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by zxzax 5y ago
Just from my experience, building something purely out of spite is not a good long term strategy. All those companies ended up using a lot of open source because as it turns out, it is a good solution a lot of the time.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Just a small correction -- The GPL does not require you to release code diffs. The requirement is that people who receive binaries from you are entitled to receive the source to that binary upon request.
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by zxzax 5y ago
>OSS work becomes just a source of free labor for large tech companies. I really don't understand why there are always comments of this nature every time this is brought up. Why is the size of the company relevant? Do people here no
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by zxzax 5y ago
Hi Amjad, thanks for taking the time to respond. Can you please talk to Radon and work with him to remove the offending "unique and invisible" aspects, to make it so he can put his project back up? There must be some way to make i
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by zxzax 5y ago
That seems to be a mostly orthogonal concern -- you're talking about a general issue of "doing business with big corporations" and not really something I would say is specific to any given project. One way to help improve the
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by zxzax 5y ago
I've never liked that approach, it's leading with the stick and not the carrot and IMO it defeats the purpose of open source. It cuts away one of the main benefits of open source -- that companies can use it and start contributing
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by zxzax 5y ago
That's just making their argument for them. What is the argument in favor of them making unlocked devices? Can it be done while increasing their profits?
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by zxzax 5y ago
More horrific than having to guess what switches are supported by any given command on the target machine, even though shell scripts are supposed to be cross platform?
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by zxzax 5y ago
You probably just want to use the Remote SSH extension in VS Code. That should work a lot better than X11 forwarding, and it should be a lot easier than rewriting the whole GUI to use the terminal.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Overlays and GL/Vulkan extensions aren't strictly necessary, though support ultimately depends on the driver. For example, glamor does the conversion for some formats in a shader: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xo
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by zxzax 5y ago
Is that really an issue? If the user makes more uncivil comments then you flag them again until they get the picture. There are plenty of other places on the internet that seem to welcome and encourage flame wars -- they can go there to wor
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by zxzax 5y ago
I disagree, the shell is in the best situation to do something about it. Or at least it would be, if there was a consistent way for programs to report to the shell how their argument parsing works.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Don't forget filenames that start with a dash... Usually you need to remember to put "--" in every single command invocation.
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by zxzax 5y ago
So.... don't buy those devices? I have a pinephone myself, I don't really use GPGPU, and all the farmers I know buy tractors from other companies.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean extra point of failure. There is a boot process, you can't get rid of it because then you can't boot the machine. So you either secure it or you don't. I get the concern that the hardware
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by zxzax 5y ago
So don't buy that device? Those devices already exist, that doesn't prevent you from buying other devices where you control the keys. If manufacturing an unlocked device becomes unprofitable and stops happening everywhere, then we
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by zxzax 5y ago
>it breaks the concept of physical ownership. Am I missing something? This seems to be incorrect, this is explicitly a case where you, the hardware owner, controls the signing keys. It's nothing like DRM, that is a case where an out
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you don't trust the CPU vendor, a solution there would be to buy multiple CPUs from multiple vendors, run the same thing on all of them, and compare the results. You would still want them all to have the equivalent of SGX.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Just some small notes/nitpicks... >the TPM does nothing to protect from security issues beyond that point, which is the vast majority of security issues. I hear this type of thing often but it's the wrong mindset to take when d
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by zxzax 5y ago
How? You can use this to secure your own devices from tampering. Lots of (cheap) devices are already locked down like this, would it really help to deprive yourself of the capability to secure your own devices too?
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean -- it makes sense to me that if you are paying for an email service, they would continue to charge you as long as you store and access those emails in their server, and they would have to take steps to preven
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by zxzax 5y ago
That seems like a misreading, the very toplevel post says that you can stop paying by deleting all the data. Then the response says you can also do that by contacting support. Did I miss something?
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by zxzax 5y ago
This seems to be assuming bad faith, you've changed a complaint of a missing feature into a different request for a new feature (because contacting support is inconvenient), which are two different things. It would be best to not confu
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by zxzax 5y ago
Just from doing a little bit of research, the problem there seems to be that the netcode in that game is pretty old and has a lot of unfixed bugs that trolls are taking advantage of, not really anything to do with Linux. If they don't
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by zxzax 5y ago
That has not been my experience, do you have any studies that quantify that? From my perspective, the entire concept of legal rights and due process is what is actually the new thing, considering the total span of history anyway. These were
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by zxzax 5y ago
#1 seems practically impossible to do, considering that the definition of what a crime is tends to vary between jurisdictions. It may work if on a closed internet and social media that is segregated by jurisdiction. #2 is already true in so
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by zxzax 5y ago
Do you have any studies that actually quantify that? IMO large groups singling out and bullying individuals is not really a new thing, that has been happening for a long time.
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by zxzax 5y ago
Some US states do have laws of that type, though not all of them. In general, the answer to any kind of employer abuse is mostly the same as always: unionize.
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by zxzax 5y ago
In some cases, that is how it already works in the US: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right... As usual with legal stuff, the answer really seems to depends on the nature of was posted, and
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by zxzax 5y ago
That seems to hinge a lot on having a specific and consistent definition of what "related to the job" and "part of their work" means that won't unfairly affect some companies, maybe there is an established legal def

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