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by kick 6y ago
Why not? The publishers win a judgement for a value that exceeds that of the IA's total assets, and all of the IA's infrastructure gets seized and auctioned off in the bankruptcy proceedings. The data is backed up in many ways (
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by kick 6y ago
I'll take the last line first, because my response flows better if I tackle it reverse-chronologically. Why do you feel entitled to the product of that work for free? I buy physical copies of all of my books; I used to be in a vast
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by kick 6y ago
The assertion is that a new organization should have been formed that owns the books and performs the lending Wouldn't be legally recognized as a library, which was something the IA spent years clawing to be recognized as. but has n
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by kick 6y ago
Blaming the children in impoverished towns in places like Louisiana for "stealing" information over blaming the politicians who refuse after all this time to make authoring works sustainable or the system that enforces the same is
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by kick 6y ago
Setting precedent with out-of-copyright and They already did allow out-of-copyright works to be downloaded as many times as anyone wants, without DRM. They're out of copyright. That's unambiguously legal and always has been. The
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by kick 6y ago
> I still can't tell what their plan was. Or what point they were trying to make. Or how they expected to handle the legal challenge. I like the idea one of the Dreamwidth people threw up: it was probably intentionally aiming to bai
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by kick 6y ago
For those of you in Moscow, if you go to the Yandex Museum you can play with an Elbrus box. It's really neat! Pretty fast, and has an entire Linux environment running on it.
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by kick 6y ago
This isn't new; this architecture goes back decades, and they've had hardware for ages. It's really cool, but it's not like it's just starting out.
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by kick 6y ago
Elbrus is a more interesting architecture and presents many benefits over existing architectures; allowing it to be lost would be bad for both technical and political reasons.
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by kick 6y ago
Oracle solely sells proprietary software that users can't own; AWS is proprietary software users can't own; Microsoft's suite is proprietary software users can't own: proprietary software is still causing the most harm,
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by kick 6y ago
Some random things that might or might not apply to you in no particular order of importance: Don't use "friend-finder" sites so much; you talk about using one elsewhere in this thread, but that's not where it's at.
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by kick 6y ago
'Animats didn't claim they were ever open. His claim was more along the lines of: Google Play Services has over time subsumed more and more of core functionality, enough to stop the creation of clones. Which is true.
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by kick 6y ago
The Chromium package on Arch Linux is actually just a bit under 200MB when installed. Are you looking at the download size?
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The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (1998)(archive.org)
5 points by kick 6y ago|1 comments
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by kick 6y ago
He's expressed interest in the past about fixing this; he's not sure how to handle it yet: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... That said, two things: You should send a messa
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by kick 6y ago
Wordpress: Open Sans, via Google Fonts https://wordpress.org/ Facebook: Freight Sans https://www.facebook.com/
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by kick 6y ago
Ask a person about UNIX, they'll list Mac, Solaris, whatever. All UNIX distributions! I listed a bunch elsewhere in this subthread. Feel free to check them out, but for some reason I'm beginning to suspect that you're probabl
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by kick 6y ago
Default install; a default Debian install has about 3x running.
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by kick 6y ago
Take a look at this! It's pretty simple; it just fetches macOS and then gives you a shell script that launches qemu with a few flags: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM Really, really fast, and fairly pain
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by kick 6y ago
My favorite package managers, personally: xbps apk (terrible interface; wonderful technically) pacman (wonderful interface; so-so technically; dislike the distro that uses it because of technical choices) InstallPackage (GoboLinux is kind o
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by kick 6y ago
Debian is not just as quick (significantly slower and higher resource usage), but Arch isn't all that fast nowadays, either.
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by kick 6y ago
It sort of depends on what really fascinates you, right? I'll avoid naming some of the most popular ones, because it's likely that you've already tried them. If you haven't, I'd really recommend giving them a try. M
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by kick 6y ago
Mac is a BSD. OpenBSD exists. FreeBSD exists. NetBSD exists. Because there are at least four BSDs, Mac therefore isn't good. Do you see how ridiculous applying that logic to any operating system is? Linux isn't a disaster. It&#x
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by kick 6y ago
Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving. Curious: what have you tried? People who use "Linux" as a catch-all in terms of UX usually have only tried a single distribution with a single des
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by kick 6y ago
>mid-spec smartwatch that took three iterations to get to the level of polish its competitors were at during its first one >bluetooth headphones I don't think these count as interesting. I'm glad they exist, but they're
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by kick 6y ago
This guy didn't work in/for/on AWS: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4eu909/i... The divide between AWS employees and everyone else employed at Amazon seems to be &quot
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OS X from a Linux Perspective (2002)(lowendmac.com)
1 points by kick 6y ago|0 comments
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by kick 6y ago
TI is fairly competent overall. That said, maybe the bottom 10% get sent to the calculator division, given that it's barely moved since 1980...
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Singapore sentences man to death via Zoom call(theguardian.com)
5 points by kick 6y ago|0 comments
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by kick 6y ago
My guess is that he'd never accept it. He originally didn't allow people to distribute qmail with changes; this is squarely a Debian issue.

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