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Time to move off of Codeberg. They provide a service, that's it. I don't want drama from my service providers, and censorship incurs drama. I think some censorship is needed (hate …

The article makes sense for me. I see it like the broken windows policy of software development. If you allow sloppiness in the small places, the places where you allow it will gro…

Never going to happen, the federal government uses VPNs, so do banks, so do many companies that contribute to political campaigns.

Bjarne Stroustrup said "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". The same is true of Rust macros. When you …

A true loss for the world, the scientific community, and nature.

I used lit for a project a couple years ago, and loved it. It had some warts, mostly around working with React components and the Shadow DOM. But it's barebones IIRC. One of the th…

This brings back memories. I enjoyed following the travels described in the She's a Flight Risk series. I never did quite buy that it was a hoax either, though perhaps I am too gul…

Great idea, and I'm looking forward to trying this out! Each person with ADHD is affected a little differently, based on anecdotal evidence from family and friends. What are the av…

Someone, somewhere in DARPA, watched Real Genius and said 'Hey, we can DO that!'.

MMW: This will be the death of Chrome. I also do not see Google parting with something so critical to their advertising. With their own browser they control the full length of the …

We've seen down that road. We know where it leads. Look at the imagined futures of games such as Shadowrun and Cyberpunk. This way lies an extreme dystopia for everyone except the …

I like this, but need more detail in my log and have too many things in a given day to have them all on a line. Had the following idea, and will try it out at some point. Call it c…

A company can produce software that is two of fast to make, good, or cheap to make. A publicly traded company seems legally obligated to not choose good, because fiduciary responsi…

I suspect this is because of a continuing rise in the percentage of home sales representing home purchase as an investment by an investor instead of purchase for habitation, but I …

In your opinion, how far out are we from an AI agent that is usable as a daily driver (i.e., does not have the flaws in Operator, or other common flaws)?

I called myself a Semiotics Engineer for 4 years, but the title didn't catch. I did domain analysis, logical model creation, concrete model creation in XML/OWL/KML, model review an…

This is fascinating work and sounds a little like the research my daughter says she wants to study (she's only a sophomore at UMBC right now, though). She hopes to get an internshi…

There was the Locker project by Jeremie Miller (XMPP), but it failed to gain traction and I think he pivoted into a more small scale commercial effort with it IIRC. The telehash pr…

Nice UX, fairly intuitive. Good work!

Kudos for creating this. However, as others have said, the HTTP/1.1 protocol is most of what is needed. I do think there is room for improvement though. Not in the conceptual or lo…

"everyone is assumed to be acting in good faith". Right. I think that when it comes to network service security the old adage told to my father by an Irish Catholic priest applies:…

I thought one of the goals for the FOSS movement was to increase adoption of FOSS software by corporations. How is corporations avoiding GPL code a reason to use GPL when creating …

This is possibly why a number of Fortune 500 and government organizations avoid GPL like the plague. This whole debacle 'won' one battle for GPL licensing but set the war (and thei…

No, it's not well-engineered (speaking with over 25 years as a professional software engineer), at least the portions of the code I have looked at. Things I vaguely remember (it's …

Regardless of where you stand on AI vs Artist divide, the claim that prompted AI work contains no human authorship is clearly false. Let's suppose I as a blind muse conceive of an …