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by djur 3y ago
Larn has a noncommercial license, so it's nonfree by Debian standards.
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by djur 3y ago
Even the original Rogue had color and graphical tiles as soon as it was ported to systems that supported them. I'm sure there are people out there who think "true" roguelikes have to be monochrome but I'm lucky to never
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by djur 3y ago
Why would people want to give the power and prestige of an executive position to a computer program?
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by djur 3y ago
The disagreement was not over the capability but with your claim that it's already being used ("They started disabling extensions...").
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by djur 3y ago
If Mozilla has completely lost someone's faith, that person wouldn't be using Firefox, and this new functionality won't be a problem for them.
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by djur 3y ago
Mozilla could at any time release a new version that does the nefarious things you're concerned about, and they could do it in a much more secretive way. The way they've approached this is consistent with their stated goals for th
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by djur 3y ago
Everybody will know if this happens, though. Why not save the vitriol for when and if it actually happens?
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by djur 3y ago
If the common understanding of "open source" differed so much from the OSI standard, wouldn't these companies just say "open source" and dismiss the OSI definition as archaic, too narrow, etc.? Instead, it seems lik
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by djur 3y ago
Why doesn't Elasticsearch B.V. refer to their software as "open source", then? They refer to it as "free and open" in their marketing, so obviously they think the idea is appealing to their customers. They refer to
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by djur 3y ago
What's an example of "open source" software you've used that matches that description?
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by djur 3y ago
There have been raunchy, offensive jokes on Twitter for years. Nothing new there. What kind of kneeslappers have you found more of recently?
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by djur 3y ago
I can't think of a single improvement to Twitter in the past 9 months. What changes I have noticed have ranged from annoying (extra-long tweets, a lot more white supremacist content to block) to destructive (boosting paid users, recent
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by djur 3y ago
> For example, there’s no traditional file system... The whole desktop metaphor isn’t really there, because that isn’t really what it was. The earliest Macs feel 'weird' in this way too, since the hierarchical filesystem wasn&#
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by djur 3y ago
Refusing to let Gov. DeSantis use them as a punching bag constitutes "openly campaigning against [the GOP]" now? DeSantis represents "50% of the country"?
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by djur 3y ago
Drop shipping from a huge number of barely-vetted vendors should be legally risky, yes.
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by djur 3y ago
Maples and oaks are different species. Humans are all the same species.
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by djur 3y ago
Yes, because political speech is protected more strongly than commercial speech.
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by djur 3y ago
They could inspect the goods that they sell like a normal retailer.
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by djur 3y ago
It's been unusable all day.
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by djur 3y ago
The assumption of good faith for Elon Musk disappeared the moment that he baselessly called someone a pedophile for criticizing him.
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by djur 3y ago
In older days before Ruby had encoding-aware strings, ?a would return the ASCII integer value of 'a'. It made sense in that context but is now pretty much a quirky fossil.
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by djur 3y ago
Representation in the Senate.
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by djur 3y ago
I don't think it's accurate to say that affirmative action programs are driven by racial animus. What's your evidence for saying so?
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by djur 3y ago
How exactly has equality of outcome been "proven to be doomed"? At the aggregate level, at least?
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by djur 3y ago
I generally find the difference between "1 week ago", "1 month ago", and "1 year ago" (and "10 years ago", for that matter) way more useful than "3 hours ago" versus "5 hours ago".
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by djur 3y ago
The judge cannot disbar them, but the opinion provides all of the evidence necessary.
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by djur 3y ago
He also famously had a fit when he learned how King Lear actually ended (in his era, a bowdlerized version with a happy ending was popular).
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by djur 3y ago
The stories I read say that Epstein attempted to extort Gates but was ignored.
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by djur 3y ago
Where did you read that about Epstein and Gates?
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by djur 3y ago
What you're talking about is a rewrite, not a refactor.

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