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by yarrel 11y ago
Agreed. It's very inviting.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Clickbait title is clickbait. And wrong.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Pretty much. I'd date artistic Modernism from Manet, but that's personal taste. It's also open to debate when Modernism gave way to Post-Modernism - Neo-Dada in the 50s, Minimalism or Conceptualism in the 60s? We're curr
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by yarrel 11y ago
There are any number of ways to get paid for your labour as a hacker. 1. Charge for running the service. 2. Take a cut of transactions over the service. 3. Charge for feature additions. 4. Charge for installation/configuration/sup
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by yarrel 11y ago
Hello privilege assertion.
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by yarrel 11y ago
This makes very clear the practical benefits of same-sex marriage and the real impact it has on people's lives. Whenever I encounter people being dismissive of same-sex marriage because it's just symbolic/a distraction/e
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by yarrel 11y ago
There's a song about that...
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by yarrel 11y ago
Starts trollish. Does it get less so?
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by yarrel 11y ago
They don't require it, it's just encouraged.
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by yarrel 11y ago
> You never have to use somebody else's copyright work. You do however have to suffer the consequences of being falsely accused of doing so. And if you want to use your own copyrighted work it helps if there are platforms to support
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by yarrel 11y ago
So that's gratisstock, then.
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by yarrel 11y ago
You're creating a false equivalence between a theory that has the weight of evidence on its side and critics of that theory who tend to lie about the evidence. So no.
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by yarrel 11y ago
It's easy to generate real-looking names, there are libraries to do so. Requiring real- looking names therefore doesn't prevent bots. If you're not being bombarded with friend requests by bots on Facebook that just means non
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by yarrel 11y ago
Most "FLOSS" software is GPL. Almost all is GPL compatible. But even the FSF recommend sometimes using don't-care-about-user-freedom licenses for strategic reasons, for example driving adoption of a new free codec...
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by yarrel 11y ago
Any product that doesn't allow you to export your data is broken.
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by yarrel 11y ago
A plugin designed to conceal what your computer is doing from you and make it work against you is by definition insecure and dangerous. Encyrypted content is trivial to record and redistribute for reasons that Cory Doctorow spelled out to t
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by yarrel 11y ago
The BBC pushing DRM again. They could take a stand against it, but no, they're an attack vector for it. There are people in the BBC who are as infuriated by this as everyone else. I continue to hope that they will be able to pull some
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by yarrel 11y ago
The language is "Artbollocks" or "International Art English", but it does match the content of the picture. Despite being randomly generated. ;-) http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/agend
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by yarrel 11y ago
Really? You expect plumbers not to flood tower blocks and drown everyone in them? Plumbing is what they do!!1
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by yarrel 11y ago
I believe people were emailing encrypted messages to the minister who proposed this and destroying the keys to demonstrate the problem with this. However on the whole it is the same as being asked to open a safe. If you don't remember
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by yarrel 11y ago
Price fixing by dealers.
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by yarrel 11y ago
This seems to bake in some curious assumptions.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Thieves don't scale.
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by yarrel 11y ago
It's a question designed to get you to either to lie or to show bad faith. Someone who asks it is not someone you want to work for, whichever group you feel you do or don't belong to. And you are doing what you are (without eviden
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by yarrel 11y ago
That's a very useful question for deciding who not to work for.
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by yarrel 11y ago
If you love its users, copyleft it.
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by yarrel 11y ago
You can find yourself using a computer that is running code you've written but that you are not free to modify because you are either only provided with binaries or actively prevented by the software from modifying it. See iOS for how
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by yarrel 11y ago
I'm suspicious of anyone who uses smart pointers without being able to discuss the trade-offs. Likewise the STL and Boost('s smart pointers and containers). RAII on the other hand, totally.
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by yarrel 11y ago
The GPL isn't "cancerous. If you must use a negative biological term to do the work of smearing it, try "congenital".
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by yarrel 11y ago
I saw my first "restart to install updates" dialog in Debian this week. SystemD is cargo-culting Windows.

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