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by endgame 5y ago
I don't even want that sort of paternalism. With an old-school forum, you knew when you were "done", and you had to come back 12-24 hours later for enough other posters to have said anything worthwhile.
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by endgame 5y ago
It's good for training the 'k' and 'e' keys, at least.
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by endgame 5y ago
At this point, I'm starting to wonder whether or not Mozilla leadership is controlled opposition.
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by endgame 5y ago
People always post this in reply. I don't want to donate to the Mozilla Foundation's CEO salary package, or their navel-gazing side projects, or their endless reshuffling of deckchairs. I want to fund _Firefox_, the only browser e
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by endgame 5y ago
What if - and bear with me here - Mozilla set up a way for us to fund Firefox directly?
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by endgame 5y ago
The problem is you're fighting uphill against individually-rational behaviour. If you keep your word while everyone around you breaks theirs, you will feel like a sucker while they get ahead. Most people will think "if you can&#x2
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by endgame 5y ago
I still install firefox on family machines, specifically because it lets me install a working adblocker. The WWW is too hostile without it.
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by endgame 5y ago
Mid-late 90s radios could scan along the spectrum and stop when they found something.
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by endgame 5y ago
The article describes events set into motion over a decade ago. People calling bullshit on things that happened over the past couple of years have had a much worse time of it.
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by endgame 5y ago
I don't understand why these models are not "derived works" under the GPL family of licences.
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by endgame 5y ago
There used to be a lisp dialect called "pyramid" partially to make the "pyramid scheme" joke. https://www.michaelburge.us/2017/11/28/write-your-next-ether...
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by endgame 5y ago
> you can only have one `Eq` or `Ord` instance for some type A. This is a good thing - it stops you from using one Ord instance when putting As into a Map or Set, and then trying to pull them back out using another. Newtypes let you prov
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by endgame 5y ago
Related: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ A great mural of old internet gifs, and autoplaying MIDI music.
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by endgame 5y ago
Probably based off the real-life phreak Joybubbles, who was also blind, had perfect pitch, was nicknamed "Whistler", and got into trouble for helping people make cheap phone calls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by endgame 5y ago
Please tell me you're taking notes somewhere, because that sounds like a really fun project.
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by endgame 5y ago
This is one of the things that GPLv3 fixes - there's a "self-healing" clause added. From section 8 of GPLv3 ("Termination"): > However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particu
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by endgame 5y ago
The thing I want to see written up in one of these conversion projects: how to drive the ringer.
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by endgame 5y ago
> We wish to forge a new path forward, one [...] of user-owned and operated pages [...]. Find us on Discord. SURELY there is something better out there, if your goal is to stop propping up proprietary monoliths?
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by endgame 5y ago
I see - once again, instead of just letting people fund the damn browser, Mozilla is continuing with its tried-and-true strategy of randomly integrating things into other things.
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by endgame 5y ago
Look at old pictures of (say) Netscape Navigator. Despite having far fewer pixels we somehow had enough to label our icons. What went wrong?
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by endgame 5y ago
I've been doing this when writing CloudFormation, and it helps a lot.
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by endgame 5y ago
Nix?
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by endgame 5y ago
Mozilla would be in a much less tough spot if they didn't keep rearranging their deckchairs every six months, and actually let us fund the browser team directly.
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by endgame 5y ago
The pills won't get an OTA firmware update to make you think about sponsored products from our partners.
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by endgame 5y ago
That would be the "Telecommunication and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018": https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00148
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by endgame 5y ago
Just let us donate directly to Firefox. Come on.
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by endgame 5y ago
Yeah, I'm really pleased with sourcehut. Not many other forges let you ssh into a failed CI host to debug what's happened.
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by endgame 5y ago
Many languages (C++ templates, C#, Java, among others) write things like List<T> to mean a "list where every item is of type T". This feature is usually called something like "generics" or "parametric polymorp
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by endgame 5y ago
Exactly this. The power of an abstraction is roughly the product of two metrics: 1. How many things "fit" this abstraction? 2. What does this abstraction let me say? The abstraction "Monad" has many inhabitants, and the
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by endgame 5y ago
Monads are not "for side effects". Monads are a programming pattern to facilitate code reuse. Any time you have a type constructor M (like List<_>, say) that supports the following operations: 1. pure :: T -> M<T>,

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