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by growse 6y ago
In a free society with free markets, you are free to oppose antyhing that a business does that you don't agree with. You have many existing mechanisms for expressing that disagreement, including protest, and starting your own business
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by growse 6y ago
There's a difference between discriminating against people's immutable identities (ie black people) and people's choices. I can't kick you out of my bar for being black, but I can kick you out for being loud.
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by growse 6y ago
So you think eBay should be forced to host ads selling it?
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by growse 6y ago
But the trigger for the run in defined in the workflow file . So even if you have a workflow that requires a manual trigger, I can just fork, and create a PR that updates that trigger to be `pull_request` and the workflow will run as soon
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by growse 6y ago
What would stop someone submitting a PR that updates the workflow trigger to run immediately? It feels like this in more of a fundamental problem with "Putting your CI definition alongside your code". I seem to remember that a CI
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by growse 6y ago
Is anyone using self-hosted runners with public git repos? Github's advice is not to do this because it effectively allows anyone who can open a PR to run untrusted code on your infra. I figure this must be an easily solved problem, bu
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by growse 6y ago
Isn't that true of every open source project?
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by growse 6y ago
> To me Telegram is better even from a privacy point. Sure, if someone breaks into the Telegram servers can read you messages, but to me that isn't the first privacy concern. For a lot of people, that's exactly the concern. &gt
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by growse 6y ago
> That then means you can't communicate with others running the normal Signal client. Signal is not a federated protocol. You also can't communicate with WhatsApp users directly either. If your fork of Signal in better, then yo
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by growse 6y ago
What's the benefit to me of increasing my pension provider's costs, therefore making me worse off in my retirement? When we talk about "increased spreads" everyone pays the costs of that. What's the upside?
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by growse 6y ago
If the users aren't willing to fork, then having them run away to osx (where, by the way, everything is also imposed on you) doesn't seem that great of a loss. Part of the joy of open source are the freedoms it gives you, includin
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by growse 6y ago
You're going to have to fill in some of the blanks explaining how paying someone to deliver a share 2 days from now is fraud but paying someone to deliver coffee 6 months from now isn't. How about if you sell a share that you boug
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by growse 6y ago
Is a future contract fraudulent then? If I sell you an August-settled coffee future, that's a promise to deliver you coffee in August. Is it fraudulent if I don't have the coffee right now? After all, I've sold you something
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by growse 6y ago
Fraud requires intent to deceive. Where's the intent to deceive in short selling?
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by growse 6y ago
Good point, I was just considering the messaging part. It'd be useful to be able to opt out of contact discovery, as I'm not sure you can do this on the current client.
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by growse 6y ago
Do people not realise that lots of single actors have power over all their communications°? Their ISP, for instance. ° Let's gloss over the fact that all here is hyperbole, unless you use a single mechanism / medium for communic
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by growse 6y ago
> And who knows if it's actually the software they deploy too. The whole literal point of the protocol is so that you don't have to trust the server , assuming you trust the client and protocol.
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by growse 6y ago
I can download, run, study, modify/fork and redistribute both the client and server software, so I'm not sure what freedom is missing.
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by growse 6y ago
If you read the link, what's discouraged is using the non official client to connect to the Signal service, or using the "Signal" name on something that isn't produced / run by OWS. There's nothing there about
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by growse 6y ago
The software is free...?
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by growse 6y ago
> But what would happen if Signal would ever stop being benevolent? You fork it.
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by growse 6y ago
> Sure, we're all just talking about our personal experiences. I just haven't run into the problems you describe. I use virtual environments to keep my system installation clean, and PostgreSQL / Nginx are so stable that t
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by growse 6y ago
> Signal would grow immensely in my eyes if they made the server code open source [SEE EDIT], and allowed an easy way to set the centralised server address in the Signal app. The current server would be the default, and perhaps changing
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by growse 6y ago
> There is a reason high frequency trading is typically referred to as legal front running. Sure, it's not front running by legal definition, but in practice it is absolutely front running. Beating trades to the market and making mi
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by growse 6y ago
Remember when WhatsApp were all "Yes, we're being bought by Facebook, but we're going to preserve your privacy"? https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight At some point, words become meaningl
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by growse 6y ago
Sure, you can potentially innovate faster, but unless you've got a good way of enforcing your changes on the whole network, one of two things happen. Either you either end up forking the network into multiple islands or building some c
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by growse 6y ago
Plenty of businesses compete with AWS just fine. Looking at Elastic Co's financials, they also appear to be competing just fine. If they tell you they're not, what they're actually saying is that they've chosen a poor bu
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by growse 6y ago
> >AWS is competing too well with Elastic's hosted ES > AWS is too big to really be competing fairly. They have vendor lockin on customers, an enormous war chest they can (and have) used for predatory pricing and they control,
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by growse 6y ago
Oh, I agree, durability and reliability are important, and it can be harder to get those right using plastics. Personally, I enjoy the fact that every single part on my Sennheiser HD25's can be replaced easily, and they're made of
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by growse 6y ago
Their point (I think) is that plastic is a better material choice in this context. The original assertion that one product in better because they use "premium materials" like "metal" falls into the same trap of "Thi

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