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It's fun seeing both of these posts on the main page of hackernews at the same time.

It's all a test of loyalty, crucial for fascist regimes.

Ok so why keep calling it "truly open" then? It's an obvious lie and nobody is forcing you to say it. It benefits your marketing, sure, but it harms everyone else by diluting the m…

Hi, your "truly open" model is "gated" on Huggingface, restricting downloads unless we agree to "hold you harmless" and share our contact info. Can you fix this please, either by r…

Curiosity and interesting questions won't have any future in the trump world. So yes, this is very relevant to the HN community. Doing nothing is also a choice which has consequenc…

Felony conviction is garbage?

Science tells us how climate works, technology provides renewable energy, but it's up to politics to do the switch. If we don't, then we will simply run out of time, problem will g…

Sure, so let's vote for the felon who openly wants to become a dictator, makes so much sense...

There is no other way though. Climate change is not a technical problem, it's political. We've had the tech to fix climate change for long time, we know how to do it, that part is …

sorry, can someone copy&paste what's on that link? (how are people still on that site anyway?)

I have yet to see any polls predict any result in any election.

We will also blow through any chance of stopping climate change.

To do science, you need to come up with counter-examples. A simple way to get to the truth in this particular case is to come to the town full of electro-sensitive people, and anno…

As I said above: Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Having the code viewable/inspectable is a side effect of that - can't sustain a proje…

Non-commercial is not open-source, because if the original copyright holder stops maintaining it, nobody else can continue (or has to work like a slave for free). Open-source is ab…

We already have it, but people aren't willing to use it. Using a real libre system will always be a little harder than using a nice and polished billionaire funded walled garden. F…

Just in: HP is adding AI into printer drivers (no joke: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/09/27/0030239/hp-is-a... )

Is there even any development happening on Winamp? What would these unpaid workers do? If they can't touch the code, not even test it, then the only thing this repo could serve is …

new one from today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04mr4l90do > Allowing flexible working and working from home creates a more productive, loyal workforce

Statistics do support it though: - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells... - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220523-the-workers-qu... - https://theco…

> This is unfortunate however it is common. It is quite common for a big entity to act shitty towards smaller makers. So *if* this is the case, DEFCON are the bad guys, no matter h…

> They didn’t wait until the project was complete These two statements cannot be both true at the same time 🠉 🠋 > Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated es…

> when it looked like costs were starting to soar. But it appears they waited until the end.

So how do you deal with the claim that they were sending regular cost updates and estimations throughout the development? (assuming they really did that). Shouldn't DEFCON stop it …

Worse, by having less alternatives to choose from. This is why anti-monopoly laws exist.