gnomewascool

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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Unlike all the software you listed, it's open source and can be self-hosted in a way that you can be relatively confident that you're running what you intended to run?
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
CMD + Q is a two-key command, so presumably the warning will still be present.
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
What about rights like the right to freedom from slavery or torture which, on the one hand, are about things not being done to you, but on the other may depend on third parties (for instance a government) from preventing people from doing t
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Who is to provide, say, "a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family", which is also a basic human right, as listed by the original (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights[0]? The
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
"Money-wasters" like FirefoxOS were a gamble to get onto the mobile phone bandwagon, to reduce Google's Android/Chrome moat. If they had worked, it'd have been a huge gain both for Firefox and for users. > And th
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
GNOME's attitude isn't caused by them seeking to monetise their software or invigilate their users (e.g. "we say that we're not adding/changing this feature because X, but _really_ we're not doing so because it
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
> Doesn't every good have some level of money required to be able to afford it? Yes, of course. The point here is that a carbon tax further skews the situation in favour of the rich. We, as a society, accept the current situation as
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
However, by that argument, we should just impose a high tax on all combustion engine cars, or perhaps simply introduce an appropriate carbon tax, instead of banning the combustion engine. Some of the reasons we don't want to do that ar
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
I don't think that the GPL gives much more protection than any other FOSS license, here, in practice. If Copilot were to reproduce a larger part of, say, an MIT-licensed codebase or almost any other permissive licence, then they should
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
I understand your frustration — I've similarly been bitten by some changes to Firefox; however please do remember that Thunderbird is developed by a small team with limited funds and adding or even maintaining configurability is expens
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
> but they've been changing things for no good reason and breaking the UI/UX because of it. The reason is the underlying Gecko engine being constantly yanked from under them — they rely on parts of Firefox's codebase and w
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
> They’re doing a free upgrade for W10 users > *Look for PCs that indicate they are eligible for the free upgrade, or you can check with your retailer for more information. Are they, though?
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Not really, not if the CSV contains quoted newlines.
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Are FOSS "donations" for on-going or past work, though? I'd lean towards a mixture of both. However, by that measure the original creator should also be compensated for their past work, given that they wrote about an order of
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
> Is there a license that falls under Linus's SECOND bucket, that solves the patent issue? Apache 2.0 License.
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
RMS's stance is that "they" is not a grammatically valid singular pronoun, so he'll not use it. If somebody told you that their preferred pronoun was "we", I doubt you'd use it. > not every transgender
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
Yes, the vast majority of people, including me, would disagree with that. However, why is somebody holding these opinions a show-stopper? One could argue that that's because in many cases somebody holding these opinions is a "dog
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> That’s the kind of thing they should have put front and centre, because it completely changes the narrative. Does it? I think that the heuristics about an occupier being bad are less useful than usual. The territory was occupied just a
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
In principle it makes sense. An issue is that R&D is a fixed cost rather than a variable cost, so determining how the R&D costs are to be split among AZ's customers is pretty hard and potentially prone to abuse. Are they to be
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
How does that square with AZ charging SA "nearly 2.5 times higher than most European countries"?[0][1] The Guardian claims that an official claimed that they were told by AZ that the discrepancy is due to European countries having
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> that the blog post announcing it makes one of the most basic mistakes of writing text online Your comment is a valid criticism of the Open Collective website (if you at all feel like it, please send it directly to them — see the bottom
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> while apparently using an open-source app you didn't build yourself does. Assuming that the app can be reproducibly built, then yes, using an open-source app does give you more confidence that it's secure. For a closed-source
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
I find it sad that Threema whose apps are free (as in freedom, which is the important part), is explicitly disqualified for not being free (as in free beer).
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
How is that a smoking gun? It connects with a tracker, which might be used to help distribute copyrighted works illegally, but also any other types of files. It's possible I'm not getting your sarcasm.
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
I've looked at all the "infringing" files that they link to, from a bundled zip download from the web archive, and I don't see anything that's "preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> So what happens if gorhill's account is hacked or he gets tired of working on the extension and sells it to the highest bidder? Approximately the same as would happen if the developer of a traditional Windows* application were hac
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
Yes, I totally agree that Manifest V3 solves some real problems — in the case of many webextensions, I would welcome the ability to manually control which domains the extension can run in. However, the move to Manifest V3 also involves curt
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
I'm not OP, but what is "real life"? In cases where some communities/countries have (to quote from the article) a "smaller linguistic footprint online", is trying to control for this a form of manipulation of s
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
If you have a Wikipedia account, you can go to Preferences > Appearance[0], and choose a different skin. AFAICT "Monobook" and "modern" have unlimited content width. If you don't then you can append ?useskin=mode
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> Now:tap tabs icon on top. Tap new tab thats on the other side of display You can long-press the tabs icon on top, which is slightly more convenient. (No, it's not obvious.) > Im about to start looking for another browser soon,

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