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by jraph 7d ago
Says the corporation which bought Minecraft more than a decade ago yeah!! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/15/microsoft... (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
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by jraph 8d ago
> I don't get how an app like this makes a difference. Isn't an image viewer just reading from disk, using whatever image decoding library that's standard, and copying to screen? Memory leaks could happen anywhere in the p
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by jraph 10d ago
> I don't like the phrasing of the EUPL because it says you have rights full stop and then in a later section it says there are actually conditions. For that reason I would not immediately be sure the conditions are even enforceable
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by jraph 13d ago
(sorry, I mixed things up, I thought your were OP. Sorry for this)
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by jraph 13d ago
> Yes, we have heard of MrBeast, most of us would likely recognize his face. Yeah, so you have actually heard about him them. Your earlier comment was dishonest. What follows in your comment is your actual argument and I happen to agree.
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by jraph 14d ago
> (whatever that is) may be big in your bubble Come on. It's fine not to know about something, but Mr Beast has the YouTube channel with the biggest number of subscribers, and has the third most followed TikTok account [1]. It is a
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by jraph 14d ago
useless dashes at the middle of sentences maybe?
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by jraph 14d ago
> My main concern is that this job is slowly making me sick. I have started to have really concerning mental health symptoms, specifically severe anxiety, due to this job. I've also had some really dark thoughts which has scared me
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by jraph 21d ago
They did that to themselves, and doubly so. They decided they needed to capture the whole open source ecosystem by turning open source work into social networking... on a proprietary platform (because open source is great, especially when i
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by jraph 21d ago
KDE Itinerary, a mobile and desktop application, is becoming better and better for this. It's based on MOTIS / Transitous. I just discovered cartes.app can do this too!
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by jraph 21d ago
Good point!
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by jraph 21d ago
They are not against "progress" in a vacuum.
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by jraph 22d ago
> I don’t get why ai labs and staff didn’t move to Bluesky or something more open. Why would they, specifically? There's nothing particularly open about them.
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by jraph 22d ago
The title is accurate: it's "I think". There's no convincing argument or study about whether the backlash is about big tech, data centers or AI or not. Maybe I'm a bit tired but I didn't find any objective info
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by jraph 27d ago
These two things that are quite distinct. Whether something is protected by copyright, it should not be counterfeiting regardless.
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by jraph 27d ago
I think you got me wrong. I think the GPL doesn't impose much on how one should be redistributing the source code. I'm not sure I would like it to me more restrictive, and I completely agree with your reading (starting from "
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by jraph 28d ago
Indeed, you are right, my phrasing "but the GPL only speaks about the shape of the source code itself" is somewhat wrong or at least incomplete. I should have been more careful. It does force some stuff about how to convey the cor
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by jraph 28d ago
> There might be some merit to a claim that Google Drive isn't a medium customarily used for software distribution these days I suppose forcing a means to share the source code could have been too restrictive, but the GPL only speak
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by jraph 28d ago
Open source doesn't imply open to contributions. And you could imagine source available software that's not open source but takes contributions (and this is not theoretical, I've seen this in the wild). (However, that's
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by jraph 29d ago
I had an automated reply that pretended I didn't receive mails there anymore. I would receive some messages twice for some time, as people resent their mails to the new address Things sorted themselves out without much effort. But inde
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by jraph 1mo ago
Not at all, the problem is with the apps that are carefully designed to create that in users.
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by jraph 1mo ago
Thanks for the interesting discussion!
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by jraph 1mo ago
Ah, by "reason", you meant the grandmother's reason! Yeah, I don't think that's a good reason neither. Now, it not being a good reason is not a pass to act against her will either. I think OP needs to convince her t
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by jraph 1mo ago
> I disagree on the reason given being good. Okay, that's what you probably implied in your first reply, and I think that's what's actually interesting to discuss. I don't think not acting against someone's will
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by jraph 1mo ago
Ah, I see! I was a bit annoyed by you seemingly pointlessly correcting the parent, but now I understand your PoV. > In context, me saying 'You can just do that' means 'You should do that' That's not very consiste
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by jraph 1mo ago
In context, "I can't just do that" means "I shouldn't do that".
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by jraph 1mo ago
It has always seemed weird that companies are happy to use proprietary software but avoid AGPL software like plague. AGPL being a free software license, usage is not restricted. There's nothing forbidden. If you only intend to use th
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by jraph 1mo ago
This is not at all what is usually held against him.
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by jraph 1mo ago
You can totally make profits by selling services based on AGPL code btw, it's completely fine. As long as you redistribute your derivative work as AGPL too. There's nothing toxic in the AGPL for you as long as you don't want
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by jraph 1mo ago
No. There's no restriction of usage in the (A)GPL. Anyone, including big corps, can use AGPL software. Preventing them to use the software is not the point neither. The point is trying to ensure end user freedom. They just choose avo

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