blip54321

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by blip54321 4y ago
For me, it's not so much about price but about freedom. I'd like to be able to modify them, create derivative works, and otherwise. I'd also like others to be able to do the same, so I can get their modified versions. Usually
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by blip54321 4y ago
Thank you for the pointer. I've been poking at it with a fork for the past few hours, and realized I forgot to respond.
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by blip54321 4y ago
Yes, the web would have survived. Streaming is a tiny portion of what the web is used for. Even so, entertainment should be... entertaining. I got free Paramount Plus with my phone service. It has DRM, adblocker-detectors, and all sorts of
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by blip54321 4y ago
My ex. She won't leave me alone. We do have a kid together, but it's a bit over-the-top. I can't post anything online under my real name (her mission in life is to protect the universe from me). If she finds out I'm asso
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by blip54321 4y ago
On the ethics front: * Yandex released everything as full open * Facebook released open with restrictions * OpenAI is completely non-transparent, and to add insult to injury, is trying to sell my own code back to me. It seems like OpenAI ha
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by blip54321 4y ago
Hey! This sounds like my ex! Any advice on how to deal with that? It's been a decade and things are increasingly scary.
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by blip54321 4y ago
OT: The terminal on your web page is broken. I type and nothing happens.
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by blip54321 4y ago
At this point in my life, I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever buy a cheap table saw. Table saws are where fingers come off, where work pieces get chucked at you, and where blades sometimes explode. It's probably the
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by blip54321 4y ago
It's horrible, but it serves a purpose. I've worked on projects where qualifying a vendor is a ton of work. CodeCommit is.... adequate, if you just need hosted git. AWS and Azure tend to be easy to work with, if you're dealin
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by blip54321 4y ago
> Are you suggesting we can use OSS and not follow the terms required by its license? "can" is a complex question. You can do anything you want, but actions have consequences. I can buy a gun and shoot someone. The consequence
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by blip54321 4y ago
Thank you. I've been thinking about your comment for 3 days, believe it or not. It seems like: - Only standard resources ought to be cached (e.g. D3, common fonts, etc.). Perhaps these could be a free registration with the browser make
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by blip54321 4y ago
I this case, an injunction doesn't force me to do anything. It prevents me from doing something, namely distributing the 10 lines of copilot-regurgitated GPL code in my program. The solution to that is to remove or replace those lines.
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by blip54321 4y ago
stale2002 read your comment correctly. stale2002 responded to it correctly. No one is arguing with you about what the GPL says. Let's do an experiment: You need to hit yourself repeatedly in the head with a mallet until you pass out. A
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by blip54321 4y ago
This is correct. Programmers read licenses like code ("If I use the GPL, I need to release my entire codebase."). That's not how the world works. The worst-case outcome is damages. Damages tend to be reasonable. In most cases
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by blip54321 4y ago
It's not willful by the users of copilot. Damages would be low since it's easy to show that users have no intention of infringing, and in most cases, aren't aware they're infringing. If liability sits somewhere, it'
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by blip54321 4y ago
Damages. This question will come back to damages. If you steal 10 lines of code from me, the damages will be the greater of: - The benefit to you (10 minutes programmer time) - The cost to me ($0) - Statutory damages (probably $200) In othe
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by blip54321 4y ago
No, I'm not reinventing it, but extending it by: 1) Mandating it for certain types of resources 2) Extending caching to cover the cross-site case. Can you please explain the proposed timing-based attack?
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by blip54321 4y ago
If it were me, I'd make third-party font sources require a SHA hash. In pseudocode: url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/comic-sans", sha="abcd1234") This way: - If my browser has comic-sans cac
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by blip54321 4y ago
Precisely. Google has standing for workplace sexual abuse. If I am a member of a religious / national / ethnic / etc. group with a track record of sexual abuse, I cannot be fired for that. That's discrimination. There ar
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by blip54321 4y ago
Just to clarify: Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. Google cannot take action against religions (even cults) it disagrees with (even for valid reasons for disagreeing with them), unless it gets over a very high b
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by blip54321 4y ago
You are so incredibly wrong. Visual Studio was a horrible IDE for most of the past 20 years, relative to competitors. Quite literally the only reason it picked up marketshare was that it supported new Windows features before Borland could.
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by blip54321 4y ago
I can buy stuff much cheaper on Aliexpress. My experience there is no worse than 2022 Amazon, except for lower prices and slower shipping. Amazon, even as late as 2019, seemed ahead of Aliexpress on service and quality. Something happened w
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by blip54321 4y ago
I have mixed feelings on tech stocks. I feel like the general competence has gone down, and that makes them vulnerable. Google is a shitshow right now. I don't think they can do B2B. Chrome Extensions. GSuite Free. Google Workspace App
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by blip54321 4y ago
Historically, India made premium products for export markets. Many weren't sold locally.
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by blip54321 4y ago
The problem is that it takes both sides to want to do that.
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by blip54321 4y ago
CS suite subscription. I also do illustrations, edit videos, do page layout, etc. I used to have Photoshop, PageMaker (then Quark), etc. Price is $55/mo, which comes out to $660 per year. Apparently, I misrecalled the price. But I can&
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by blip54321 4y ago
A pre-nup could handle the best interest of the children far better than a court. Best interest of the children are to minimize parental conflict. No matter the outcome, a legal process inflames conflict. Arab countries have this right. The
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by blip54321 4y ago
My experience here is that courts have no way to decipher truth from fiction, and make ruling based on who spends more money and who lies better. Legal processes -- with lawyers -- inflame conflict and turn things adversarial. We need clear
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by blip54321 4y ago
> discontinued: Atom just got discontinued. It's open source. Photoshop on the other hand has withstood the test of time. Photoshop has not withstood the test of time for me. I did a lot of Photoshop a few decades ago. I can't
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by blip54321 4y ago
I think most of us value our freedom more. Most people don't think of it in terms of freedom, but freedom it is. With proprietary software: - You don't know when it will disappear or be discontinued. Even your paid-for existing ve

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