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Right. It seems to me no one's even asked the company to provide the source and received a negative answer. They just insist that since it's not on github or publicly available that they're violating the law. The license says the code must be available to users, not the general public. Have they tried contacting the company? Surely there's a reasonable amount of time in which the company has to respond. No where is there a requirement the source is immediately available.

If they've written to the company and the company insists they are not using mastodon or don't need to provide the source.. that's one thing. But that doesn't seem to have happened.

Instead, since it's not a downloadable link already (which again, there is no requirement it be), they're getting all mad.
> Why, though? Why would they be worse? Typically, when you have even two competitors, the quality is improved.

I think the key points are:

- because there would be fragmentation, we might have several smaller private services, each with crappier coverage because of fewer satellites in each, different variance in clocks, etc

- because GPS _doesn't_ need to worry about collecting revenue from users, you don't have to prove you're a subscriber to use it. Every GPS device you have doesn't have to be linked to your account. And you don't have to worry that e.g. your phone and your car partnered with different satnav services and so now you need two subscriptions _and_ they don't play together, etc.

I think it's not that hard to imagine casual consumer applications where the product benefit of incorporating satellite-based location services would become swamped by the overhead of connecting to your preferred location service.
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> From what I understand, while the source has to be available, there is no specification that it be downloadable or easily available. IIRC, for the original GNU software, the source code was provided by writing to GNU via snail mail.

This isn't "original GNU software." It's an AGPL licensed project, and here is the verbatim language of the license[1]:

> The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software.

> If your software can interact with users remotely through a computer network, you should also make sure that it provides a way for users to get its source. For example, if your program is a web application, its interface could display a "Source" link that leads users to an archive of the code. There are many ways you could offer source, and different solutions will be better for different programs; see section 13 for the specific requirements.

Apple, to the best of my knowledge, avoids both AGPL and GPLv3 like the plague. They've stuck to GPLv2 for any GNU software they happen to distribute, and they're making a concerted effort to remove even that.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
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Enjoy your stay. The decor is nice, but the visitors are mostly terrible fucking people and the management are corrupt.
> Hang on - you said "from local storage". The video is played from server-side storage. If it was on local storage on the client, you could only play it on that client. So I take it you meant "local to the server", in contrast to online video resources.

Bingo. In switching over to pet project thought mode I started thinking "local to myself" rather than the usual client-server wording.

Thanks for the advice! That sounds genius. I can much more easily imagine implementing this with my existing skills compared to figuring out how to script VLC or some other media player.

Now I'm guessing this approach serves the server media file to the client browser, and the client browser then plays it locally. Would it be possible to create a kind of TV-channel/radio-station type of approach where the server is constantly playing a video, and any client on the network can hop onto the stream like a TV channel?
I always joke that if I build a robot I will first target a very old person that can ask for help in a lot of situations. Weak muscles, slow moving, and yet the world will adapt to it, seeing that it is fragile and it needs our help for some things.
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> However, if Stardew Valley mostly channeled the energy of the sun, Haunted Chocolatier channels the energy of the moon.

That may explain why I didn't really like Stardew Valley. It's hard to put into words better than how he explained it though.
This is a curse of many highly influential works, they seem unoriginal after experiencing the works it influenced first[1].

[1]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
It's pretty bold to ask for a scientific study to prove that 25% of housing being rented at a low price lowers the price of rent.
I have bookmarked HN and added it to my iPhone Home Screen so does not matter to me either. It shows up just like a normal app on my iPhone :)
It was possible to deny it. As of July this year it is mandatory.
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There's also the significant factor of input and display lag screwing up the timing, contributing to the perceived difficulty nowadays.

Playing on real 6502 hardware with a CRT, you get instant response, 17 ms at most. But play on an emulator on any modern OS on most any modern "smart" TV, and all those layers of abstraction often add up to an unplayable 100 to 200 ms. I've shown several people the difference between Zelda II on a PC emulator versus a real NES and CRT, and they all agree the real thing feels immeasurably sharper. Even Nintendo's own Switch console has noticeable lag to me.

