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by jrm4 6mo ago
Linus Torvalds. Richard Stallman. GNU and the GPL. As a bit of an old-timer, I literally don't know exactly where to start a new conversation on this in a place like this; for me the obviousness of the theoretical and practical superio
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by jrm4 6mo ago
It shouldn't make you sad , it should make you curious. Broadly, I've observed that there's way way way too little discussion of the extent to which money and power, somewhat behind the scenes, can be thrown at what feels li
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by jrm4 6mo ago
My big picture take here; this is precisely why bitcoin itself could perhaps go to zero, and yet other cryptocurrencies could survive, aka the so-called "flippening." It may come to pass that "proof-of-work" was merely a
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I mean, as I've somewhat said above, I do donate to Mozilla for a direct-but-big reason. Overall, I find their work VERY important. I acknowledge that they've never been perfect, but I've watched what they've done for
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by jrm4 6mo ago
"If you get value from Thunderbird" I'm reading this and I'm feeling like, maaan, I wish you hadn't asked me that. So, compare to Mozilla (which apparently they're not with anymore?) I actively use Firefox and
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Ooh, I like this argument a lot. Right now I'm thinking a good analogy is, you live in a gated community, but the locks on your house and your ring camera are fine -- but your overly annoying gate system makes it hard for people or del
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by jrm4 6mo ago
No. The existence of actually dangerous bootkits in relation to ease of use of UEFI, ease of prevention, likelihood and magnitude of harm of said bootkits and adverse secondary problems when UEFI is used.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Sure. Now, of the people who buy houses -- how many of them would find this a difficult or onerous task? And then, do computers . Apples and oranges here, for this point.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
It is absolutely not. It's a decent one for "locks on an apartment building that someone else owns." But no, purchasing a house ought not include by default "a set of locks that you must work around, permission-wise.&quo
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Secure Boot provides no useful security for an individual user on the machine they own, and as such should be disabled by default. If you want to enable it for enterprise/business situations, thats fine, but one should be clear about t
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I love this point, but also it seems to me that "not understanding the difference between a skyscraper and a shed" is perhaps the biggest barrier to thinking and talking about software development in general. Like, "is vibeco
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Courage with consequences, yes.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
It buried the more important point, one tech hasn't learned yet. Taste may be kind of important because it helps toward the truly important thing, which is skin-in-the-game. But also, with the right skin-in-the-game, you don't eve
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Yup, pretty sure there are no licenses that say "you must upstream," just "if you upstream, do it openly."
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by jrm4 6mo ago
This definitely reminds me of a lot of Nassim Taleb's work, which to say -- Anthropic may not be behaving intelligently but they are at least somewhat behaving honorably, -- if you're going to put out a dangerous product, a mo
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Ha, I've literally never heard of bottom, and haven't looked it up yet, but it's just kind of funny doing Linux/Unix forever and knowing almost exactly what it must be about, just given the name. I'll edit this if
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I mean, this kind of just feels like reasonable criticism of HN worded a bit oddly.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I'm not sure if it's irony or what, but I personally realized how absolutely goofy MCP is when I vibecoded with gemini in like 2 seconds a quite reasonable bash agent (for use with my local llama stuff.) There's really not mu
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Because, and I cannot stress this enough: Programming languages (and the like) are for humans , not for computers or for creating formal systems. Understanding this simple fact will save you (and by you I mean me and the type of people who
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Great example of "what works for you" I think - I'm in the camp of: I did multiple monitors for a long time, and probably my best productivity thing was switching to one AND ONLY ONE big enough 4k. Basically allows me to swi
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by jrm4 6mo ago
This plus accountability is the way; and what I think I mean here is "accountability for those who choose to USE (maybe not create) the software in a way that may be harmful." If you'd like to push that accountability to the
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I think generally agree, except it ain't even as deep as "ideology," it's just clicks and algorithms...
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Anecdotally, that literally only one of my college age students knew about the Moon mission was wild. I genuinely now believe that a real barrier to (the terrible idea of) reinstating the draft is that it would actually be difficult to fi
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Is this related to that thing where somehow the entire damn world forgot about the power of boolean (and other precise) searching?
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Do y'all mean backend or the Ollama frontend or both? I find it trivially easy to sub in my local Ollama api thing in virtually all of the interesting frontend things. I'm quite curious about the "why not Ollama" here.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Ollama user with the opposite question -- why not? What am I missing out on? I'm using it as the backend for playing with other frontend stuff and it seems to work just fine. And as someone running at 16gb card, I'm especially cur
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Didn't even think about that. Interesting.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Yeah, it feels like the real lede here may not be "Andressen is a soulless weirdo" but "It's very clear that a lot of our tech 'leaders' are soulless weirdos, which is why this feels like a good explanation of

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