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by slowpoke 14y ago
You aren't getting downvoted for explaining, you're getting downvoted for the ridiculous assertion that we need to throw out basic Freedoms like the ability to do whatever the fuck with hardware we own (including running whatever the fuck w
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by slowpoke 14y ago
There is no good reason to deny anyone the four basic Freedoms. The world will eventually realize this, and get rid of proprietary software for good, in addition to all the other horrors RMS has accurately predicted and warned us about for
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I hate to be that guy but it's Streisand, not Strisand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by slowpoke 14y ago
That would be even more ridiculous than forbidding her to photograph things and would probably increase the public outrage by at least two orders of magnitude.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Entering a shop wearing spikes is a choice. Being disabled, in contrast, isn't.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I know the debate about altruism and I was implying that I'm on the side of people who reject the hypothesis that it doesn't exist. I do agree about finding common ground and shared interests, but I don't think all of this is an end by itse
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I don't agree with Linus here. He first goes on about how "open source" is not about making the world a better place, but then states that the GPL is all about fairness. Well, that's the point - we want a fair world, where everyone's freedo
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> Suddenly you have to pay for everything. False dichotomy. It's not "targeted ads vs no content on the internet". People will just have to use generic ads, not targeted ones. I don't think there will be any meaningful difference in pr
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by slowpoke 14y ago
My point is that it's one and the same. You're making distinctions where there are none. Software which I run on my device is content, too. Denying me the right to change or modify that content is the very definition of DRM.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Secure Boot (on ARM) restricts my ability to run whatever the fuck I want on my device. I do not see how this is not Digital Restrictions Mismanagement.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>My point is, that one of the -other- benefits of having a breadth of knowledge, is that it helps prevent unintentional derivativeness and mimicry. I could not disagree more on the last part. Derivation and mimicry are the very founda
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by slowpoke 14y ago
First of all, they are closed. Second, they do all sorts of stupid non-standard stuff, so you can't use KMS, a framebuffer or xrandr[1]. The GUI application for managing monitors sucks balls and isn't scriptable. I happen to use some older
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Interestingly, I pretty much expected this answer. Yes, politicians are, in the end, humans, too. They make errors and we need to acknowledge that. However, being held accountable for what you do does not exclude that. The point is not to p
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The most important thing in politics is transparency, which many politicians vehemently oppose for their own selfish reasons. But, as the representatives of the people, they have to be held accountable for everything they do. Little steps s
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>I don't get it. My reading is that MS will sign Linux distros for a lifetime fee of $100 per vendor. That's besides the point. It's that Microsoft - a software vendor - is suddenly the authority over distributing and signing keys for
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>You're completely ignoring the working memory argument I'm making. I'm not ignoring it. I said I don't buy it. I generally don't believe that you need visual compactness to to point of being cryptic to make use of pattern matching. I
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Not the parent, but for Chrome, probably the horribly limited extension API. I could not even begin to imagine how I would use a browser without Pentadactyl. Or Tree Style Tabs. Both of which are flat out impossible in Chrome. As are tons
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by slowpoke 14y ago
You're thinking of this in the completely wrong way. Why should email - the protocol - offer you all of this? It's nonsense, and goes against basic UNIX philosophy (do one thing). It does another part of the UNIX philosophy very well, tho
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Sorry, if all you have left is the (very typical) argument of "if you think that way you just don't understand it", then I'll consider this discussion over. I have no interest in hearing endless appeals to tradition. I'm sure people made si
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> just like static web pages have been fixed to do asynchronous JavaScript to provide dynamic web experiences If by that you are trying to imply that email needs more awful HTML junk and other "features", stop. Now. That would finally
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> It's the fact that the server stores no archive of content. And that's still not a problem of email. That's a problem of your employer's competence. They should have an archive. Everything else you mention are client problems.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The benefit in single letter variable names in math is that you're able to write the information in a more compact, digestible manner. You missed my point entirely. I said that you should not optimize for writing math, you should o
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The same can be said about code: you assume your reader has a certain level of understanding of the domain that you're modelling through code. No, this is not at all the same. Code can be read without understanding everything if it i
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Except that (good) code is written to be read, and to be understood - and not be terse and cryptic, just so that people writing it have less to do. That's essentially what most math texts do. I don't want math to be prose, but often, a litt
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The GPL is trying to keep code free in an environment where it's unfree by default. You are conflating what free software is doing right now with what it is trying to eventually accomplish - being a step towards a post-scarcity society. Yes
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by slowpoke 14y ago
You're misunderstanding the "it's not nice" part. For example, it's not against the law to be (somewhat) rude, either - but it's not nice. As I pointed out, the whole attribution thing is something that needs to be addressed on a social lev
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>And remember that the copyright law is what make GPL possible... It's funny you say that, because RMS has cited the creation of a post-scarcity society has one of the explicit goals of free software. In such a society, copyright woul
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>I'll just go ahead and post it wherever I want without giving you any attribution Actually, I use the WTFPL[1] for a lot of code I produce, so yes, you could do that, though it wouldn't be nice to do that. My opinion is that copyrigh
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by slowpoke 14y ago
This is ridiculous, and I don't mean the response of that site owner. While yes, that woman is at least slightly nuts, the problem in the first place was "oh the horror, people are using my image, let's throw around DMCA takedowns". Yes, it
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by slowpoke 14y ago
These aren't misnomers, they are intentional. Please read a bit into git before you accuse it of "misnaming" things.

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