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by yarrel 7y ago
No, we are losing the war. Open Source is not an impediment to Microsoft's attacks on users' freedom. You can get a job on LinkedIn to write code on GitHub that runs on Windows and talks to a server deployed to Azure with a single
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by yarrel 7y ago
The FSF has been very pragmatic. It hasn't capitulated, though.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy. rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. As in, with more free software, not just software from the 80s.
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by yarrel 7y ago
DRM (Digital Restrictions Machinations) being an ineffective and harmful measure isn't ambiguous. There is no reciprocity to them, and they are generally neither imposed by nor respectful of creators.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Smartphones are based on Free Software. This is part of what makes them so frustrating from a user freedom point of view - they lock some of the most successful Free Software out of the user's reach while sitting in their own hands.
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by yarrel 7y ago
If the text field sent everything you type but didn't autocomplete, it would be spyware. Autocompleting doesn't change that. The Amazon text field would have to send your credit card number for a credit check without telling you t
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by yarrel 7y ago
Drowning is a strong contraindicator. There is also water intoxication, which can be deadly.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Someone has certainly been tricked in this example...
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by yarrel 7y ago
This is why the Enterprise has buttons and sliders as its controls rather than immersive holographic displays.
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by yarrel 7y ago
The world is filled with Disney/Sony etc.'s music and if you are recording anything out in the world there's a chance that it will get included in the background.
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by yarrel 7y ago
I'm looking forward to Firefox supporting OpenXR, which will open it up to all the headsets supported on GNU/Linux by OpenHMD via Monado.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Don't use Spacemacs. Problem solved.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Nobody is going to do that. It's goo-icks.
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by yarrel 7y ago
They decided to bolt on sending cryptocurrency to people they haven't KYC/AML'd instead.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Microsoft love Open Source. User freedom, not so much.
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by yarrel 7y ago
I'm willing to pay for it, but nobody is willing to sell it to me.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Yes vi is there on systems where you don't have Emacs. Vi is simple enough to remember the commands you need if this ever happens, and this is not really a reason to eschew something more powerful everywhere else.
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by yarrel 7y ago
If Spacemacs is broken, not using Spacemacs sounds like a good solution. Juse Emacs' standard keybindings, they're easy enough to learn.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Those questions can as easily be asked of proprietary software with EULAs. And "infection" is a creepy way to write "compliance".
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by yarrel 7y ago
This fantasy of getting the VCs their money from Amazon rather than non-existent customers is not going to play out as they want. If we assume Amazon are evil, they won't hand over a slice of the pie they'll just write a replaceme
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by yarrel 7y ago
Free developer resources to drive developers to walled gardens. Microsoft's use of "open source" today is like their use of CDs in the 90s.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Microsoft has fooled a lot of people who should know better, yes.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Please don't use the (awesome) CC licenses for software - https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
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by yarrel 7y ago
iirc: The Mac colon convention wasn't really baked in at the API level. It was used in displaying paths but not really in manipulating them.
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by yarrel 7y ago
It was designed to help create a timestamp for blocks of transactions. It's doing that just fine for Bitcoin.
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by yarrel 7y ago
And "Friends" normalized NYC.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Good. This is how you don't get C++.
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by yarrel 7y ago
And ear computers. They can make computers on wheels as well.
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by yarrel 7y ago
If I was the author of a type of software that historically was over-hyped vaporware then it wouldn't disqualify me but it would warrant taking my pronouncements a grain of salt.
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by yarrel 7y ago
By that standard SystemD proponents' fetishization of ineptly implemented change for change's sake clearly makes their position invalid.

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