outsomnia

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by outsomnia 2y ago
> literally nobody is saying that From the article: "it’s time for Matt to resign from either the WordPress Foundation or Automattic." Can I gently suggest to you that posting under a throwaway leads you to post - and downvote
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by outsomnia 2y ago
So it turned out, there was an option 3, where random internet guy was ignored and the maintainer both made money from his work, and continued with the public good of donating work to his GPL'd project. WP Engine is truly upset with th
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by outsomnia 2y ago
... "faulty logic"... the Maintainer runs a business and makes a lot of money and he should give that up, but is invited to keep working as before for nothing. It is left to others to make the money on his work, but he should kee
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by outsomnia 2y ago
The guy has some kind of point (for which he was flamed in the comments, and respect for acknowledging his gratitude to the maintainer) but the maintainer did the work, and by dint of ignoring this guy, did another 15 years of work on WP wh
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by outsomnia 2y ago
This is from Dec 20.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Without the russian detour: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/16/business/50k-car-prices/i...
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by outsomnia 2y ago
This isn't stripe customer service, nobody here can change your situation.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
"No privacy concerns".... you're dreaming if you think you won't have "privacy concerns" in Russia or whatever. In fact being able to see the endpoint of the traffic you're trying to conceal while having
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Since a couple of years ago, I spent a year or so like this, with the TV resting on the desk directly. It looked pretty nice, but it had some problems. - The only actual 8K modes reported on the HDMI were some variant of YUV, it means you c
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by outsomnia 2y ago
No... core volunteers who provide work to you for free, which you have been consuming successfully, have now extended the domain of their works to also encompass something on top you previously got from elsewhere. The plugin you previously
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by outsomnia 2y ago
This plugin can only operate on top of the core code, whoever distributes the plugin to you. It means you have to decide to either bin the whole ecosystem, or use the core and plugin from the same people. It's also open to the plugin
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by outsomnia 2y ago
As I wrote elsewhere, this is no different from a project deciding to incorporate a third party's functionality into the core. Either way whoever provides the plugin, you trust the provider to provide the core, if you now think they a
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by outsomnia 2y ago
You have been and continue to trust Automattic for the core code. If for example, Automattic instead had said they will bundle the plugin functionality with the core, there are many historical cases of that, unpleasant as it is for the thir
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by outsomnia 2y ago
GPL does not make any representations about private equity being able to extract value from the work.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Users of the plugin already have a trust and consumption relationship with Automattic for the core. It's more like mcdonalds replacing Coke with McCola with your mcdonalds meal - you were already trusting mcdonalds for the food. But e
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Sorry, this is a GPL plugin to stuff already maintained by Automattic? It's not like users aren't already updating to whatever Automattic want to give them, in the core, if that's the case? Automattic producing the same plug
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by outsomnia 2y ago
> In one instance, the lawyers set about trying to disprove the legitimacy of handwritten notes. ... Sherrell’s team tracked down the printer of the notepad in China, proving that the exact version of that notebook had not been released
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Guys... look into stgit if you like the sound of this iconoclasm https://stacked-git.github.io/
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by outsomnia 2y ago
PDF's god is Adobe though... you have to pay a tithe if you want to get serious. And never speak of Flash.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
This is just FUD.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
United Kingdom just doesn't drink coffee? I don't think so... according to this we manage 98M cups of coffee a day https://balancecoffee.co.uk/blogs/blog/coffee-consumption-st...
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by outsomnia 2y ago
I was expecting to see the word "yocto", did I miss it? This goes quite far along the path, building all the build tools and toolchain to the same version before building the packages.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
... or involves people from a country they are not allowed to do business with.
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by outsomnia 2y ago
Yes, they are regulated abroad because they are rightly frightened of what SV will do to them without it, it's unrelated to "competitive advantage".
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by outsomnia 2y ago
After establishing that Musk has "fuck everyone" money, the rest of this is explaining why some pamphlet-author is dissappointed he's not happier. He's not going to care and since I stopped reading partway through, neit
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by outsomnia 3y ago
> But all this could be replaced by an abstract class, perhaps some templates... And if you disable stuff you may not need (RTTI, exceptions) then you'd get just as efficient compiled code. Isn't it just that your personal in-h
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by outsomnia 3y ago
Jul 2023
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by outsomnia 3y ago
There are various 'safer' versions of it, a common one is strlcpy() from bsd (which is in glibc etc) https://linux.die.net/man/3/strlcpy
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by outsomnia 3y ago
Actually what's a warning or not is implementation defined, it's not defined in C. If you're serious about your code, you will turn on -Werror -Wall -Wextra and anything else you don't like the look of, use static analys
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by outsomnia 3y ago
If nothing else, const in an api is a very clear and welcome indication of what to expect. Like myapi(uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t dest_len, size_t src_len), it's very clear what will be doing what with what. You can cast

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