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by misnome 4y ago
Dropping your phone in a river won’t lock you out of your account for accessing those backups.
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by misnome 4y ago
Is "Policy" enforceable? Isn't "in such amounts as may be provided by law" meaningless if they change the law?
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by misnome 4y ago
Just imagine the amazing new colour I can make by mixing all these other ones together!
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by misnome 4y ago
> Apple offers a financial incentive to trade in your old iPhone. That is the pure reason. Is that… a bad thing?
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by misnome 4y ago
I don’t know when you last travelled, but many airports are quite big and have more than one shop. It also might shock you to hear that other countries also have airports. People might also have bought phones in the past, so they might not
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by misnome 4y ago
Most of her arguments seem to end up along “everything currently funded should be canceled and what I am doing should be funded instead”, which I find extremely hard to take seriously. That, or yes - clickbait contrarian. This seems to get
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by misnome 4y ago
You do if they are advertising as an alternative - that is specifically inviting comparisons.
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by misnome 4y ago
Doxygen was a great step forwards when it came out, but C++ documentation doesn’t seem to have evolved since, and it only fulfills the “reference” pillar of documentation. Rust’s books (mdbook?) are amazing. Lots of libraries have good, cle
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by misnome 4y ago
> You can't have a revolution without breaking any laws I think you misinterpreted what I wrote. If you had asked me beforehand whether this specific action would trigger a copyright revolution, I'd have said no. I'm not t
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by misnome 4y ago
> it's not evidence that the IA did anything wrong in any moral or social sense. The fact our society is held hostage, and that information is imprisoned, by entities like the MAFIAA is not a justification for this outcome I don&#x2
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by misnome 4y ago
Flubbed their emergency lending library acronym in my head into -> EA. Edited to clarify.
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by misnome 4y ago
IA losing and getting shut down because "information wants to be free, man" is completely detrimental to trying to move that agenda forwards. "First principles" means jack shit if your company to build that world gets wi
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by misnome 4y ago
> Do you honestly believe the only reason publishers went after IA is the emergency library? I mean, they did so right after IA did it, specifically citing IA doing it as why. Maybe they would have come after it eventually anyway but the
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by misnome 4y ago
not to mention that the documentation is generally utterly awful, with mostly only reference-style function documentation without exposition but manually distributed across lots of small 1-page paragraphs.
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by misnome 4y ago
> Do we need this comment parroted every single time someone mentions Linux on this forum? I get it, it's too complicated for you, can we move on instead of rehashing this point over and over again? Yes, if it is a reply to a proble
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by misnome 4y ago
No, but you might see a child walking or running in from the side
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by misnome 4y ago
You started the thread by disagreeing with “you need to be careful”, and the OP is pointing out that your thread conclusion is “you need to be careful”.
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by misnome 4y ago
The tiresome yearly useless day was the specific last straw that drove me off of slashdot over a decade ago. It’s probably fun for consistent readers of a single blog, but I never, ever want to see them on any kind of news aggregator, like
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by misnome 4y ago
> There is an immense amount of evidence of that Then it should be easy to provide some?
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by misnome 4y ago
One thing I've never understood about SSH certificates for client identification - it looks like it causes the requirement that _at some point_ ssh private keys and the certificate private key need to both be in the same place? And if
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by misnome 4y ago
And if we lived in a fictional post-scarcity economy where money didn’t exist, you might have a point. Meanwhile, in the real world, people generally like to earn a living.
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by misnome 4y ago
I think of it more like extremely efficient large-scale Cargo Culting. It knows exactly what it should look like, without any conception of why or the originating factors that led to it.
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by misnome 4y ago
Because IA is causing a risk that the donations aren’t paying for that, but could end up right in the publishers pockets, and shutting down those 100 other projects.
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by misnome 4y ago
Exactly, authors should be glad to be paid $7.99 - once - every time they write a book, and be happy about it. Anything further is just proof of their obsolesence.
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by misnome 4y ago
I don’t think the owners of the Notre-Dame set the fire themselves.
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by misnome 4y ago
It’s not magical thinking if the law agrees.
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by misnome 4y ago
> I think what IA was doing, making sure they only lend out as many copies as they physically own, Part of this points out that they weren’t even doing that; there was no process to ensure that the “partnered” library wasn’t simultaneous
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by misnome 4y ago
I constantly see people still complaining about what Uber and AirBnB do/did. And, likewise, there are plenty of comments here saying the same positive things about IA. Are you just choosing to ignore those comments?
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by misnome 4y ago
Correct, folks who help build their ecosystem brand for free.
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by misnome 4y ago
I’d more bet on “Warning for years that this is a point of failure but management wants to chase $shiny instead”

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