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by jrm4 2y ago
I'll bet a dollar that none of this ends up being particularly viable. Feels like an "anti-Photoshop" company; whatever means you might like or want to exist re defending this sort of thing will lose in an arms race. This is
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by jrm4 2y ago
I feel like I ought to be able to plead the "porn definition" thing here. YOU KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT, COME ON. :) (fair question, I'd have to think about it some more)
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by jrm4 2y ago
EAGLE MODE I'd kill for a modern version of eaglemode https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
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by jrm4 2y ago
Missed the most important. "You can have meaningful security without skin-in-the-game." This is literally the beginning and end of the problem.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Doubt it; it's utterly naive and wishful thinking to think that those two things are easily separable; it's never as simple as Good Guys wear White, Bad Guys wear Black, which is the level of intelligence this idea operates at.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Fine if you like it, but this is literally the first I've ever heard of anyone suggesting that GNOME 3 was a favorable continuation of GNOME 2; you hear that far more about MATE.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Oh, this is excellent. A perfect sort of unwitting confirmation of all the things us GNOME complainers complain about. Just generally pointless wheel reinvention that would be fine, except that GNOME gets artificially propped up.
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by jrm4 2y ago
My current gut idea is that all of these discussions are woefully incomplete without "following the money" (and or power?) For example, I don't think you can adequately explain GNOME's "popularity" without taki
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by jrm4 2y ago
This is sarcasm, right?
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by jrm4 2y ago
My guess is that it breaks important edge cases that we're not thinking of typically? I'm reminded of trying to fiddle with Widevine on the Raspberry Pi because there was no good reason for it not to be a solid media player.
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by jrm4 2y ago
That's funny, I'm a heavy user of syncthing but never thought to try this. It doesn't get weird opening different executables on different machines?
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by jrm4 2y ago
Ha, I'm showing my age. You're right, my brain is still at "Linux around the year 2000." That being said, it's still the same problem. And I think that's why I find it odd that I haven't heard the argument
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by jrm4 2y ago
Oh, of course, they exist. But my guess is that's the extreme minority, and I was making suggestions in the realm of "We seem to be doing math badly in general population education, what to do about it?"
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by jrm4 2y ago
Make Stuff I think is one. But probably, greed/money would be the other. Now, that's probably a whole other conversation, given the propensity that "capitalism" or whatever one wants to call it is pretty much dedicated t
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by jrm4 2y ago
This might be a good place to ask this: So, the idea of Firefox Sync is almost cool, but what I'd like is literally everything EXACTLY "synced," down to the current state of every tab. Something like this feels like it shou
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by jrm4 2y ago
Always an odd argument? Sometimes software is just finished. Shoutout to Openbox
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by jrm4 2y ago
Even funnier, I have a bunch of rando computers and servers, some with friends and family with different distros...and at any given time, I'm not sure which I'm using. (Which I suppose means that Wayland has matured a lot..finally
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by jrm4 2y ago
At the risk of threadjacking, I'd still love to have a real conversation about how and why this Wayland thing happened (and is still arguably happening) so badly . Specifically, how -- again, in LINUX-LAND -- a whole bunch of people
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by jrm4 2y ago
I mean, this sort of generally describes a lot of academia.
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by jrm4 2y ago
The older I get the more I believe (realize) the issue with math really is 100% skin-in-the-game. When they're young, I suppose you can force memorization on them, but very quickly: If an individual has no immediate percieved use for t
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by jrm4 2y ago
Sure, it's the appreciation that there are unknowns and how to treat them. As you know, the best SCIENTISTS aren't 100% sure about very much. Reverence and wonder can cut across it all.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Upvote, though I'm not a fan of "can't comprehend" But broadly, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's work changed my thinking a bit on when I see people doing brave (and/or perhaps goddamn stupid) stuff like this. Skin in t
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by jrm4 2y ago
As I get older, this seems obvious to me; the idea of a scientist who's also to some extent religious makes just as much sense, maybe more, than a strongly atheist one -- especially given, that historically, religion and science were
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by jrm4 2y ago
You know you're in trouble when even GOLDMAN SACHS is like "maybe this thing is a bubble"
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by jrm4 2y ago
Your end point I think is exactly right. I think your first one is getting downvoted hard because your first sentence is not at all how any of this works. Sucking down personal data isn't JUST a bad idea for privacy, it's actually
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by jrm4 2y ago
At the risk of sounding like an old head; Seems to me then, priority one should be "free and open source all the models as hard as possible, so that EVERYONE can fine-tune." (This being a subset of the idea of, free / open so
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by jrm4 2y ago
There is no essential difference that makes Linux From Scratch not a distribution. None. Some distros come with a lot of stuff. Some with very little. That it can be used to make another distro has NO BEARING on this. What would you call
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by jrm4 2y ago
I've seen nothing to indicate that your definition of "distro" is THAT restrictive. I'm confident saying a linux distro is anything with a linux kernel that you can slap on bare metal or a VM system and get something up
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by jrm4 2y ago
That doesn't make it not a distro, that makes it a different kind of a distro. I'm not sure if we've had ones that absolutely had no package manager, but we've definitely had TONS for which the intent ISN'T installi
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by jrm4 2y ago
Am as skeptical of this as I am of 'serverless' which also doesn't mean much and isn't true. What does this actually mean and why do they hide it behind a nonsensical term?

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