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by wvh 5mo ago
One could argue it was not given away for free, but with a silent expectation of reciprocity. Using open-source is a gentleman's agreement to be respectful towards the project, a good citizen, not to abuse and potentially contribute. B
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by wvh 6mo ago
This is a flash from an almost forgotten past. I'm happy people are still using and even improving Enlightenment. I used to run Enlightenment in the late nineties and early 2000s, first by itself, then with Gnome bar. At some point Gno
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by wvh 6mo ago
Oodi is more an experiment in creating a social, communal meeting space than a library. I think there's a terrible need for such social spaces in modern society with very few places where you can meet people and where you don't ne
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by wvh 6mo ago
Cranked tube amps melting down was also part of that magic. A feat not appreciated anymore in this day and age on most stages.
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by wvh 6mo ago
A lot of us don't turn out to be professional musicians, writers or athletes. In between family and work, you start to realize how much these people put in to be at the top of their game. Time and effort you can't really put in if
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by wvh 6mo ago
I think it's pretty frustrating if the songs/pieces you actually want to play are demanding or even at the virtuoso level. If you really want to play a David Gilmour guitar solo or sing some Led Zeppelin, it better not suck becaus
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by wvh 6mo ago
I feel trying to codify human behaviour into simple rules is pretty tough. Playfully rough intercourse might be the best ever, or turn out quite horrible at the wrong time; the only difference being subtle difference in mood of the parties
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by wvh 7mo ago
First you probably need some silent, persistent and occasionally cantankerous folks that can grudgingly work on annoying boring problems all night just because they want to solve it no matter what. If you have a few of those, you really hav
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by wvh 7mo ago
We ignored Richard Stallman?
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by wvh 8mo ago
It's important to keep cortisol low, and over-exercise can cause cortisol to spike – as does depression in general, hence the sleeping difficulties many depressed people experience. Likely that's why resistance training and HIIT a
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by wvh 8mo ago
You just described causes of depression, like divorce, social isolation and being unemployed. I know there are people that can feel free in a place as horrible as a concentration camp, but most of us have some basic needs that have to be me
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by wvh 8mo ago
Wouldn't we just be reading what people like Musk would want us to read? Or content that makes either extreme of the political spectrum feel passionate? I fear it would drown out little truths and balanced opinions.
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by wvh 8mo ago
Many European countries have decent authentication, banking and payment system alternatives or even innovative solutions. I think, like usually, it's just a problem to break out of national or regional circles into something pan-Europe
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by wvh 8mo ago
While it's true Europe might not be producing the next Apple or Google, there are lots of alternatives, like national academic login systems, logging into third parties with bank credentials or government IDs... Solutions that depend l
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by wvh 8mo ago
I think the landscape has changed with those hyperscalers outcompeting open-source projects with alternative profit avenues for the money available in the market. From my experience, Ceph works well, but requires a lot more hardware and ded
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by wvh 8mo ago
Apart from Minio, we tried Garage and Ceph. I think there's definitely a need for something that interfaces using S3 API but is just a simple file system underneath, for local, testing and small scale deployments. Not sure that exists?
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by wvh 8mo ago
I guess they consider themselves untouchable.
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by wvh 9mo ago
I feel these practices contribute to the post-truth society where a user looks for a fact and gets a paid-for opinion shoved in the face instead. It should be easy for the user to discern the factual relevance of search query results, and i
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by wvh 9mo ago
I used to think that way. Then, divorce, custody battle and the dark abyss. No home, nobody to talk to; just silence, loneliness, general apathy of the world around you. It's the trap of the middle-aged man: to focus on work, invest in
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by wvh 10mo ago
This is what is called "tiivistettävä" in Finnish. I live in such an area, with traditional wooden housing, in the city core. If some houses get in bad state, the city orders to throw them down and some low-rise apartment blocks a
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by wvh 10mo ago
I'm still sad they shelved Mozilla Persona due to low adoption. There is a hole in the market around privacy and identity, and Mozilla would be a natural choice to fill it, but it's going to be an uphill battle to get major sites
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by wvh 10mo ago
It's becoming increasingly hard to distinguish an Onion article from actual media. Post-truth indeed.
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by wvh 11mo ago
And I hope we can keep it that way, in spite of increasing polarisation everywhere. The world is not a good place if people can't see eye to eye and have some basic level of understanding.
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by wvh 11mo ago
You're right, but between my carrier and Meta, I'd prefer to trust my carrier, even if it's just to know which window to throw a brick through. Maybe I'm being too European on this, but I'm not willing to hand over
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by wvh 11mo ago
I feel the same, especially the feeling old and jaded part, but I disagree that things were easier. Systems such as Kubernetes are not worse than trying to administer a zillion servers and networks by hand in the late '90s (or with too
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by wvh 11mo ago
I've seen that too, but it's still better than somebody yelling in your face about toilet paper.
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by wvh 11mo ago
If you count 3 control plane nodes and at least one or two extra servers worth of space for pods to go when a node goes down, I'd say don't bother for anything less than 6-7 servers worth of infrastructure. Once you're over 1
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by wvh 11mo ago
The US is a lot more down south than I thought. That somewhat explains you guys' love of air conditioning... I don't know how valid a climate comparison based purely on latitude is though... Surely Egypt is generally warmer than F
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by wvh 11mo ago
I think there is some value in being able to live in the moment, like say a cat: one moment you have a death scare, the next you're kind of hungry or sleepy. I feel that smart people see a lot more in the past, present and future, all
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by wvh 11mo ago
Lots of medical and governmental organisations are not allowed to run in public cloud environments. It's part of my job to help them get set up. However, in reality that often boils down to devs wining about adding a registry to Harbor

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