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jraph

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About jraph

Feel free to contact me: raphael.hn@jakse.fr

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49240385

    It has always seemed weird that companies are happy to use proprietary software but avoid AGPL software like plague. AGPL being a free software license, usage is not restricted. Th…

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    Comment #49225602

    This is not at all what is usually held against him.

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    Comment #49203070

    You can totally make profits by selling services based on AGPL code btw, it's completely fine. As long as you redistribute your derivative work as AGPL too. There's nothing toxic i…

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    Comment #49203011

    No. There's no restriction of usage in the (A)GPL. Anyone, including big corps, can use AGPL software. Preventing them to use the software is not the point neither. The point is tr…

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    Comment #49194605

    > unless you can't physically use a smartphone Like, because of a disability, or because you don't have a smartphone? In the latter case, would it work to just go to the bank with …

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    Comment #49192930

    I live in Europe and I can use my bank just fine without their app. I've read somewhere that some banks will let you use their SMS 2FA as long as you haven't already used their mob…

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    Comment #49184346

    Google AMP might have enforced stripped down HTML, but I think you were also supposed to embed their JS as well, probably making a page that was lightweight from the start heavier……

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    Comment #49153972

    Yeah, "We are looking for a developer specialized in critical Java code following idiomatic COBOL which hasn't been tested in production yet and which nobody is sure about whether …

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    Comment #49135774

    This extension gives consent, and cookies are not the only technical way of tracking. Using uBlock Origin with cookie consent modal filters is way better (but causes breakage at ti…

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    Comment #49114526

    The author's website design is insufferable, here's a fix for the horrible font and scrolljacking that's worse than the reader mode of your browser in case you are reading comments…

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    Comment #49113987

    You've made a shortcut that's subtly wrong in some very obscure way concerning some yet to be actually seen obscure edge case and you should feel bad.

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    Comment #49072416

    This rewrite is showcased by Anthropic to sell AI rewrites to other companies. If it turns out the rewrite cost stupid amounts of money and leads to a bad outcome, it's just a misl…

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    Comment #49051188

    On Linux, ncdu is really good in the terminal. Filelight on KDE and Baobab on Gnome are really nice GUIs.

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    Comment #49040799

    > People like computers to work fast. People don't like to wait for their computer. The nuance is quite important. > They don't like when their computer sounds like a jet engine. E…

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    Comment #49039871

    Depends. I'm surrounded by people who just need light web browsing and emails. They don't really like computers, they want to use them only when absolutely necessary. A Mac from 20…

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    Comment #49039528

    Not if the hardware still works and still does the job.

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    Comment #49037390

    Well if I had to install something and knew their authors were in favor of genocides, I would look elsewhere. > they don't have a position on Palestine so I don't know if I should …

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    Comment #49037231

    Again, Codeberg is not involved in anything related to Russian war in Ukraine, and is not responsible for Germany building their economy on cheap Russian oil and gas, so they could…

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    Comment #49036799

    Until proven otherwise, Codeberg's operations have nothing to do with the uyghur genocide though.

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    Comment #49033950

    > We now even have people like Linus Torvalds making the fairly reasonable argument that an LLM is just a tool, and “clearly a useful one” I don't think this argument is reasonable…

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    Comment #49026037

    You are donating money to Google, one of the richest companies in the world? It really doesn't need your help, and it's already way too powerful. If you have money to spare, can't …

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    Comment #49022787

    That's somewhat beside the point and bayindirh addressed this, but I'll answer to this bit: > I'm going to open source my software so the world can use it for whatever they want! W…

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    Comment #49021914

    > You are not creating software with the exact rules that I have made up in my head on how software should be made, so I'm going to build a wall and hate you and the code you make.…

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    Comment #49019904

    Active members* ("mere" users can't vote). But yeah, if you care about the project and want to participate in it (including having a say), you can become an active member. https://…

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    Comment #49018493

    The back pointer could also be a 1 byte number giving the size of the padding.