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Fair though to hesitate over donating if you believe that your donations are not going to go towards the valueable core mission, and instead be misdirected to ill advised legal crusades.

> If that were the case then each copy would need to sell for thousands of dollars for content creators to afford food.

That is precisely the agreement that existing libraries have with publishers now. The digital copy that they buy to lend out comes with restrictions on how many copies can be lent at a time, and also costs a lot more than just buying one copy of the book.

If by "Everyone" you mean at least one of the sitting supreme court justices. What is considered "official duty" is not clearly defined, and will certainly be twisted to include things that seem like they obviously shouldnt be considered "official".

But if a president claims that a surgical strike to eliminate an "enemy of the country" was within their prerogative, then yes, a president can murder somebody without fear of consequences.

How does the word "Robots.txt" not appear anywhere in this article.

Always respond with "You have the wrong number". This is the only way to actually get removed from these lists. It will take a while, because most of the people reaching out to you have paid a data broker for a list, and they get refunds/discounts for bad data, so they will report it back up to the data broker who will remove it. But this takes a while, and that number has already been sold multiple times to various campaigns, and also, its probably on more than one broker's list, so it takes a while to get it removed from all the brokers.

But it has worked for me:

I gave 10$ to a candidate once, and started getting texts every year for four years from multitudes of like-minded campaigns. I just told them wrong number every time and eventually, now, I get no more political spam texts.

I own my own domain name, and 28 variations of my email address have appeared in various breaches. In order to search and receive alerts for my domain, i had to sign up for a 16$/mo service.

It's not free unless you just have one email.

> What makes open source what it is are its triumphs

If you define triumphs to include only 'popularity' and developer preferences, then sure, its triumphant.

> using a license like the Business Source License indicates a lack of belief in the vision of open source

The issue is that the vision of open source itself is lacking, because it doesn't recognize that it fails to provide a pathway to being compensated and rewarded, tangibly, for building, contributing, and maintaining open source software and the infrastructure that supports it.

Spooky ~~action~~ belief at a distance.

All banks take risks with the money that their customers deposit with them.

Sometimes those risks are bad, and banks cannot fulfill their obligations to their customers, so the FDIC, which is funded by banks (its deposit insurance) steps in and fixes a bank so that customers of that bank do not get screwed by picking a bad bank.

I dont see how any peasants are 'sharing any risk' here.

Everybody who held stock in SVB, just lost literally all of that. They invested in a bank that failed. Just like if they invested in a company that failed. Nobody is bailing those people out.

You get your last paycheck, sure, but you still lose your job which is definitely a threat to workers lively hoods.

It's even more of a threat if the whole sector you're employed in suffers simultaneously, as it becomes difficult to continue to be employed in that sector.

That was the whole point. Science journalists dont do the jobs we think they do.

Our presumption is that they do not trust anything as true facts until they verify and vet the information. I.e do what a journalists do. Report whats true

But thats not actually their job anymore. Their job is to get eyeballs. Doesnt really matter whats true.

The headline is about Austria, not Australia.

Its also noteworthy that the definition of "Open Source" is not something that any organization or entity has ownership over. OSI wants the definition to mean specific things. The FSF wants it to mean similar, yet different things (or that they never wanted "open source" to pollute the vernacular at all, and continue to use the "Free" software terminology.)

But the definition itself is fluid, contextual, and subject to change over time.

Makes me wonder if there is a part of the brain thats actually responsible for reconfiguring/responding to abnormal situations.

I have been using a catchall domain since 2004 and it has been a lifesaver.

The sad part is when your email leaks from big companies, you definitely know. I started getting viagra spam delivered to equifax@mydomain.com back in 2007, long before their "big data breach", so it was only a matter of time before that companies pattern of poor security caught up with them.

Email should have always been a bidirectional address, representing the relationship between the sender and receiver, and not a wide open receiver for anybody who happens to have your address.

I feel like free software, and RMS's biggest blind spot is the network, between people, and between computers. Everything is framed and discussed in this old timey way of using computers, where you had a general purpose machine that was personal that you programmed to do things you needed, or installed software on, to also do something valueable.

Now it seems like the vast majority of the needs and requirements to run software locally have been replaced with networked services and a browser/thin client interface.

Which means, that in order to do anything useful, you need to communicate with some other service that is running software that has access to your data. The 'freedom' to inspect the code that runs on your computer is useless without both the freedom to see what happens upstream, and also some level of trust or confidence that the service you're using really isnt doing something nefarious.

Take something as old and as open as IRC. I have absolutely no way of knowing if the server Im connecting to is actually running the software I think it is, unmodified. The only people who have that level of access, have root on the server.

Even RMS's free game example is bad. One of the players can modify their copy to cheat, and the other players dont have any real option in that situation.

Yeah, yet not even cool enough to get its own phrase in the zeitgeist like "Drink the Kool-Aid"

The vast majority of code would end up with no attestations. Theres simply no incentive for anybody to do so.

It's tragedy of the commons, but now with more visibility in to how tragic it is.

yep. Set mine up in 2004. I would gladly switch over to a normal gmail account with a custom domain name, yet there is no way to preserve any of my existing google identity.

I used to ride my bike around every late summer gathering them from people's lawns.

The trees have sexes, so one has to find the female trees.

There are quite a few in Portland, and all relatively the same age because they were given away at the lewis and Clark exposition of 1905 by a representative from Chile.

https://slabtowntours.com/2016/04/19/fun-fact-26-the-seedlin...

Just from reading his wikipedia bio, whatever gravitas he may have once had seems to have been traded for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

This looks like idea laundering.

I did used to have a diesel Winnebago, and did pump my own gas. It's the sort of loophole that causes the whole scheme to seem non-sensiscal.

Same. In OR.

I'm concerned that my smart tv might start to fail, or that older embedded devices that use http like my irrigation controller that gathers weather data from the internet might run into problems.

The coincidences are generally amplified by the fact that apps generally do send location data, when you visit friends you generally talk about stuff you've been looking at lately, so it certainly plausible that linking profiles based on proximity and similarity of interests would mean that there's a much higher chance that advertising interests spread from one user to another, merely by geography.

It is also not a Shopify alternative in that Shopify is a service and not just software.

Its like comparing "raw organic apples" to "Apple cider made with conventionally farmed apples"

It really depends on whether all traffic from cloudflare IP's or just the most frequent ones. If the former, then they have configured nginx wrong and are logging the wrong source ip.

Yeah, my wife can do this too, always been one of her go-to "human party tricks"

Thats because roads are not "supply" it is "price". Building a hospital and staffing it should make the cost of healthcare in an area lower because there is more "supply" of healthcare. Which in turn means more people would go get healthcare that couldnt afford it before. The sick people are already there, they just cant afford to get treatment.

Just like the people who want to drive somewhere are already there, but the cost of a clogged commute makes it not worth it for them to spend the time, so they do something else.

This idea presumes a few things: 1. Tech workers are burning out due to 'extra load' because of staffing issues at companies. 2. The staffing and workload issues are due to tech workers being voluntarily unemployed.

The first is probably very true. But tech companies have always ran as bare thin of a crew that they could to meet output requirements, which is why you can find content on tech burnout all the way back to the dotcom era and probably before.

The second is, in my mind, untenable. The kinds of salaries that a tech worker makes is wildly different from the amount that unemployment covers. In my state unemployment would barely be half of my salary, and thats with the added covid benefits. I strongly, strongly doubt there is even a small fraction of people willing to take that kind of paycut in exchange for pure idling.