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by eschaton 1y ago
This is a thing C++ advocates say that tells me they’ve never really tried to do it and share that codebase with others or integrate with other codebases. You generally don’t get to pick what parts other people want to use, which means th
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by eschaton 1y ago
Oh no, people have to consider how they engage with others’ writing! They can’t just push a “like” or “thumbs down” button! There will be social pressure against it if they try to just send around picture or video memes instead of writing s
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by eschaton 1y ago
I think for internal corporate use, NNTP would work even better, if it were still supported in mail clients. I deployed it for exactly that purpose in the late 1990s and it was great. Fortunately there are IMAP shared mailboxes, which we
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by eschaton 1y ago
What makes them “feel like 1970s technology” to you, and—more importantly—why do you say that like it’s a bad thing? Most of the opposition I’ve seen to using mailing lists for technical discussion has basically come down to “young people t
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by eschaton 1y ago
“It sucks for everyone equally, so it’s better.” Nah. The “replicated work” is in deciding what you want your mail folder structure to look like, which is a pretty personal decision; creating the filter on List-Id itself is trivial.
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by eschaton 1y ago
It has all sorts of gamification that gets in the way, it’s easy to over-silo discussions, it has a concept of “answered” that’s not really appropriate for a lot of project level discussion, it has all sorts of other extraneous crap like “r
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by eschaton 1y ago
Proxmox has a mail appliance.
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by eschaton 1y ago
It doesn’t, federation makes it not a web forum and its “web forum first” nature makes Discourse fundamentally unsuitable for things like technical work. (As opposed to, say, product support.) If you want federation, set up a mailing list g
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by eschaton 1y ago
I find that people who complain about email volume are not only unfamiliar with setting up rules to file messages into folders, but entirely uninterested in learning how to leverage their tools that way. In fact, it seems many of them resen
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by eschaton 1y ago
And Roe v. Wade was settled law too, until it wasn’t.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Because it’s actually still better than the alternatives, an actual open standard, and very lightweight despite also being extremely functional.
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by eschaton 1y ago
…for personal use, just as timeshifting was with MPAA v. Sony. Neither were about commercial use/exploitation.
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by eschaton 1y ago
In general buying books and scanning them for this type of use would *also* be copyright infringement.
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by eschaton 1y ago
In my opinion, as a class member you should push for two things: 1. Getting the maximum statutory damages for copyright infringement, which would be something like &250,000 per instance of infringement; you can be generous and call thei
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by eschaton 1y ago
Ugh. Instead of propagating UEFI further, we as an industry should be promoting and improving IEEE 1275 Open Firmware.
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by eschaton 1y ago
No, I think you’re only exposed to a limited portion of the industry where people play fast and loose with IP provenance and as a result develop very bad habits that need to be broken when they enter an environment that takes it seriously.
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by eschaton 1y ago
My last 20 years in the industry were at Apple.
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by eschaton 1y ago
I’ve been in this industry 30+ years working for both very small companies and some of the largest. I thus have a pretty good understanding of the reality of how code is written, and you’re the one burying your head in the sand: Companies c
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by eschaton 1y ago
Just because many developers are irresponsible in their approach to incorporating others’ works doesn’t change how intellectual property actually works, and any project that actually cares (whether open or proprietary) will ensure that peop
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by eschaton 1y ago
It’s completely different from an IDE’s autocomplete because autocomplete in an IDE is only helping you type identifiers that already exist in your codebase or in any SDKs you’re using. An LLM is regurgitating things from outside that space
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by eschaton 1y ago
It doesn’t, it provides an assurance (but not provenance) you didn’t use AI. Assuring you didn’t include any AGPLv3 code in your contribution is exactly the same kind of assurance. It also doesn’t provide any provenance. Conflating assuranc
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by eschaton 1y ago
And I’m saying, as a maintainer, you have to and are doing both, even if you don’t think you are. For example, you either make your contributors attest that their changes are original or that they have the right to contribute their changes—
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by eschaton 1y ago
Not really, no. If you’re specifically referring to, say, GPL or BSD or other Open Source licenses, it’s a bit more unsettled, but software licensing as a whole has several decades of case law at this point.
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by eschaton 1y ago
He’s pretty widely regarded as a kook by real scientists. He did some good math and physics back in the day and then some good work on cellular automata, and assumed that meant he was smarter than everybody else and that all of science was
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by eschaton 1y ago
Enjoy being found out for fraudulently passing off work you didn’t do as your own then.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Some courts at some levels. It’s by no means settled law.
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by eschaton 1y ago
And if they’re discovered to not be keeping their word, there can be consequences imposed and mitigating actions taken. Rules can’t prevent bad actions 100% of the time, but they can substantially increase the risk of bad actions.
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by eschaton 1y ago
You’re basically saying “if a rule can be broken, it will be, therefore rules are useless.” If someone really wants to commit fraud they’re going to commit fraud. (For example, by not disclosing AI use when a repository requires it.) But if
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by eschaton 1y ago
It’s not just common courtesy to disclose, it’s outright fraud not to disclose.
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by eschaton 1y ago
You’re completely incorrect. People care a lot about where code came from. They need to be able to trust that code you’re contributing was not copied from a project under AGPLv3, if the project you’re contributing to is under a different li

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