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by spaceribs 3y ago
Yep! I'd say 95% of open source is subsidized by those thriving rather than surviving, having the education/equipment/access/free-time to deliver open source software is a product of privilege and abundance.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Ah, I'll admit I know a lot less about the EUPL, I'll do some further reading on the subject.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
While I agree that it's legally murky in some respects, that seems like an opportunity (and a benefit to the writer of the OSS code) for a dialog between the maintainer and the user of AGPL code to ensure compliance. Why would you want
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Yeah, but even stepping back there, lawyers are paid to prevent companies from entering those muddy waters as a risk to their profits. Profit isn't a concern to someone who wishes to publish open source software, in fact you could say
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Hacker news is a mix of venture capital and technologists, the AGPL3 is a wedge between those two groups needs and objectives.
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by spaceribs 3y ago
Apple really set themselves up as a "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory", spending a lot of time presenting marvels (both helpful and useless) to hide the dirty secrets under the surface. Near slavery conditions in manufacturing
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by spaceribs 4y ago
Money.
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by spaceribs 4y ago
You could argue that because this is a liability issue, something that drains our collective efficiency, and isn't a profit center for any business, that it should be regulated by the government to some degree. The CFPB for what it&#x2
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by spaceribs 4y ago
Maybe I could pose this question another way, what does Twitter do that Mastodon can't?
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by spaceribs 4y ago
It also ignores the hilariously terrible time Twitter had scaling up in the first few years of it's life.
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by spaceribs 4y ago
The thing they don't tell you about jury nullification and prosecutorial nullification is that it's been historically used for far more injustice than justice.
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by spaceribs 4y ago
Could a report to the CFPB move the needle?
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by spaceribs 4y ago
I truly feel this statement in my bones the longer I'm in technology...
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I'm specifically trying to avoid a bad integration though, the API for <video> is quite clear for how to interact with a <video> element hosted on a page, as defined by the HTML5 spec. This is the issue I have with this cha
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by spaceribs 5y ago
Yeah, I have a feeling it was due to optimizations deeper in the stack, I'm just deeply unhappy that what essentially should be an interoperable API via the <video> element was locked down in such a spectacular fashion. The edge
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by spaceribs 5y ago
In my case, the actual plugin doesn't work without Javascript, and this was actually the cheapest option for hosting and staying within what I already had in my Nx monorepo. (it literally costs me $10 a year and I'm only paying fo
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I want to thank the mods for changing the title of this article posted here, my original title was a bit hyperbolic to say the least but I am quite worried about where this path leads overall.
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I actually tend to agree with this take honestly. If I was an Architect over at netflix implementing QoE, and all my minions were making calls directly to the html element for seeking instead of using the API I created, I'd want to cat
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by spaceribs 5y ago
Thank you, I did this blog post rather quickly :( Edit: updated the images, thanks again
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Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video(plopdown.video)
319 points by spaceribs 5y ago|195 comments
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by spaceribs 5y ago
Even worse for Google, when people get banned off YouTube, they get banned across all of Google's services. Every time you upload what is arbitrarily controversial, that outcome has to be weighed, and if PeerTube provides a viable alte
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by spaceribs 5y ago
> SEC doesn't have infinite resources to go after every possible financial crime. So that makes token gestures acceptable?
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I've rationalized eating the very intelligent octopus with the fact that they live for a maximum of like 2 years.
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by spaceribs 5y ago
The goal is to democratically own ostensibly public infrastructure, do you have a better way instead of whining about communists?
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I disagree, as these companies already calculate how much they need to spend to prevent having to pay taxes.
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I explained why, commercial goods and services would have a safe sponsored forum to sell their wares without worrying about a profit hungry giant measuring their success, cloning their business and driving them to bankruptcy.
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I understand the system, I just want to be clear how broken this is. Both are windfalls, one gets taxed immediately, the other gets taxed if they don't use up all their profits reinvesting in themselves by the end of the year.
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I misread the article, and I'll correct the 4 to 2 years now. Income is income though, not sales or payroll which are the expected and manageable operating costs of overhead and human resources. If I win the lottery, almost 50% of my w
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I think income tax is the most impactful and expensive tax we have in the US, it's the one everyone thinks of when someone says "doing your taxes". The fact that Amazon just this year after not paying for 2 years had to pay a
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by spaceribs 5y ago
I think the meme is "Amazon pays no federal taxes on it's profits", and that is a correct statement.

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