zoobab

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by zoobab 7mo ago
Undisclosed amount?
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by zoobab 7mo ago
That's what Washington and Brussels are about: lobbying capitals and buying influence over how laws are made.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
27 years against software patents in the EU, feeling the same unfortunately. But sometimes very few people can make a difference.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
"how terrible EU regulation is" Judges in other countries (Texas) found out this kind of law was a violation of the Free Speech. Since when Free Speech do not apply to -16y old? Made laws are made, then killed by courts later one.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
"Tariffs on Italy are threatened. Case is dropped." Justice is independent in most EU countries.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
eVoting cannot be understood and audited by normal citizens, not even by nerdy ones. It's just good for the trash.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
"he didn't attach the source code for the 64-bit x86 emulation layer" It's not open source? If that's the case, it should be in his FAQ.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
If i have one regret over the OOXML corruption scandal was to not bring the whole thing to court. We had some many evidences of Microsoft captureing the whole process.
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by zoobab 7mo ago
"use that money to rehire and repay workers" or give it to shareholders.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Wikidot still does HTTP by default, they should at least upgrade to both HTTP+HTTPS, i asked the support never got any reply.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Apple Ireland was buying US treasure bonds, with a yearly interest of 50usd/american citizen.
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Facebook is now the EU law maker(thegoodlobby.eu)
2 points by zoobab 8mo ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 8mo ago
I wrote about this 20 years ago: http://digital-majority.wikidot.com/forum/t-5766/software-pa... In the meantime, Ireland removed their 0% tax over patent royalties, but Holland kept it at 0%. https://e
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by zoobab 8mo ago
"you need some serious infrastructure investment" Well we could imagine where users give part of their laptop to join a pool of workers for builds. If there are 3 builds that achieve the same output, one of it "wins" and
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Git was supposed to be "decentralized", but it never was.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Not surprised about this, i found flaws in docker that was also considering logs written to stdout filling up the RAM, and considered the RAM to be infinite, therefore killing the pod. They have reinvented logging without learning from the
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Inflation it's called.
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EU Software Patents v3.0 via the Unified Patent Court [pdf](fosdem.org)
1 points by zoobab 8mo ago|1 comments
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by zoobab 8mo ago
HTTP is not designed for mirroring. FTP was easy to mirror with "lftp> mirror -p". Easy mirroring and archive level maintenance (let's say the network always maintain 3 copies at minimum) should be built-in the "socia
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Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software(piefed.zip)
4 points by zoobab 8mo ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Just use IRC.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Avoid SHALL, SHOULD and all other crap, use Elon MUST.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
For longshots, there was a value called "ack_timeout" that you needed to tune: https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/-/issues/41
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UK Supreme Court Issues Milestone Judgment for AI and Software Patentability(ipwatchdog.com)
10 points by zoobab 8mo ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 8mo ago
Cool places to try wifi long shots. I did some longshots back in the early days of wifi.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
I was making routers our of old PCs (486 or early pentiums) with 2 network cards (3com or ne2000) back in 2000 with floppies and CoyoteLinux. Installed 10s of them in the students houses.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
"the campus isn't that straightforward to navigate." I got lost several times, in the previous editions I remember there were clear signs at every level to guide you to the rooms...
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by zoobab 8mo ago
"all allocated to assembly groups" And they are all quickly booked as well, if you are not there when the registration process open, you can't have a table.
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by zoobab 8mo ago
"the idea of 'digital sovereignty' has been around for a bit and did not originate at FOSDEM." I would say it is around since the creation of the networked computer. Remember the debate on about centralized mainframes vs
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by zoobab 8mo ago
"Most of them were advertising one kind of service or another." 10y ago we had the issue with one of the talks in the IOT devroom which was very "corporate" with one presentation turning into the promotion of a proprieta

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