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by gkbrk 2y ago
Tons of modern and really critical development happens on Eclipse-based environments. Two examples I can think of off the top of my head are - DBeaver (very widely used to connect to production databases) - STM32Cube IDE (for embedded devel
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by gkbrk 2y ago
> You can't use any GNU project without depending on GNU libc. Of course you can. Unless they're depending on non-standard parts of libc, you can use any GNU project with other libc implementations (musl, dietlibc, ulibc etc).
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by gkbrk 2y ago
You can use almost any GNU project without depending on all the other GNU projects.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
No, even excessive memory usage should be prevented by the browser. If any page can crash a tab/browser it's a browser bug.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Some countries have national IDs with public-key encryption. You can use the ID card itself to sign things.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
If you want a fast DB for web log analysis, you shouldn't look at MySQL or PostgreSQL anyway. ClickHouse will run circles around both of them for the use case of web log analysis.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You can ask them and they'll give it to you. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
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by gkbrk 3y ago
By that definition Windows is open source. The Linux kernel, Vim, and Microsoft Windows are all "open source" because all of them are "source is available" + conditions. Do you think this is the definition of open source
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Yes? AGPL is considered open source by pretty much everyone.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Not worrying about Oracle suing you is a good reason to use PostgreSQL or MariaDB.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It is if the thing they bought had contributions from many other people but pretty much all of them got nothing for it.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> OpenSearch infuriates me to no end. > Even basic things like autocompleting queries have been WIP for half a decade now. It's an open-source project. If this bothered you for half a decade, you could always submit a patch. Appa
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> What else is going to work? Everything that was statically compiled.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Not Android ones.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
They don't trust the websites not to tamper with stuff.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Yes, you're missing something. The link includes details about turning DOOM screenshots into ASCII art and fine-tuning a large language model to play DOOM based on this screenshot to ASCII input. The link also provides illustrations, t
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Soucehut works with noscript. No need to host or DIY anything. Codeberg has a message that says "This website requires JavaScript." but I was able to use it without JS to browse around and look at code properly.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Is that necessarily a bug? If you use Disney content without a license they won't give you a 30-day period to keep mis-using it. Same with using Oracle software. Why should people who create CC content provide such a grace period?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It is. S3 supports fetching arbitrary byte ranges from files.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Redis is the original project and it continues For many people, Redis is an open-source in-memory data store. Redict is closer both in spirit and in legal usability to the Redis people have been using for many years compared to whateve
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by gkbrk 3y ago
I consider AGPL open-source. Same with other open-source copy-left licenses like GPL or LGPL.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> What exactly do you believe is the point of a crypto wallet? For 99% of users? Speculative investment into pump-and-dump schemes.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Loop over your HTML files with shell and echo/printf some XML tags?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You can split software licenses roughly into two, open-source and proprietary. Since SSPL is not open-source, it's considered proprietary.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You make money with if you have useful data others don't have, or you have better algorithms that others aren't using. When these become publicly known and used, your system doesn't work any more because the prices now includ
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by gkbrk 3y ago
So not only do they have the theoretical ability to publish their own code with your private key that has full access to your apps private data, they even do it in practice? They don't need to do any of this to keep your local data wit
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You can edit the conversation history though. You need to try alternative apps/UIs instead of the product websites like ChatGPT. Those are only for collecting more training data from users instead of being the most useful interface pos
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> they don't want to use the Play App Signing feature It's not a feature that you enable with a button and it's good to go. It's basically giving up control of your own app, even for people getting this app from non-G
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by gkbrk 3y ago
If you read 7 sentences further than the title, the author explain what they meant by "modern" CMake. > Not CMake 2.8 though; that was released before C++11 even existed! > Modern CMake. CMake 3.5+, maybe even CMake 3.28+ Su
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Discourse has terrible UX compared to other online forums and even mailing lists. Your claim that it's superior needs to clarify exactly what is superior about it.

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