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by toyg 5d ago
I don't think you appreciate the huge diplomatic fallout that this "change nothing to change nothing" operation produced. It more than offsets any minor legalistic concession that might have been obtained. The US is now consi
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by toyg 5d ago
It's the same axis: business-friendliness. The legal permissiveness described is critical for most software because it enables business adoption. But for a kernel, which sits at the intersection of hardware and software, "free as
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by toyg 5d ago
Yes, but anaconda has a free competitor (pypi). If pypi started charging too, you'd have nowhere else to go.
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by toyg 5d ago
Indeed! While reading the original post, I was reminded of the old essays where RMS made it abundantly clear that charging for delivery media was absolutely ok - and if you wanted GNU updates, you should send in the stamps necessary to send
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by toyg 5d ago
Arguably that happened because Linux was, in fact, the most generous option: the BSDs effectively refused to get contributors beyond their very small groups, and refused to incorporate patches to support "bad" hardware or nonfree
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by toyg 6d ago
But there was an agreement. The fact that the Danish are celebrating because nothing has changed, should be a hint that the US got nothing more than they already had.
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by toyg 6d ago
Meh - the US could have simply opened other bases if they really wanted to, since Danish approval has never been denied. They had loads in the past. This agreement changes nothing in practice.
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by toyg 7d ago
It's debatable: funding and supporting a proxy since 2023 was a pretty effective way to keep Russia into a quagmire for years, seriously affecting their military, draining their finances, and isolating their economy - to the point that
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by toyg 7d ago
> I think the military knows why it needs this stuff. You assume this deal was driven by military needs. And we all know what happens when one assumes... I would be ready to bet that, considering how the current administration decapita
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by toyg 8d ago
has anybody ever challenged the PATRIOT Act on compliance with the 4th Amendment? Not that it really matters, with the current Supreme Court being what it is, but still...
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by toyg 8d ago
I'm not sure if I want to trust yet another loader with secret sauce, there are already a lot of those around. What I'd really like is a simple utility that, given my system and a model, will tweak llamacpp to run decently (or tel
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by toyg 8d ago
I'm European, I know this very well. And still, the absolutist/dictatorial streak in Donald Trump's philosophy of government is something that XIX century liberals would simply abhor. He doesn't believe in consent (and n
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by toyg 9d ago
I'm sorry, since when George W. Bush and Donald Trump are "Western liberals"? Western, sure - liberals, the fuck.
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by toyg 9d ago
When the original Phoenix browser was released, Explorer was in the middle of its slumber with the dreadful v6. Phoenix might not have been as feature-full as IE6, but it was very much the superior experience. It made browsers fun again.
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by toyg 9d ago
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" . Still true, probably thousands of years after the sentence was coined.
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by toyg 10d ago
I think the missing condition here is "if you liked the talk". Not everyone likes or engages with the same material; I know folks who will effectively check out as soon as the conversation gets too techie, but they will happily si
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by toyg 10d ago
"Are we the baddies?" "WATCH THE FOOTBALL! WATCH IT! IT'S GONNA MOVE!!" "This tree smells like cum." Mitchell and Webb had so many legendary lines.
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by toyg 10d ago
Even if they didn't react to the natural demand/offer dynamic, American refineries are processing 30-40% more volume than before; that means US oil companies are making money that someone else was making before.
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by toyg 11d ago
And it's not just Iran now: Saudi pipelines and facilities are being hit too. The longer this stupid war continues, the worse off everyone will get (well, except oil executives and shareholders, I guess).
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by toyg 11d ago
People fuck up, man. They don't plan to, but they do.
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by toyg 11d ago
They often aren't, sadly. You typically cannot encase and climate-control an entire site, so authorities will have to make a call on whether they can provide monitoring and preservation, or just re-bury it all. A lot of stuff in Italy
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by toyg 11d ago
It's a spectrum. You derail a train and nobody gets hurt? Shout it from the rooftops! You derail a train and people die? "Wasn't me, guv."
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by toyg 11d ago
You can claim ownership via restricted channels, e.g. a phone call to key politicians, and rely on their self-interest to keep things quiet while understanding the threat. In some cases, if the action is a bit too effective, you might even
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by toyg 13d ago
This was a targeted attack towards specific individuals, probably carried out by a state actor or someone after data of very valuable individuals. Unless you're one of those (oligarch, etc), you're probably fine.
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by toyg 14d ago
If more action is even more meddling with Middle East countries, at this point no-action might be the right thing to do...
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by toyg 15d ago
Nobody cares about everyday Americans, it's about American corporations . Exxon and friends are printing money.
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by toyg 15d ago
The most specialized standard wins, so in this case I'd say HDMI.
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by toyg 16d ago
They always do. The price of plastic crack has always gone up and up. This happened even before they had videogames.
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by toyg 16d ago
The Wordpress community got so big, that inevitably it attracted leeches. Unfortunately, Matt chose to address a home-infestation problem with a firethrower.
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by toyg 16d ago
> The iMac had a design unlike any desktop computer before it. Debatable, but it was still just a personal computer - sure, refined in exterior, but inside it was still just a workstation. > AirPort was the first affordable, mass-m

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