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Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)(sneak.berlin)
139 points by sneak 9mo ago|24 comments
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by sneak 9mo ago
Matrix is slow, buggy trash with bad clients. (Incidentally, this is also the incantation that will cause its primary maintainer to show up in the comment thread and tell me that I’m not using their seemingly annual complete new client rewr
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by sneak 9mo ago
Wow, good catch! You have to know why the rules are needed in the first place to dedicate a big chunk of your adult life to making and maintaining a language that discourages breaking them, I suppose. It’s certainly an elegant api from the
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by sneak 9mo ago
There are many. My friend (a lawyer and a programmer) wrote one from scratch in the basement. This would have been a 4 person startup before.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Macros are referenced, like a function call. LLM output sort of “vendors in” smart macros (for lack of a better description) by saving the actual output of the LLM. In that sense, they serve different purposes.
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by sneak 9mo ago
The value of openclaw as I understand it is separate context management per venue (per dm, per channel, per platform, etc) and clever tricks around managing shared memories and state. Well, that and skills to download more skills. It’s a l
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by sneak 9mo ago
This seems to me, despite being cool, like the exact type of “too clever by half” code that Go was explicitly designed to avoid. I like Go because most code is (if a bit verbose) not written like this. It’s written as if the person reading
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by sneak 9mo ago
It is necessary. That’s why Apple ships a free invisible one bundled into the OS that you never have to think about, see, or update.
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by sneak 9mo ago
It runs linux programs, not PowerPoint or Excel.
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by sneak 9mo ago
iMessage lock in is a huge thing. When it was new and was still e2ee I ended up buying iPhones for everyone I regularly messaged. These days it is insecure however because they backdoored the e2ee and kept it backdoored for the FBI, so now
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by sneak 9mo ago
EU, middle east. I was mistaken that it’s not in the US yet (but all modern US cars ship with them anyway).
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by sneak 9mo ago
rsync was designed to synchronize directories of files from one directory to another, optionally on another host, and to do so efficiently. It doesn’t do that. Even before this conversation, a few weeks ago I started working on a modern rep
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by sneak 9mo ago
The corporate culture shifted steadily at Apple following Jobs’ death. It was obviously a turning point for the company and while the change wasn’t overnight, in the ten years that followed, a lot of people moved on, because (obviously) Ap
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by sneak 9mo ago
What’s sad to me is that rsync hasn’t been touched to fix these issues in what feels like decades.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Gifts do not confer obligation. If you give me a screwdriver and I use it to run my electrical installation service business, I don’t owe you a payment. This idea that one must “give back” after receiving a gift freely given is simply sill
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by sneak 9mo ago
> By the way, Software Update in System Settings allowed my Mac to go to sleep during the “Preparing” phase, despite the fact that the battery was charged to 99%, so when I returned home from a workout I unhappily found 30 minutes remai
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by sneak 9mo ago
All over southern California and Nevada, facial recognition cameras have been put up aiming all four directions at most surface street intersections. It’s also illegal to sell new cars without a cell modem in them. The phones are the least
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by sneak 9mo ago
The crypto is bad and the networks are extremely low bandwidth and quite unreliable and are vulnerable to jamming or spam/overload. I’ve deployed lots of nodes, and the technology reminds me of ipfs: people who don’t use it much vastly
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by sneak 9mo ago
> There are four essential elements to a charge of criminal copyright infringement. In order to sustain a conviction under section 506(a), the government must demonstrate: (1) that a valid copyright; (2) was infringed by the defendant;
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by sneak 9mo ago
Prompting the AI is indeed “do[ing] it yourself”. There’s nobody else here, and this code is original and never existed before, and would not exist here and now if I hadn’t prompted this machine.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Copyright infringement is a tort. “Illegal” is almost always used to refer to breaking of criminal law. This seems like intentionally conflating them to imply that appropriating code for model training is a criminal offense, when, even in
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by sneak 9mo ago
If you publish your code to others under permissive licenses, people using it to do things you do not want is not something being unwillingly taken from you. You can do whatever you want with a gift. Once you release your code as free soft
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by sneak 9mo ago
I already do this on my Starlink as well as my terrestrial residential cable modem. The GL.inet routers work great for this.
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by sneak 9mo ago
That’s not remotely true.
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by sneak 9mo ago
Yes, we can add it to the masses of blatant 4A and 5A and 6A and 2A violations carried out by ICE. They’re also robbing people as they kidnap them. They stole my (US citizen) friend’s heirloom jewelry when they grabbed her off the street a
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by sneak 9mo ago
Does the mayor sell land or electricity now? That’s not how one gets space or utilities.
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by sneak 9mo ago
I do it all the time. It gets censored, hidden, downmodded on almost every site.
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by sneak 9mo ago
SpaceX and Starlink are privately held.
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by sneak 9mo ago
How is that predation if the people in that city democratically elected the mayor who made that choice? Isn’t that representative democracy decisionmaking working as intended?
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by sneak 9mo ago
They’re customs enforcement. That’s distinct legally and practically from law enforcement. They have no legal right to effect traffic stops, for example. They can search people only insofar as the border proximity exemption is in effect;

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