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by nenolod 5y ago
OFTC is run by the OFTC board (of which tomaw is a member) on behalf of Software in the Public Interest, who originally organized it for Debian.
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by nenolod 5y ago
Although we do not yet support recording the copyright lines in the package metadata, SPDX labels are used to provide linked data references to the license text. Copyright metadata itself will be included in apk3.
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by nenolod 5y ago
If all goes to plan it will be part of Alpine 3.15 as a release variant.
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by nenolod 5y ago
There is supervise-daemon(8) for this.
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by nenolod 5y ago
We are actually in the design phase for a declarative variant of Alpine using OSTree.
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by nenolod 5y ago
With musl we discovered that qemu does not always properly initialize structures when doing the syscall translation. Most likely this is a missing initialization.
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by nenolod 5y ago
TCG's uops are modelled after real ones. It is close enough.
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by nenolod 5y ago
The real takeaway from this is if you want to work on FOSS on your own time, without retribution from your manager, don't work at IBM. As IBM is supposed to be a huge supporter of FOSS, this is a total disappointment.
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by nenolod 6y ago
It's not just about adding new architectures to LLVM and rustc, it's also about bootstrapping supported architectures on all architectures supported by a distribution. This isn't fully done in Alpine yet, and took a long time
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by nenolod 6y ago
George Varghese's Network Algorithmics is a good book for backend-oriented people to learn various fundamental CS algorithms. It presents various CS topics from the perspective of backend optimization, so it's a good book for appr
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by nenolod 6y ago
Trademark disputes are best solved with litigation, not product relicensing.
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by nenolod 6y ago
Amazon's behavior may feel exploitative, but it isn't. That would be like saying Red Hat is exploitative. Part of the whole concept of free software is that you have freedom of choice with vendors (this is derived from "free
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by nenolod 6y ago
They share a similarity: the Floragunn litigation is unresolved (and clearly Floragunn continues to distribute their plugin). SCO, too, failed to resolve their litigation favorably to SCO.
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by nenolod 6y ago
Yeah? SCO sued a bunch of people too. They haven't won, though.
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by nenolod 6y ago
Incidentally, the fact that it is OK to use Apache-2 licensed components inside projects licensed as SSPL is probably a net negative for free software moving forward as there will be more of these companies which do this in the future. It
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by nenolod 6y ago
I read that article and it is very redolent of what SCO argued back in the day. If they had actual proof, they would take legal action against the author of that plugin.
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by nenolod 6y ago
Amazon contributed code to Elasticsearch. They are certainly allowed to profit from their code contributions.
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by nenolod 6y ago
That activity is being driven in musl directly. 1.2 has introduced optimizations for arm, aarch64, x86 and x86_64. there's more to optimize, but some are already there.
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by nenolod 6y ago
The good news is that there is work in progress to untangle the mess with PyPI wheels and musl. But it is easy enough to just not use wheels.
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by nenolod 6y ago
If you don't mind using IRC, there's a lot of people willing to help you get started with this adventure in #alpine-devel on freenode.
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by nenolod 6y ago
We have started to extend musl with optimized routines like glibc does. But really, the performance difference is usually minimal.
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by nenolod 6y ago
On desktop, we support KDE, GNOME and Xfce, which are the big ones, but yes, we could use more work there. It is hoped that the cloud images project will get Alpine available in all of the main platforms, we've done AWS already startin
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by nenolod 6y ago
What is it missing that makes you feel it is unrealistic?
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by nenolod 6y ago
this page really should be updated, at this point all you basically have to do is `apk add gcompat`.
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by nenolod 6y ago
The gcompat project, which provides a wine-like compatibility layer for glibc applications, is pretty close to having vscode working out of the box.
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by nenolod 7y ago
As someone who is writing an implementation, you are responsible by default for stewarding it.
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by nenolod 7y ago
As you are somebody who is responsible for stewarding the ActivityPub specification, I am seriously disappointed by this dismissive attitude.
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by nenolod 7y ago
It does work, but AP follows are asynchronous so it may take a minute for the relationship to update.
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by nenolod 7y ago
Actually, the behaviour of the Mastodon author promising a "safe space" in his paid, targeted advertising campaigns without any real plan for data security is the unethical behaviour. If you don't like that people can scrape
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by nenolod 7y ago
fediverse.network contains fairly exhaustive lists of open registration instances for both pleroma and mastodon

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