shkkmo

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by shkkmo 11mo ago
The leadership of large open sourcr projects do carry real economic power. WordPress and Ruby have real significant impact, Mastodon less so.
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> Just look like the GitHub issues of a fairly large package with a single maintainer. If there is a single maintainer then they aren't really a project leader since they aren't leading anyone and there is no community of maint
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
Unnecessary hard forks can wast a buch of time and effort while damaging the community if they are contentious and part of a "non-peaceful" transition of power. Designing your governance and succession structure to avoid this is b
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> As one of them I want to state that others, including you, are not entitled to decide how I run my project. If that is the attitude that you take towards everyone who contributes to your project, then you probably aren't a very go
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
My slightly off topic headlight rant is: We are in the process of forcing car to come with automatic braking, but yet we don't force cars to turn headlights when in motion...
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> Eric giving credit to Rebble In which one of those quotes does Eric acknowledge how much his app owes to the work done by Rebble on libpebblecommon?
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> He had no way of continuing to support his customers without money. I don't see how you could possibly know this. Personally, I highly doubt that there was no other possible exit that didn't do a better job of taking care of
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> It was a failure of business management, not ethics. Yet he exited in a way that left his customers high and dry. You claim he made no money off of the sale? > A few contributions don't give Rebble ownership of all that firmwar
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> nor the firmware that was open sourced by Google, which wouldn't have happened without Eric. Yet Eric didn't fork Google's codebase, they forked Rebble's codebase. > Rebble didn't write the firmware, just as
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> By Rebble's own admission using Rebble code only saved Core Devices "a month or two of engineering effort". And the "more restrictive license" they're accused of adding is AGPL, still aggressively open sou
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> They were originally scraped by Rebble from Pebble, which makes the accusation of scraping here ironic. Scraping data because the original publisher is going under to prevent the data from being lost is very different from scraping dat
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
Your class 3 definition is inaccurate. Class 3 is limited to 28mph and cannot have a throttle, only pedal assist. Anything that doesn't fall in one of those classes is a motorcycle that is not street legal and can only be rudden of pr
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
The article mentions the FBI investigation but is not about that. This article is about a pressure campaign, the letter Web Abuse Association Defense sent to adguard making threats under french law and adguard's investigation in respon
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> That's where the legal authority ends. So you see no problem with using jurisdiction washing like Five Eyes to remove our rights? If we don't tolerate a government we elect abridging our freedom of speech, why would we accept
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
While the weapons systems work for an adversary is itself a little problematic, IMHO it is his role supervising work done with slave labor under horrendous conditions in concentration camps while rising through the ranks of the SS that make
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
Do you have a source for "very low"? It seems liks a hard thing to measure well but as far as I can see it looks very average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> That may be the only reason they are hoping for a barge naming. Not everything is about nazism. Even with the good faith assumption that is not why these names were suggested, I don't think it is appropriate to commemorate these p
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> There can be defects in the graphics driver Which is software, not hardware. Just not the software written by this dev.
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by shkkmo 11mo ago
> Stephen Miller has said that ICE have "federal immunity". The keen observer will of course know that there's no such thing as "federal immunity" The immunity is only from state prosecution and only for acts tak
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by shkkmo 1y ago
There are international mechanismis for verifying that countries enforce AML stuff like KYC, but no mechanisms for measuring either how effectice it is nor what it's negative effects are.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
And this would be why warrant canaries aren't seen as a proven legal shield yet.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "good faith". The legal standard is "actual malice" which means you had to have either known you were wrong or recklessly disregarded being wrong. Just saying something false ab
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> The one thing I never understood about these warnings is how they don't run afoul of libel laws. They are directly calling you a scammer and "attacker" Being wrong doesn't count as libel. If a company has a detectio
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> there is no psychiatric body of work that is impervious to criticism. Not a single piece of psychological science is 100% true. The scientific process is rarely perfect and levels of average levels of rigour vary between disciplines. H
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by shkkmo 1y ago
} There's a reason that even if you pay (relatively) obscene wages, there will be no domestic employees willing to pick up these jobs - the work conditions are usually horrible because there are few industries as cut-throat and cost-se
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Still not fixed and may have gotten worse...
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Portland has been putting in effort making things more walkable, bikeable and putting in medium density developments that are in walkeable areas. There's plenty to improve but clear progress towards that direction. In another comment
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by shkkmo 1y ago
I live in one right now...
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> that won't pass environmental review In what way do walkable neighborhoods not pass environmental review? > but if you're against the disenfranchisement of people. Nobody is taking away their right to vote, so it isn'
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> You can barely set up a taco truck here. I see taco trucks everywhere and there are dozens of food carts within a mile of me. This sounds more like issue that is specific to your area and local government.

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