redeeman

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571.
by redeeman 3y ago
but its not a gift when its GPL, its distribution under certain terms, and to complain someone chooses GPL rather than BSD is not legit
572.
by redeeman 3y ago
because people prefer not to pay back, GPL and AGPL has a cost that many consider to be limiting their ability to earn money based on it, so it gets hate. its really quite simple, you're no worse off than if there were no GPL/AGPL
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by redeeman 3y ago
demand upfront pay. I have done that myself. I have also lost business to it, but such is life.
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by redeeman 3y ago
In the cases where theres scamming involved, thats scamming. If the industry generally has a high scamming %, then demand upfront pay. This might result in some lost work, I have had a couple of clients I demanded upfront pay from, and I ha
575.
by redeeman 3y ago
> and never saw a cent from the work. It could just be that im out of touch with reality, but WHY are they agreeing to this? arent they the very problem? just demand money for a service. Im sure all my clients would love to pay me a big
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by redeeman 3y ago
> Different people want different things. Some people want to go to the moon. Some people don't. Who should get their way? Surely that decision should be made by someone who knows that they're talking about as opposed to random
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by redeeman 3y ago
we live in representative democracies, supposedly because it is(was?) unfeasable to have everyone vote on every little thing. The idea then is, that people elect those who have the policies THEY want, as a whole. This is what representative
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by redeeman 3y ago
> These decisions should be taken by scientists and experts. How about letting the people who pay for it decide?
579.
by redeeman 3y ago
the dentist regularly examined you and doubled down on "leave him as it is" thoughout a decade? while a dentist should of course make sure to double check if its the permanent teeth and all that, I feel that your dad did not reall
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by redeeman 3y ago
I have no involvement with stripe, or OP, but I will strongly advise you: DO IT! Im sure many people who complain about stripe are probably slightly unsavory (not saying OP is), but seriously, the day shit hits the fan, you are simply out o
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by redeeman 3y ago
is this for dipsway? did you take something other than stripe before? anyway, I cant comment on your case, but I will say, as I have said before, using stripe is a gamble, DO NOT DO IT! when the problem hits, they are impressive in their ab
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by redeeman 3y ago
but... it might say something that someone is gonna find offensive somewhere if they try hard.. nah, best have it be gimped
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by redeeman 3y ago
> their own Apple devices. thats a slightly different interpretation of the situation than what the mighty apple has :) and I suspect thats where most of the "confusion" is :)
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by redeeman 3y ago
> In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer with knowledge of DNS, IP, Ethernet, RFC1918, actual routing protocols and whole bunch of other stuff to set something like that up You remember things differently than I
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by redeeman 3y ago
indeed, like when the experts were all telling us that we shouldnt use masks, as they dont work, and then they swapped and told us to wear them, only to be filmed not doing it themselves. Or when the mainstream media couldnt emphasize enoug
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by redeeman 3y ago
> loud minority of Google haters translation: loud minority of people who has a clue what Google really does
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by redeeman 3y ago
to whomever downvoted this, you clearly need some more independent voices in your life, but fear not, Mozilla got you covered: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...
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by redeeman 3y ago
thats because mozilla simply stopped having any interest in browsing whatsoever. They now have an interest in limited edition color drops and with their bespoke charactaristic allowing users to select color that best resonates with them. Yo
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by redeeman 3y ago
translation: the UI is not exactly like im used to, and is not a duplicate of the product I wish to replace with another product for [reasons], therefore the world must know that it is garbage
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by redeeman 3y ago
sure, but only because they purposely exclude those that would be cheaper :)
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by redeeman 3y ago
but I thought we were supposed to have infinite and unwavering trust in the legacy media, especially reuters.. I thought anyone who considered otherwise were tinfoil hat rightwingers that subscribe to "alternate facts". But as it
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by redeeman 3y ago
they are really just doing us all a service, to remind us of the roots of computing, where every byte free was precious
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by redeeman 3y ago
> Can I specify that implementations of foo can throw no, some, or all exceptions? just because theres the possibility of a throw in the signature, does not mean it has to be done in a concrete implementation, and if implementations are
594.
by redeeman 3y ago
of course not the UN, but things that are sold are presumably sold, so... the country you bought it in? but I agree, do not buy shit you dont own
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by redeeman 3y ago
> sending emails you had better hope people stop using modern webmails then, have you seen how insanely huge those pages are? we'd have to sit for HOURS to download them at dialup speeds
596.
by redeeman 3y ago
they really should not be allowed to get away with this. Im happy I only buy books where I get a DRM free copy
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by redeeman 3y ago
stallman has been very very good at seeing what others would collectively do in the face of technological development. People shunned him, yet he was absolutely right
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by redeeman 3y ago
was this ebooks?
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by redeeman 3y ago
or not pay for the ebook, not have the hassle of having to deal with whatever digital prison they put the contents in. AND not financially reward the ones doing it. Hmm, tough choice... not :)
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by redeeman 3y ago
I can see how they may not have awareness, but in what way do they not have the choice?

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