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by mlinksva 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5964721
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by mlinksva 13y ago
What do you mean by "what he's really trying to do"? Anyway, I'm pointing out that he's making/repeating a technically incredible claim. I'm ever so slightly surprised and saddened that scrutiny of that cl
753.
by mlinksva 13y ago
It is really too bad people are criticizing Lessig, or he thinks he is being critisized, because "Palantir is a bad company, or that it has done bad things, or that it has been funded by bad people". That's not the first thin
754.
by mlinksva 13y ago
Maybe when users actually avoid them, which means users need an alternative, eg Jitsi which has had desktop sharing a couple years.
755.
by mlinksva 13y ago
Before Aurora there's also http://nightly.mozilla.org/ one update/day. I've run it since shortly after they moved to a six week cycle (I ran Aurora initially) and have never had work loss. Only once in that p
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by mlinksva 13y ago
CASH Music and Yorba have been mentioned publicly http://faif.us/cast/2011/jul/05/0x13/ http://faif.us/cast/2011/nov/11/0x1C/ Link to first broken, see post
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by mlinksva 13y ago
According to http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.p... 28% of Germans know German and at least two other languages well enough to have a conversation. Edit: I think actually 28% of Germa
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by mlinksva 13y ago
https://jitsi.org/Main/Features
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by mlinksva 13y ago
Free-as-in-freedom replacements for many services do exist. By and large nobody knows about them, perhaps because the community isn't unified on the issue like it was against Microsoft, as you point out. I'm not sure privately working towar
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by mlinksva 13y ago
jitsi.org
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A "kill hollyweb" plan(gondwanaland.com)
1 points by mlinksva 14y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 14y ago
Not at all clear to me that waiting it out is a winning strategy. There is no deterministic path for other media to follow music away from DRM, and indeed there is a threat that a faux-standard as proposed will mean that DRM becomes the exp
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by mlinksva 14y ago
Short term, the solution is to convince W3C that moving forward will be an embarrassing disaster, nevermind what some of its for-profit members want. This has been accomplished before, in particular ~2001 when many wanted W3C to have a RAND
764.
by mlinksva 14y ago
Kovacs didn't really have any public visibility during his tenure. But Mozilla has been doing great, so I assume at a minimum he "just" ran things, and didn't ruin them, which by my calculus is high praise for any imported CEO, let alone on
765.
by mlinksva 14y ago
IIUC, the point is that Rakudo nee Perl 6 is a whole different community and language and all should move forward accordingly: "I sincerely hope to see Perl 7 released quite soon. No fuss, no bother, no long list of “blocking features”. Jus
766.
by mlinksva 14y ago
13th largest city, 34th largest metro, both by population. If it were ever to be declared a CSA with San Antonio, they'd be of similar size to Seattle-Tacoma or Minneapolis-St Paul. Which seem 'semi-large' to me, especially on global scene.
767.
by mlinksva 14y ago
Open source would be another Freebase differentiator. :) If you're worried about competition, release under AGPL. Similarly for the data, to the extent restricted by copyright and such, release under CC0 (same as Wikidata). Or if you want t
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by mlinksva 14y ago
Today a year ago Bassel was imprisoned in Syria. See the link for events today calling for his release.
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Jitsi 2.0(jitsi.org)
1 points by mlinksva 14y ago|0 comments
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Rebooting autonomo.us, reassessing "free network services"(autonomo.us)
2 points by mlinksva 14y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 14y ago
https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/wiki/view?page=... is going to cover Racket (the first part, now in progress, uses ML). Never having done anything non-trivial in a Lisp or Scheme, I'm looking forward to filling in a tiny bit
772.
by mlinksva 14y ago
Not likely leksah http://fpcomplete.com/designing-the-haskell-ide/
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by mlinksva 14y ago
If freezing legal status of a project forever is short-sighted, the ability to opt-out of upward compatibility in GPLv2 is a tragedy, as is the same in GPLv3. If there ever is a GPLv4, hopefully it will be purely GPLv4+ with no option for G
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by mlinksva 14y ago
FSF campaigns against Apple plenty. https://www.fsf.org/search?SearchableText=apple The banner at the top of every page currently says "Giants like Microsoft and Apple are trying harder than ever to control the software you use. The FSF b
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by mlinksva 14y ago
Akin to gitorious' rationale for not including an issue tracker. It is also targeting in-house development (and in gitorious' case, assuming will need to integrate with existing issue systems eg https://issues.gitorious.org/issues/41#note-
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by mlinksva 14y ago
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings Also, https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs which I guess is priced too high ($250) to get many listings, or people don't know about it.
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by mlinksva 14y ago
You mean for libre.fm? Regardless, crowdfunding concurrently on multiple platforms an interesting proposition. I wonder if disallowed in any platform ToS? Crowdfunding equivalent of publishing/promoting to as many platforms as possible for
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by mlinksva 14y ago
...and the FSF is a crowdfunding platform for free software projects. That could be an interesting development.
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by mlinksva 14y ago
Assuming the Wikimedia Travel project gets off the ground, Wikitravel and its forks, or at least the material and active users and admins of these, will migrate to the new project. Wikitravel is pretty good, but uneven depth of coverage. I
780.
by mlinksva 14y ago
I haven't looked at any in a very long time, but I recall Frommer's guidebooks as having the feel of McDonald's, relative to say Lonely Planet. I'm eager for the Wikimedia Travel project to get underway https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trav

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