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I'm afraid this call for freedom is actually narrow ideology.

Consider: what is more 'free'?

A) Here is some code, do whatever with it?

or

B) Here is some code, you can only use it in certain circumstances?

FSF is dead because it's not practical, and the ideologues behind it naively malign 'capitalism' as something terrible for the world.

OSS makers are free to publish as they chose. Apple and MS don't force or cajole anyone to use MIT. If you use copyleft, your software will not likely get used very much and that's that.

'Big companies leverage over small developers!'

True, maybe they should get together and license their software to Large Corporations?

Finally, the conversation started with a giant Photo of Stallman and that hints at the ideological demagoguery right from the start no matter how much they try to play it down, it'd have been better to not opened the discussion with that at all.

In the end, it will not matter, very few will use copyleft because it's just not practical and that's that.
Also sad: the (terrible) response times and efforts detailed here exceed what many organizations, private and public, have shown in their situations.
I looked at the website and product and cannot relate to this post at all. Seems like a run of the mill landing page for an app, and the app looks pretty decent. I find it hard to complain about any of it beyond how text selection is broken, which is bad.
This app looks promising. Seeing as you're using it, how's the update process? Does it auto update apps, or can you at least click one notification to upgrade everything?

Because it's way too easy to install apps with winget or scoop, etc, but never update them.
Yeah, I do it all the time :) It doesn't "replace" a smart watch, but you can make phone calls and get directions and schedule lyfts, and that's really all you need.

If you're interested in this idea and drive a car, I would encourage you to experiment by leaving your phone in your car's glove compartment.

[1] https://taylor.town/leave-your-phone-at-home
I see two alternatives: The RMS approach, where all software needs to be open, scrutinizable, subject to modification. Ensuring quality and responsibility through openness.

Or the liability approach: Make closed-source developers liable for what they produce, legislate standards for safety and security and have them be responsible for their creations. Because the current state of closed source software got us into the mess of Windows, Stuxnet, self-murdering cars, etc.

A combination of both approaches is possible. But if you want to hide your code, thats fine. If you then take full responsibility for your code.
Carpenters, plumbers, and electricians seem to manifest their imaginary customers just fine by selling labor contracts.
Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance.

So if you join a general instance (like reddthat.com #selfplug) you can search in the communities and find any other community and subscribe to it.

browse.feddit.de is the current place that searches every fediverse instance, and indexes all the communities. So your can find any community, even if the instance has not federated yet
Reddit's r/science is restricted until Monday
Lot of HDR tech is actually making sure that old conventional SDR sRGB looks "correct" (what people expect) on these newfangled displays. Lot of problems stem from lot of tech basically completely ignoring color management, even if wide-gamut displays were already a thing before HDR.

Basically if srgb content was just naively stretched to rec2020 it'd look garish and oversaturated instead of what the designer/photo/videographer intended. If it was additionally stretched to HDR, it'd look garish and eye-searingly bright.

Because the differences between HDR displays and SDR is so dramatic it is forcing everyone to scramble to do color management as the result would be pretty unusable otherwise.
Nice to see someone else notice that a statement of fundamental freedoms that doesn’t ship with a statement of concomitant fundamental responsibilities is a statement that is already fatally undermined.
That phrase "drew" my attention too.

I don't speak Spanish; but in French, tirer is to pull as well as to shoot, as in pulling the trigger or drawing a bow. So I was surprised that Miamians choose to render it as "throw", the opposite of "pull". So I looked it up; "tirar" is also pull and shoot in Spanish.

I wonder why it didn't turn out as "shoot a photo", which would be consistent with customary english English.
> I don’t think they’ve broken new ground in terms of resolution (compared to Pimax) and refresh rate (12ms is a bit less than 90Hz, which is equivalent to Quest Pro and worse than Quest 2 in dev mode).

I don’t think it’s unprecedented on the raw hardware capacities but the combination is: the Pimax is only a VR headset, so it’s missing half of the hardware, and it has half the PPD; the Quest 2 can go higher on refresh rate but has much lower resolution, no eye tracking, etc. while the Quest Pro gets closer on some of those features but at under a third the PPD.

I mention that because one thing which has stalled AR/VR adoption is the high threshold your brain sets for accepting a scene as real, especially for AR. We won’t know until it ships but I did find it interesting how many reviewers mentioned this being the first time things came together. It might be that much of the conventional wisdom around AR is too pessimistic and it’s simply that you need to reach an aggressive combination of resolution, color depth, responsiveness, tracking precision, weight, etc. similar to how it took decades for digital cameras to hit the quality/weight/cost thresholds where the benefits became compelling. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it turned out that the Vision Pro is barely over that level for Apple at a high price point and out of reach for Facebook for a few more years since they don’t have a high-end CPU team in house and have to wait for the commodity market to advance.
It seems like a valid point as if I read the original headline I would think that the drivers worked for Amazon just because I think “Amazon driver” means employee.

