Deejahll

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by Deejahll 11y ago
YouTube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZZOLHQpd0
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by Deejahll 11y ago
I'm curious why they changed from noncommercial permissive to GPL2+ instead of GPL3. If their goal is to prevent misuse of the project by unethical profit-minded entities, GPL3's anti-tivoization language would have ensured that e
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Better-than-Docker containerized environments with GNU Guix(lists.gnu.org)
5 points by Deejahll 11y ago|0 comments
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by Deejahll 11y ago
Oh yeah I just pulled that from a fever dream I had, that sort of thing never happens in real life. > "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", is a phrase that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering pr
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by Deejahll 11y ago
This presumes that any modifications to "your" code that someone else makes should be none of your business. Seems fine on the surface. But what if your code writes files or communicates over the network? And what if, say, Microso
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by Deejahll 11y ago
> This is either incredibly naive or incredibly stupid. In order to interpret that one sentence the way you did, you had to: - divorce it from the context where the software was released as copyleft - ignore that person getting wealthy m
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by Deejahll 11y ago
> deliberately obstruct people from using our work as a foundation for successful entrepreneurial efforts No, the GPL does not do this. Obeying the requirement to share source code does not necessitate that your profits must evaporate. I
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by Deejahll 11y ago
> Would it outrage you for someone else to take your code ... and make millions while you make nothing? ... You shouldn't use the GPL if your response would be, "Bully for them, I had fun and they made the world better." T
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by Deejahll 12y ago
If your needs are extremely simple (e.g. graphical dialog boxes launched from a shell-script,) then there's zenity (gtk): https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.14/ and kdialog (kde). For an ncurses-style
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by Deejahll 12y ago
I'm very happy more people are coming around to this idea, despite multiple independent discoveries. :) Here's another project that attempts something similar: https://github.com/berdario/invewrapper Here&#x2
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by Deejahll 13y ago
In the end of 2012 I purchased a Lenovo x230, which ran Debian very well for the past year: deliberation: https://plus.google.com/106336989542410513415/posts/avV5eL1P... follow-up: https://plus.google.c
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by Deejahll 13y ago
Will your recommendation algorithm be public or secret? Will it be customizable by your users? You mention a bulk import. Will you provide a bulk export, or will I have to keep my own backup database to avoid lock-in? I see in your API exam
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by Deejahll 13y ago
http://www.depressioncomix.com/posts/g1/ Get professional help immediately. Any/all of your reservations against doing so are misplaced. We can't tell you what meds to take, which exercises to do, which
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by Deejahll 13y ago
The author of this article, Tim Kreider, may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/
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by Deejahll 13y ago
Volunteerism, public-funded research projects, and progressive open-source-friendly companies are the best thing we FOSS advocates have until business models that are more appropriate for the Information Age become popular. Commercial and c
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by Deejahll 13y ago
The authors mischaracterize the "code of conduct" statement first as a redundant legal system, then as a decree that "spreads guilt onto an entire gender," then as an "overarching act of protection condemning basically every social behavior
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by Deejahll 14y ago
A "business guy" complains about developers allegedly making contemptuous generalizations about clueless business guys by making contemptuous generalizations about developers. He assumes that the reason that we who know how to write softwar
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by Deejahll 14y ago
After a lot of deliberation, I just picked up a Lenovo x230 for about $950 pre-tax. Running Linux flawlessly was one of my primary criteria for purchase. It arrives tomorrow so I'll comment then when I know whether or not I've made a terrib
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by Deejahll 14y ago
Wow, I hate this advice. OP, if you are, like I was, completely repulsed by the constant insistence from everyone that you should go to college so you can toke, drink, party, and fuck: take heart, you can get a lot out of college without ev
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by Deejahll 14y ago
Woah is that...? It is! Author Tim Kreider may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/
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by Deejahll 14y ago
Of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan But it will never be put into practice. Thanks in part to the huge amount of money thrown away on the Republican-biased Diebold and their insecure black boxes, people have been trained to
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Race-condition-free deployment with the "symlink replacement" trick(gist.github.com)
63 points by Deejahll 14y ago|37 comments
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by Deejahll 15y ago
Been running Ubuntu on my employer-issued MacBook Pro for almost a full year. Ubuntu 10.10 was nearly flawless. Upgraded to 11.04 and lost the ability to change screen brightness easily. There are some configuration recommendations on the U
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by Deejahll 15y ago
For anyone wondering, the video being played is by Cyriak. http://cyriak.co.uk
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by Deejahll 15y ago
I sunk a lot of thought into a very similar idea a while ago, but then Kickstarter launched. Since it was successful and "close enough" to mine it kindof took the wind out of my sails and I've let the idea languish. I bought a domain to des
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by Deejahll 15y ago
"nature has given us a remarkable blueprint for beautiful and effective proportionality...Evident in plants, animals, the shape of galaxies, and even your DNA..." The author is buying into unfounded hype and mysticism regarding the golden r
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by Deejahll 16y ago
Fourteen mentions of "Free Software" and neither this article's author nor the article he mentions seems to know anything about the actual Free Software movement. The author he replies to has even modified his article after being corrected
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by Deejahll 16y ago
"TeleHash is the culmination of years of discussions with many people, and is being primarily bootstrapped by Jeremie Miller." This is the same Jeremie Miller who invented the Jabber (XMPP) protocol.
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by Deejahll 16y ago
Where did you get that? I'm telling you that 15 minutes on a treadmill beats doing no exercise at all. It's contemptible to suggest to a sedentary person that if they can't exercise outside in the sun then they shouldn't even bother.
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by Deejahll 16y ago
That scientific questions exist that humans "by nature cannot" or "will never be able to" understand. (Due to our brains being too unsophisticated or unimaginative, etc., or due to a projection from our current inability to observe.)

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