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by stakhanov 2y ago
I'll offer a less charitable framing of the whole topic of immutable / atomic distros: This is pretty much Linux distributors deciding they want to stop doing their job (or redefine what their job is to a much smaller scope). --
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by stakhanov 2y ago
One problem I see with the current state of the IndieWeb having not yet "taken off" is the negative selection effect you get from having the corporate web in existence next to the IndieWeb. Back in the 90s you might write a websi
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Reducing the dependency tree gets a bit more complicated once you consider that now you have to satisfy not only runtime dependencies for all packages but also build-time dependencies. There may be ways of cleaning that up after a build, b
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by stakhanov 2y ago
I had had Gentoo continuously in use since 2003, and only very recently moved off of it (late 2024) when I tried Void Linux. On Void, buildability from source by end users is not a declared goal nor architectural feature, but you have a pr
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by stakhanov 2y ago
I 100% agree with you that a Stiftung like that (possibly with a for-profit company as a subsidiary) would be the right structure if you wanted to maximize credibility around your community-interest status. This stuff actually gets a lot of
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Okay, well it sounds like you're deeper in the rabbit hole than I am, then. (I also live in Germany and have a passing interest for the law, though I'm no lawyer). Regarding your last paragraph, where you say that a foundation pr
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by stakhanov 2y ago
They have a brief paragraph here [1] that indicates they considered these and decided against it: "The team considered several alternative ownership solutions to address these questions, including converting the business to a German no
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by stakhanov 2y ago
FWIW: They have provisions in their bylaws (which can only be changed with the assent of their public interest asset-locked shareholder) that restrict salaries to a level that's commonplace in the industry specifically in Germany. In
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer!
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by stakhanov 2y ago
I looked up the bylaws just now (mostly because I'm procrastinating). It looks like they have a gGmbH that owns 99% of the shares (by number of shares), but founders retain 99% of the voting rights. Founders' shares are barred f
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Does anybody happen to have a pointer to further research this "Steward Owned company" legal structure? Since they're based in Germany, I assume this is a translation of a German legal term of sorts, but I couldn't find
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by stakhanov 2y ago
:-) Just to be clear: Referring to Douglas Adams here, who obviously meant that as satire. [1] Of course the serious core here is this: It's assumed here that it would be a trivial matter to be able to see who is adding value and w
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> 1) Brain drain the world. Work visas for [...] literally anyone who produces value. So, to put it in terms of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they want to drain the rest of the world of everybody but hairdressers and marketi
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> Can anyone do anything about it? Yes, Donald Trump can, because these are all American companies. If he pushes the rest of the world hard enough, the amount of will and the amount of resource that will be mobilized to get out from und
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Why is he writing that there are only 2 browser engines, soon to be down to 1? I thought there were three (Webkit, Blink, Gecko). I assume the "soon to be" part is referring to the expected demise of Gecko?
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by stakhanov 2y ago
I came here to say precisely the same thing. It's all down to personality. For example, in a relationship between a person high in orderliness and a person low in orderliness, the resultant complaint usually is "I do all the cle
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Legal changes are making it increasingly very difficult to sell perpetual licenses. For example, in Germany, a new law recently took effect that clarifies that if you sell a software license for a given period of time, you're liable t
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> ...(and constantly criticize her for doing everything wrong) That parenthetical is, in my mind, an often-overlooked, but absolutely crucial aspect. You normally see this framed in a moralising way as a critique against the selfishness
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> People used to do these jobs and also own a house, have large families and happy lives. Well, careers were for one half of the population, as determined by birth, and caring for large families and their houses and elderly was for the o
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Expenses could be orders of magnitude more than an individual's fulltime salary. Just think of the equestrian disciplines, for example, where it's pretty obvious that being independently wealthy with millions to spend on your cam
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Funny how "not getting paid" went from being a requirement [1] to being a scandal. Maybe, the government could make an agency that will employ them all and pay them a wage. Of course, it would only be fair that, if all the downsi
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by stakhanov 2y ago
It's not a race. Perl got there fast by basically not giving a damn about anything. Perl (talking about Perl 5, don't know anything about Raku, don't want to know anything about Raku) simply treats strings as sequences of
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by stakhanov 2y ago
...and, now I'd like to hear the part of the argument that's not ad-hominem, not a non-sequitur, and not strawmanning my supposed position.
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by stakhanov 2y ago
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by stakhanov 2y ago
An alternative stack that circumvents LaTeX and that I've successfully used for a book-scale project would be pandoc+weasyprint.
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> The alternative option which is consuming less in order to pollute less is pretty unpopular. If you frame the problem like that, does it actually surprise you that no one will act on it? One has to either freeze or feel guilty of some
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by stakhanov 2y ago
If a corporation has operations in a given country including a physical presence and employees and everything, then the profits connected to those operations are absolutely taxable there, regardless of where that entity is incorporated or w
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by stakhanov 2y ago
> "having ataraxia." [1] That is, as if it were a medical condition. There is kind of a noticeable overlap between the stoic ideal and a schizoid personality style. For people who are already left-brain-dominant / spectru
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Wholly agree and can't for the life of me figure out why you're being downvoted, other than people disagreeing with the tenor of your opinion.
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by stakhanov 2y ago
Really? To me the murkiness seems much more dangerous. In the 90s you had a clear sense of what was "TV reality" versus what was actual reality. You would compartmentalize and take "TV reality" for what it was: A sour

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