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by jrm4 11mo ago
All "Open Source" licenses are to an extent, janky. Obligatory "Stallman was right;" -- If it's not GPL/Free Software, YMMV.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
You're presently illustrating exactly why Stallman et al were such sticklers about "Free Software." "Open Source" is nebulous. It reasonably works here, for better or worse.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
For what it's worth, I 100% perfectly solved this problem for myself MANY years ago and still use it just about every day. On Android, it's called "Blitzmail," I'm pretty sure there's an Apple equivalent. Beaut
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by jrm4 11mo ago
I'm partial to the metaphor I made up: They are search engines that can remix results. I like this one because I think most modern folks have a usefully accurate model of what a search engine is in their heads, and also what "remi
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by jrm4 11mo ago
True, and I trust then that we look toward what actually fixes this, which is (boring) regulation and anti-trust work. It's been done before, time to revamp for a new generation.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Also consider koreader instead of the stock reader app.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Here's why this is silly: Most UI's are fundamentally dumbed down, they're only good for repetitive tasks. If you're doing any task that is non-repetitive enough such that the UI needs to change, what you really need o
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by jrm4 11mo ago
And that's fine if that's what YOU WANT TO DO. I respect that. The insufferables are those who are trying to dictate what I should do.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Be serious. Stormfront is not like Twitter.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
I am! That's the other part of this that makes these naysayers insufferable; you can use more than one. My twitter handle literally has my mastodon handle IN IT.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
The parallel I'm drawing here is that a lot of people threaten that when they don't really mean it, and more specifically, don't seem to think about why others don't. I still have people there, so I will stick around.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Thank you. Hey, I 100% respect anyones individual decision about the place FOR THEMSELVES. But a lot of people become absolutely insufferable when they try to dictate why this should be the case for someone else, I absolutely hate the fr
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Bad idea. Love it or hate it, Twitter (yeah, I choose to be stubborn here) is still probably overwhelmingly the most impactful platform in this way. While I respect the idea of the "boycott" in the abstract, perhaps the most wrong
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Why not Jayscript? I see that there's something called that related to javascript already, but like -- very similar spelling, ".js" still works, we lose the Java confusion etc etc.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Yeah, but those perceived strengths and weaknesses I'd say more often than not end up being non-issues i.e. popular chatter about whether a language is good or not and how it is used in real life pretty much never line up. And my guess
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by jrm4 11mo ago
No, but as I said elsewhere -- it feels like a possible, perhaps likely, case that "personal preferences in programming and style" become significantly less relevant.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Right, but lets keep that analogy going, it's a good one. One can envision perhaps a future where, e.g. the majority of people (everywhere) don't drive cars because of public transport + Waymos. In that world, issues surrounding &
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Hey, so, as an old-timer (who has paid for regular old hosting for almost 30 years) whats going on here? Specifically: Is it that a whole lot of you are deploying things that require the heavy lifting of a CDN -- or is it that you're j
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Anyone else feeling like discussions like this feel archaic? due to Generative AI? For all its problems, the presence of AI feels like it should solve some of these quibbles for the vast majority of people who program. I can't quite
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by jrm4 11mo ago
"Reliably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting; I'm aware that with a combination of all the netstats and pings and nmaps there are ways to poke around.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Yeah, and I think often it's not hard to see the historical intersection with power; a lot of the Christian stuff has to do with preserving the churches power. Seems like today's stuff is in line with the combination of an extreme
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Fantastic, more of this. I don't know if I'm just missing it or what, but I'd love a GUI thing that showed all the devices on my network maybe even with a graph view. I'm using an Eero router out of laziness and even it
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by jrm4 11mo ago
You're fighting an impossible battle. Oscar Wilde nailed this one: Everything is about sex except sex, which is about power.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Whatever the direct cause, as an older person who grew up Catholic, quite literally the most surprising thing in life for me to discover: Sexual repression emphatically cannot be strongly blamed on religion. And I'm not mentioning th
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by jrm4 11mo ago
This is pure paranoia; none of this requires a centralized bad guy.
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Nothing in this thread about "this should not have happened because Cloudflare is too centralized?" We have far better ideas and working prototypes in terms of how to prevent this from happening again to be up here trying to &qu
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by jrm4 11mo ago
Excellent take; this is like saying "being an amazing chef is devalued because McDonalds exists."
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by jrm4 11mo ago
No. You're both about 50% correct; what's making everything weird is that the things associated with "hacking" transitioned from "completely optional side hobby" to "fundamental basis of the economy, both
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by jrm4 11mo ago
"Dignifies work done by developers?" Hmm. No. Not really. I don't think "hacker" ever much meant this at all; mostly because "hacker" never actually was much connected to "labor for money." &quo
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by jrm4 11mo ago
"Hacker" of course, has overwhelmingly mostly lost the plot. Especially here, but elsewhere too. "Hacker" was a recognition that there existed a crusty old entrenched system (mostly not through any fault of any individua

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