gnomewascool

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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> what arguments exactly do you feel could not legally be expressed in a modern first-world democracy, that actually should be expressed? Many people use “free speech” to describe more than what is covered by the First Amendment in the U
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
AFACT, the strongest argument in favour of the removal of RMS is by Thomas Bushnell[0]. The best counter-argument to that, which I could find, is by Thomas Lord[1][2]. I haven't found any replies to the latter. (There's also the m
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> - Ubuntu failed (I hear a community is still continuing with the SW, but not sure whether it runs on any phone HW) Yes, it's a community effort and yes it does run on actual hardware.[0][1] A Nexus 5 is probably most stable. All t
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
(Further devolving into off-topic:) What I don't understand is why they moved from BSD+Patents to MIT, and not to pure BSD, by just removing the Patents file, which would be the obvious step?
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> This is the same kind of logic that taxes private company stock gains on vesting even if the stock isn't sellable, if the "official" value at vest exceeds the grant value. I'm not a financial specialist, but googlin
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/664
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
To anybody put off by the clickbaity title, as I initially was — the article is actually informative and well-written.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
For the lazy, the doi is 10.1038/s41586-019-1335-8 if you want to add it to your bibliographies. Obviously, don't use the doi for any illegal purposes, such as getting around the paywall.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Porting XFCE applications (Thunar etc.) to GTK3 indeed gives automatic (or near-automatic) Wayland support. This means that XFCE applications will run natively (without XWayland) in Wayland compositors (such as sway, GNOME or KDE). However,
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> I don't think mozilla is as privacy oriented as HN would make you think. > * They pushed ad/extension for a TV show to everyone I assume you're talking about the "mr robot" thing here as well. One can accus
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Mir is actually still alive and being developed at Canonical. Ubuntu phone (the software stack of Mir and Unity8, running on Ubuntu, on phones, as opposed to a phone backed by Canonical) is still alive, usable and arguably the most mature o
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Great! You can donate to OpenSSH[0], whose "funding is generally done via the same donation framework" as the rest of OpenBSD, to which you can donate either directly[1] or via the OpenBSD Foundation[2]. If you're serious abo
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
No. If you're found violating the GPL, then you have some time (which I don't remember off the top of my head) to provide the source; if you don't do that you'll be treated as having infringed any generic copyright — bei
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
A large portion of programming books are still under neither a FOSS nor a CC license, and hence fully protected by copyright. (I've encountered some where the main text of the book is not under a FOSS license, while the code is, but th
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
You obviously won't die from not watching Game of Thrones. However, depending on your circle of friends and acquaintances, you might be excluded from social interactions. This can range from not getting occasional references, to not be
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Not quite — if you run Firefox nightly you can develop and use "webextension experiments", which have the same power as the old pre-webextension Firefox addons. If you wish, you can also apply to have your experiment be turned int
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
What's even weirder is that a significant proportion of Mozilla's developers use Macs as their main platform (if I recall correctly the most popular platforms are Linux, then Macs and Windows a very distant third).
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Further off-topic (from the main thread), but your blog Atom feed[0] seems to be slightly broken, due to an un-escaped, literal ampersand on line 687 (Tufte style sidenotes & marginnotes in Pollen). Presumably, it's a hakyll bug, a
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Off-topic: Your book looks lovely, very much in the style of practicaltypography.com. Perhaps I'll follow along, despite being, as you put it, a "cryptocurrency skeptic". I'm not sure if fixing this would look better tha
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Yes, but by default uMatrix might be overly strict for many people. For instance, by default it blocks all third-party javascript.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
If you use uMatrix, you can easily block the localhost and local network "sniffing" with the following rule[0]: * 127 * block ### block access to IPv4 localhost 127.x.x.x * localhost * block * [::1] * block
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> This is not helpful, because only an extremely small proportion of Web users run NoScript, and nor should they have to. Most (non-technical) Web users also don't run their own web servers, so they aren't affected. Among tech
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
If you believe that "intellectual property" is a "thing" (as many people do) then you may consider China's behaviour in this area (obtaining trade secrets illicitly, or forcing companies to reveal them as a conditio
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Why, in principle, would it not be possible for us to design an AGI, that would have care for our (all sentient beings') welfare or care for the investors' profit as (one of) its core goal(s)? To make a biological comparison, the
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Git signatures are designed for cryptographic security, and they (currently) rely on the SHA-1 hashes. When you're signing a commit (or a tag) you're just signing the commit (or tag) message which includes the SHA-1 hash of the
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
I haven't used it, but there's idyll[0], which was used, among other things, to make an excellent interactive article about the JPEG format[1]. [0] https://idyll-lang.org/ [1] https://parametric.press&#
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Interesting. Presumably that means that all of the ipfs.io domain is blocked(?). You could try it on some other IPFS gateways. For instance: https://ipfs.jes.xxx/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQk... or https:&#x
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
There's an IPFS mirror of English Wikipedia[0], as well as several others[1], though not the Chinese one[2]. It's currently not a particularly up-to-date mirror, though (from late 2016). [0] https://ipfs.io/ipfs&#x
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Free Software enthusiasts can't advocate against copyright You're right that we can't advocate for just eliminating copyright, without shooting ourselves in the foot. However, eliminating copyright, combined with, say, a
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Since the link to the paper, at the end of the article, is subtly broken (at least for me), here are the links to the abstract and directly to the PDF: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531 https

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