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by yarrel 8y ago
Microsoft need to make Windows more free, not try to enclose GNU/Linux. This is trivial to understand if you're looking at user freedom rather than just typing "yay open source! MS loves us nao!!!!" as you are nudged eve
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by yarrel 8y ago
Bleating about how wonderful Microsoft are while they work on locking everyone in to Azure in the background.
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by yarrel 8y ago
The imperfection is large enough to cause serious concern.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Way to run with the anti-GPL FUD, LWN.
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by yarrel 8y ago
No he doesn't. It's the licensing equivalent of trying to hold your breath until your opponent's face turns blue.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I get the impression that there's this one guy in marketing who keeps getting taken to lunch...
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by yarrel 8y ago
Rotating cubes and wobbly windows were in macOS.
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by yarrel 8y ago
It wasn't an attempt to be polite. They didn't use the long form of their name (which would be irritating but I can see that being an attempt to be polite), they used a rather infantilising diminutive. The effect was condescending
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by yarrel 8y ago
systemd is not a good advertisement for prioritizing social pacification over software quality.
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by yarrel 8y ago
...that's made in China. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4zy3/transparen...
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by yarrel 8y ago
The foxes purchasing the henhouse isn't them championing chickens...
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by yarrel 8y ago
Real names don't stop harassment, whether on the WELL in the 90s or YouTube in the 2010s. They do however harm the most vulnerable in society, either excluding them from platforms or making it easy for their harassers to find and targe
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by yarrel 8y ago
Tether is a well known - how do I say this politely - aberration. Removing it from the equation would be very welcome.
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by yarrel 8y ago
They need ethics training!!1
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by yarrel 8y ago
This is a perfect illustration of the difference between Open Source and Free Software and why Microsoft are happy to be seen as a champion of the former.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if my QC25s are on, or whether the weirdly oval silicon earbuds are actually in my ears. They don't cut out music or conversation. When I take them off I realise they've cut out a lot of white noise/backgro
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by yarrel 8y ago
I'm the same after my Pixel 2 experience.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Contemporary MS are trying to lock you into their hardware, software, development and deployment platforms. They are doing this while making the tools to do so Open Source. You are not free to control your computing in this ecosystem, but h
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by yarrel 8y ago
Anyone can assign their copyrights to the FSF. So no. ;-)
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by yarrel 8y ago
> Open-source is an adjective referring to the fact that that source code is available. It's not. Let's not muddy the waters that this term was already introduced to further.
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by yarrel 8y ago
On the other hand let's not get complacent. At all.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Avoiding big fines isn't throwing a fit.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Trust. If you are a small producer and you send a shipment of your widgets to Wal Mart, and Wal Mart then say "what widgets?", the efficiency of their SQL Server installation isn't a benefit that will bring you much comfort.
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by yarrel 8y ago
There is an important qualifier that people keep forgetting. You wouldn't need such a system for cars to communicate in the presence of authority or in the absence of value. The former is the case for Lyft or Uber, the latter is the ca
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by yarrel 8y ago
Censorious centralization platform embraces censorship-resistant decentralized platform.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Where do abuse reports usually end up? In my experience they end up with the DMCA officer for the site.
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by yarrel 8y ago
You're postulating an imaginary hive mind on the part of "Indian-Americans" then asking how ethnically tribal it is. It's like asking if whitey is proud of Donald Trump. The problems start before the question is halfway
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by yarrel 8y ago
Publishing books is still largely proprietary. Yet that is not helping many individual writers or small publishers make much of a living. Amazon on the other hand...
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by yarrel 8y ago
No. If I burn my house down and you've kept my furniture, is your act of theft only harmful to me when I get it returned? (And this assumes that art is like furniture. Hold my beer...)
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by yarrel 8y ago
Can you unpack that? Is the argument that the absence of intrinsic properties amounts to intrinsic properties?

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