It's less of a problem for Game Boy games, since their feel is more accommodating of lag in the first place, thanks to the slow response of the original LCD.
Companies usually only care about your fiscal residence. When you were away traveling, that didn't change so it's rarely a problem for getting paid.
Really? I was on the "Linux Desktop" bandwagon in 1997 for awhile. It fizzled, and I returned to using just an empty MotifWM + xterm. Never looked back. I recently installed Focal Fossa's default desktop GUI and I just find it awkward as hell and buggy (bluetooth is a mess, constantly have to restart the service on the CLI).

I think the struggles of the Linux desktop is ripe for a historical analysis as to why it is so problematic.
I'm aware (that's how I have it configured), but that doesn't solve many of the problems with bookmarks.
I feel like I'm missing out on a lot by not knowing emacs.

I tried to learn emacs once, and the tutorial started with "I've been using emacs for about 25+ years and I'd say I'm about a middle of the road user"... that was when I was like, "No, I'll just keep using IntelliJ or vscode or whatever".

It's not that I love or even care about any IDE, I just literally haven't the first clue as to even get started with emacs. So what should I do if I want to give it a second chance?
That's basically my implication, or more generally, that the true goals deviate from the stated goals.
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Absolutely agreed. Facebook ads are mildly targeted (and terribly inaccurate) and then incredibly repetitive. But they are leagues ahead of Google ads which are just complete shit

It's amazing their incredibly terrible advertising actually funds a huge breadth of services. Marketing departments really are that dumb I guess
I am. Full time US citizen software developer living in Asia for the past 3 years. Get paid to a US bank account. Country I’m in isn’t good at collecting taxes.
> Instead, since it's not a downloadable link already (which again, there is no requirement it be), they're getting all mad.

This is false. The AGPL explicitly requires that the source be accessible through a network server.
> I've seen worker co-ops pop up in my own town.

And I wish them everlasting health and wealth. Can we please stop pretending Uber is some kind of glorious pioneer? They pioneered an industry whose very foundation is eroding the social contract. That some people are now turning around and setting up proper collectives doesn't suddenly mean now that Uber was a good thing. It's not, it's horrible, otherwise we wouldn't have the raft of alternatives, some better than others. And all of these alternatives have to compete on the open market with Uber, who enjoys the competitive advantage of exploitative economics. Let that sink in. Worsening the social contract doesn't in any way make things better, market economics will always drive a race to the bottom until people just can't stand it anymore. This is why labor norms are enforced by laws and not by us.

> So sick of being gaslit by people who think I'm some privileged WASP kid

Please don't put words in my mouth. The logic was simple. We don't care about Uber drivers, not nearly as much as we should, because higher rates means more money paid by us. We benefit directly from the tech industry who gives us services that are cheaper not because technology makes them cheaper, but because they exploit workers harder. Every time you take an uber, you participate in this exploitative economy. If you don't take uber, bully for you, you're not participating, at least not in this particular way. If I have to take an Uber, I always tip $5 or more, that's how I deal with the quandary.

You took that and turned it into purported gaslighting. I have no idea who you are, this isn't personal. You're obviously not a leftist because you rail against standard leftist platform points. I suppose you're a libertarian then. You tell me, not that it really matters for the purposes of this discussion, that's more meta-commentary.
Probably won't have time. I had a loaded gun pointed at my head and told not to touch my phone. Had every reason to believe they would have fired.
I was very young at the time, but I was absolutely convinced that the world would end at 2020. It didn’t, and that deeply ingrained in me a very substantial amount of skepticism from doomsdaysayers. The only doomsday I believe in now for absolute certainty is the heat death of the universe, but no one reading this will be around for that.
People getting together to negotiate is not incompatible with capitalism. It is actually forming monopolies, which socialists usually try to make illegal.

So I am still not sure what that example is supposed to demonstrate?
Well at-will employment already works in both directions. :)
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Well, first, they need to contact the company and ask for the source code, after they themselves have signed up, since the AGPL demands the code be available to users.

If the company responds in the negative (i.e., denying they're using mastodon or outright refusing to provide the source) or if the company fails to respond in a certain amount of time (like a week at least, since this is a new company), then you can start legal action.

It seems to me that because this organization could not find a link or a github making the source code public (which AGPL does not require), they decided to sue. They made no attempt to contact the company and ask, and they're not making any allegation the organization has outright refused. Instead, they've presumed such based on lack of a public download.
Most people I talk to would say Google and Chrome are the new IE in terms of monopolistic and corporate activities.

