sreevisakh

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by sreevisakh 4y ago
The biggest problem with Play store is that many apps are geographically restricted. That includes banking and public transport apps. Some apps are restricted without even the knowledge of the developer. Most of those apps have no good reas
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
If it wasn't clear, people aren't objecting to the use of automated tools to prevent crime. It's that there is absolutely no avenue of appeal or review against it even if the law enforcement exonerates them and a big news med
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Arch wiki is precious. But the reason for quality of OpenBSD documentation is unlikely to be the same as Arch wiki's. The article even mentions the problem with wiki's. Arch wiki clearly shows signs that it is collected together b
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
The GNU project does sell print copies of their texinfo manuals. But you could also download the manual and print it yourself. Buying the print is an optional way to support the development of the software.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean? It's a bit difficult to install build artifacts directly into the system. There are problems like tracking version compatibility, installing resource files and tracking artifacts for removal et
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Accusations of victimization is a widely used strategy to deflect discussion of caste discrimination. And one common tool for that is the caste reservation system in India.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
The post just shows one recent event. If that makes you upset, then I suggest that you don't go searching for it. That's for the sake of your sanity.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Probably because the perpetrator and victim often belong to the same race. Besides, it's hard even to prove that discrimination occurred. The usual strategy is to put lower caste people in no-win situations and blame them for the failu
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Really hard. There are so many caste markers. Surnames are the least of it. Speaking accent, diet, clothing and several other habits can some among them. Even worse, people who believe in castes are part-time detectives who often do backgro
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
> In India, yes it does family name is derived from caste. That is not always correct (but is true in most cases). There are caste-neutral names in India - especially Tamil Nadu. But that itself is a hint about the person's caste, s
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Do you know of any Indians who treat all non-Indians as inferior? My understanding is that non-Indians are judged based on their skin color. That is most certainly racism, but not based on nationality. Another thing that puzzles me is how y
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
The interface is very discoverable, unlike screen or tmux. You can start using it productively even before reading any documentation. The keybindings feel like a cross between vim (modal) bindings and CUA bindings.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
That isn't even right because almost every single victim of caste discrimination is an Indian themselves. If there are caste allegations outside India, then it can only be from Indians themselves. Covering it under the wide umbrella of
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
You're missing the cultural insight needed to understand caste. For example, two people from New Jersey may tolerate each other even if one of their ancestors are from other places. Castes on the other hand, carries on from generation
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
That sounds very similar to the electromagnetic accelerator by Hyperspace Pirate [1]. The difference is that it uses magnets to accelerate the balls instead of mechanical oscillations. And there is no stream in a strict sense. [1] https:&#
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
You have to really search hard to find an example like this that is contrary to what I said.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
I don't think that the idea of either free software or the semantic web were hopeless or that they lead to the dystopian hell. Open source was created due to a disagreement with the idea of software freedom. It turned out to be exactly
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
As I understand it, org-roam uses the database as an information cache to improve performance. But the org roam files are self-contained and doesn't need the database to be saved along with it.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
I've been waiting for years for the emergence of the original Web 3.0 - the semantic web [1]. A web of machine readable data based on ontologies. How did it get redefined as a web on top of append-only blockchains? [1] https:/&#x
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
They love to introduce features that make politicians and rich people happy. The YouTube dislike button is a case in point.
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Specifically, section D.4 [1] of Github's terms of service. That agreement gives them the right to parse or analyze source code. Sounds very much like it justifies training copilot. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/s
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
> I think what you might be asking for is if there is a federated code repository that supports git. That’s an interesting question, and I don’t know if such a thing yet exists. Sourcehut itself is fully federated if you are willing to l
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Copying off Github and copying off another host is not quite the same. I explained it twice on this thread already. So I'm leaving a link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31937705
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
There is a hidden problem with licensing here. Developers are giving Github the permission to use the code with a different license [1]. The clause sounds broad enough for them to justify training copilot with it. This allows them to disreg
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
> That's my point-- how? Presumably you're just going to host your FOSS somewhere else that Microsoft can still get it. The problem isn't that Microsoft can access you code. It's the section D.4 on Github's terms
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
I want to add the guide to submitting patches for the Linux kernel [1]. It contains a bit more finer points, in addition to what's on the site you linked. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/proces
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
You could mail patches as plain text attachments, if there are concerns about the clients mangling them. You could also try some easier plain-text clients instead of mutt. Claws mail is a simple GUI based one. [1] https://www.cla
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
> I am not that excited about that last part, but federating pull requests sounds like a killer feature Git already has a pull request feature [1] that's as federated as it can get. The 'request-pull' command can be used t
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
Gitea and Gogs weren't originally meant to be replacements for Github. They were meant for self-hosted internal repositories. That's why they are still on Github, even though hosts like Codeberg use them for public hosting these d
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by sreevisakh 4y ago
It's baffling because practically all learning resources on git emphasize its decentralized nature. Even the online free book explains that several times. They never left me with any confusion regarding the difference between git and g

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