If I heard “Microsoft programmer” I would think employee. Of the programmer worked for IBM and had been coding for Microsoft 10 years straight, I would think of them as an IBM employee, not Microsoft (because they are).
Engineers (or anybody involved in a botched product launch) may be interested in the story of the Vasa. It was a Swedish warship launched in 1627. At the time it was the most powerful warship in the world. It took many years to build at a shipyard in Stockholm within sight of the King's palace. The ship was launched at a public ceremony and made it 1300m out into the harbor. To fire a celebratory salute, its gunports were open. A strong wind came and tilted it over, letting water rush in through the gunports. It sank in minutes. The cause was poor design and a lack of appropriate ballast, rushed into production despite flaws. It sat at the bottom of the harbor for 300 years, perfectly preserved. In the 1970s, the Swedes decided to recover the ship by refloating it. It was a huge effort, but it worked. It has been completely restored and sits in a multi-story museum built around it. I saw it last month and was awestruck by the size and craftmanship. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
In my experience GraphQL doesn’t scale great and it is incompatible with frontend state stores (like Vuex/Pinia) due to every component needing a different subset of data. Maybe you can write a layer that uses data from the store and progressively loads what’s needed but that sounds like a huge pain and frontend code that needs to be able to handle the absence of data until specific properties load.

Places where I’ve used GraphQL feel like we are just playing around and spend more time trying to get basics things to work with a ton of boilerplate vs actually building. Maybe that’s just my experience but yeah.
You are right, but you are missing the frontend part.

e.g. frontend says "backend, give me the users". Then later, for every user it says "backend, given me the users favourite images". However, with graphql the frontend can say "backend, give me the users and include each favourites images".

Even if the way to retrieve it from the database is the same for the backend, there is still reduced latency because it is only

frontend->backend->db (users)->backend->db (images)->backend->frontend

instead of

frontend->backend->db (users)->backend->frontend->backend->db (images)->backend->frontend
Large, state-backed, entities that predate the internet seem to get away with stuff of this kind all the time.

The other day my mother tried to buy a train ticket. The payment went through, but something went wrong on the site and the ticket was not issued.

If this were just some e-commerce site, the payment provider would have had their head on a spike.

In this case she had to go through the usual return process.
Twitter's Throttling of “What Is a Woman?” Was Not Censorship
I got rid of ads when developers of ads decided to:

* Use 100% of my CPU to blinking Flash banner

* Overlay whole screen with an ad

* Start jumping around with a close button

* Started playing ad videos on full volume.

They were so intrusive to spread the message, that people went great lengths to shut them up. They caused their own demise.
Rhys - are you sure the consent functionality is working? I'm seeing indexed posts by users who are in a time zone that makes it very unlikely they have consented in the last hour or so.

The one user whom I contacted said they had never clicked the green consent button.

EDIT - turns out those posts were only visible to me when I was logged in to both sites (which makes sense).

It wasn't obvious this was the case and checking incognito shows things correctly.
Because private companies like Microsoft, British Airways, T-Mobile, Equifax never make amateur mistakes in cyber security.
I honestly don't think we would have the internet or electricity if it was a new thing today.

It would be impossible to run power lines. We would make some argument that we need to slow down and stick with candles for now. We already have enough to worry about with fires. You want to run high powered electric death lines into people's homes and water? What are you crazy or you just don't understand what happens when water and electricity mix?
Things that are destined to fail:

* Cryptocurrencies who's sole reason to exist is to justify its own existence. "We need token X to perform operation Y. Operation Y is important to facilitate the trade of token X". Seriously, how many tokens exist for the only purpose of being "gas" for its own network?

* Social networks that only discuss itself and its own existence.

* Programming languages where the largest project written in that language is its own compiler.

Solutions in search of a problem, is what they are.
This is really not true.
Tyler Cowen is underrated.
> More like “extremely tedious and mind numbing”

To me it seems clear that that is not what this book is about. It's about the purpose, not the contents.
I was able to, and did for almost 3 months! I loved every second of it. What made me switch back recently was not having a camera. I have a few things at my job where I need to be able to take a photo. I am hoping to change that workflow so I can go back to just the watch.
My New Computer Weighs 1k Pounds [video]
Branching isn't in and of itself too bad. It's divergent branching within a warp, especially if the blocks are large, that can kill perf.
Indeed. Carmack wasn't simply betting on VR; more specifically, he was working on VR for mobile devices, where his expertise was a good fit.
I'm mostly interested in surfacing content on pretty specific topics with clear keywords.

