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by klez 2y ago
I got news for you: they already did https://www.arrl.org/power-line-noise
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by klez 2y ago
You mean you have such a requirement in Germany? I'm intrigued. Tell me more please. Or where you talking about what would happen if such a mandate existed?
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by klez 2y ago
Consider that SE comments are heavily moderated. Unfortunately if you read the chat linked in the comments (which got moved from the comments section) it's everything but fun and games. Also apparently the developer who suggested the f
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by klez 2y ago
> There's no real nervous system inhibition. I think they're talking about the will to make it, not the ability to.
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by klez 2y ago
I have some problem with DarkTable too. What are you using now instead?
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by klez 2y ago
> The homepage of Wordpress.org SCREAMS open-source. But, is it really though? It is an ecosystem around a centralised (plugin) repository controlled by one person/entity. That's not truly open source. According to whom? It is
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by klez 2y ago
Speaking of tracker music, I can't not mention "Professional Trackers" by Hoffman & Daytripper. Not only because the music is cool but because of what they did visually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9E
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by klez 2y ago
> What you want is a system where the merchant submits a payment request which is then either manually approved by the customer on their bank's website (e.g. for immediate delivery of goods) That's how it works with my current
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by klez 2y ago
> "reasonable precautions to minimise damage to innocents were not taken" I'd say this particular line has been crossed the moment you make something explode without knowing who exactly is holding it and where they are.
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by klez 2y ago
It's a dupe of this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205 . The threads should be merged IMHO. EDIT: forgot the link
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by klez 2y ago
She. https://github.com/rspeer
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by klez 2y ago
> Java 1.8 is good enough for eternity, so they have to break it to keep getting a salary. I don't know, there are quality of life improvement that I quite like in more recent versions. > They are also trying to deprecate AWT, fo
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by klez 2y ago
That's not meant to see who works on impressive projects. It's meant to see how you work in projects you find difficult and how you face that kind of difficulty.
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by klez 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the reasoning that "no trademark" == "no authority". Taxonomists don't have a trademark on "Canis familiaris" but we tend to respect their opinion on what is or isn't a
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by klez 2y ago
The fact that they coined and defined the term in relation to software in the first place, I'd say.
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by klez 2y ago
> The only way around this problem is to play these organisations at their own game and trade mark any such public source term. But that’s going to be expensive to enforce, and who’s going to want to pay for the lawyers? Well, that'
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by klez 2y ago
> It's never been about "fair" and it's never been about "contributing back". I've agreed with basically everything you said everywhere in this thread, but this is, imho, historically inaccurate. Both F
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by klez 2y ago
> But generalized and thus non-capitalized words "open source" and "free software" had been fuzzier, and pretty much all conversations about F/OSS deal with that sense (the "common" sense hereafter). Yo
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by klez 2y ago
The term "open source" has had a precise meaning in software since at least 1998. It's only recently that people have started bickering about it being confusing. Exactly when these "source available" clauses started
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by klez 2y ago
The second point of the Open Source Definition is literally: > 2. Source Code > The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form So I'm still not sure what they're tal
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by klez 2y ago
What definition of "Open Source" are you talking about that allows to not give your users the source code?
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by klez 2y ago
Newspapers in Italy have been doing this for years, by the way. You don't want third party cookies? Subscribe! There was an investigation by the privacy watchdog[0]. I'm not sure how it ended. Last news I can find is that they wer
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by klez 2y ago
I suppose USAA is a typo, and since I'm trying to widen my knowledge on the subject, what did you mean instead?
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by klez 2y ago
Not "Old reddit" as in https://old.reddit.com . "Old Reddit" as in "Older stuff on reddit before they gave access only to Google".
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by klez 2y ago
WTF, I started reading this yesterday! Talk about coincidence. I won't read other comments here because I want to go in blind, but I'm afraid I already spoiled something for myself (even though I supposed the book would take that
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by klez 2y ago
I'd say the profit motive. You could argue that donations amount to profit, but that's a line I'd be afraid to cross.
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by klez 2y ago
Every picture has an alt-text with the content of the picture, for what it's worth
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by klez 2y ago
I'm not sure I understood what this was all about. I guess I'm missing some context. Can someone please help me understand?
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by klez 2y ago
I guess because Kagi is a search engine that gets a lot of attention as of late. I suppose they need funding, but I'm not sure just posting the store link in here without explanation is the right way to go, especially to those who don&
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by klez 2y ago
What people who only use stackoverflow superficially don't get is that stackoverflow is not a community, but a collection of communities that coalesce around major tags. I, for example, frequent almost exclusively the Java tag and I ca

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