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by eadmund 2y ago
JSON is just one tiny part of most programs, sitting on the edge where the program interacts with other programs; it doesn’t permeate the entire codebase. Structure privacy, OTOH, does. Count me in as someone who really enjoys the case-bas
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by eadmund 3y ago
> My favorite example is how Austria was the last EU country to ban indoor smoking Regardless of their reasons, they were right to oppose it, because banning smoking in private establishments is tyranny. Petty tyranny, not the headline-
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by eadmund 3y ago
It really says something about how much Apple cares about restricting its users’ freedom versus implementing functionality for those users that in 17 years they haven’t been bothered to either write their own /bin/sh, fix the ca.
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by eadmund 3y ago
And even were it true, would it necessarily be a bad thing? Personal bankruptcy is an orderly process in which an individual gets to legally terminate all his debts. If a person with medical debt declares bankruptcy, his creditors lose ou
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by eadmund 3y ago
Liability limitation exists in order for people to take risks without losing everything. A person or persons can form a company (such as a corporation or limited liability company), invest assets in it and so long as they conduct business
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Of course factory farming is an aggravating factor for the spread of diseases. Of course we can thrive with less meat consumption or none. Of course , life with less meat consumption has a lower quality, and life with no meat cons
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by eadmund 3y ago
Because software that has a non-commercial clause is not open source . It strips an important freedom from its users.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> None of these blogposts (including this one) have any realistic solution to the problem of making OSS software and being able to live from it, and prevent others from exploiting you in the process. You’re begging the question of whethe
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State Machines [in CLOS](funcall.blogspot.com)
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by eadmund 3y ago
I don’t particularly mind apps running atop the web platform. What I do mind is when what could and should be documents are apps instead.
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by eadmund 3y ago
1999 was pretty great! I was running Linux, with a nice huge full-colour display running XFree86. Back then it was Mozilla, not Firefox. I had Emacs. TCP/IP and Ethernet had won. MP3s were common. Streaming existed, albeit the op
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Until relatively recently there was a very high likelihood that you were either a heavy smoker or lived most of your life inhaling a lot of secondhand smoke. Heavy smoking was definitely a problem, as was air and general environmental
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by eadmund 3y ago
It offends me that I must use Firefox or one of the WebKit forks instead of w3m, eww, links, elinks or my own program which parses HTML. It offends me that in order to read a document I also have to grant the author of that document executi
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by eadmund 3y ago
My concern with apps like Shelter, Insular and Island is: who guards the guards? How confident can I be that an xz-type attack hasn’t been made on them? Who are the individuals behind such projects, and what nation-states and influences a
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Also, Unix has never had any kind of standard structured data format (JSON would work, but it didn't exist for the first 30 years of Unix's existence), which is a problem for ideas like passing command arguments as structured
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by eadmund 3y ago
Doh! You’re right.
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by eadmund 3y ago
I prefer to either LUKS-encrypt the volumes used by ZFS, or use ecryptfs at the user level. ZFS ‘encryption’ has some nasty gotchas, such as not encrypting snapshot names (which just boggles the mind …). I add ~/tmp (cleaned out on ev
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by eadmund 3y ago
> How many people did (so much more than me) with all these projects to be later betrayed by relicensing. Were you betrayed? They did a thing you licensed them to do. That’s the whole point of non-copyleft free software licenses, aft
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by eadmund 3y ago
> which he had let go bankrupt and get evicted from its offices in 2011 so he could run for president in 2012 Right now, at least, the Wikipedia article states that the law required him to leave the organisation. It doesn’t sound like i
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by eadmund 3y ago
Those of us who remember the SCO Group are probably tickled pink that ‘source code origination’ is apparently a term of art abbreviated ‘SCO.’
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by eadmund 3y ago
We do tax corporations in America, at a rate which is in the middle of the pack worldwide.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Non-commercial clauses violate Freedom 0, the freedom to run software for any purpose. It’s the single most foundational freedom. A non-commercial clause basically guarantees that a piece of software will not be used. For that matter, why
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by eadmund 3y ago
While I share Mr. Hodgson’s concern about funding free software, I do not think that State funding is a good idea. My biggest concern is simply that the State does not have the ability to make good technical choices[0], and that its presen
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by eadmund 3y ago
I think that what we need is good sandboxing. All a sandboxed Turing-complete language can do is perform I/O on some restricted area, burn CPU and attempt to escape the sandbox. I would like to see this on the language level, not just
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by eadmund 3y ago
She had formerly been very proud of it. I think that over the past few years she was badgered into asking folks to stop using it.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Yup! I probably should have capitalised it as ‘State’ to prevent confusion.
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by eadmund 3y ago
The pardon power is constitutionally absolute and unreviewable — the president can pardon for any reason, or none. Some people dislike that, but I personally like it, because it acts as an ultimate safety valve on the state’s ability to pe
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by eadmund 3y ago
> There is nothing inherently wrong or lesser about online interactions that makes them inferior to “irl” interactions. They are inherently lesser because they lack full spectrum of senses man has evolved to have. In person we don’t jus
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by eadmund 3y ago
‘How can the Torment Matrix work without tormenting?’ Maybe AR devices fundamentally violate privacy? Maybe using them in public is wrong, or at least rude?
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by eadmund 3y ago
I wish that I could vouch for this — it’s not flagworthy, at all, unless one subscribes to the school of thought that no criticism of Apple is valid.

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