But also either answeroverflow.com will gain some domain authority over time, or the communities will be hosted on domains that already have some.
In theory I'd agree, but in practice people criticizing RMS were just hopping on the latest witchhunt train, all in the name of "inclusivity", which is just extremely hypocritical when people outside the norm are exactly the ones you should be protecting, not trying to get them kicked out. So I can very much understand why the FSF would want to keep their distance.

That's not to say you can't criticize RMS, quite the opposite, but that criticism needs to be focused on his position in regards to Free Software, not the person and I really haven't heard much of that.
This isn't really true, the YF-12 in 1964 was used by the government to acknowledge the aircraft's existence without revealing its exact purpose.
Probably Safari users aren't their top priority right now (after all the anti-tracking features that Apple added).
It is the mini yes like I said in my original post, I forgot to mention that in my last post but I updated it now.

I like small and light watches so the mini was perfect. It's a really powerful watch for its size.

Be careful though because the version sold now is an 'updated' one on which they left out the barometer. I hillwalk a lot so that's a big loss because GPS altitude is pretty horrible even with a great receiver. If you want that you should get the newer GTS 4 mini I think.
What do you mean by T shape?
An instance can block another instance from federating with it. So if I'm on instance "b" and it defederates instance "a", I can no longer see any of instance "a"'s communities or comments.
Why do they need to get everything out? Some not-insignificant percentage of the content is surely archived/unused/unneeded assets. From customers who will never log in again or projects which are long over. Export the most recent 10% and put anything new on <new storage>
I agree with you and Keyle.
Theres open uni materials, though i doubt they give degrees for free
Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims
Email adoption would be doomed if email was created today.
Yes, I was thinking of that part, as this kind of stack would make a lot of sense for commercial application.

Just made an appliance using a Web technology for the frontend, as the licensing situation was a nobrainer, and we could focus on delivering value instantly, using proven technology, instead of wasting time on negotiating on terms for something this basic element of the project. I mean if I need an LCD screen or a CPU, I don't negotiate, just go to a retailer, and check their prices and availability, and order&pay. No multiple round interactive sales process needed for something that is just a stock item, no customization needed, etc. Also the per-customer pricing seems potentially a bit discriminatory to me.

So an online calculator would be great, it would instantly let me know if your product suits outr business.

For example with the relatively low volume electric part I have mentioned above I had to make several hoops, provide lot of redundant paperwork, and nag the salespeople for weeks to provide me at least a quote the vendor could have already put on their site, as their competitors do. (This vendor has some niche differentiator aspects which made us focus on them first, not on larger volume ones). They wasted a lot of our time and our project was stalled until we got responses from them, and the prices seemed irrationally high, feeling almost as if they didn't want to sell that piece to us from the start. This is what I feel whenever I see Call Us for a quote, as this was not a unique occasion.
Yes, that is probably true indeed. That's why there are so many bullshit jobs.

I could never work in a zero-sum environment.
All business is about value created, not expenses incurred.

And houses and furniture have marginal costs, where software does not.

How does Linus Torvalds make money when Linux is free? How do commercial Linux or MySQL or Apache companies make money when their IP is free?

It turns out that writing code is the least valuable thing a developer does. Which is a good thing since "turn spec into code" is a job function that will be taken over my AI in... (Checks watch)

I'm fully supportive of close source, but I think it's pretty clear that successful businesses can employ lots of people usi g either model, and also that the greatest threat to code mill developers is not open source.
Let's see. Cologne to Berlin takes ~4:40 hours by train. Flixbus takes 9-10 hours, not counting the time it takes to get to their departure station which would involve a train journey as it's not actually in the city centre.

Flixbus is 50€ cheaper when traveling that route tomorrow but that's about all it has going for it.
I'm not sure we are there yet, depends how modular the molecular machinery in the sclerocytes to create spicules is I suppose, but a lot of things in nature only emerge from higher order interactions. A very simple example is that bees never sought to build hexagonal comb. We already investigate evolution mathematically straight from the code, which obviates assumption of selective pressures acting on spicules morphology. It could be an interesting approach though and allow testing of hypotheses about biomechanics etc.
> This project was implemented by the same agencies - MCI together with Caracal.

I suspect that this is the root cause of this and for many other systems failing. When a project is created by the lowest bidder, as a one time effort with fluffy requirements why would they invest in proper architecture, planning or testing? Why would they invest in securing resources when they are paid anyway?
RMS has always struck me as someone who is confidently correct.

For a start, he doesn't weigh in on everything. He knows where his expertise lie and where it doesn't. Having an opinion means something. It's easier to not have an opinion at all than to invest the brain power in forming one.

