qubidt

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by qubidt 3mo ago
open source license violations/takedowns of legitimate open source forks, and other anti consumer practices. casual users likely unaffected, unless you're philosophically offended (rightfully, imo)
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by qubidt 3mo ago
The issue the author is explaining is relevant for the Kobo devices currently being sold
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by qubidt 3mo ago
Yes. sometimes specs are badly designed. Targeting a constantly moving goalpost for a spec mainly implemented by embedded devices seems to me like, best case, questionable judgement
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by qubidt 6mo ago
yeah I'm sure all those children were "terrorists". what a ghoulish thing to say
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by qubidt 6mo ago
My ideal software: buggy in ways you can't diagnose, for reasons you can't intuit, reproducible by literally no one in the world, and with no one to file a bug report to
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by qubidt 6mo ago
I've found many developers having switched to non-github forges (e.g. forgejo/gitlab/sourcehut or what have you), but particularly self-hosted instances, to sort of opt-out of the culture around mpdern-day open source. My sen
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by qubidt 6mo ago
An inane point. Obviously it's a "preference" rather than a "requirement" that my text editor boot in less than 30 seconds. But it's also not a functional requirement that Home Depot's POS terminals take a
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by qubidt 6mo ago
> They would have been reasonable scifi books (for their time) if they hadn't attempted to follow up the classics. I agree with everything except this. The sequels are by far the worst books I've read this decade. The memories
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by qubidt 7mo ago
Do you have a link to the youtube channel? "SWEet" isn't really searchable
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by qubidt 7mo ago
This implies that the harm caused by this broad surveillance technology is "hypothetical/theoretical", when there is long history in this country's government using private companies to launder otherwise illegal surveill
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by qubidt 1y ago
This is relatively niche, but that's a thing for anime fan-encodes. Some groups publish their vapoursynth scripts, allow you to produce the same re-encoding (given you have the same source video). e.g.: * https://github.com&
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by qubidt 3y ago
How does this compare to shiv? https://github.com/linkedin/shiv
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by qubidt 3y ago
The assertion that it is possible or the attribution to Feynman? Scientific American [1] references Feynman's 4th Messenger lecture at Cornell: "Symmetry in Physical Law" (1964) [2] [3] [1] https://blogs.scientific
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by qubidt 3y ago
I'm still salty over them stealing the name of a totally different, open source cross platform UI kit. Classic Microsoft
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by qubidt 3y ago
You're being silly. Nothing they said was FUD, it was just a (not particularly controversial) anecdote
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by qubidt 3y ago
did you just learn about copyleft? It's not a new concept
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by qubidt 4y ago
Modern pixel artists far from "misunderstand" the legacy of pixel art. They're specifically designing for a sensibility and context that didn't exist when pixel art was originally made. Actually talk to pixel artists and
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by qubidt 4y ago
That covers a tiny fraction of ffmpeg's actual interface
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by qubidt 4y ago
> don't keep up to date with the upstream software that has bug fixes It is a very rare occurrence that my distro's packages are more than a week out of date from upstream releases > That's precisely why software author
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by qubidt 4y ago
Sure, but the ratio is way different. I frequently cook the exact recipe the exact same way as I've done before, but I'd struggle to think of a reason to rewrite the exact same implementation of the same program.
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by qubidt 4y ago
Not to be overly cynical or patronizing, but everybody should really know better than to trust zoom, or any for-profit company really, on things like this
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by qubidt 5y ago
Having run into these issues with Pydantic, we've been using Mashumaro[1], which, while not having all the bells and whistles of Pydantic, has served us pretty well. 1: https://github.com/Fatal1ty/mashumaro
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by qubidt 5y ago
FYI: https://unpaywall.org/
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by qubidt 5y ago
Even accounting for that (ignoring that the data served over FTP and HTTP aren't always perfectly equivalent), it still leaves a lot of stuff that is only served over ftp. Google found it a convincing enough argument to warrant re-enab
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by qubidt 5y ago
That explains it perfectly, thank you. It also raises interesting questions about the metaphysics of copyright/intellectual property
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by qubidt 5y ago
Except the measurement of "skill" that accounts for the income disparity is not so much "lower skill" vs "higher skill" but more "expensive skill" vs "cheap skill". I could spend the same am
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by qubidt 5y ago
You aren't refuting the class distinction the parent commenter was actually pointing out (serf/peasant class vs merchant/"middle" class). That there exists another distinction between the ruling class and "midd
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by qubidt 5y ago
From the article: > Low wages are the most common reason people cite for leaving food service work. But in one recent survey, more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return. > Tha
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by qubidt 5y ago
> Define "lots" a ton of government and scientific datasets are provided over FTP
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by qubidt 5y ago
https://libera.chat/about > Libera Chat is a Swedish nonprofit organisation, feel free to read our bylaws[1]. The organisation is run entirely by volunteer staff who are the members of, and have equal voting power in, th

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