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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> Instead of having to retype boilerplate code, your productivity is now enhanced by having a system that can do it for you We already invented something for that a couple decades ago, and it's called a "library". And unli
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
That would be a legal no-op. Either their use is covered by copyright and they are violating your license, or it isn't covered by copyright and then any constraints that your license sets are meaningless. Licenses hold no power out
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> These types of contracts are actually quite common, for example an employment contract will almost certainly include an IP grant clause. In the US, maybe. In most of the rest of the world, these sorts of overreaching "we own every
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> training ML systems on public data is fair use Uh, I very much doubt that. Is there any actual precedent on this? > We expect that IP and AI will be an interesting policy discussion around the world in the coming years, and we'
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> if that did happen; I have not looked into the author's claims, nor do I follow the BSNES/Higan community Perhaps you shouldn't be trying to "both sides" this, then.
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This is false. The specification allows for you to define custom event types and fields in most places, and even specifies the naming conventions for doing so. There exists no requirement for it to be absorbed into the Matrix specification
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
A much better option is Consent-o-Matic, which will reject cookies for you automatically.
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> Which is something we came to accept and assume for interpreted languages (Python, Ruby, Node, etc.) Tangential, but: - "Node" isn't a language, it's a JS runtime - There's no such thing as an "interpreted
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No. Both use some form of double-ratchet for E2EE, but the messaging protocol itself is completely incompatible.
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> I hope there's a good postmortem on this in 5-10 years that explains what on earth all this nonsense is about, because it makes literally no sense. I wouldn't hold out much hope for that. Even for those of us who are directly
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> A LLC has enough papers to prove that they own Freenode Actually they almost certainly don't. But they don't need to, either; they can just suppress the staff through legal threats, because lawsuits are expensive. Whether t
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
> But most people just don't care about the platform they chat through. People love to throw this sentiment around literally every time any kind of platform does something shitty, and it's certainly very effective at demotivati
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
That's how I started out with openSUSE + Nix, but I quickly found that I still had to learn about most of Nix's quirks, while only getting a small part of the benefits (namely, not the system configuration). It may be worth it if
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
The old Code of Conduct seems to have moved to https://docs.fosshost.org/en/home/mutual-respect-policy . Doesn't seem to be linked from the new CoC, though.
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The early adopters were considerably more varied than just "anarcho"-capitalists.
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You're actually almost right. While Bitcoin was launched with lofty goals, it was pretty quickly overtaken by capitalist vultures who saw a low-regulation industry to extract money from people. Importantly though, it's not an ei
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Considering that almost all legitimate users have been priced out of the market due to ever-increasing transaction fees and increasingly draconian regulations (often stricter than for non-cryptocurrency) and the resulting interoperability i
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In fact, he was explicitly warned of this exact outcome by me and undoubtedly various others, back when we were still hoping that this could be solved with diplomacy. I think it's in the published logs, even.
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The GDPR applies regardless of where the company is, so long as the requester is an EU resident.
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> I can understand how the new Freenode doesn't want to get half-filled with such zombified channels. Then maybe they shouldn't have done a hostile takeover, and actually worked with the community instead.
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I do believe he was truthful about his intentions. But his ego has gotten in the way of realizing that his approach is wrong, and is causing harm.
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
My read of the situation is that Ariadne was more or less correct; running Freenode was a childhood dream for Andrew, he mistakenly believed he could get there with money and strongarming, the community rejected him and refused to provide v
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
They're not actually duplicate rules, even if they look like it. To simplify things: The rule that was removed: - Hate speech is not allowed The rules that are still there: - Hate speech is discouraged - Illegal hate speech is not
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by joepie91_ 5y ago
I'm guessing that he's now going to claim that the policy change he instituted 5 hours ago that allows him to do this[1] has always been there. [1] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/c
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Policy Update(github.com)
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This is indicative of the broader problem: whereas the former staff treated Freenode as a community resource of which they were stewards (hence also the policy around abandoned channels), the new administration is clearly treating it as the
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> But apparently the staff was indeed forced to hand the keys over on their way out and start from scratch instead of just standing up the same data on another DNS and doing a blockchain style split. Why this happened seems to be IRC dra
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There were actually plenty of concerns about the PIA involvement and logo at the time, but they were largely dismissed by others with the usual "what are you complaining about, it's just business" rhetoric. And that's ho
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I do commercial FOSS work without an NDA just fine. Seems it might just be a problem on your side...
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It's worth noting that, unlike the integral chatlogs published earlier displaying Andrew's questionable views on Freenode, this PDF is full of heavily-snipped logs without context.

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