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by esarbe 5y ago
I don't think he pushed malware, did he? He just broke his own project and published the broken version. That's not pushing malware. I don't get why people don't just pin versions, honestly. I'm not saying he did a
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yes, fair enough.
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> vandals on their platform. Since it is his code; can you vandalize your own property? > go back to the last good change and lock the developer out. That's one reason for not using GitLab as source management tool. It gives them
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by esarbe 5y ago
Why would the developer of any software that comes explicitly without warranty be hold responsible for downstream breakages? It's not as if one could force people to upgrade to newer versions and they can always keep depending on the o
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by esarbe 5y ago
It's his software and he can do with it as he pleases. It's an MIT license, so there's no warranty whatsoever. I'm not convinced that GitHub has any business suspending his account.
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by esarbe 5y ago
As soon as it's profitable.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Not sure I buy that argument. In German they have the "Schwarze Liste" which essentially means. German is pretty close to English though, so I guess your argument could still hold for other non-related languages.
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Spreading falsehoods about a person is also called 'libel'.
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Then the rich countries cannot dump their chronic surpluses on the international markets and kill the local markets of developing countries for small-scale farmers.
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by esarbe 5y ago
It's not about the point you are making or that people are disagreeing. It's you misrepresenting the point of the article that's the problem.
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by esarbe 5y ago
The problem is that with the current system falling apart that will be it for modern human civilization. I wouldn't be surprised if the technological level fell back a few hundred years. Our civilization is too interdependent with no p
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by esarbe 5y ago
The 'planet' doesn't need saving - the planet is fine. No matter the damage we do to the planet through our predatory ecosystem exploitation, it will recover in a few million years. The most difficult step - the one that took
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by esarbe 5y ago
It will almost certainly be less than bitcoin. What bitcoin is trying to fix is decentralized trust and uses Proof-of-Work for that. So, you're wasting energy to solve some cryptographic puzzle to proof that you did some work. Traditio
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by esarbe 5y ago
How about industrialized nations get rid of their agricultural subsidies?
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Central Europe, 10°C - Bees and Wasps, shrubs and bushes are budding.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> GNOME 3.8 made hard dependencies on logind because it was default in Fedora Looks like we're still in disagreement about this. As far as I can tell, there was never a 'hard' dependency of GNOME 3.8 on logind; logind was
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yes. And the frustrating thing is that they are moving away from an FOSS solution. > But in the end, Discord’s feature set and its sheer popularity decided the matter. Sad. [0] https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2021&#x
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by esarbe 5y ago
>>Europe is pretty happy with its public services [...] > Are Germans "pretty happy" with 30% higher energy prices in a single year, due to anti-nuclear (anti-science) policies? [1] I think you might be conflating two thi
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by esarbe 5y ago
It's definitively good to have a choice and - if there's no commercial service - almost a necessity.
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> >But it is unprofitable for major internet providers to build broadband infrastructure in rural and low-income communities >Are they living in an alternate universe where Starlink was never launched? In what world is Starlink sui
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by esarbe 5y ago
> It might be because people did report on in trying to run GNOME 3.8 without logind, and reported massive faults? If you by 'it' mean the fact that the distributions switched to systemd, I would be declined to discount the spe
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by esarbe 5y ago
I applaud your ability to simultaneously dislike systemd and acknowledge the achievements of it's developers without the need to vilify them.
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> Linux went from a reasonable choice to an unreasonable due to sound not working again. But that's the crux, isn't it? Linux sound was not not-working because of PA. Linux sound was not working because it was fundamentally bro
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> SystemD has something of a reputation for being a bunch of arrogant young engineers making fundamental changes to the long established status quo in order to solve clever problems that range from tiny-minority-edge-case to non-existent
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> If Windows is crap, why does every system builder ship the majority of their machines with it? Because they get incentivized by Microsoft to do so. This is a well document part of their often illegal business practices.
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by esarbe 5y ago
No rules were broken.[0] [0] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002
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by esarbe 5y ago
This is simply not true[0]. To quote: > This is really unfortunate, but GNOME 3.8 does not require logind. I discussed the non-dependency of logind+systemd on #gentoo-desktop and why they thought different. Apparently GDM 3.8 assumes tha
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by esarbe 5y ago
> in fact it at first pushed us back A LOT That argument I don't quite follow. Would you consider rephrasing it? My question is; how did PA set back Linux sound if it did expose all those flaws in the audio driver in the first plac
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> Which goes completely against what Linux stands for - collaboration. Have a look at the contributor stats[0] for systemd and then repeat that with a straight face. > Lennart and his gang Also known as the Linux Plumbers[1]. You know
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by esarbe 5y ago
While PA in the beginning certainly wasn't manna from heaven, it still was a godsend; pulseaudio exposed all the inconsistencies, flaws and straight out bugs in the alsa driver implementations. The reason so many people had issues with

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