necovek

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by necovek 1y ago
You are right, but your mom would easily benefit from someone else who would be able to fix that: free software relies on the fact that someone "able" is at least not looking to hurt you, which is, for a popular enough software,
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by necovek 1y ago
Edit to answer the first point: free software as a cultural movement grew out of a need to control the hardware a software engineer bought and which came with no source code for the drivers. Friends made along the way was great, and I ag
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by necovek 1y ago
> I understand that. My argument is that that mentality is doing the project a disservice. In the world where we accept unfinished software all around us, from government and banking services, to our daily general computing devices like
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by necovek 1y ago
We are getting philosophical, but I wouldn't say the "world is wrong": the world simply is . Yes, people engage on a topic they have spent few thoughts on. But let's be honest, many who have spent many thoughts on somet
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by necovek 1y ago
One option is to not help him at all: fork the project, run it completely independently in any way you see fit. Many a FOSS project has been forked due to disagreements with how it was maintained, technically or socially — this is the lovel
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by necovek 1y ago
I get you, and I can understand how emotionally taxing it is to not do anything and "keep it in" (should have said this, could have done that, why are they not reading simple instructions... — I've spent one too many sleeples
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by necovek 1y ago
I can see why author's strictness in adhering to his community rules is off-putting, but at the same time, for all the complaining, I do not see anyone being willing to put the effort in to build a different community. Yes, this i
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by necovek 1y ago
> When you publish an OSS project, it is an implicit invitation for collaboration, and for being part of a community around shared interests where everyone benefits. That is the entire point of F/LOSS. There is no one single "e
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by necovek 1y ago
In theory, you can contact anyone who is willing to dive deep and fix it for you, right? Including the original authors. Obviously, open source vacuum robots don't have a strength in numbers yet, but suddenly, they are appealing to
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by necovek 1y ago
This highlights a couple of incident reports and how they fall back to the "Old Way" without giving examples of what could have been "the New Way" conclusions. How could one have improved the systemic conditions in the e
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by necovek 1y ago
As pointed out, this is unrelated to GDPR. Many countries in Europe require you to register with the local police any visitors you are hosting and pay a visitor's tax: this is why hotels would ask for the same documents too. GDPR shoul
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by necovek 1y ago
You are ignoring the fact that people are mostly complaining about Microsoft saying their software will do something, and then it not really working or falling apart (like with security incidents).
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by necovek 1y ago
FWIW, GSuite seems to do fewer things, but at least does them better (think nested groups and calendar invitations for parent groups: adding/removing people does not update future events with MS tools). But at the same time, within an
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by necovek 1y ago
You can trivially set up Postfix/Dovecot with LDAP.
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by necovek 1y ago
I see you build a case for traditional MS product in Exchange, yet this issue is about Sharepoint. Just like with Windows, Microsoft has built a moat with Exchange, but the question is why do all the companies buy into their full ecosyste
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by necovek 1y ago
If a startup goes under, is that betrayal to? To me, a failure is not betrayal. A startup that needs to pivot to survive is probably equivalent to a failure of the startup, but survival for the team and the founders (a "company").
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by necovek 1y ago
Pretty neat, though I'd love to see any government transition periods as orange for an actual parliament not being set up and government being replaced (any interim government, for instance). Perhaps it makes more sense for a more poli
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by necovek 1y ago
It's great that thr article really demonstrates what are the presumed productivity gains and how big they are. Oh wait, it doesn't. How does one know it's a gain without comparing it to a baseline?
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by necovek 1y ago
I always thought RFC 2324 was more of an obligatory reading material.
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by necovek 1y ago
I think you missed their point: you are referring to the American middle class, but really, there are people much poorer who couldn't even go to university, or get out of an apartment rental in lousy neighbourhood, or own a crappy $500
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by necovek 1y ago
If Ukraine did not retire their nuclear weapons... (Russia was surprisingly all too happy to oblige) All I am saying is that I am not sure it's so simple: sure, if everyone had them, the risk that there is some lunatic crazy enough to
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by necovek 1y ago
That means it could be used to extract some text to map to glyphs, right?
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by necovek 1y ago
Lovely, great effort. I wonder if Kindle Web reader supports word search, but that probably just searches server side and then returns indexed selections. And how about copy-and-paste and accessibility, there must be some a11y support?
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by necovek 1y ago
My bad, just a total brainfart on my part: you are completely right! :)
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by necovek 1y ago
For kicks, I've tried this out with ChatGPT5: it nicely explained how it will use A-Za-z0123 as the alphabet for base55, and then duly went and produced a string with a 4 in it. It's not even base64, so it's all sorts of mess
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by necovek 1y ago
Why are you so confident about this? I am honestly interested if you were part of any one LLM training data collection teams because that's the only way to be so certain. It's trivial to generate a full mapping of all base64 4-byt
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by necovek 1y ago
The legal system already has sufficient cop-out: for anything that you should have been aware of, or would have been informed about. Eg. doctors do get sued and fired for malpractice, if they did something no other skilled doctor would reas
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by necovek 1y ago
I think the base64 decoding is interesting: in a sense, model training set likely had lots of base64-encoded data (imagine MIME data in emails, JSON, HTML...), but for it to decode successfully, it had to learn decode sequences for every 4
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by necovek 1y ago
I wonder where's the Bank of Hotdogs based in the US? :) The point is that you need a bank to accept a payment in foreign currency and debit it into your account.
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by necovek 1y ago
It's possible the local legislation disallows charging in non-local currency. Eg. can you charge in rubles in USA?

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