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by pxc 2y ago
I see what you're saying now. Your brief analysis has a lot in common with analyses of class conflict and progress that are common in Marxism, though with some stark differences from many as well (e.g., pessimism about the likelihood o
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by pxc 2y ago
> Leaning on caffeine or amphetamines to force action works, but thats not the same as desiring action. I'm motivated by fear and anxiety, and I want to change to being motivated by desire. Assuming you're not extremely burned
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by pxc 2y ago
I don't have a Twitter account, so I can't generally scroll on someone's page to see anything chronological-ish. :-\ (I remember trying at the time of the incident and having less success than now.) Thanks for sharing the dir
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by pxc 2y ago
> Ah yes the totally unbiased OSD made by companies wanting to exploit free labor like Amazon. The OSD does not originate with Amazon. Its ideas and text are drawn from the free software movement and indeed from a not-for-profit, volunte
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by pxc 2y ago
This is wrong. Permissively licensed (MIT, BSD, WTFPL, Apache, etc.) free software is still free software. Open-source requires the provision of the same right to distribute modified copies as free software does. Copyleft licenses like the
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by pxc 2y ago
Justine is an impressive hacker, several of whose projects have made their way to the front page of this site before. She's plenty smart and that's plain to see. Calling her stupid isn't a good way to show her (or anyone) tha
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by pxc 2y ago
> spare no quarter if you don't give your users the same freedoms that they gave you. What? The actual history of GPL enforcement is restrained when it comes to remediation. Are you aware of some routinely punitive GPL enforcer that
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by pxc 2y ago
The copyright clause of the US constitution, at least, is explicit that the artifice of temporary monopoly for copyright holders exists for the benefit of society as a whole, not (supposedly) for the rightsholders themselves. The benefit fo
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by pxc 2y ago
The term open-source was coined with an express purpose closely aligned with the definition maintained by the OSI. The OSI also traces its lineage to the coinage of the term; all of the coiners endorse the OSD. Anyone can read about this he
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by pxc 2y ago
What does your OSS group have to do with this Winamp release, which was not OSS?
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by pxc 2y ago
People are talking about the issues opened on GitHub as 'trolling' but honestly the license Winamp chose is itself an insult. From the license text via the Internet Archive: > The Winamp Collaborative License is a free, copylef
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by pxc 2y ago
I don't see any credibility to the claim that 'BlackMeta' were/are in fact hacktivists. Do you have any reason to repeat that?
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by pxc 2y ago
Seeing this kind of attitude in the Linux community saddens me. We should remember that Linux too has been small, and incomplete, and difficult— and it still is at least some of those things within the wider desktop world. So are a great ma
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by pxc 2y ago
> you have to do a fair bit of work to make all of the more recent userspace fixes work on NixOS Is it fundamentally different from any other Nix packaging work in some way?
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by pxc 2y ago
In the era of type checkers for dynamic languages, it might be better to write > Gleam is a statically-typed language, meaning if you declare the type of a variable before using it, that will actually do something. :)
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by pxc 2y ago
I miss Dolphin badly whenever I'm on non-free operating systems, even though I generally enjoy file management via the terminal as a fallback. In Plasma, I'm much more likely to do a bit of GUI file management than under any other
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by pxc 2y ago
> One nit: the picture that the author called "The sun" is actually Eirin [0] looking at the moon. I always think 'the sun' when I see it because of this goofy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re
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by pxc 2y ago
If students' first and best-known programming language leaving college is relatively small or niche in a way that makes it unlikely to find it practical to unconditionally use it everywhere, that might actually be good for the software
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by pxc 2y ago
You'd have to package FEX :D For the kind of person who wants to run NixOS on Apple Silicon or do Linux gaming on Apple Silicon in the first place, that's probably interesting and not too hard but if you're allergic to that,
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by pxc 2y ago
I came here to say this! Konqueror may have served a small community but it was excellent. It was the file manager as well as the browser and it was incredibly capable. By far the most advanced GUI file manager of its time. And a pretty fas
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by pxc 2y ago
> You say "challenge" them but you really mean "belong to the tribe." What I had in mind was more like books that are require some reasonable level of effort or ask something new of the reader, which will depend on th
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by pxc 2y ago
tl;dr: all kids need/deserve both choiceful and choiceless reading, regardless of skill or talent. Parents and teachers can and should assign kids choiceless reading that usefully challenges and/or tests them. But kids also deserv
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by pxc 2y ago
To me, 'sophisticated' connotes complexity in a way that means I'd never use it to describe something extremely simple or minimal, including Hemingway's prose— even if it meets the definition of another sense of the word
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by pxc 2y ago
I read Les Miserables for fun in high school. I was introduced to the story through the musical (maybe originally just a song from it), I think, and became curious about its origins and elements I might've missed in other depictions. I
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by pxc 2y ago
> Unsurprisingly, it was canonical classics. As Horowitch points out, I am just “one public-high school teacher in Illinois,” but while professors at elite universities sound the alarm over Gen Z undergrads not finishing Les Miserables [
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by pxc 2y ago
It's a style I really enjoy, and it's definitely not exclusive to one language or paradigm, exactly. I see it as more of less of a kind with pipelines in Unix shells, too. In Scala, a language with OOP heritage and support, plus l
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by pxc 2y ago
Whether it's misplaced or not kinda depends on how big of a deal you think recent and upcoming generative AIs are. If they're really incredible, their recognition as something that makes moderation automation cheaper and/or b
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by pxc 2y ago
I absolutely agree about nukes. The US' use of nukes was barbaric imperialism and when USians' say it was justified I think that's a transparent post-hoc rationalization. And I agree totally that the position I outlined is de
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by pxc 2y ago
It takes too long to get anything said and it has a very weak sense of topicality that it papers over with repetitious use of literal words and phrases from the things it's asked. Afaict, it's 'high quality' only in the
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by pxc 2y ago
> It's emphatically not coherent for you to consider something an affront to humanity and to condone using it. A lot of people (particularly Americans) seem to think of nuclear bombs in exactly this way. They typically see the &#x27

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