But mainly, he is always open to new inputs. That his views haven't changed on Free Software over the years is not because he is staunchly attached to them but because he remains correct, as he always was.

As for copyleft, that has been maligned both by those for whom it benefits to do so, and by those who severely misunderstand it.

The problem with the latter group is people criticise the means and do not consider the ends. The point of copyleft is to disable copyright. Copyright is the enemy of free software and community. Copyleft is the only known way to disable copyright. The means are unfortunate, but they are necessary because copyright exists. There is no way around it. As long as copyright exists for software, copyleft must exist to. Stallman was merely taking the pragmatic approach with copyleft and it's been incredibly successful, even if it's not fully understood.
Pure functions are just a concept that is used in FP world

Yet, pure functions can "stand alone". You do not need FP to use pure functions. They are independent from FP. You can be OOP maniac and still use them.

So unless you want to sound fancy and trendy then why call Nix functional instead of side-effects free?
Let me go through your points:

1. Drug legalization: This is mainstream where I live. A majority of people are for a legalization (or at least a decriminalization) of Marijuana in some fashion or another. This is pretty much the same in the US as far as I can judge. There are some outliers that would extend that to other drugs as well (as e.g. Portugal did with quite some success), but that is a minority opinion among US Democrats, especially among those in any position of power.

2. Gender affirmative care (this includes btw. stuff that affirms the gender people had at theie birth) are relatively non-issues where I live. People who really need this get it. People who don't, don't. There are very few people who would lighty perform operations on their bodies. There are even fewer parents who would allow their children to undergo such a thing. This is basically a made up propaganda-talking-point that literally has no influence on my or your life at all. There have been studies that show links between the feeling of disgust and right wing ideology. Such a topic where you can other a powerless minority that right wingers feel disgusted about is a textbook manipulation example. My advice: Focus on voting for policy issues that actually impact your life instead of letting them manipulate you into voting against your own interest.

3. Defunding the police is a non issue in my country. Why? Because our police for the most part doesn't execute people without trial and they serve and protect instead. Of couese europe has bigot cops as well, but better training and a more service orientwd culture make all the difference here. If they would have the same bad culture as US cops I can assure you that defunding them would be quite popular.

P.S. where exactly I live is not relevant, this would hold true for my country and all surrounding neighbour-countries.
I feel like this is the opposite of my own experience. I was at my happiest when I was renting, had no car, and made enough money to not have to worry about paying the bills.

I was free from responsibilities and obligations that distracted me from spending time with the family, cooking, walking around my city, and the other little things that satisfied me. I didn't need or want any more than that.
In that sense, any license that isn't fully public domain or equivalent is a problem.

Stackoverflow and GPT could also give you secret but leaked Microsoft, Oracle or NSA code. You'll never know, until that black helicopter lands on your doorstep and a legion of lawyers empty your bank account. Just copy&pasting code from somewhere always was risky and always will be, as long as there is copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and crap like that.
I propose a different statement: we need less cringe, not more
> > Passwords can't be longer than 20char

> This has to be a bad joke.

There are plenty of rough edges, that the community is finding.

> Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

It is an alternative that removes a problem that Reddit users were facing. Lack of Control. It gives control back to the users. I wouldn't say it's perfect but if a person doesn't want a company being completely in control of everything relating to that platform. The fediverse is that solution
Every time someone mentions richard stallman it becomes a conversation about richard stallman, when will people learn
You seem to trigger on "diversity" and immediately go into a - slightly troubling if you ask me - rant. Diversity means "diverse group of opinion on free software" in this context, not necessarily "diverse group of humans".
It's because of bad paint. Some places use cheap, generic paint and some will use the one with proper grip.

You can sometimes tell in advance by the texture. It's a gamble I personally wouldn't take.
Are you saying RMS is not actually an egotistical jerk, or that we should pretend he isn't because you think people would say mean things even if he weren't?
Given the popularity of QR codes now, I wonder if it makes sense for it to just be supported directly in HTML as a type of element.

<qrcode>Some content!</qrcode>

With necessary browser/device level support to automatically do this HDR thing.
I find their search amazing. What's your issue with it?
Was about to ask you how do you know the installed version, but wow, just updated WSL, and this new version also brought the support for the `--version` command line switch, so finally I can also check which version I have installed!
How does stack overflow cause violations of the GPL? Is it not possible to clarify the license when posting an answer?

As far as I know, it's so far rather unclear whether using machine learning systems cause violations. Care to support the statement with an example?
Indie is about whether some other company is controlling what you make. This means you can make an indie game even if it is published by another studio (like with Valheim).