necovek

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by necovek 5d ago
Have you started your plan to migrate off WhatsApp? If not, why not?
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by necovek 5d ago
I apologize for intruding on your personal conversation on a public forum. What the RMS's opinion on copyright in software was when he kicked off "free software" is pretty obvious from https://www.gnu.org/phil
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by necovek 5d ago
I am talking of how "copyleft" came to be. See the motivation at eg. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html
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by necovek 5d ago
This is a great proposal, but other than the gamification worry, I wonder if it also changes the contribution model? Eg. how motivated are you to contribute an important set of fixes to an upstream package knowing that this package is getti
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by necovek 5d ago
You are likely too much in it to see the other side. Free software licensing is an attempt to make copyright irrelevant: it's basically a no-copyright world it aims for, but then structured into the copyright world of licensing to use
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by necovek 6d ago
I actually believe it's mostly about cost. Things you'd DIY in the past are now crazily accessible: DIY is usually more expensive than getting a commodity product.
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by necovek 6d ago
I believe part of it is the cost. It used to be too expensive to get something like a decent commercial 3D printer (though at the same time). Now you can get one for less than the cost of RepRap components back in the day, so it is stupi
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by necovek 6d ago
I believe it can be even simpler. "Chocolate ice-cream is the best" is very clearly not an (attempt at) objective statement and needs no qualifiers. Only if the reader really wants to be malicious, they can question even that too
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by necovek 6d ago
But it's still where the generic, simplistic application of the rule of " the for distinct, a for generic" fails. When "you can play the piano", you can play any piano. When "there is a piano in the lob
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by necovek 6d ago
I am not questioning the integrity of FSF, but whether the "or any later version" would hold up in court in principle .
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by necovek 6d ago
Signals get a 128+n, with n being the signal code. Where texinfo is available, "info bash" is a great reference; "man bash" is everything in a single page — so less manageable — but you can look for BUILTIN section, whic
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by necovek 6d ago
While the similar does not happen for me anymore with my TB3 docks or displays-with-built-in-docks like Dell U3219 or Thinkvision T32p, back in the Mac M1/M2 days (2023?), my work laptop would turn the display into a state where I&#x27
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by necovek 6d ago
I believe you ask the right questions, but the answers are both very personal, and even then, not so clear cut — and also opportunistic (at some point in life, I might have the energy/time to do it; at others, I might not). I'd p
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by necovek 6d ago
test 1 == 2 && echo "ok" || (error_code="$?"; echo "failed with '$error_code'"; exit "$error_code") When command (test 1 == 2) fails, it goes to the "or" section, s
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by necovek 6d ago
Yes, the developer is the grantee in my comment. Though even the "user" might be harmed, because you might get a device shipped to you with what-was-previously-copyleft software, and now you can't ask the vendor (also the &qu
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by necovek 6d ago
I believe rejection of AI Data Centres is nothing but "local" protectiveness (a bit like NIMBY); like lithium mining, nuclear plants, and any other "dirty", destructive activity. I want the products of it (how many phone
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by necovek 6d ago
While this is a side comment on a somewhat frivolous topic, it did make me reframe a lot of my justice, transparency and reason (as in being reasonable) complacency I am seeing around me. Yes, the fact that we are in a low trust society mak
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by necovek 6d ago
On the higher level question in the article of why do people not use their main languages for basic file and command management? I believe the answer is the same as to why Python remains hugely popular despite all the well-documented shortc
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by necovek 6d ago
I was pretty close in guessing what they believe was "wrong" (or really, superfluous) with their initial shell script example. I'd even drop the "if" from their footnote version, and go with simply npm install |
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by necovek 6d ago
Yes, exactly the example I put in ("the one") — thanks for sharing it and showing it might not even be awkward!
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by necovek 6d ago
Certainly, but would that even be enforceable from a perspective of the grantee? "Hey, I trusted FSF to do the right thing with the next version and they did not" They blindly accepted to honor the terms which have not yet been de
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by necovek 6d ago
I agree with you in principle. It would also potentially invalidate clauses like the one in GPL license too: "this version or any later version" — how can anyone consent to yet-unknown terms? In this particular case and going afte
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by necovek 6d ago
While I am natively Slavic (Serbian) and my German is abysmal — you've never struggled with me I am sure, as I likely would not try a long story :) — I believe my English is sufficiently good that I run into similar issues with others
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by necovek 6d ago
Yeah, I think this is the same case as the example above by someone else: "Our house has a pool". I offer "Our house has a roof" as well. Speaking of the house or town, the important information is what class it belongs
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by necovek 6d ago
And "There is a piano in the lobby."
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by necovek 6d ago
No matter how much we try to make objective statements, they are never based on "full, provable truth", and are thus opinions. Conversing with other humans is exchanging opinions based on their own previous knowledge. Thus no need
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by necovek 6d ago
I understand this mostly as "our house is one of a set of houses with pools", which is what anybody cares about in this sentence. It's like saying "our house has a roof" — very similar, but nobody really cares about
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by necovek 6d ago
I believe it is food for thought — would one ever say "this was the nice evening"? Here it only sounds OK if you make the adjective stronger ("this was the nicest evening", though you'd probably avoid "nice&q
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by necovek 6d ago
As GP perhaps implied, "prejudice" is "biased evaluation" with a negative tone — if you are looking to be fully objective, a different term might be better.
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by necovek 7d ago
While it's nice to see this focus, while they highlight absolute figures, we are still talking about 1% improvement. For most other software systems, nothing worth putting effort in for.

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