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by grumbel 5y ago
The Playstation2 was produced for 13 years, Xbox360 for 11 years. The CPU I am having in my PC is 10 years old already as well. Long lifespan is not exactly impossible in tech. Also bringing up the original iPhone is a strawman, as that&#x2
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by grumbel 5y ago
> Why would you say the federation is snake oil? With federated services your are still just user@host, completely under the control of whoever owns host. Furthermore the federation aspect is completely optional, if host decides to black
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by grumbel 5y ago
Simple answer: It can't, since you don't own the server or the data on it. Long answer: It could be, if proper protocols and data structures would be employed that make it trivial to move the data off the server, mirror it or dual
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by grumbel 5y ago
The core issue isn't education, but that as a user you have little to no control over the recommendation system and the rest of the Youtube experience. So even if you hate clickbait and want to get rid of it, there is nothing that you
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by grumbel 5y ago
Sweeney seems to be pretty happy with it: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/141575567884990054...
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by grumbel 5y ago
Brave has IPFS support build-in and with every other browser you can still access it by using a public gateway, without installing anything. Even if you want the "full experience", it's quite easy as the go-ipfs daemon comes
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by grumbel 5y ago
That's already how it works in IPFS or Freenet. The hash is not for the data itself, but for a metadata document that contains a list of hashes to the data broken up into smaller blocks.
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by grumbel 6y ago
People wanted to export the AST and other stuff from GCC so they could use it in other tools (e.g. syntax highlighter, code search, etc.). But by including that functionality GCC would open itself up to be used by proprietary tools, as the
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by grumbel 6y ago
> Good, Popular, and Free The lack of federation, crippled data export and requirement for a phone number puts it into the "no good" category for me. Doesn't matter how much Open Source they throw around, what matters is h
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by grumbel 6y ago
> The "Uncanny Valley" only exists in two dimensions. The original Uncanny Valley hypothesis came out of robotics back in 1970, its application to computer graphics came decades later. I don't even think 2D vs 3D plays muc
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by grumbel 6y ago
If you give food to somebody who isn't hungry, it gets either trashed or they get fat. Neither are desirable outcomes. It also trashes the economy, since people will have a hard time selling foot when everybody already has some. It is
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by grumbel 6y ago
> What under UBI is preventing me from quitting my job and spending the rest of my life playing videogames? Nothing, except that UBI is a basic income, so you don't have the money for the latest and greatest gaming PC. You have en
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by grumbel 6y ago
Turing-completeness is not just a benefit, it also puts a huge maintenance cost on you. An S-expression is something you can edit in your level editor, process with a script or do a lot of fun stuff with. It's just data. You can even
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by grumbel 6y ago
I think the biggest failure of the open web is simply the lack of a "Publish" function. You can consume on the open web just fine, but for publishing you need to own a server, not just a client. That in turn gave growth to Youtube
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by grumbel 6y ago
The underlying problem isn't PDF, but the fact that HTML is still completely unsuited for long-form content. Really basic stuff like a proper markup-based TOC isn't a thing in a HTML. And on the browser side there are just as much
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by grumbel 6y ago
Yep, what I find surprising that despite plenty of advances in photogrammetry, 3D scanning and WebGL, I still have never have seen a single shopping site that actually shows me the real product (and the box) in high detail, preferably with
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by grumbel 6y ago
None of that loss of detail matters much once the image is scaled down to Internet-typical resolutions. Doesn't help that photographers often don't even give you access to the full resolution images, so even if you make use of one
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by grumbel 7y ago
Their "answer" misses the problem. A cloud solution running AGPL is not any more free than one that doesn't. The issue is Tivoization 2.0. The AGPL allows you to get the source, but since you don't own the server, you ca
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by grumbel 7y ago
> I do not get the impression that GNU opposes someone using software that runs on someone else's server machine in general. That's my impression as well, but to me that is an area where the FSF/GNU/RMS is fundamental
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by grumbel 7y ago
If github goes down you upload your repo to gitlab and are back in action within 5min. The issue isn't git, but the fact that github does a lot more than just git (issue tracking, push requests and so on) and all of that other stuff ce
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by grumbel 7y ago
For one I think the example doesn't really fit, as Linux binaries are much closer to modules than they are to plain functions, as each of those binaries has numerous command line flags to change it's behavior quite radically. Fun
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by grumbel 8y ago
Microsoft ran these ads in Germany back in 2000: http://xaharts.org/funny/i/Microsoft_Linux_ad.jpg Translation: An open operating system does not only have advantages An open operating system can mutate. With Wind
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by grumbel 10y ago
It's really hard to predict that stuff. People thought original Xbox emulation would be easy, since it was "essentially a PC", but it's the only console of that generation that still doesn't have a good emulator. Me
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by grumbel 10y ago
If you use an already established license people know what to expect and can easily reuse your work, do-it-yourself licenses frequently run into problems of being imprecise and needing further clarifications. A lot of jurisdictions also don
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by grumbel 10y ago
`scons` is very easy to start with: Program("main", ["main.cpp"]) The problems start once you want configure stages, build directories, portability and install targets, as all of those aspects are extremely lack
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by grumbel 12y ago
> Are you implying that by using Python 3 incorrectly you can run into unicode problems? The problem is that `print(some_string)` is now incorrect, even so it looks perfectly harmless. So far I haven't seen any "best practice&q
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by grumbel 12y ago
> We can all soon look forward to the day where we no longer have to play Unicode whack-a-mole I don't expect Unicode trouble to disappear with Python3, quite the opposite, it's trivially to insert ticking Unicode time bombs in