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by pmlnr 5y ago
> Is Google honestly acting following economic interests? Of course. It's following the economic interest of filling the pockets of company C levels.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
"Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users." Confuses? That is a really bad wording. Watch a pro-foam insulation video, than an against-foam insulation video - which one is right? One is confusing the au
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by pmlnr 5y ago
I have my own horror story, and that's not even about the cloud, just how centralizing a service magnifies issues. I work for near FAANG company who still sends important email information out to people. One day, many years ago, a new
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> What exactly is the concern here? Top of the article: > Concentration of compute could threaten financial stability. If BigCloud goes down, so does banking, and banking doesn't seem to like that - and I'm with them.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Basically: RSS for anything.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> "a picture is worth one thousand words" That is such a terrible sentence, because it's barely ever true. Most pictures, without a context, are utterly meaningless; go check a Facebook stream where people just barf images
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Are you under the impression that emojis "mean" the same for everyone? We kinda invented words to specify the meaning; emojis are a horrible step back. If you need a better word, use a thesaurus.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Integrate your existing blog with https://fed.brid.gy/ instead.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
That has been for a thing for a long time in large commercial skyscrapers: https://www.foxnews.com/story/new-york-skyscrapers-use-ice-t...
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Then drink from the glass itself. Or with a pasta.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
If you think these are jokes, and you've worked for anything FAANG-like, you're in for a rude awakening.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
OFFLINE. No connection to ANY online service, including telemetry. That is what I meant.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
DMCA is often used to take down service manuals. Try to find the service/repair manual for a Pentax K20D, you'll end up in the darkest corners of the internet.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
If "reasonable telemetry" comes with the requirement to add only 13+ age requirement to your offline desktop sound editor, then it's not reasonable.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> it's extremely common for web sites and online services This - audacity - is supposed to be a bloody offline desktop app.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Oh, yes, please revive the bloody format wars /s
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Yeah. That's the problem itself.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Abolishing copyright will remove copyleft as well. Careful what you wish for; it might just become a pre free software world with all source carefully locked away from the public eye.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
I do work at a reasonably large one, yes. Less, then a month ago a new thing was announced, and among the comments, someone asked if legal was involved. The answer was: oh, right, we'll ask them.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Public means a very specific thing in this context, namely Public Domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain Anything that is licensed has some level of exclusivity on it, and therefore it is not Public Domain
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Have you ever worked at an org that size? Because many devs completely fail to even consider legal, let alone actually reach out to them before they implement something.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
It's not just the question of paying. There are so many movies, series, etc, especially dubbed ones, that only exist in closed, offline archives, and licensing prevents them from being digitalised at all.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
It's not "fair-use classification of ML models". If the ML black box: - produces an output - that output is the exact same thing - text, code, image, et c - that went in - that thing is licensed - fails to fulfill the require
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> a TV that can watch any TV program or movie ever filmed > a library with every book LOL. Reality wants a word with it's licenses and DMCA-s.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
offtopic: websites like this are the ones people missing when they are referring to "the old web" - see the bottom of it, C 2003-2004. It's 15 years old.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
> medical You surely don't want medical data on the web, right? What could possibly go wrong?
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by pmlnr 5y ago
If you find a way to build dillo with js support, you'll have it.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
All I see is new linux users.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
Not automatically. So many updates these days have nothing to do with security, just with "feautes" nobody asked for apart from random product manager who needs his paycheck.
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by pmlnr 5y ago
XMPP would be the local electrician with a mustache and a calm tone that can fix anything for you pennies. We used to have them in Hungary. I miss them. "Szaki"

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