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by rakoo 3y ago
> only having dial up speed - that's strictly a 90s problem. Dial up was widespread well into the early 2000's, and even then ADSL started to spread slowly. > You don't see them in stores because there is not enough dem
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by rakoo 3y ago
It's still true today, machines with Linux can barely be found in stores. You can find them online but that's not always easier for people who are not knowledgeable
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by rakoo 3y ago
Are you serioulsy implying that everyone had hundreds of MB to spare, the knowledge, the material and the time to do it ? I'm talking about the beginning of the century when the only connection was through 56k. I'm talking about b
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by rakoo 3y ago
When the friends groupchat becomes overly active about a topic only few are interested in (not including me), I joke and reply UNSUBSCRIBE. I think I'm the only one to understand, and definitely the only one to laugh
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by rakoo 3y ago
Because no computer was sold with Linux in it. There wasn't even an offer, let alone a market.
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by rakoo 3y ago
I wanted to believe the same, until I thought about the Tax Office and, basically, the entirety of my government, who happen to not be USA but is definitely a Microsoft place.
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by rakoo 3y ago
The market is an illusion. Until recently I had no means to buy Linux, I was forced to buy Windows (and it is illegal here, but all you get for going to a trial is not even the price of a licence). Even today the options are very few. The i
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by rakoo 3y ago
Just like you aren't in control of your software if you didn't write your compiler yourself, if you didn't build your compiler yourself, all the way down to the minerals. You're never 100% in control, but that doesn&#x27
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by rakoo 3y ago
The FSF has had actual professionals running communications. I don't think the issue is in the form but in the content: developers don't want to hear they are favoring greedy private interests (sometimes including themselves, some
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by rakoo 3y ago
I'm fine with big corporations use my software: the deal is that whatever they do with it, they must give it back to the users with the same license. Make it live beyond the company's existence and control. It's still better
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by rakoo 3y ago
Please, let's not pretend developers who build MIT- or BSD- licensed software on their free time after their day of work at BigTech are struggling for money. Let's not pretend React is done out of pure goodwill for the developers
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by rakoo 3y ago
The FSF has created the AGPL 16 years ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice... ), so it's not like they didn't see the turn that software was going into. But it was already a losing
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by rakoo 3y ago
> The FSF is clearly not reaching the people it needs to reach. The FSF has been talking to users and to devs for decades, but unfortunately devs went from being users that had no problem sharing their progress to business people who tho
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by rakoo 3y ago
> But it’s not better (morally) than closed source. That's a highly subjective opinion, and yours is not more valid than others'
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by rakoo 3y ago
Your proposed solution doesn't solve anything, it only delays it. As long as workers are not self-organizing, top to bottom, up to and including what to produce, how much to priduce and how to produce it, the domination will exist. Wha
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by rakoo 3y ago
No, I'm assuming that you know what you install and that apps run with the same rights your user has. Your user can't touch /System, so shouldn't the app
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by rakoo 3y ago
Why would it be running with escalated privileges if you don't know what it is ?
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by rakoo 3y ago
"v0.0.1" There's probably a hundred things that are not right just yet and they know it, let's not be overly negative (although the discussion on what it is and what it does definitely is interesting)
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by rakoo 3y ago
Netflix requires high bandwidth, ever new high performance servers and routers and all the jazz, and thanks to DRM requires newer equipment to watch content. The pollution created by the digital Netflix is WAY higher than the physical one,
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by rakoo 3y ago
> But money gives an answer to some problems, and in the absence of it, an efficient answer is not possible. Absolutely wrong. Money gives one answer, but it's not the most efficient: it's the one that profits the most to the o
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by rakoo 3y ago
I believe it's the opposite. Money is what killed P2P. Why do people keep seeding a 20 years old torrent ? Why do people still run tor relays and escape nodes ? Why do people keep editing wikipedia ? It's absolutely not for the
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by rakoo 3y ago
The webmail provided by migadu is just one client, there are a dozens out there much better for using emails. Migadu's service is not an interface, it's emails.
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by rakoo 3y ago
The mistake is assuming that fossil is simply a source code management system, it is not. Fossil is closer to a collaboration system around source code. If you can live your life without it, good. But if I want to use a GUI with links inste
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by rakoo 3y ago
> And when I do, I can trivially push my repo to GitHub or gitlab or sr.ht or whatever. And not the wiki, the issues, the releases, the forums, the website, and all that stuff that is probably needed once your project starts to involve a
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by rakoo 3y ago
That's the thing, fossil isn't merely a VCS, it's a full dev collaboration environment and includes all that is needed
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by rakoo 3y ago
Yes, if you jeep your code closes then society is losing because everyone relies on you for everything. It's not about being usable, it's about being in control.
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by rakoo 3y ago
But you allowing yourself to not provide me with the code makes me less free, so you are the problematic one in this situation. GPL's freedom is not about you as a dev, it's about me as a user.
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by rakoo 3y ago
It has always been possible to store immutable data in the DHT, that's partly what it was built for. "This is a sha1 of a content, I want to know what content is behind" There is a BEP (Bittorrent Extension Protocol) for stor
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by rakoo 3y ago
"My HTML? If you want it, I'll grant it! Search on! All the world had to offer, I left in that place" "And so hackers set sights on the HyperText Line, in pursuit of their dreams. The world has truly entered a Great Brow
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by rakoo 3y ago
It is absolutely a policy problem because technology doesn't come out of nowhere, is not free for everyone to use, and not anyone benefits the same way. Automating all work, sure. Removing people's mean of subsistance (a wage) and

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