Internet Explorer, as far as I know, never dragged the chain, more so they went off on there own tangent with additional functionality not supported by other browsers.
I don't know if this is even Wall of Sound, but Along Comes Mary by The Association is a super interesting song to me. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUd5RUAz1I)

It starts with a guitar and a keyboard (panned all the way left and right) plus bass guitar, drums, claps, and vocals. Pretty standard so far. Then we get to the first chorus which introduces brass, cowbell, and vocal harmonies. Right after that, a lower brass comes in which doubles the bass. Later we meet the flute, and then during the final verse the vocal harmonies get more intense. The result sounds huge to me, but each part can be distinctly heard (which is why I'm not sure if this qualifies as "wall of sound").

As if the production weren't enough, the composition is also brilliant. It's catchy and poppy, yet it has some very strange chord progressions and interesting harmonies.

The genre is apparently "sunshine pop" but I haven't been able to find any other songs in that genre that I like even half as much.
I think geopolitics is about US wanting to have control over chip production (being able to start or stop it, being able to ban certain countries and companies from getting access to the latest technology). I doubt conflict between China and Taiwan means anything here. China is not going to attack Taiwan which has US support.
> This starts to make you sound unreasonable

nice ad hominem.
If that's all it is, it's pretty damning of Google.

It'd be nice if they thought of the users they'd be affecting, but I guess in a way they are, in that they're upset they can't mine those users.
There are a thousand supermarkets to choose from, and several other retail channels including just selling direct to consumer over the internet. If a single company is charging some % fees, you can easily compare their value add against all your other options. The mobile landscape is a duopoly, so hardly comparable.
Be careful of European Exceptionalism that reverberates same uninformed thinking American Exceptionalism was known for. Usually, full of prejudice, glib pride and delirious nationalism.
Unlike iOS, Android lets you use whatever maps app you like and set it to be the default handler for opening addresses. This includes maps apps that store the map data fully locally. Even better, when you get your location on Android, you do not have to send that location to Google. On iOS, no application can get your location without your location also being sent to Apple.

That "web and app tracking" applies to apps both on iOS and Android. The difference is that Android gives you more choice about what services you use.
At least Microsoft provided their dumb multi gb VMs to test on their old ie browsers.
Apple expects you to buy their hardware. I hope the browser dies out as soon as possible, it's better for the Web and whole world than chrome based dominance.
Weird list of non-problems and not understanding how Linux works (and a few problems). A few points picked at random:

There's no concept of drivers in Linux aside from proprietary drivers for NVIDIA/AMD GPUs which are separate packages: almost all drivers are already either in the kernel or various complementary packages (like foomatic/sane/etc).

I would say this is a feature rather than a bug.

It's impossible for the user to understand whether their hardware is indeed supported by the running Linux distro and whether all the required drivers are indeed installed and working properly (e.g. all the firmware files are available and loaded or necessary printer filters are installed).

Your hardware generally either works or doesn't work. If you are looking for Linux-compatible hardware to purchase, you'll need to do a few internet searches first, which is the same as any other OS.

No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications (like core Win32 API - most Windows 95 applications still run fine in Windows 10 - that's 24 years of binary compatibility). Both GTK and Qt (incompatible GTK versions 1, 2, 3, 4 and incompatible Qt versions 4, 5, 6 just for the last decade) don't strive to be backwards compatible. The Qt company also changed the licensing model for their toolkit which makes using the library under Linux problematic to say the least.

Complete misunderstanding of how Linux is distributed. The distros keep your software working with newer versions of Gtk or Qt, and deal with licensing. It's not something that end users need to worry about.

Also the obsession with "screen tearing"! I just don't get this frequent objection. I watch videos often in X11 which is supposed to be impossible because of this "tearing" thing, but somehow it doesn't bother me at all.
The pandemic created a lot more remote jobs but they often come with strings attached (e.g. US only), exactly because of what you said.

Famous example: GitHub.
I'm assuming you mean piracy rather than privateering?
How do I then watch downloaded videos on my Roku? Am I missing something?

