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by mpol 4y ago
I could not finish that documentary, it was too brutal. It reminded me of the movie Man Bites Dog which was just a parody, https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/
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by mpol 4y ago
To be fair, after 3 years it reverts to the Apache License. I don't think there is much reason for a fork. It is like Ghostscript has always done. I can understand the change might feel a bit sour, but wanting to drive them out of busi
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by mpol 4y ago
> ...rather happy that problems are solved instead of not solved. But they are not solved, are they? > With the slashing of the bugs... And it's not slashing bugs, but slashing bug reports. The bugs are still there.
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by mpol 4y ago
If you think you can say anything you want in any way you want, you might not have many friends left. And the "you" is meant as in general, or in this case Kiwi Farms.
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by mpol 4y ago
> Perhaps [...] the problem is you? Maybe. Just some speculation here, but she might be looking for some kind of perfect man. Lots of people might seem perfect, but being perfect is quite something else. I would think finding a matching
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by mpol 4y ago
> I know that as an obese person I do not work well with what most people are looking for Not wanting to be offensive, but I do understand where people are coming from. I myself am more in a niche, though it is physically less visible, a
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by mpol 4y ago
> I can't flirt "on cue" I prefer to avoid flirting. In my experience, flirting can be done with anybody, I could even flirt with a male person. The person is interchangeable in flirting. Being curious about the person and
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by mpol 4y ago
"...but I think most folk have realized that computers and software often acts against their users interest." Ehm, yes, but they still choose to use Facebook, Twitter and a Solitaire with ads. When I show them my Linux desktop and
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by mpol 4y ago
Different things for different people. You could want a FOSS phone. Or better privacy. Or a Linux experience with an ssh shell. Or all three. Sailfish gives a Linux experience. It is mostly, but not completely, FOSS. It is more privacy orie
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by mpol 4y ago
Yes, I read that too. There are not many details, like what kind of simulations there have been made. Also, "the same performance" has a different meaning from TPR performance I guess. With a TPR of 2889 you will not reach 2900, a
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by mpol 4y ago
Lichess doesn't use ELO rating but a different rating system. And yes, I don't understand that difference either. About white versus black, there is some consensus that after about 20 moves, white's advantage is gone. I doubt
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by mpol 4y ago
Even with the hot streak in 2019, his performance rating was 2889, which is not enough. It could have continued for a thousand games and it would not have been enough. He will need more wins against high rated players, even more wins than i
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by mpol 4y ago
Using software from Google or Facebook, it should have been known when making that decision that there is no influence you can have on those. These companies are run by psychopaths. I do understand your point though, there will be many othe
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by mpol 4y ago
In that case you could maintain a set of patches for upstream, instead of going for a full fork. You could document how much time you spend maintaining those patches and communicate that to your manager. If it is still cheaper to maintain t
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by mpol 4y ago
Librem 5 of course. The Gigaset phones might be interesting. Built in Germany, rebranded by Volla among others. Sony Xperia and Fairphone are far away from vanilla Linux I think (someone may correct me).
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by mpol 4y ago
Sure, the restaurant will change. But suppose the cooks are volunteers. You need them to make anything usable out of the food that was bought from the wholesaler. What if, like Pine64, the restaurant only supports, communicates and negotiat
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by mpol 4y ago
You might be in a different bubble than I am in :) Netherlands here. 80 contacts on my phone. 20 on Signal, of which 10 are quite normal people. Almost all 80 are on Whatsapp. No idea about Telegram.
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Who-t: The new XWAYLAND extension is available(who-t.blogspot.com)
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by mpol 4y ago
Nicely worded. As examples I would like to call out ffmpeg and x264. Years of refining and refining make it software of a quality that didn't exist before in the world of codecs.
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by mpol 4y ago
Or maybe both can happen at the same time? One doesn't have to exclude the other.
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by mpol 4y ago
Yes, the US is designed around the idea of a rich minority that is protected against the poor majority. How will that get fixed, what do you think? ;) The rich majority has their arm up in the government, the poor majority only gets the ill
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by mpol 4y ago
I would assume it is contract based and thus falls already under contract law. You could start a civil case. There is no need to make something illegal that already has ways to get resolved. Part of the problem in the US is that a civil cou
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by mpol 4y ago
It's not quoting, it's paraphrasing. The comment was very suggestive in that homosexuality is bad. If that was not what you meant, you might have chosen less suggestive text.
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by mpol 4y ago
I never notice cheaters too, but I only play around 1500 FIDE rating. The cheaters are around 2300 FIDE or even higher.
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by mpol 4y ago
In a sibling comment there is already a very adequate answer. To give the opposite answer, why you should not cheat. Chess is fun if you play against players of similar strengt. Mostly a score of around 50% will be what you get. If you have
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by mpol 4y ago
It is a case with many updated news articles as the story unfolded. Here are 2 links in Dutch: https://www.destentor.nl/zwolle/de-gier-hangt-27-jaar-cel-bo... and https://www.destentor.nl/zwolle/de
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by mpol 4y ago
Down here there was a murder case recently. The suspect always replied prompt on his messages, except for the 2 hours during that murder. His phone was supposedly at home with him being out. There were many more juicy bits in that case, but
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by mpol 4y ago
> Perhaps because there is a (small) risk of leaking confidential information through its output. If Microsoft/Github ever made that argument, that also means that when Copilot is using GPL software as input, the output can only be
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by mpol 4y ago
Imagine having to pay for a service... at enterprise prices. This is not really an extra or a nice-to-have, it might be more a hostage situation.
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by mpol 4y ago
Based on what you write, a Sony phone with Sailfish might still be fitting and polished enough.

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