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> This approach is what drives corporations to adopt zero-GPL policies.

Good. It's literally the point of choosing the GPL that organisations producing proprietary software can't benefit and mix in GPL licensed work without publishing the source.

How so? You should still be doing those things with cloud deployment anyway. The alternative is (the pretty terribly named) "click ops" where devops folks have to fiddle with some cloud UI settings to make production changes or go through wizards to attempt to replicate an environment.

If you are doing your environment config as code it ultimately shouldn't matter if your target is a dedicated server, a vm or some cloud specific setup configured via an api.

Seems like you're in for a rough time considering your competition is an Xbox Subscription with a huge library, including AAA games and Humble Choice which is basically your pitch, plus provides a bunch of titles to own each month and also access to download a library of DRM titles.

I think for a subset of the table-top community, the damage is already done. Our group will be finishing up our campaign (probably about a month or so left) and then switching to a new system.

That means a bunch of dropped dnd beyond subscriptions and us no longer purchasing digital source/adventure books.

DnD has insane brand recognition but the system itself isn't anything overly special. We have stacks of indie table top books thourgh various sales over the years sitting there waiting for us to try out.

Within capitalism, this is everything that exists. The phrase should effectively be banned in all marketing and service contexts across all industries.

Maybe it doesn't? At least not until medical science catches up to allow the level of social/global interaction we had been taking for granted for decades.

In the history of our species, we have never been this connected on a global level before, we were potentially sitting on a timebomb just waiting for the appropriate viral trigger to bring it down.

You're probably "sort of but not really joking", but I mean it would be on-brand to see them dropping a LinkedIn/Github integration.

Show employers and recruiters how much unpaid work you do!.

I've read 9 out of the 10 culture books relatively recently and I don't remember even a hint of that idea ever coming up in any of them.

The most common concept of mind "creation" documented are GSVs physically constructing them and their first ship body. In some places it hints on a sort of ironic/humourous child/parent relationship.

> we found numerous cases of GPT-2 generating memorized personal information in contexts that can be deemed offensive or otherwise inappropriate. In one instance, GPT-2 generates fictitious IRC conversations between two real users on the topic of transgender rights. The specific usernames in this conversation only appear twice on the entire Web, both times in private IRC logs that were leaked online as part of the GamerGate harassment campaign.

Most countries have libel/defamation related laws that cover this and I hope this gets tested in court soon.

Exposing software/machine learning algothrims an entity doesn't fully understand sholdn't be a defense in court. At the moment developers just throw a sentence in their software license saying they aren't liable for damages but this isn't good enough. Someone is liable, if the law decides that the original creator isn't liable then the entity that hosts/runs the software needs to be.

This is probably a fairly hot take but I believe that researchers shoudn't normanize providing this level of detail unless they have been explicitly hired to do so.

The industry is pretty messed up and it sometimes feels like researchers/pen testers/bug hunters are effectively subsidizing and protecting shitty security practises.

> There are some specific use case in which Ergodox is better but most of the time the best choice is to go with Kinesis.

Probably could have said just this and it would have communicated your point without coming across as a condescending asshole.

Low effort spam is easier to deal with then "marketing", because marketing is about reputation and intent not content.

If there is a thread on the HN front page for some Cisco zero day and the top comment is explaining the user's positive "personal experience" with Ubiquiti gear, is that marketing or just some network engineers sharing their genuine opinion on a tech forum?

The content is the same but is received differently based on the user's reputation and their intent.

HN, Reddit, Slashdot + many more try the score/points approach but it hasn't solved the problem.

You should be allowed to pay for that convenience, but at the moment you're not because it's being susidized by run-at-a-loss startups that exploit their workers.

There are all these clients out there now that use far more memory then native alternatives and objectively perform far worse but they are all insanely popular and dwarf the alternatives in terms of user base.

So I mean, "it's usually not a problem" is true, resource consumption of the clients don't appear to affect acquisition of users or popularity of the platform.

Disagree strongly and as a user I feel distributions and package maintainers are a necessary defense against overly opinionated developers.

I'm glad there is a layer there that will patch and configure to better integrate into the system and in some (very rare) cases remove user hostile "functionality".

