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cestith

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9legacy is a continuation of Plan 9 from Bell Labs

9legacy.org
3 points·by cestith·4 months ago·0 comments

TinyCore Linux

tinycorelinux.net
2 points·by cestith·7 months ago·0 comments

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cestith
·10 hours ago·discuss
Things get released as GPL or AGPL that were originally BSD or MIT license all the time. The terms of the copyleft license include all the terms of the attribution licenses. Whether this is a valid thing legally I’m not sure but it doesn’t seem anyone’s challenged it. BSD code is often found in closed-source proprietary products as long as the required attributions are met and the original contributors are understood not to be held to any responsibility or warranty.

The licenses tend to say unmodified or modified copies can be redistributed in source or binary form “provided that the following conditions are met”. Relicensing the code in a way that guarantees those conditions are met has been the accepted thing to do in the community for years - whether that’s GPL/LGPL/AGPL or a proprietary license.
cestith
·13 hours ago·discuss
It wasn’t written by a mechanical process, though. It was ported (translated) from an existing creative work into a new language.

Surely you wouldn’t say a Spanish translation of a Harry Potter work is in the public domain while the original work is under copyright?
cestith
·13 hours ago·discuss
True, but internal dependencies aren’t upstream. I care very little how a project is laid out on disk before it’s built unless I’m going to work on the source.
cestith
·14 hours ago·discuss
One of my favorite Russian proverbs translates to basically “the first pancake is always lumpy”.
cestith
·2 days ago·discuss
I can relate.
cestith
·2 days ago·discuss
I treat my technical memories in discussions like the Russian proverb Reagan popularized in the disarmament negotiations with the Soviets.

  доверяй, но проверяй
“Trust, but verify.”

Meta: Yes, I did a quick search to verify some of this before replying.
cestith
·28 days ago·discuss
From the other side, there have been brief tutorials for many years about how to ask useful questions in a technical forum. Making hundreds of other people fish for details about your case is poor form.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-ask-good-technical-... is a pretty good example.

Going back more than two decades is ESR’s “How to Ask Smart Questions”. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
cestith
·28 days ago·discuss
Part of art is the process of creating it. It’s not just the physical artifact, nor even just the completion of the final product. The inspiration, subject matter, the consideration of form, the initial concepts, the redesigns, the meaning or emotion the artist tries to impart, the beauty of the thing, the skills employed and further developed during the process, the choice of materials, the use of perspective, and how the work is presented are all part of the art.
cestith
·30 days ago·discuss
I don’t see users with ‘khuzdul’, ’sindarin’, or ‘quenya’ either.
cestith
·30 days ago·discuss
I think you’re reading “sceptic” as “septic”. They are not the same word.
cestith
·last month·discuss
I get these all the time. The most fun was probably when I was given and building layout, door at which to arrive, schedule, and security information to get into a pro sports arena for a game as an employee of some vendor. The least fun was probably when I ended up talking to some drug company’s general counsel about why it’s not okay to send information about a discount program for a specific drug that treats one specific disorder with a bunch of personal information about the patient to an unverified email address. I went on to explain how their tech staff could prevent that, and remind them of the fines and possible jail time involved with HIPAA and HITECH violations.
cestith
·last month·discuss
You close LinkedIn? ;-)
cestith
·last month·discuss
What a designer might call nostalgia an actual user of an OS might call standard, or maybe even intuitive. The point of an operating system is to be used. If it’s pretty, that’s a bonus. Usability by the target audience is the primary concern.
cestith
·last month·discuss
I have an Android phone. It’s really not a replacement for a Macbook Pro though.
cestith
·last month·discuss
My mac opens Music for func + enter. Sometimes I accidentally have the function button held down as I hit enter. Then whatever app I’m trying to use to type loses its focus to this app I never use.
cestith
·last month·discuss


    % ls -la /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  66201040 Apr 30 09:12 /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
cestith
·last month·discuss
You make a strong point. Large parts of a decision like this have less to do with what you can get from the community, but what you have person-hours available to do with it. The core team is pretty small, and a lot of these automatically coded PRs are bound to be huge. They’re taking back their own time to focus on their own project.
cestith
·last month·discuss
Sometimes it’s even more like “free kudzu”.
cestith
·last month·discuss
Some authors and UX designers to give away at least part of their work for free.

The point of OSS though isn’t that nobody gets paid. It’s that if they charge for contributions, they get paid to release their work as Open Source software. They get paid for the labor of producing the artifact, and not necessarily paid a royalty for future sales of the copies.
cestith
·last month·discuss
Just donate your tokens to the project. The actual team that’s actually leading the project can direct the prompts better and evaluate the LLM-generated code better for their project than random drive-by contributors can. That’s the whole point of their announcement.