rijoja

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by rijoja 2y ago
By that logic shouldn't they be okay to provide software, for people in the business of killing people, since they are not in the killing people business, but in the software business?
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by rijoja 2y ago
I bet they have fairly strict policies when it comes to vetting code. If you think about it would still have to have such policies in place to safeguard against malicious actors within the company . ) And incompetent or lazy actors :)
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by rijoja 2y ago
There's this whole concept of "Embrace, Extend Extinguish", that a lot of people in the open source community hasn't forgotten about, and therefore find it hard to trust anything that Microsoft is about.
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by rijoja 2y ago
Yes, and contributors to NixOS, and probably you eat meat as well, so they are guilty of killing sentient beings as well, and on account of that I should be in charge of the organisation, and your salary. I'm expecting their and your r
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by rijoja 2y ago
Do you think there's any danger in handing over absolute power to whomever just claims to have a superior morality? Has that happened before in history and what has the consequences been? Didn't Andruil get sent of after a while
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by rijoja 2y ago
Right, that explains it. The post is really lacking when it comes to concrete examples of what is going on. "The ad-hoc structure of maintainers here better represent the goals of Nix users and their methods of success. Yet, these cont
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by rijoja 2y ago
Maybe if you're up to speed with the internal politics of the nix project. If you're not it reads like a lot of grandstanding, and asking people to resign, without giving concrete examples of what has gone wrong.
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by rijoja 2y ago
Right thanks for clearing that out!
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by rijoja 2y ago
> "Much of the frustration has risen from inaction by authoritative figures. Whether inconsiderate sponsorship, conflicts of interest, harmful conduct, or a refusal to collaborate, these actions have repeatedly affirmed such positio
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by rijoja 2y ago
Yeah no I thought of that, and consider saying something funny back, but then I remembered what HN's policy was on the subject, and thought that in the case someone fails to see the sarcasm, they'll not be confused.
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by rijoja 2y ago
I haven't really had the time to read up on it, but it has gotten a lot of attention and seems really successful, and seems to have some extremely interesting solutions to some problems that I am interested in, so it seems that the Nix
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by rijoja 2y ago
The acronym I was referring to was Political Correctness...
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by rijoja 2y ago
Was this about some PC nonsense? This post doesn't really point to any concrete problems, but seem to be about someone trying to gain control over the project?
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by rijoja 3y ago
> It's interesting the things we do to get around the little things we don't like. Yeah and perhaps pick up valuable skills, that might help us down the road in ways that are hard to quantify.
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by rijoja 3y ago
> My thought was to harvest their IPs and publish them in blocklists. Please do, it would mean good karma.
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by rijoja 3y ago
The other day I saw a comment saying that fonts are made complicated by turning them into programs, which you can legally protect as IP, is there any truth to that?
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by rijoja 3y ago
Thank you, I was thinking about it yesterday, but I couldn't remember the name of it!
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by rijoja 3y ago
Never heard about it! Thank you very much! [edit]Apparently organic maps is maps.me without the tracking[/edit]
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by rijoja 3y ago
Can't say that I have no, but I would like to try it out given the chance!
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by rijoja 3y ago
For a web app I'm fine with using https://www.openstreetmap.org/ .
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by rijoja 3y ago
No :)
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by rijoja 3y ago
I agree, what it is for me is partly a wish for computer manufacturers to create new computers like them! I.e. computers that are up-gradable, sturdy, has multiple batteries, and so forth! Saying that if you mostly live in a terminal with a
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by rijoja 3y ago
I don't really like to promote amazon, but what I got is this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PJ3J5MY/ref=pe_27063361_48705... which is absolutely fantastic. What you are looking for is a USB-C with PD suppor
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by rijoja 3y ago
Yeah I remember this! I used to use it with pidgin, as I mentioned in another comment on this thread. Google talk used to use xmpp as well back in the good old days, and there's maybe even some more! It'd be nice if open source pr
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by rijoja 3y ago
Absolutely yes, I have fond memories of the Pidgin client, which handled everything gracefully, and also libpurple. This was ages ago, is pidgin still one of the best xmpp clients, or are there better ones now? I remember that pidgin even u
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by rijoja 3y ago
Sad to see you being downvoted because MS lawyers are evil :(
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by rijoja 3y ago
similar in some aspects surely, you can't say that they there is 0% overlap can you?
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by rijoja 3y ago
na but they can steal your belongings couldn't they. Obviously I didn't mean that they have all the same properties, because then they would be the same thing more or less, but that they share some properties...
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by rijoja 3y ago
You would need to buy a new lock tough wouldn't you? Unless you had a spare key, but that would have worked with a digital key as well, right? If someone stole your key, then they could've done anything to your house while your aw
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by rijoja 3y ago
Personally I am using [organicmaps]( https://organicmaps.app/ ) which is using OpenStreetMap data, and it works really well.

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