> rest easy knowing that any dollars meant for you will reach you

I feel like your faith in the postal services that cash may go through is misplaced.

> If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, this seems like a reasonable option.

Not even close. You can get a basic phone plus sim card for like $40 or less and then pay a few dollars (or less) a month on prepay to keep it connected to the network.

This is a toy secondary phone for those with disposable income, not a valid low-income alternative.

> NZ is nice but it’s not all daisies and roses.

You'll get no argument from me. Didn't mean to imply our processes are perfect. I do my fair share of complaining about the NZ political and legal landscape elsewhere. :)

Steam is a digital store and a consumer buys software from it. You can twist words and describe it using all sorts of other marketing bullshit but it's mostly in bad faith.

It's why the NZ's consumer guarantee's act has terms like what is "reasonable" and The Disputes Tribunal (somewhat equivalent to small claims court) will often consider things from an average consumer perspective.

HN is full of technical power users so it's common for the comment sections of these stories to devolve into a "well actually" nitpick of language use but most sane countries consumer protection laws are intentionally not designed this way.

Otherwise you can probably extrapolate anything into a "subscription" service. Your bank and most credit cards are structured in a way that looks like a subscription, but an average consumer doesn't consider their plastic cards a financial "subscription".

Not sure what your point is? Of course it's common practice. Of course it's useful information for the business. Of course it will be documented in their privacy policy.

You just described basically all tracking and analytics. This is what they are blocking by default for everyone except themselves apparently.....

Links for the password manager, "Firefox Lockwise" go through adjust, which appears to be a tracking/analytics/marketing platform. This is both through their website and by clicking through the Firefox UI menu.

I guess it's harder to walk the walk yourself when the desires to track usage and analytics come from within your own teams.

Check the links yourself over at:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/lockwise/

And built in to Firefox by going about:logins, the top right * menu and clicking Lockwise for Android or Lockwise for iPhone

You end up with redirect links like:

https://app.adjust.com/6tteyjo?redirect=

> I can simply not distribute it

Of course, you haven't infringed on anyone's freedom yet, there are no users. I guess the thing is if you massively overcharge without providing any corresponding service of value the first person that purchases it has the option to throw the source code up on the internet and it can be forked.

I guess you also have to find a buyer that is willing to pay you the large sum while also knowing they can't charge others for it without also handing over the source code, so it's doubtful anyone would do so.

There are other options though, if a single person or entity owns the copyright for the entire code base, with no outside contributors, they can dual license it. GPL for the public and then commercial proprietary license for businesses. That way the business can build on it if they wish without redistributing the source.

This comment comes across as particularly callous. They are saying a part of why they may support the Huawei app store is to continue to provide access to the app to those in developing countries, and your response is to say you'd prefer them spend time on your personal UX pet peeve...

Māori electorate seats have a "controversial" history in the same way anything related to the Treaty of Waitangi does. Anything related to the treaty and it's settlements will always bring out the noisy racists.

Winston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand First Party is known to say and do anything to ruffle feathers and make the days front page. If you kept researching, you'd see he back pedaled hard on his Māori seat comments and said it should be voted on by a referendum. Then, in the most recent election he "compromised" even further and dropped the idea completely because he knew labour (coalition partner) wouldn't tolerate that shit.

FLOSS existed before Github and it will exist long after it is gone. Financial sustainability has always been a problem for the movement but it's independent of a single repository host.

I dunno, I don't think it's very healthy that when presented with a bumbling idiot in a position of power you start to think it's a big ruse and they are actually a genius.

It's best to just assume they are in fact, a bumbling idiot.

Cogmind is the most thoughtful and elegant roguelike ever created. The dev is also prolific in the community and happily shares his RL dev experience to anyone that will listen. I recommend anyone who is even remotely interested in RL design and development to browse through his blog, which has literal years of high quality content.

If you look around and see poverty and oppression in your own culture/country and your answer is "you should be grateful you're not in [worse country]", then you are part of the problem.

Pretty ballsy to proclaim western society and economic coercion as not "legitimate oppression".

Cloud providers are notorious for automated systems that will lock you out of your account, with no recourse and no ability to talk to a human about it.