zeusflight

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by zeusflight 3y ago
> Canada is the 5th freest country in the world. The United States is 61st. India is 87th. Yeah! Free enough to carry out terrorist activity against another country. It matches very well with your misguided definition of freedom. > Wh
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by zeusflight 3y ago
> This is what people who don't live in a democracy don't understand. > Again, sorry to disappoint people who don't live in a country with free expression Oh! Please! Get off your high horse! It's tiring to see you
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by zeusflight 3y ago
>> advocating for basically secession and creation of a new country > Let's be really precise. What you just said is absolutely something that everyone in a free democracy should be free to do as much as they want to their hea
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by zeusflight 3y ago
Canada has a terrible track record in dealing with Khalistani terrorist activities. The bombing of Air India flight 182 that killed 329 civilians in 1985 was planned and executed from Canada (this is proven). Yet, the perpetrators walked fr
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by zeusflight 4y ago
The legitimacy of an enterprise shouldn't be judged based on where it's allowed to happen - it should be the other way around. The two app stores should be designated as 'slave markets' for allowing this to persist for s
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by zeusflight 5y ago
How about the fact that some extensions like Remote Development [1] and LiveShare [2] work only on proprietary builds of vscode, and not on code-oss or vscodium? I get it that those are proprietary extensions, but they still show up in the
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by zeusflight 5y ago
Remember the news about Audacity getting 'acquired' by Muse group [1]? Many commenters raised question about what acquisition means for a fully free project [2]. Speculating, since we don't have the full information yet, but
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by zeusflight 5y ago
This is what Brave team says about FLoC vs 3rd party cookies [1]: > Google says FLoC is privacy preserving compared to sending third-party cookies. But this is a misleading baseline to compare against. Many browsers don’t send third-part
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I don't know what 'free' means for the project, but open source and 'free as in freedom' are not redundant these days. While open source is legally indistinguishable from free software, time has proven that open sou
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Dealing with Google's version of IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV is with the standard that everyone else follows. Every single program (mbsync, offlineimap, vdirsyncer) needs a special section on how to configure for Google alone. It causes a
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I have khal (calendar), khard (vcards) and todoman (todo on caldav) installed and use them occasionally. I mostly use my phone and thunderbird to manage contacts and calendars - so they don't find regular use. However, they all are rea
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by zeusflight 6y ago
There is nothing in the plain OCSP that prevents the responder server from logging the request along with the originating IP. Any claims that a particular server doesn't do so is either just an assumption or based on trust alone. This
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by zeusflight 6y ago
My understanding is that once the content creator file a counter notice, the hosting platform is off the hook and free to reinstate the content. Any further legal fight will be directly between the claimant and the creator, not involving th
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I was referring to attribution, not trademark claims. They can reuse the name (though unethical), but they can't avoid this part of the License: > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Open source != unpaid, uncredited work. That is just what corporations want it to be. In this case, it's a violation of the open source MIT license to remove the original copyright statement.
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by zeusflight 6y ago
There is an actual MIT license violation in there. MIT is an attribution license that requires preservation of original copyright statement in derivatives. One commit also shows clearly that this code is indeed a derivative.
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Does wilfully omitting the original copyright statement (as required by MIT license) and removing any reference to the original author count as someone 'just trying to get work done'? However trivial the code may be, denying credi
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by zeusflight 6y ago
> There are obvious security advantages to app signing. But there are also negative implications for privacy and availability. App signing exists elsewhere without sacrificing privacy. Most Linux packages, for example, are signed with GP
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by zeusflight 6y ago
The proliferation of DRM technology may look like the result of bad consumer choices, but the reality is more nuanced. What percentage of consumers know that their content is DRM encumbered, or what DRM is even? This is a result of subtle c
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I don't know if this is my personal experience alone, but I feel that open source spam filters like spamassassin and rspamd do a much better job than gmail's filter. Gmail's filter has too many false positives and false negat
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Don't let anyone else control your email. Use a personal domain and offline backups (eg: mbsync) for email. That should give you enough portability to dictate your own terms for the service. This might sound like an overkill - but emai
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Some universities recommend avoiding gmail accounts for application process precisely for this reason (I can't find the reference). My personal experience is that open source spam filters (spamassasin/rspamd) are far better at cla
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Late reply, but replying since you mentioned gittorrent. The project's author recommended [1] the Radicle project ( https://radicle.xyz ) instead of gittorrent. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487681
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by zeusflight 6y ago
If anyone thinks that Github had no choice but to follow the legal notice, I want to mention that youtube-dlc [1], a community fork of youtube-dl, is also taken down. This fork is not even mentioned in the DMCA notice [2]. Github is complic
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I agree with your concept. The main problem though, is that each of those code hosting web app is a silo of its own. Any new contributor will have to create a new account for each of the self-hosted projects. Youtube-dl is one of those proj
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by zeusflight 6y ago
(Answering to the second part of you reply) Either I read the article wrong or it wasn't obvious. I really hope that matrix designs the controls to put the decision fully in the hands of the users. > I don't really have a stron
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Great! Does that mean that I can design and plug in a custom feed filter logic?
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by zeusflight 6y ago
I missed that point earlier. Thanks! However, it still sounds complicated. Granted it's open source. But I feel that the fundamental reason why we are in this social media conundrum is the on-cloud platform-wide message feed manipulati
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Reputation scores risk turning the rooms into an echo chamber due to karma mining. It's good for forming consensus, but bad for debates. This can be bad for some communities like FOSS groups where new users and people with fresh ideas
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by zeusflight 6y ago
Local backup and sync for contacts and calendar can be made using vdirsyncer. mbsync or offlineimap does the same for mail. All of them can be deployed as services to do automatic sync. Some client software can use these local copies direct

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