npteljes

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811.
by npteljes 2y ago
Valid point! This makes foobar2000 not good in a way that fsckboy passes.
812.
by npteljes 2y ago
Isn't it similar to how your nickname is fsckboy, cleverly iterating over the well-established fsck utility? Or is that something else, because fsckboy is not a published product in the IT space?
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by npteljes 2y ago
All of the listed reasons are humbug, as someone in that threads points it out. The only real reason is that the author wants it so, and that's why it happens. No particular reason or supporting argument is stronger than this will alon
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by npteljes 2y ago
Yes, I see how this all reinforces itself. Maybe this is why initiatives like Strong Towns begin the change with people's hearts. "If there's a will, there's a way", so they say, so if they manage to create enough &
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by npteljes 2y ago
This is kind of on the right track, but not really. The right part is that people really do respond to incentives. In fact, this is what they are doing with cars too. Cars often seem like an obvious choice, but that's because the envir
816.
by npteljes 2y ago
Not just the headline unfortunately. Doping now means cheating basically - Meriam-Webster documents it as using "or technique to illegally improve athletic performance". I hate it how we do this to language as well, but this is th
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by npteljes 2y ago
>Centralizing power is asking for abuse. Not particularly. Whatever you do, it can be (will be?) abused. Centralizing power means that a centralized power abuse will happen, like in the case above. In a distributed power system, an attac
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by npteljes 2y ago
Maybe, but not necessarily. These channels, like the Honey browser extension, alert users who are likely going to pay anyways, that they can use a coupon to pay less. This I think is a loss for the company, and a misrepresentation of the ca
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by npteljes 2y ago
Donations and paying for things doesn't change this. Often, providers can just double-dip, and sell the service or product, and then have channels for advertising as well. But I do agree that it's a string of bad news for Firefox
820.
by npteljes 2y ago
Coupons worked, but they can't really work now in the way they used to. People exchange codes in other information channels. Especially in the current, always-connected, high speed internet era.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Loyalty is lock-in, lock-in makes the one locked in more vulnerable, and more vulnerable means less power, and less power means less compensation.
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by npteljes 2y ago
>I may be completely wrong, but I think large companies are completely amoral For one, you are right, and two, they are actively incentivized to be immoral. Doing something in a moral way is to take something extra into account - moralit
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by npteljes 2y ago
Well yeah, they wanna rent, so they have to develop these things. It also depends on what business deals they make in the background. If the format is secured in some applications, that might cement it as a quasi-standard, which then they c
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by npteljes 2y ago
It's a bit of a mess. The implementation of a codec, that is, and encoder or a decoder can be open source, despite the format itself not being open. H265 does have open implementation, but the format itself is not open. The opposite ca
825.
by npteljes 2y ago
I wrote a video recorder specifically for one show on a streaming site that had low-level DRM enabled. DRM meant that tools couldn't grab the stream directly, but it was low level enough that the screen could be recorded. So what I did
826.
by npteljes 2y ago
People might not like the AI plug, but personally this is the one use-case I find AI the most helpful to me. The ability to query general knowledge, with natural language, often not knowing what the hell I'm talking about. And the resu
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by npteljes 2y ago
>Fertility drop is a self correcting problem. If it was, it would have been corrected already.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Right, I forgot about the digital license activation method. I even used it myself in the past, albeit manually. Thanks for the correction.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Yes but I understand that you might not want to cut off the possibility. I personally dual-boot, but for similar convenience reasons I have some of the games installed on both systems. Even dual-booting is a bit of a pain, some of which I h
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by npteljes 2y ago
If someone is looking for a Windows-replacement Linux machine, I'd like to plug Zorin OS. It's Ubuntu-based, and the most seamless out of the box experience I had with Linux. I just installed my stuff from the GUI software center
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by npteljes 2y ago
For me, online multiplayer gaming. So now I have my Linux daily driver, and a gaming OS basically dual-booted.
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by npteljes 2y ago
There is no github script that fixes this, there are scripts that redirect the activation mechanism to pirate activation servers that validate every incoming request. Not knowing this mechanism beforehand, I was very surprised by this, beca
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by npteljes 2y ago
Yes, I think I did, thanks. It's actually copyleft that I described, not just free software. And yes I indeed also agree with the general idea of copyleft, for the reasons I described.
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by npteljes 2y ago
This is exactly the type of story I remember reading about too. I feel the best type of public education would have been the listing of the many electromagnetic radiation sources we already have. Taking a sample person, say, from inner Lond
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by npteljes 2y ago
That is not how humans work unfortunately. If any word gets out that a settlement like that can happen, then suddenly there is going to be a lot of people sick with such symptoms. It's the same reason why the "not negotiating with
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by npteljes 2y ago
Similar hysteria surrounds the 5G rollout as well. I remember anecdotes of people reporting health issues, when the already erected tower wasn't even on, but unfortunately I can't find the source for this again. In general, I find
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by npteljes 2y ago
>Convention over configuration keeps winning. That is 100% true. Convention is an agreement we already had. It's much less effort, and more manageable to learn that, with the potential downsides as well, compared to figuring out the
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by npteljes 2y ago
Must really depend on the speed, because the experience I have with ICE vs electric at Europe city speeds, electric vehicles seem practically silent.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Free software is not just about potential freedom, it's about making sure that the software indeed stays free. Freedom is not quantitative, although we do speak in terms like more freedom and less freedom. In case of public domain, peo
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by npteljes 2y ago
I agree mostly, but not about updates. Updates are necessary for a system that it connected to the internet. And the more the publisher manages the system, the more likely it is that it's updated timely. If the user has a say, then the

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