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by mbakke 3y ago
> My primary issue with the WP ecosystem is how folks end up paying for GPL software. Why is that a an issue? Sounds like WP has solved a problem that an entire industry has wanted to achieve since the invention of the GPL. Red Hat also
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by mbakke 3y ago
They explicitly mention that in the famous article, but concede that they are not mature enough for that.
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by mbakke 3y ago
Aww, I was most excited about the release song! Is it not happening anymore?
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by mbakke 3y ago
> Scaling is rumored to be a wall most OpenBSD products hit at some point I suspect the vast majority of OpenBSD users never hit a "scaling wall". What do you mean by product? In a previous life I installed two OpenBSD routers
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by mbakke 3y ago
For those of us not currently at an OpenBSD console, the man pages can be browsed on-line here: https://man.openbsd.org/man8/relayd.8 https://man.openbsd.org/man8/relayctl.8 https://man
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by mbakke 3y ago
> The ability to generate emotion exists within the imageo and not the observed I was thinking the exact same thing while pondering the parents assertion. Qualia is just the notion of being something . The classic example is a bat: wh
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by mbakke 3y ago
That is now a solved problem thanks to GNU Mes and M2-planet: https://joyofsource.com/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-f... And will gradually become a non issue as distros incorporate it (or more likely: reproducible bin
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by mbakke 3y ago
What distribution are you using? IME, if a process grows out of control, Linux won't notice until the whole system is thrashing, at which point it's too late and it tries killing random things like browser tabs way before the offe
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by mbakke 3y ago
Right? I'm disabling firewalls and network monitoring as we speak. Nice try, NSA.
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by mbakke 3y ago
Probably you just grew up. I hope kids today find the weird world of user-friendly operating systems (license- and tinkering-wise) just as interesting as we once did.
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by mbakke 3y ago
Additionally writing security rules in JavaScript just feels wrong . And alienates users who simply want to mount USB drives without root.
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by mbakke 3y ago
I see now that the grandparent was enforcing squash commits, did not mean to single out your comment. It just blows my mind as someone with a somewhat perfectionist approach to rebasing (to the extent I sometimes intentionally break up or
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by mbakke 3y ago
I didn't know about --first-parent, thanks! That gives me something to do while narrowing down the exact commit :)
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by mbakke 3y ago
It's simple, scalable, and has none of the mentioned problems. The main drawback is that contributors have to learn a proper mail user agent (Gmail is notoriously bad with patches).
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by mbakke 3y ago
That makes "git bisect" and "git blame" fairly useless. Please don't do that. Better to keep "oops" commits than squashing a series of logical changes into one monster commit.
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by mbakke 3y ago
Force pushes makes reviews hard to follow, especially if there are multiple rounds. GitLab handles it much better. Relatedly, does GitHub merge understand !squash and !fixup commands? I kind of gave up on those and just accepted a few trail
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by mbakke 3y ago
Right, I worded that poorly. The point is that Tesla cannot remotely change the metal in your car, whereas they can with the software. We as users should demand insight into the software running on hardware we own. Otherwise we only partial
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by mbakke 3y ago
A metal bar will always be a metal bar. Software is malleable, and Tesla (or hackers) can change it under your feet. You should be able to inspect it and have a say in what it does or whether to accept the next update. See the recent Philip
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by mbakke 3y ago
Arguably there should be laws mandating that medical equipment MUST be open for everyone to inspect, contribute, and share. That does not answer your question though. It goes both ways: if the doctor recognises that a firmware tweak may sav
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by mbakke 3y ago
I'm working on a GNU/Hurd hosting service, maybe that will help it gain traction. Preview: https://tryhurd.gexp.no
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by mbakke 3y ago
But then you have to evaluate things, which brings all kinds of problems. Your parser is no longer 300 lines, and eventually you might snap and throw it all away for a full-blown interpreter which makes dealing with user provided input diff
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by mbakke 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance, I haven't studied the AI tooling landscape yet. Are you saying these models have a structured binary format and "running" them is just a matter of having a "player" with the right "codec&q
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Version Pinning Considered Harmful(gexp.no)
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by mbakke 3y ago
That's a false dichotomy. It's possible to have a locked down device that allows full access/visibility if you jump through enough hoops. (Android is almost there, software wise, but closed vendor firmwares are still rampant)
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by mbakke 3y ago
> If state have means to bug raspberry pi it has means to re-seal the box... That's a good point that I never made sense of. The most likely explanation is simply an oversealouz toll agent. It just left a bad taste in my mouth so I
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by mbakke 3y ago
I generally hold a similar opinion. However I have two data points that suggests back-doors are not available by default (for my government at least), but that they are aggressively bugging (or auditing, lol) devices: * When I ordered the
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by mbakke 3y ago
<this comment was removed because of general bitterness> Apologies to anyone who had to endure my display of contempt. I agree with the parent comment that FSF (and friends) needs to step up their game to have any influence on the tec
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by mbakke 3y ago
Right, Guix solved that a while back: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/ I was thinking about the fact that building Rust requires cURL, Python, CMake, and more, which makes the "bootstra
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by mbakke 3y ago
I think the FSFE (Europe) is doing a lot better than its American sister foundation, with active involvement in EU politics, running campaigns, etc. Individual GNU projects are doing fairly well on the technical side (toolchain, Emacs, Guix
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by mbakke 3y ago
Do you have a link to such a study? My google-fu is failing. I don't doubt you but would like to read it and try to confirm my bias anyway! My experience is mainly with completely crap grinders vs high-end burrs which is very distingui

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