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ddevault
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About ddevault
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Comment #36519702
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Comment #36519564
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Comment #36517645
I dunno, names are scarce and if a project fails then I don't see too much wrong with reuse of the name.
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Comment #36504452
That's not quite how it works, you can relicense stuff under GPL and your distribution and any changes you made are GPL'd but the original remains MIT. https://writefreesoftware.or…
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Comment #36504437
It's just such a pointless distraction. Don't make it about you? It reminds me of men who hear that women get paid less and start complaining about their own salary. "Hey, we have …
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Comment #36504322
Really done with this take. Show some solidarity for your peers. So you like working from the office -- good for you! Do that! But also stand up for your colleagues who don't want …
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Comment #36490184
Evolutionary psychology is psuedoscience.
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Comment #36392657
Not sure that "copyleft" is confusing or falling into disuse, I hear people talking about it without confusion pretty often. First time I've heard "reciprocal licensing".
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Comment #36392438
I dunno, it's just a place to store the code, and SourceHut is itself free software. I could put it on Codeberg or something, I guess, but it doesn't really seem like a big deal. N…
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Comment #36392329
I feel like it's pretty explicit: > You are entitled to the use of any free software for any purpose, including commercial use – counter-intuitively, you can sell free software. Th…
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Comment #36392207
This is addressed a bit here: https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/#but-... tl;dr: access to the source code will help people develop cheats but it's not really r…
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Comment #36392185
Not sure how this comes across as self-serving or what the nature of this protest is, but if you explain it in more detail perhaps I can make a correction.
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Comment #36392162
Commons Clause is non-free. It does not meet freedom 0: https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/four-freedoms/#0-use-the... There are also specific comments about non-free source-avail…
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Comment #36290448
Mollie.
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Comment #36198570
I had the opposite issue -- something like 90% of genuine payments on my account are rejected by the fraud detector on the first try and have to be retried daily for several days b…
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Comment #36194485
I have also written a more comprehensive resource here: https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/choose-a-lic...
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Comment #35834147
I take pride in making my websites accessible for everyone regardless of the monetary incentive to do so, and to make inaccessible websites simply because you don't think there's m…
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Comment #35829205
https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-rai...
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Comment #35643734
This website's GDPR pop-up is unlawful. 1. More clicks to opt-out than in 2. "Legitimate interest" is made up 3. Having to untick options one a time is illegal
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Comment #35638484
It would range from unfortunate to a non-issue. The entire flight is not expected to be successful, the purpose is data gathering. The worst case scenario is that it fails on the p…
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Comment #35638239
The cheapest and most popular rocket today in terms of cost per kilogram sent to low-earth-orbit is the SpaceX Falcon 9, which is estimated to cost about $2700/kg. If the Starship …
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