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by jordigh 6y ago
RMS is not free software, and it's very distressing that people think he is. This is a cult of personality.
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by jordigh 6y ago
The FSF has never said that free software must be copylefted. The article itself says that De Icaza and Stallman agreed that open source and free software are the same set of software and the only difference is the intent of the person who
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by jordigh 6y ago
> If you can’t examine the source code, then some bad actor might provide you some executable software that has evil baked in, and you wouldn’t be able to tell — whereas the bad actor would not be able get away with such nefariousness if
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by jordigh 6y ago
Emacs is an elisp execution environment that by default executes some elisp that is useful for editing text. Vim is... a text editor.
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by jordigh 6y ago
Hm, there's nethack-mode, but that's not what you mean, is it? You want a framework for building roguelikes, not for playing a particular one?
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by jordigh 6y ago
A lot of those usages of "open source" mean something different, totally unrelated to software. The word "source" there often doesn't mean source code, but more like sources of information, like when you cite your s
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by jordigh 6y ago
Nah, Twitter just seems full of leftists to you because you use the "both sides" or "what about" argument, a common conservative talking point. You think arguments like hey, let's use a word like "latinx"
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by jordigh 6y ago
Ah yes, false equivalences. However, the current state of affairs is more like far left far right <----------------------------------------> [Overton Window]
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by jordigh 6y ago
I was gonna skip replying to this but > How about gender affirming treatment for kids who cannot physically know what sexuality properly is because they haven't been through puberty? Someone's a bit off their gender role? Tombo
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by jordigh 6y ago
Because the only defense they constantly employ for saying atrocious things is that it's not literally illegal to say them. It's not literally illegal to be racist, it's not literally illegal to be xenophobic, it's not l
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by jordigh 6y ago
I like it because it was so easy to implement and it worked well, unless your objective function had very narrow and steep valleys. I don't know if it's popular, heheh, it's been a while since I've been in maths school,
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by jordigh 6y ago
Is the Nelder-Mead a.k.a. the other simplex method any good? I remember most of these other methods from my optimisation lessons, but I'm surprised to not see Nelder-Mead in this list.
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by jordigh 6y ago
I just wanted internet money, not a speculative financial instrument. :(
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by jordigh 6y ago
I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. Amazon, unlike say, Google, does not disclose their carbon emissions. Like at all . It is important to have this information public, for the sake of our planet. Amazon gets an F for disclosu
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Jujube: An experimental VCS inspired by Mercurial and Git(github.com)
3 points by jordigh 6y ago|0 comments
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Is it normal to love math but not enjoy programming?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by jordigh 6y ago|1 comments
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by jordigh 6y ago
> I hope that the DMCA takedown issue can be resolved reasonably, I don't think it can be solved on Github. "GitHub’s CEO suggested that YouTube-DL won’t be reinstated in its original form. But, the software may be able to retu
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by jordigh 6y ago
As much as I would like this to be true, copyright doesn't have to be defended in order to be kept. That's a very different law, trademarks. You can have your copyright infringed for decades before you try to prosecute the infring
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by jordigh 6y ago
I'm very scared by this. youtube-dl needs somewhat frequent updates as Google moves the youtube codebase around. I'm worried that the RIAA's next move, now that it's starting to get inconvenient to get youtube-dl, will b
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by jordigh 6y ago
Stallman was hesitant but in favour of this. He called it selling exceptions. His reasoning is that selling exceptions merely permits someone else to create non-free software, but that weak free licenses like the MIT license already allows
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by jordigh 6y ago
Oh, Octave is still doing GSoC. I just haven't been involved with it in a while. I guess it's still working for someone else, glad to hear it's gotten better.
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by jordigh 6y ago
Google's Summer of Code was a little annoying too. You'd get this wave of Indians, where GSoC is extremely popular, asking you what they could do for you if they knew some C++. It was a lot of work to deal with their applications
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by jordigh 6y ago
Don't you? A few years ago I wanted to figure out how to cross-compile into macOS without ever actually using macOS. Is that possible now?
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by jordigh 6y ago
You are free to run our hypotheticlly AGPLed nginx for whatever purpose you want. You can serve a military website or an online shop from our hypothetically AGPLed nginx. There are no limitations on usage. You are the user as long as you ar
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by jordigh 6y ago
You seem to have trouble understanding that copyright is irrelevant to determining who the users of the software are. The users are the ones using the software. That there is a network between them and the software they're using is irr
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by jordigh 6y ago
You seem to have trouble understanding that you are not the user of nginx: the users who visit your website and use nginx to serve files to themselves are the users. Does it make sense now?
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by jordigh 6y ago
No. It's not a requirement on users anymore than the GPL requiring you to distribute corresponding source on CDs was a requirement on users. Morally and legally, the distribution medium does not make a difference. When you make the sof
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by jordigh 6y ago
> Then there is also the AGPL, which isn't a Free Software license, but rather an end-user license agreement (EULA), because it violates Freedom Zero: the freedom to use software however you want. If you have this opinion of the AGP
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FSF Heroes(static.fsf.org)
23 points by jordigh 6y ago|3 comments
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by jordigh 6y ago
Excel is older than many of us, so yeah, having it around for our whole lives does really make it seem like a law of nature. Sooner or later, all data ends up in Excel. I don't like it at all, but that's what happens. As for this

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