olemindgv
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7 months ago
It’s not the first time a young man asks me: “Why does FOSS always say ‘no warranty’?” Obviously, I’m not expected to unpack the legalese of open source licenses, but I can explain the reason behind it. Today, a newbie, again. I paused, thinking how to make it clear this time. I’m not a tape recorder, I hate repeating the same thing over and over. Then suddenly, a voice hit the back of my head:
“Let me tell you a story. Save it for coffee break.”
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olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Software Freedom and Cyberpunk: Why Freedom Still Matters
Free software movements are dancing too close to the corporate, stripping away freedom spirits of developers'
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Cyberpunk and Politics: Neon Dystopias, Power, and Resistance
Interesting
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Coming to ISO C++ 26 Standard: An AI Acceleration Edge
C++ still demonstrates its versatility and longevity.
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Throwing the Baby with Bathtub?
Some of us seems adamant about AI-argumented documents, yet totally avoiding the core spirit of the articles. What are afraid of? A machine replacing the some human skills or the vivid human thoughts within the content.
(The above text are 100% generated by human fingers on the fly)
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Programming Language Switching Politics: A Rigged Game of Power
The last thing they will critique is the content, because they can’t
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Save Your Future, Revisited: From Survival Guide to Privacy Manifesto
Modern censorship is like a vampire and the content is the sunlight. Censorship never dares to face the content, but desperately tries to block it.
olemindgv
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8 months ago
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on: Save Your Future: A Realist's Guide to Cyberpunk Survival
The real world used to have mafia, now it’s cyber world’s turn.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: Memory Safety Isn't Just Rust: A Serious Look at GC
Good questions. With AI coding backed by bountiful open source libraries, coding may no longer be be necessary soon. We are re-witnessing the era of obsoletion of typewriters, except this time the rock is smacking on our own toes.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: Memory Safety Isn't Just Rust: A Serious Look at GC
People often worship tools to fix their own coding deficiency. The reason is simple, proficient coding skills require many years of training and a dose of genius. Modern coders, by proportion, are largely lacking both. And the industry in general is impatient, rewarding bad but fast coding.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: X11, Xlibre, and the Schism at the Heart of Open Source
Not sure if there is a conspiracy theory behind. By all means, X11 has been nearly 40 years since its birth from MIT, many things, both the network and underlining architectures, have seen significant changes.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: X11, Xlibre, and the Schism at the Heart of Open Source
He is going to loose either way, either forking X11 or Wayland. I think making Wayland more open is the key.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: Rewriting Unix Philosophy for the Post-AI Era
Reading the comments letting me re-live my early years of being an engineer, in a hardcore Unix kernel company. For every line of code, there are more neys than yes, but we still have finish the code and push forward. Next time we shall bring beers and chips.
olemindgv
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9 months ago
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on: The Return of Animula Alonzo Board
It’s amazing one can still find vintage and hardcore stuff.
