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by pocksuppet 24d ago
If communism is whatever the USSR did, and feudalism is whatever medieval England did, I see no problem asserting that libertarianism is whatever the USA does.
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
Do you really think the government only tells you things that are true?
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
There is no evidence that Flock has ever saved a child once.
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
> KYC laws aren't the option to identify either party, it's the requirement to identify both. But they didn't say KYC laws should be repealed, they said KYC should be illegal. Meaning it should be illegal to identify eithe
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
How did Apple kiss Obama's ass?
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
> If the question was purely for my protection, then I could simply answer "I don't wish to share that information." Fraudsters would tell you to answer the question by saying "I don't wish to share that informat
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
Laws against air pollution are anti-libertarian.
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
A major point of libertarianism is to tear down government structures that hinder libertarians from engaging in world domination and retain government structures that hinder other people from hindering libertarians from engaging in world do
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
If you have a tab they have to let you pay the tab with cash because a tab is a debt and cash is legal tender. Do bars still do tabs though?
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
The point is to get workers for low costs, the purpose of the system is what it does. They need the workers, and they need the workers to be scared. If they had no workers they'd have no workers, and if the workers weren't scared
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by pocksuppet 24d ago
Which proves they don't know anything because the surveillance is barely related to the data centers.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
Why would you want to not disclose that you used an LGPL library?
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
In most cases, it's not important and you can, but you are bandwagoning and/or being fearmongered to.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
Many torrent sites, that's a kind of extremism.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
They are serving big commercial enterprises, ones the government already has direct access to. Cloudflare is serving the long tail.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
They are actively scanning all of it, looking for interesting stuff.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
For small businesses? None. Nobody is ddosing a cake shop and if they do, the cake shop doesn't really care enough, because their business is in the store not online, and can afford to let the ddoser waste their money for a few days.
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
Machine translation and login-wall unblocker: Question: > Hello, Sweden (and Europe) is facing three almost existential risks over the coming term of office that we have never really had to take a position on to the same extent before. T
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
Trump doesn't need to block European access to Cloudflare when Europe already blocks European access to Cloudflare on weekends. In Spain and Italy. And yet, this hasn't deterred European businesses from using Cloudflare and blocki
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers. Cloudflare is the LG TV of websites, but it's worse because we've known it has an always-on microphone and speech-to-te
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by pocksuppet 25d ago
The GPL excludes system libraries from contamination issues.
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by pocksuppet 26d ago
If you don't want to give people downstream of you my source code, I'm happy to sell you a commercial license.
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by pocksuppet 26d ago
Companies that make physical products are afraid of GPLv3 because of the anti-tivoization clause. Cloud companies aren't, but they're afraid of the AGPLv3, because of the anti-cloud-tivoization clause.
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by pocksuppet 26d ago
"an end-user license agreement is the same as a license agreement, so why do they use an end-user license agreement instead of a license agreement?" I don't understand this question.
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by pocksuppet 26d ago
A license is a waiver of your rights that are enshrined in law and enforced by the government. It can't take away rights that other people are allowed, unless you get them to agree voluntarily in exchange for something they feel is of
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by pocksuppet 26d ago
That is why the FSF invented just one GPL, and said everyone should use this one or later. Then when they invented another one, it was automatically compatible. This way, the license is compatible, and you don't have to give up any fre
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by pocksuppet 27d ago
Almost no business relationships builds trust based on source code. It's based on whether you deliver what the other side wants.
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by pocksuppet 27d ago
Even though it's technically allowed, a lot of companies are afraid of it. Not GPL2 - that's used a lot, because tivoization lets them ignore the spirit of it. But they fear GPL3 and AGPL. You can also just do a crayon license. &q
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by pocksuppet 27d ago
Yes. The clean way is to use the strongest copyleft license you can find, probably AGPL. Even if corporations are technically allowed to use it, they don't want to risk touching it with a three-meter pole. Then you offer to sell them a
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by pocksuppet 27d ago
On the face of it, no it doesn't say that. It just says the combined work can be MPL. Then someone can take that MPL work, and distribute it without source code because the MPL allows that. It explicitly says any conflict between the E

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