Gentil

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by Gentil 1y ago
Rust foundation has not been very community friendly. That's cos corporates run it. There was a fork of the language called crab or something cos of this at one point. Take Linus out of the scenario, it's the same thing that'
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by Gentil 1y ago
> Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers is just an interim CEO. I am not sure how Mozill Foundation/Corporation is exactly linked in the decision making. But the key people are still Mark Surman and Mitchell Baker who is the Chairwomen of Mozi
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by Gentil 1y ago
Did I say anything is run poorly? Or good for that matter? The difference is intent. Run for community and run for corporate are both different. Currenlty Linus is the only thing standing in the way of LF pulling another Rust Foundation. Co
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by Gentil 1y ago
Linux is a trademark of Linus. Which is why Linux Foundation which is run by corporates like Microsoft, Google etc is staying aside. After Linus, it would like corporate board memebers changing CEOs at their wish.
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by Gentil 1y ago
Let us donate directly to Firefox development. That is the solution. You don't have to look anywhere else. Thunderbird is a good example of what can be done when the donations reach the project. I just hope they don't screw it up
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by Gentil 2y ago
It's interesting to note that Linux Foundation is not even mentioned anywhere in the discussions. It is all Linus Torvalds for people apparently. Linux Foundation and their corporate lawyers should be the ones who recommended this righ
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by Gentil 2y ago
> That being said, it always irks me when people worship "philantropic" billionaires. I hate that people are using philanthropic to describe Tatas. The western description about it is some random guy who made a lot of money and
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by Gentil 2y ago
The default expectation here means "doing the right thing while no one is looking" . Ambanis is far far away from it. I am sorry. Ambanis are not everyone's favourite. Definitely not even comparable to the Tatas. I can see w
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by Gentil 2y ago
Probably. I don't think it's possible to please everybody. Also, under Rata Tata, Tata went truly global. I can only presume that it means increased responsibilities & increased issues. JRD Tata didn't go through the sa
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by Gentil 2y ago
I don't think people outside India understand what Tata means. Who Ratan Tata was. He was not some random rich person who did some philanthropy. ~66% of everything that Tata companies make goes back to philanthropy and the people of In
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by Gentil 3y ago
Yeah. But I guess that might change. They maybe trying to implement end-to-end encryption with the new talent pool.
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by Gentil 3y ago
Not OP. But why should I? It's a hassle to do migration. So if there is a non-vc funded choice, why would I bother with all the trouble?
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by Gentil 3y ago
OK. Now where do I learn all these functional aspect of UI/UX? I was thinking of following Human Interface Guidelines. But reading from people here, it just means the UI will look more uniform and fancy. The functionality aspect is not
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by Gentil 3y ago
All services have permissible use clause in their terms & conditions. And if this is about cryptocurrencies and blockchain. It's absolutely a valid choice for a small service provider to block them. They are resource hungry and res
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by Gentil 3y ago
> but who is paying that for a blog or hobby site (or even some small businesses)? I was trying to. I highly recommend you to bring back the paid plans. Just leave it as it was. Opt-in for personal and for small commercial websites, paid
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by Gentil 3y ago
When I first added analytics to my website, I couldn't afford to pay for his then plan (There was a plan for opt-in pay for personal use and paid plan for commercial use. Or something of that sort IIRC). But when I move to a new gig, I
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by Gentil 3y ago
We are currently in this mess off app store monopolies issue because of Google and Apple. PWA is trying to be the solution to this. Why would you upload it and repeat the same mistakes all over again? It's like those people who use 2FA
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by Gentil 3y ago
I avoid using google wherever possible. Forget all the hate they get. Their customer service sucks making it harder to recommend any of their product. Then there is the fact that they will just kill the product any time. If you are going to
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by Gentil 3y ago
I am not sure I can agree. What is stopping them from using only permissive license and adding attribution for all the licenses in a single long page? Nothing. This is not a technical issue.
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by Gentil 3y ago
This is the wrong way to look at it. This comes in the same line of saying "we need a new license for AI" argument. There is nothing stopping an LLM/AI from abiding the license. The OSS license can be used by AI's or LLM
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by Gentil 3y ago
> Are you claiming this because they used copyrighted material as training data? If so, I think you're starting from the wrong point. All open source license comes under copyright law. It means if they violate the OSS license, the l
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by Gentil 3y ago
The ChatGPT model has violated pretty much all open source licenses (including MIT license which needs attribution. Show me one single OSS project's license attribution before arguing please.) and is standing still. With the backing of
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2022)(intelligence.org)
6 points by Gentil 3y ago|0 comments
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by Gentil 4y ago
I don't think google invokes confidence when it comes to customer support. Especially when it comes to occupying a small space on the internet. Not to mention, I would be linking another thing with google. As an indieweb enthusiast, it
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by Gentil 4y ago
GoDaddy has never been a good domain registrar. They have horrible practices. Sell our data. And buy the domain you did a lookup for in their website and try to sell it to you for more money. Not a service to use in so many ways if you are
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by Gentil 4y ago
I am a big fan of XFCE and I can agree with biggunz. Thunar freaks out randomly. And there were some other issues which I don't remember. Thunar was always the most important one I remember. Talking about the reality shouldn't be
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by Gentil 4y ago
People who are ranting about PHP should know that it still powers a significant portion of the internet. The nodejs, deno and bun are an evolving space. If you want to take that train, that is definitely a good idea as it is HOT and popular
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by Gentil 4y ago
TIL about the LED thought. As a person who is infront of the computer for most of his day, only recently have I taken lighting extremely strict. I am not sure if everyone will do the same. The whole reason behind dark themes and working at
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by Gentil 4y ago
But didn't another study conclude that giving kids mobile at early age makes their eyes don't grow well with their eye being short sighted easily? I mean it makes sense. I used to run around outside and play sports through my vaca
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by Gentil 4y ago
TLDR: So Firefox is trying to cater to general audience NOW. To increase the user base with features and what not. But a noteworthy amount of them have already left Firefox cos of inconvenience and broken websites pre-quantum (v57). And the

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