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by orra 3y ago
> I don't know if the Dutch has anything similar to the US's 4th amendment (against unreasonable search an seizures). The Netherlands is party to the ECHR. Article 5 through 8 inclusive are relevant, especially Article 8. The D
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by orra 3y ago
> is there a reason you'd actually want this in a production model? I think GP agrees with you, and they were being sarcastic to be funny. It's not always easy to tell in a text based medium.
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by orra 3y ago
Watering plants with a watering can? Absolutely not. Watering a grass lawn to lush greenness, with a hosepipe? Agreed that uses a lot of water.
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by orra 3y ago
Yup, the latter is what is usually meant. The price of "green" tariffs in the UK skyrocketed identically to traditional tariffs, when energy prices doubled or tripled in the last few years.
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by orra 3y ago
> If you think a usage agreement is binding they are certainly business partners. Precisely. If the API agreement wasn't binding, why would it bother saying Reddit reserve the right to vary the fees?
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by orra 3y ago
On the flip side side, if Apollo users are much more active, Reddit will be worse for lurkers if Apollo users disappear.
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by orra 3y ago
Precisely.
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by orra 3y ago
You say that, but plenty of job adverts are for fullstack developers, e.g. backend experience in C# with dapper or EF, and frontend in Angular or React. It's not an absurd transition for an experienced developer, even if there is a lea
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by orra 3y ago
Just as well! Oligopolies are almost as bad as monopolies, for rent seeking and stifling competition. I don't know about US law, but EU competition law is concerned about “significant market power” and not (just) monopolies.
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by orra 3y ago
> Their concerns are also valid: "we don't want to expose users to security-sensitive code without significant benefit for the users". It's possible to sandbox these things. Firefox sandboxes some native libs, by comp
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by orra 3y ago
That's frustrating. Having a royalty free, high quality, video codec is great. But it shouldn't prevent us having a significantly better still image format.
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by orra 3y ago
That's an interesting counterpoint, to a common conversation here. I suppose it's important to realise that even if a public domain declaration isn't possible in Germany etc., that doesn't mean the Unlicense is unusable.
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by orra 3y ago
Perpetuity? Interesting. So, if the moral rights don't end when you die, then I suppose your heirs and successors can nominally enforce moral rights, centuries later. Wow!
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by orra 3y ago
> that there does not exist (can not exist?) a license that you could use if you want to release your code to the public domain In what jurisdiction? Yes, it's widely thought it's not possible e.g. in Germany, because you canno
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by orra 3y ago
Yes, laws vary by jurisdiction. Nonetheless, we have a lot of licences which work as worldwide as possible. As much as I wish otherwise, it does not appear to be possible to dedicate works to the public domain in Germany, and quite possibly
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by orra 3y ago
> Open source software doesn't have a EULA. I disagree. First, loads of proper (OSI-approved) Open Source licenses say either your downloading or use requires acceptance of the terms, or that using the software implies acceptance
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by orra 3y ago
> usually more performant and overall compelling offers True. > compelling offers in the same form factor and upstream support to a certain degree. But that degree matters. What SBC has the best upstream support these days? Orange? Ba
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by orra 3y ago
Alas, no. “Don't expect a Pi 5 five next year,” Upton said [in December 2022], explaining that the Pi team sees 2023 as a year to spend “recovering from what just happened to all of us [COVID, supply chain issues].” https://
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by orra 3y ago
> The primary source for most of the AWS documentation is on internal systems that we had to manually sync with the GitHub repos. That was the problem, no? Fixable without deleting the GitHub repos. Also, AFAICT contributors never signed
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by orra 3y ago
Yup, mobile is ahead of desktop here, in terms of making it reasonably safe to run moderately questionable applications. I just hope flatpak sandboxing works well...
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by orra 3y ago
Yes. AIUI, it's the illegitimate copy that's the problem, not so much the decompilation approach.
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by orra 3y ago
> It's just that isn't particularly useful for some thing like a document processing application that you usually want to be able to use on files in various parts of your syste The good news is there is a solution to this. The
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by orra 3y ago
It's actually really old, in that this bit goes back to the 1991 Directive, not just the replacement 2009 Directive.
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by orra 3y ago
General point: Clean room reverse engineering is a common approach, from corporations keen to minimise their liability. Nonetheless, clean room RE is not a legal requirement: certainly not in the EU, nor AIUI in the US. The EU allows revers
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by orra 3y ago
Microsoft used it a lot, before they pivoted to somewhat embracing open source.
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by orra 3y ago
> I can hear all kinds of overtly racist and sexist statements from my female colleagues, but because they are women, and their comments are directed at white folks and male folks, they are totally safe from this sort of retribution. (Ex
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by orra 3y ago
> how much good does this actually do versus the time and effort it takes to make it? It was a few lines of text. GP has spent more time complaining about the change, than the effort to make the change.
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by orra 3y ago
It's quite simple: save the sexual jokes for the pub with your friends, not the workplace. The massive gender imbalance in IT leads to skewed perceptions of what is acceptable in a professional environment. This in turn helps perpetuat
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by orra 3y ago
There's no question about it: joking about dongles and forking, *for the innuendo", is immature. It also is unprofessional, and they were having the conversation loudly enough to be heard by women and others nearby. Yes, there are
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by orra 3y ago
Really? That's a perfectly reasonable change, that you object to. It's okay for a project to be more welcoming to women. Let's not forget women are underrepresented in programming.

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