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by mlinksva 12y ago
I'll take the compliment. I recommend http://openborders.info/blog/welcome-to-open-borders/ for more, though my personal extremism is focused on http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/category&#x2F
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by mlinksva 12y ago
You're shilling for cheap labor in poor jurisdictions and for continuation of the international apartheid regime. Congratulations!
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by mlinksva 12y ago
I see these two links submitted yesterday (the 2nd very briefly on front page) but no discussion: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/ms... http://www.ietf.org/proce
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by mlinksva 12y ago
More informative post about this from the lead LibreOffice developer https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-03-25-libreoffic...
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Not really following OpenBSD, I didn't realize they considered Apache 2 license unacceptable til reading the above. For anyone else curious about the initial discussion of this, it took me some browsing to find http://marc.i
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by mlinksva 12y ago
He put at least qmail in the public domain in 2007. https://lwn.net/Articles/260481/ Further explained at http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html which IIRC has been linked many times here.
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by mlinksva 12y ago
You're not paranoid, but there are also lots of advantages to centralization, as the article touching on this in Wired says "Having one central location allows people to collaborate more easily" (I'd love to know if anyo
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by mlinksva 12y ago
That motto links to an excellent explanation https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/ IMO not mentioning competitors and not providing a detailed comparison to competitors means that marketing is winning and the ma
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by mlinksva 12y ago
http://acousticbrainz.org/ ?
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize FreeBSD will take MPL code. Do you have a reference or example of this policy? (I did a naive search and couldn't find.)
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by mlinksva 12y ago
If I read that uncharitably, (except...) looks like ample room to lead to the eventual demise of the open source offering. But adding more features to the open source version every month is great. Hopefully that and a massive userbase sums
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Yes I've read that context and it makes sense. I was just observing that some people would want an absolutely pure (ie 100% free software) option rather than critiquing what you offer. That said I do hope you take steps to reassure peo
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Plenty of alternatives are not necessarily a good thing. Repository/project software (and hosting even moreso) seems to be subject to tremendous network effects. One of the exciting things about gitlab is it seems the first such softwa
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by mlinksva 12y ago
But gogs doesn't self-host its own development! IIRC gitlab didn't initially either. That it does now inspires a lot more confidence.
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by mlinksva 12y ago
I expect a few projects won't migrate to gitlab.com from gitorious due to strong commitment to http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html There is an opening for someone to provide gratis gitlab CE or other exclu
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by mlinksva 12y ago
That blog post is very informative and encouraging!
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Does LUKS Defeat the NSA's IRATEMONK?(identi.ca)
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by mlinksva 12y ago
You're right, thanks. The claims in my comment require lots of qualification, are embarrassing without. I enjoy your a[s]t[ron]omic epoch year zero idea. One could start from much further back (eg beginning of universe, earth, modern h
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Numeric sorting can still work after 985 years. Only question is whether to use 1000.01 or 3000.01. I slightly prefer former, as a final rejection of the culture-specific BC/AC split. The ascendance of the net is the beginning of the r
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by mlinksva 12y ago
What is the best guess at answer to the better question? Relatedly, why aren't these systems mandated to be open source? The public ought be able to inspect the algorithms that regulate them, and various parts of government ought be ab
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Outreach Program to Join Conservancy from Gnome; Program Renames to Outreachy(sfconservancy.org)
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Pleasantly surprised by: > Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5.2 form a fairly lean pair compared to historic KDE releases; This is mostly anecdotal and other factors are in play, but no matter how you slice it Plasma 5 uses less RAM, somewhere b
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Noticed in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-Janua... > the DOI resolver site went down today because they apparently forgot to renew the domain, and the author of this blog post from Cross
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Problems with dx.doi.org on January 20th 2015- what we know(crosstech.crossref.org)
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User Liberation: Watch and share our new video(fsf.org)
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by mlinksva 12y ago
The DPL creators (Schultz and Urban) are listed as LOT advisers on http://www.lotnet.com/learn-more/leadership.cfm I haven't looked at LOT in detail, but I suspect they're complementary approaches, and compat
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Defensive Patent License 1.1 withdiff(gondwanaland.com)
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by mlinksva 12y ago
There's a quote in the article from an assistant DA claiming it is a 'moneyball' approach but seems more like a hash of somewhat data-oriented approaches. It's been a long time since I've read the Moneyball book, an
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by mlinksva 12y ago
Their tax filings are at http://sfconservancy.org/about/filings/ and a couple explanatory posts http://sfconservancy.org/blog/?tag=filings One of the organization's staff (but not as an
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by mlinksva 12y ago
https://gitorious.org/conservancy/website

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