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by ninjin 3y ago
Oh my, this really sends me down memory lane. It must have been around 1996 when I spent a substantial amount of time downloading and listening to VGMusic. Back then I was on dial up and would continue to be for another five years or so. Th
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by ninjin 3y ago
As you mentioned Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, it is hands down the best live album I have ever listened to. Why? Because the recording captures Cash, the audience, and everyone else there in such a way that you can feel what a truly ex
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by ninjin 3y ago
Would the same not equally well apply to the company being sued? That they would have to dig up evidence as to why they have decided to deny service. Not arguing that suing a corporation is a pleasant and easy experience though.
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by ninjin 3y ago
Thanks, I do think we are largely in agreement. Despite me somehow needing a wall of text to communicate it all.
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by ninjin 3y ago
Thank you, that is an interesting response to read, but what I was trying to communicate with that sentence was that if you read that thread and others in good faith you can get a fairly nuanced picture and not that it is one in and of it
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by ninjin 3y ago
Implying that OpenBSD has not considered Rust? There is plenty of discussion on misc@ already (for example [1]) and while it certainly can be "ranty", I am sure if one reads it in good faith you get a fairly nuanced picture. [1]
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by ninjin 3y ago
Look, I get as much as the next guy that Rust brings a lot of niceties. But what we are talking about here is a project that clocks in at just over 19,000,000 lines of C (`wc -l $(find src -name '*.c' -or -name '*.h')`),
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by ninjin 3y ago
This just went out to tech@: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170234892604404&w=2
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by ninjin 3y ago
Sadly it looks like Midi support is not confirmed as of December 2023 for the OM-108. But given the decision to call it OM-108 and I think it was the OM-200M, OM-250M, and OM-300 that had Midi output, it worries me somewhat that it will not
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by ninjin 3y ago
TherapSID (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion too) [1], looks to my eye to be a viable alternative to the SidStation. I have a deep love for the SID sound, despite never having a Commodore as a child (I am just a wee bit too young) and
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by ninjin 3y ago
Back when I used GMail, Google would sometimes mark correspondence e-mails from Google staff as spam. Heck, I even had instances of responses to e-mails I had sent to Google staff marked as spam. Spam filtering is complex and clearly Goog
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by ninjin 3y ago
Excellent! Thank you! Right from the man himself: "I've said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize." So his objection is not to the quote itself, but rather the implication tha
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by ninjin 3y ago
Good question. I have heard it referenced multiple times, but that does not make it true. Wikiquote cites The Sydney Morning Herald [1], but that is probably not a great source. I did a bit of digging online and also found The Guardian ment
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by ninjin 3y ago
To quote Tom Lehrer: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." Kissinger's legacy will be debated for a long time and I have personally only scratched the very surface. I do ho
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by ninjin 3y ago
It is not just vending machines. I have had the new 500-yen coins rejected on buses, in food stores, etc. It will happen gradually, but I think it is the first time in my 15 years of experiencing Japan that there has been any change to a co
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by ninjin 3y ago
There is a lot of interesting discussion already, but I think there is also some (perhaps unnecessary) disagreements regarding licensing arising from what I believe are the very different backgrounds in the community. Thus, I will attempt t
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by ninjin 3y ago
Regarding GL Beryl (and possibly other routers of theirs), it is worth mentioning that you get significantly higher throughput with WireGuard. Thus, if you have the option of hooking up via OpenVPN or WireGuard, do opt for the latter. On th
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by ninjin 3y ago
> I think it's funny how much credit Hinton gets for AI. His contribution is pretty much just keeping some grad students on the problem. Yes, clearly overrated in terms of credit. Doing foundational work in the field going back to
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by ninjin 3y ago
Indeed, as I keep on saying, we are not entitled for their work. However, attempting to draw good will by appropriating the meaning of the term is, to borrow an expression from Bryan Cantrill's amazing Lisa '11 talk about Illumos
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by ninjin 3y ago
Under a license which does not pass the open source litmus test: https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B/blob/main/LICENSE Still, better than being entirely closed I suppose. But there are properly open mode
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by ninjin 3y ago
Thank you, that is probably what I was missing as I do not frequently deal with the Apple ecosystem. On the note of YouTube, my understanding is that they gracefully fall back on H.264 if you lack support for VP9 on your hardware (they prob
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by ninjin 3y ago
Although not an expert in video processing, I am somewhat surprised that it has taken until AV1 for the conversation on moving "past" H.264 and H.265 to really get started. Sure, VP8 was not great on a technical level, but my ow
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by ninjin 3y ago
Indeed, "opposed to relevant ads" is just a rhetorical trick or misunderstanding of the "opposing" position, akin to: "murdering babies" for abortion, "allowing criminals to go free" for maintaining p
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by ninjin 3y ago
Interesting, I knew that Andrew Lee [1] had been declared a crown prince by a pretender to the Korean crown (Yi Seok [2]) since stumbling upon the fact back around the Freenode implosion [3]. What ever this "nation" thing is thoug
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by ninjin 3y ago
Interesting, it was the scene that sprang into my mind as well. Brazil is very much a flawed movie in my mind, but still enjoyable and one that I highly recommend.
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by ninjin 3y ago
In addition to the excellent man pages, I enjoyed Michael W Lucas' "Httpd and Relayd Mastery" [1]. [1]: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/httpd-and-relayd...
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by ninjin 3y ago
As a sample, in my computer science department there is only myself and a single other academic that still fight the good fight. The rest seem to have never learned or given up as "modern" e-mail tools certainly favour top posting
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by ninjin 3y ago
I am not sure how Ardour would feel about being referred to as a commercial project. But I do suspect if you went back in time and sent an e-mail to misc@ ten years ago calling OpenBSD a commercial project because they sold CDs you would be
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by ninjin 3y ago
I am not sure it is clear cut as you present it. Clearly Ardour the project is not a commercial product and the same should go for the source code. Arguably the pre-compiled binaries are a commercial product as they are presented to a m
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by ninjin 3y ago
It is not really a commercial product, rather it follows an old, but somewhat rare, tradition of making usage slightly more difficult in order to raise funds. OpenBSD used to do the same and not provide pre-built images to raise funds via C

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