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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The fact that only SourceHut comes to mind and the author himself complains often about the sorry state of the software world says a lot.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I used to think that trust was something that needed to be eliminated ... I've come to realise that most people can be trusted most of the time You are confusing the NEED to trust with the ABILITY to trust - and the are almost opp
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> less friendly to governments Citation needed. The European Union Public License is copyleft and it's literally written by governmental bodies.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> you automatically disqualify some major institutions No: it's their choice, and if they choose not to use GPL software it is evidence that they do not care about user and developer software freedom. And that they don't want t
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
This is quite accurate. On top of that: 1. Build an opinionated solution that you control fully (e.g. difficult to fork). 2. Convince everybody to adopt it. Nobody gets fired for choosing $bigcorp 3. Grow it complex and expensive to maintai
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident. The complexity benefit of having stateless HTTP transactions is vastly offset by the statefulness of TCP, TLS states, HTTP &q
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...but various balances of power change greatly.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are confusing skill with access to capital.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The form factor of EOMA is simply unsuitable. Compared to any laptop motherboard or SBC, the volume available in the slot is tiny.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No, it's wrong: the employer is paying. The same goes for personal VS corporate taxes. They apply financial pressures on different spots. Unsurprisingly, they have different effects on increasing o decreasing inequality.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
This is huge exaggeration and generalization. Some parts of EU are doing very well economically and have very quality of life. Cherry-picking specific countries does not represent the totality.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
There's also free-as-in-facebook, where you are the product.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Python is widely considered to be very expressive and very readable. You can write unreadable code in virtually any language but that's besides the point.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> we've changed to Overton window so much that FOSS is the norm rather than the exception No, the window has been changed so much that open source under weak/permissive licenses is very popular. Corporations love unpaid labor w
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> does not mean that open source does not immensely profited and thrived from capitalism It certainly did not.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Same thing. One can justify anything by labeling the current behavior "pragmatic" and another "idealistic". Edit: amazing how I'm getting downvoted for this on a place called "hacker" news.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Claiming that one thing is "political" and the other is "pragmatic" is a good example of ideological thinking.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
A good salary motivates people temporarily or if they are in dire need for money. In the long term, it's far from enough.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The dangerous bit is the fuel - and that can be cut off from the engine and/or jettisoned.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I never stated otherwise. The (well known) logical fallacy is in arbitrarily picking one behavior instead of another and labeling it "human nature" and claiming it's inevitable.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
First, "human nature" is a logical fallacy straight away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy Second, in many existing societies outside of the US school bullying is extremely uncommon.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
First, "human nature" is a logical fallacy straight away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy Second, in many existing societies outside of the US school bullying is extremely uncommon.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Tacky indeed - but the main issue it's that it takes precious space for information that you don't need to look again and again after each command. Instead you can have a 1-letter command to print out a slew of useful info only wh
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Security made in <foo> is always a PR stunt That's a very big generalization. Citizen's rights vary wildly across countries, both in theory and in practice.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> The future is sandboxed apps with flatpak. If the sandbox is configured by the same person or organization that writes the code there's no improvement in trust. That's why package maintainers have a role in Linux distribution
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Aren’t they very easy to exploit, for a mildly dedicated actor? Debian does very extensive vetting of the contents of packages - and of the volunteers who get to become Debian Developers.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> how is that legal? It's perfectly legal to sell hardware with telemetries, homecalling and vulnerabilities that are known to the vendor but not published AKA accidental backdoors. How? Money.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> The sheer quantity of stuff running before the bootloader is staggering. How is it possible to secure these nested trees of computers-in-computers? Complexity and absence of peer review are the main enemies of security. That stuff is
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Not so fast. Virtually everywhere there are concepts like "accessory to murder", "criminal organization" and many more.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You are trying to re-frame ethics as "agenda" and "political stuff." Enough said.

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