coaksford · HackerTrans

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If they can get what they want from this, they will not stop after they get it. Even if the authors of the law want it to stop here, their successors will not, and will build upon this to erode privacy. When governments can change the deal effectively unilaterally, as is the case, you cannot make a deal with them that they cannot change, and you will have already surrendered the strongest argument against the next "deal" they want to unilaterally impose. Do not treat this as a deal to prevent further erosion, that is not what this is, treat this as an attack and attempt to advance against privacy and anonymity. Treating it as anything else is absolute gullibility.

coaksford

há 6 mesesdiscuss

I have never used Oh My Zsh, but I use Atuin to do this and it works excellently at that. You can even make it filter by what folder you're in and whether you want to search only this session or host (you can sync shell history across hosts). It never occurred to me that this is something I'd want from a shell prompt, which is what Starship is.

coaksford

há 7 mesesdiscuss

BSD was mired in the uncertainty of a lawsuit over some of their code at the time that Linux was getting started, and the FUD around that gave Linux a head start that BSD had up until that point, so you can't infer much about the reasons Linux's early success over BSD through that fog. If Linux had been dealing with the same problem that BSD had instead, BSD almost certainly would be in Linux's place right now.

coaksford

há 8 mesesdiscuss

Before the AI craze, all the GPUs were being bought up by cryptocurrency miners, and I'm not sure that's better. Even as an AI skeptic I think AI is a better use of all this hardware than cryptocurrency.

coaksford

há 10 mesesdiscuss

I wasn't sold on face ID until winter, and then the appeal become viscerally obvious.

coaksford

há 5 anosdiscuss

GPL uses copyright and its viral aspects strongly to try to undermine copyright's goals. That's precisely why it is viral, because it is copyright, and doesn't make it any less viral. BSD-style licenses' terms minimize the viral impact of copyright on the free use of the covered work rather than trying to maximize that viral tendency toward achieving some opposing goal. The distinction still works fine. GPL is viral, as contrasted with BSD licenses, but not as contrasted with proprietary copyright, and for the same reasons.

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