jnovek

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by jnovek 15d ago
You have to explicitly legally defend trademark, that's completely our of reach for someone who sells knitting patterns on Etsy. OTOH, DMCA can (and does) work for that group. I also dislike US IP law but I think it needs to be improve
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by jnovek 15d ago
"If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that." I've worked on a lot of terrible legacy code in my career and I'm very thankful for the comments that others have left. Th
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by jnovek 16d ago
It’s not Taylor Swift who is hurt by this, it’s the solo creatives who cannot afford other mechanisms (e.g. trademark enforcement) to protect their work.
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by jnovek 16d ago
It seems like you really only know about how the affects people who make music and TV. What about illustrators who license their work? Knitters and crocheters who create patterns? There are countless people who sell creative output on a lic
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by jnovek 18d ago
There’s bluebubbles which runs a server on a Mac and syncs your messages that way.
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by jnovek 22d ago
> Only those that believe privacy and sovereign control of wealth has no value, can assert cryptocurrency is useless. I didn’t say it was useless, it seems to have a niche value to speculators and investors. All of the examples you gave
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by jnovek 23d ago
It’s been 18 years and there are still no useful blockchain projects that go beyond trading and speculation. It hasn’t even produced a compelling currency, <2% of households use it for goods and services. I have no idea how or why anyone
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by jnovek 1mo ago
There are people who claim that, yes, but that’s not broadly what the movement is about. Every philosophy or movement has outliers that misinterpret and act outside of the bounds of that movement and we understand that those outliers don’t
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by jnovek 1mo ago
I don’t think anyone in these comments expects to get something for nothing, it’s that MITMing your payload is something that feels like a betrayal of trust unless you are crystal clear that you’re doing it. Considering how many people in t
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by jnovek 1mo ago
> Seems reasonable to me Only if they make it clear what they’re taking in return. It seems like almost no one in these comments was aware of this, they announced it but that announcement apparently didn’t reach most free customers. Clou
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by jnovek 1mo ago
Whether patients make good choices is completely independent from whether doctors provide everyone with equal quality of care. Specifically, doctors are less likely to investigate issues that can be explained by obesity than they are in non
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by jnovek 1mo ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the fat acceptance movement. It’s about separating the illness from the person, not about obesity health. In our society it would be impossible to be unaware that obesity is unhealthy. People go out of their
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by jnovek 1mo ago
There are several studies now showing that symptoms reported by overweight patients are taken less seriously by medical professionals, it’s not just a matter of people “being nice”. It’s actually providing a lower standard of care.
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by jnovek 1mo ago
These are different definitions of the same term. Yes, “leadership” is a stupid word to co-opt, but it’s been used this way for 20+ years and I suspect that you know what the author means. There’s a very interesting conversation here that a
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by jnovek 1mo ago
“Leadership”, whether you like the LinkedIn-ism or not (I also think it’s stupid), generally refers to upper management, not people management. At my startup, my team reached a headcount of ~30 and I had to design process to keep things mov
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by jnovek 1mo ago
Literally the second paragraph in the article: “An ABC NEWS Verify investigation into several controversial Australian pages on Facebook has found that some are benefiting directly from social media monetisation programs run by Meta.” They
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by jnovek 1mo ago
When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.
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by jnovek 1mo ago
“ Why does the social model of disability imply that the second group of businesses is wrong, or that we have to override their judgment?” It doesn’t, it claims that WFH is a reasonable accommodation for desk workers and employers need to a
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by jnovek 1mo ago
Are you the disabled person using these automatic door buttons? If not, have you asked someone with a mobility-related disability what they think of it? It’s absolutely possible for laws around accommodations to be stupid. Once again, that’
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by jnovek 1mo ago
> Even the strongest advocates of the social model of disability wouldn't argue, I don't think, that construction site supervisors must be allowed to work from home after setting up some cameras and microphones to monitor what&
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by jnovek 1mo ago
I think it’s perfect. It means that Meta can’t have squishy hand-wavy policies to keep minors off the platform, they’ll have to do real work and build real tools to keep them off because those minors are now a potential cost-center. Alterna
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by jnovek 1mo ago
> minors get rewarded for signing up for the platforms that are harming them in the first place. That sounds like a great incentive for Meta to keep minors off of their platforms.
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by jnovek 1mo ago
This is really ignorant. That’s not an insult exactly, I mean that you’re asking questions that all have answers if you cared to look them up. The reason why people call that sort of attitude “ableist” is that you’re requiring me, the disab
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by jnovek 1mo ago
> Disabled person pays isnt correct either because there are many near zero cost things we could do if we just thought about it at design phase. ??? This is the social model on a nutshell.
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by jnovek 1mo ago
I am so thankful that I just deal with chronic pain and not mobility issues as well. I’m sorry. Even though it doesn’t affect me directly I’ve started to notice places where mobility accommodation sucks. In a sense it’s a canary: mobility
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by jnovek 1mo ago
As a disabled person, my experience indicates that we’re not even close to what the social model could achieve. Example: I have a chronic pain disorder. I have substantial difficulty working in an office. WFH was an absolute blessing, and R
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by jnovek 1mo ago
It seems like the implication here is “if we can’t do anything, we shouldn’t do anything at all” under the social model. Not every doorknob will be disability friendly. If pressure from the social model fixes 20% of doorknobs, now there is
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by jnovek 1mo ago
> the Social Model of disability The best way I’ve heard this articulated is: Under the medical model, disabled individuals are expected to change their behavior to accommodate (fit on with) society. We ask people whose lives are already
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by jnovek 2mo ago
If I make Bambi 2 and toss it up on YouTube I’m going to be sued by Disney for a wide variety of intellectual property violations, it doesn’t matter if I make it by hand or via an LLM. Nothing has changed for big organizations with a legal
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by jnovek 2mo ago
Jellyfin took me 20 minutes to setup with docker-compose. I’ve never customized anything about it aside from pointing it at my media library. It’s way less effort than making an SMB share play nice with a smart TV.

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