EDIT: So there is a companion Jellyfin app for Roku
The Minuteman III is an American ICBM that is accurate to 800 feet. Much closer than hitting an ocean.
I’m aware of the Seinfeld effect and I concede that is probably part of it, but I also think your other examples - Dylan and The Beatles - are great, and have stood the test of time far better than The Ronettes.
Intel's numbers are theoretical. They're still relying heavily on multi patterning for their current chips. They have yet to demonstrate competency with EUV. Intel 4 is also projected for 2023. Tsmc are producing 5nm chips right now.
Not even Lenin. Lenin ran the USSR as a mixed economy with heavy market involvement. It's Stalin that really defined the dysfunction of the later USSR.
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So much for future printings of House of Leaves.
My instapot is not burning hot while I am cooking with it, so there is some insulation there for sure.

Heck my rice cooker seems reasonably well insulated.
Statute of limitations only applies to charging someone, not after they've been charged.

Speedy trial doesn't apply in almost any situation you can think of. It's almost impossible to beat a case on speedy trial grounds. All my speedy trial motions have been denied so far, most recently because of COVID. I'm still working this angle though.
use a memorable name, like google, or a name with good meaning. google was a super abstract word when it was first conceived and stuck in your mind. amazon is more on the good meaning side, because the amazon has incredible amounts of diversity within it and so does the company.
I only lumped them together because in America all forms of worker organization outside of the dominant system of employee subservience is deemed suspect in a hilariously uniform way. Farmers co-ops, for instance, have been described as "socialist," or "anti-competitive," or "inefficient" or "rent seeking" in the same way that unions have been.

But I do agree, for the sake of specificity, they should be considered separate.
Also in other jurisdictions people have the right to not incriminate themselves by refusing to answer questions.

If I am allowed to refuse giving my pin code for unlocking the phone, it would be interesting whether the police is allowed to use your fingerprint to unlock your phone.
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True, Portland, Ore. police department are documented white supremacists and clan sympathizers, and there's not many places bluer than PDX. But my last statement is 100% true. There's only one side in the corrupt police debate, regardless of your feelings of "both sides are the same". Show me where the liberal cops standing up for social justice and BLM are hiding, please, I'd love to live in that town.
Oh dear so no change since then?

Maybe that explains why the best Linux Desktop out there is Windows 11 at this point.

Downvoters: So this is all wrong then? WSL does not exist or perhaps cannot run a Linux distro? Is this person wrong about WSL running Linux GUI apps on Windows then? [0]

Maybe 2021 IS the year of the Linux desktop on Windows, also meaning that Windows is the best Linux distro for the desktop?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28961346
Hades is the perfect balance of this. Short runs while still allowing some amount of progression.
The company still needs a CEO, so it’s not a matter of “fire her and spend the money on 30 developers.” (At what, 100K per year including benefits and overhead? Good luck with that.)

Instead, it’s a matter of “fire her and hire a replacement” at $Xmm per year. So what is her replacement cost? I vaguely remember her raise being tied to increasing her compensation to be more in line with other CEOs, so it may be the case that there is no meaningful savings to be made there, or even that a competent replacement would cost more.

And, as the other commenter said, this is not the root cause of Firefox’s struggles. I don’t know what is, but I do observe that people on this site seem to hold Mozilla to a much higher standard than Google, quite unfairly in my opinion.
to any dev comming from windows (come to think of it, i actually dont know any devs that use windows) or mac that wants to get work done i recommend to try popos. it has great driver support including nvidia
>Is every visiting rando from the Internet a user?

Yes.

> If a person has five sock-puppet accounts, is that five users or one?

Each of those sock-puppet accounts can request the source, so 5. No wait, it's still a single human being, so 1. Either way, it doesn't matter. They can request the source, and they should get it.

Are users of the service entitled to free-of-charge access to the source code?

No, with limits.

https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide....

>GPLv2 permits “a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution”. This fee must be reasonable.
Using HTML 2.01 formatting though - complete with icons instead of bullets for <li> tags
I mean, not so bad. Education is nationalised here in Quebec, and so are key industries such as energy production, while housing is socialized in the form of aggressive rent controls and serviceable (though not expanded enough by recent governments) public housing.

We even ran a budget surplus for a fair while with these programs.