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by emacsen 2y ago
There's so much here to discuss that we could only ever touch on the surface level, but let's give it a go. Let's first start with what I understand to be the premise- that private industry and governments are two worlds (ie
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by emacsen 2y ago
My read on Slashdot was that we need to separate out the folks who built the site from those who run it. The original authors executed an exit strategy. They sold the site, got a bunch of money, and left to work on new things. The various n
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by emacsen 2y ago
This is interesting, what do you mean by hostile user practices? Can you say more (about both /. and Digg)?
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by emacsen 2y ago
The original owners left the site so many years ago, and same with the second, or third owners. I'm not even clear who owns it now. It would surprise me if it's very profitable.
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by emacsen 2y ago
Slashdot died several deaths. The birth of Digg and Reddit were a big contributor (as was HN later). You may also remember that /. was sold, first to VA Linux, then to another company, along with its sister, Linux.com. Slashdot's
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by emacsen 2y ago
As a file format, this is just fine, but I feel like there's some conflation between a file format and software meant to interact with that format. I use plain text accounting for my business, and it's lovely to be able to enter b
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by emacsen 2y ago
As the others have said, it's about the journey, so let me expand on this a bit. Streaming games has a large social component, whether it's speedrunning, or just casual play. It's often as much about the personality of the pl
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by emacsen 2y ago
This comes from a misunderstanding of what speedrunning is. It's not merely doing something quickly; it's more akin to a sport. The objective of speedrunning is to perform something you would do in a game in a record time, or it&#
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by emacsen 2y ago
I'm probably the wrong person to ask about this, but you asked! What you are building is essentially what Tiago Forte calls a "Second Brain". He has an entire book around Second Brain, as well as the one on PARA. Ironically,
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by emacsen 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134892 https://blog.emacsen.net
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by emacsen 2y ago
My blog is at https://blog.emacsen.net but I haven't written much. The problem I have is that writing the why is harder than the what. For example, I use a modified Cycle System, but some of my modifications are around how
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by emacsen 2y ago
I think these systems like Obsidian are great for notes. PARA also (and for me primarily) helps with things like documents I get from other places which I then scan in. Yes, I could probably use a specialized program for this, but this way
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by emacsen 2y ago
I'm in my mid-40s and have severe ADHD and I've tried many many techniques and systems over the years. Over the last ~15 years I've come to evolve a set of systems that work for me. I'm starting (in my "ample free t
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by emacsen 2y ago
I originally started with Johnny.Decimal for my life and after giving it a big try, switched to PARA. J.D is fine (maybe even great) if your categories are relatively static, such as a small business, but as an individual, I found it very r
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by emacsen 2y ago
Why should words like "organic" in relation to food mean without pesticides? I mean all carbon and water based life forms are organic, right? I can define Open Source easily, using the OSI definition. There is not a trademark for
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by emacsen 2y ago
Software licenses, especially the more "advanced" licences such as the GPL, MPL, and others include very specific language around the issue of what is use, what is distribution, what is is connecting to, derived works, and importa
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by emacsen 2y ago
"It's not recognized as Open Source by the Open Source body, and doesn't meet the criteria of Free/Open Source Software, but is Open Source" is a bit like saying "I used GMO and petroleum based pesticides, but
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by emacsen 2y ago
It might not be, but I can't understand how someone who has written such advanced software, and includes a monetization plan, and then posts about it on HN also doesn't take the time to choose a license. Even if they didn't k
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by emacsen 2y ago
I was so so excited to read this, then I saw the headline is deceptive. It's not Open Source; it uses a Creative Common "Non-Commercial" license. CC licenses are not meant for software. They explicitly say so on their FAQ: h
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by emacsen 2y ago
If you look up Frank Karlitschek and "I forked my own project and my own company", he's given this talk many, many times. As for it being the best of both worlds, it depends what best means. A company that wants to make a lot
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by emacsen 2y ago
They still don't sell a proprietary version of their software. CentOS started as a fork, and new forks exist now.
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by emacsen 2y ago
While it's absolutely true that businesses need to make money, the idea that this must therefore logically conclude with a FLOSS and non-FLOSS version is not correct. If you look at companies like Red Hat, and Nextcloud, neither of the
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by emacsen 2y ago
Yes and. Yes, and even if it doesn't go to court, the university will know that it will cost them time and money. It's entirely possible that university president or higher administration is unaware of the situation, and if they w
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by emacsen 2y ago
A +1 to everyone else who has said get a lawyer. I'll add another angle: financial. You have invested years of time and presumably thousands of dollars into your schooling. Their threat that they will not allow you to graduate unless y
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by emacsen 2y ago
Also not a lawyer, but discussed this with multiple lawyers. As long as you make very clear that you're summarizing the legal document, but the legal document you're providing is the canonical truth, you're allowed to provide
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by emacsen 2y ago
I remember in the late 90s when there were so many alternative interfaces for PCs. It was a great time for exploration on what could be done. Kando is very pretty, and it can be fun to use an interface like this, but in terms of practicalit
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by emacsen 2y ago
Is there decent encryption support, or are we stuck using full disk encryption at the block level?
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by emacsen 2y ago
The way jj tracks changes isn't a feature you can turn off AFAIK. Maybe you can, but if you can, you shouldn't. This is fundamental to the jj internals and workflow. As someone who also kept a lot of files in their repo that went
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by emacsen 2y ago
There are three answers to this. 1. If it works for you, no need to stop I remember plenty of people who used SVN saying why did they need to use git. In fact, I remember companies complaining about distributed version control generally, sa
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by emacsen 2y ago
I don't want to sound negative, but as a potential user, I don't see this solving any problems I have. My communication is spread across email, Signal, Discord, Matrix, and XMPP. I have several email addresses, two Signal accounts

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