs) is another matter.
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by dilandau 6y ago
What chess engine do you all recommend for gnome-chess? I see glaurung, fairy-max, hoi-chess, gnuchess?
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by dilandau 6y ago
Cancel culture in action.
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by dilandau 6y ago
The silent majority is bigger than any of us think. Angry twitter mobs give misleading impressions. Watching company after company, institution after institution cave to demands from the outraged woke-culture has completely pushed me the op
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by dilandau 6y ago
I remember having a coworker who was "learning clojure". That guy did more damage than could even be imagined.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Even more so since gh is part of Microsoft, a publicly traded company.

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