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open source license violations/takedowns of legitimate open source forks, and other anti consumer practices. casual users likely unaffected, unless you're philosophically offended …

The issue the author is explaining is relevant for the Kobo devices currently being sold

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 judgemen…

yeah I'm sure all those children were "terrorists". what a ghoulish thing to say

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

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 …

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 Dep…

> 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 w…

Do you have a link to the youtube channel? "SWEet" isn't really searchable

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 compani…

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 sam…

How does this compare to shiv? https://github.com/linkedin/shiv

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…

I'm still salty over them stealing the name of a totally different, open source cross platform UI kit. Classic Microsoft

You're being silly. Nothing they said was FUD, it was just a (not particularly controversial) anecdote

did you just learn about copyleft? It's not a new concept

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 …

That covers a tiny fraction of ffmpeg's actual interface

> 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…

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 imp…

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

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://git…

FYI: https://unpaywall.org/

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 f…

That explains it perfectly, thank you. It also raises interesting questions about the metaphysics of copyright/intellectual property