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onlypositive··on Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement
> Red Hat has decided to continue to use the Customer Portal to share source code with our partners and customers, while treating CentOS Stream as the venue for collaboration with the community.

> Unfortunately the way we understand it today, Red Hat’s user interface agreements indicate that re-publishing sources acquired through the customer portal would be a violation of those agreements.

Pretty sure that's a gpl violation.

> 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC1

onlypositive··on Amazon cancels Louis Rossmann [video]
Hows amazon these days? Still a sweatshop?
onlypositive··on Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Next week on HackerNews:

Figma, considered harmful.

onlypositive··on A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago
> non paywall
onlypositive··on Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Nobody is claiming there was any rules being broken.

Doesn't make it any less creepy.

onlypositive··on System76 Email Leak Update
Its always a good sign when my reaction to a disclosure is "ouch that sucks" instead of "buuuuuullsshhhhiii".

I mean, this was so matter of fact to read I've already forgotten about it.

onlypositive··on Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Just because you can perve on people at a nudest beach doesn't mean you should.

Society frequently has norms and unwritten rules that we usually follow. Not every rule needs to be written down as law.

onlypositive··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
Namecheap email is like 1.50 a month. This is way more expensive. Pretty sure they're just trying to kill it.
onlypositive··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
I complained. Their prices are already way over what I can get on namecheap.

The free email is the only thing that kept me with them.

onlypositive··on 21st-century editors should keep their hands off of 20th-century books
I can't wait for the updated version of 1984.
onlypositive··on The power of keeping a coding journal (2014)
Or never.

I write notes throughout the day. Hardly ever search back in it. It's just to let me stop thinking about thing X while I'm working on thing Y. If X is important it'll come up again or show up in a ticket somewhere.

onlypositive··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
It really depends on what you're struggling with.

Getting a dog really helped me for example. Daily exercise also helps keep my sleep stable.

onlypositive··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
> I see how much more we can do it we meet together once in a while.

I've worked remotely for years before COVID and these meetups are always hyper productive.

I'm also burned out and need to sleep for a week straight afterwards.

Just because people get motivated seeing each other once in a while doesn't mean that's sustainable if they were in an office.

To me, working remotely was less effective in the beginning, it uncovered undiagnosed ADHD and after dealing with that I'm doing far better than I ever did in an office.

Office work is fine if you prefer it, working from home requires a lifestyle and an office space to make it work, something not everyone can manage.

But that doesn't make it worse at all, and as others have said, it requires different management skills, if you haven't picked them up, you probably won't see the benefits from your perspective because you're not letting your team work properly.

onlypositive··on Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted
Wait til this guy learns about free shipping.
onlypositive··on Solid state active cooling on a Mini PC
I remember watching this as well. Really excited to see it hit a real machine. Can't wait til laptop manufacturers pick it up
onlypositive··on Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems
I must be really smart, I'm still working on some of the problems my math teacher gave me.
onlypositive··on Community-built hospital price database hits 400 hospitals
Is there a reason America doesn't follow the rest of the world and use the governments size to negotiate cheaper healthcare prices when it decides what to subsidize. (Subsidization enables sellers to justify lower prices because there will be guaranteed volume)

It's still capitalist, it's just leveraging collective buying power for the benefit of all.

onlypositive··on Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
I wasn't going to add one but I might actually put one in my root just out of spite.

Devs need to stop demanding other devs jump through pointless hoops.

onlypositive··on WP20 and Audrey Scholars
To all the haters in this thread: Pull requests welcome. Til then, stop spreading fud. WP security is fine.
onlypositive··on YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
This is an odd thing to hypothesize at this point. YouTube has the data now, until they release the stats and let us know if the move actually had the desired effect, talking about it like this is entirely pointless.

Has hiding dislikes stopped pile ons? (I bet it hasn't)

onlypositive··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
This sounds like the same problem as recipes that call for "browning the meat" which I tend to read as "sear the meat" because e.g. mince will brown up within seconds but the searing is what actually gives you the flavour.
onlypositive··on Hoarding
I would totally be a hoarder if it were not for the fact the local government gives us 6 cube metres of "free" curb side bulk rubbish pick up each year. If you don't use them, you lose them.

Obviously I'm paying for these through council tax rates so I make a point of using them up.

These give me a chance to, and crucially, force me to make decisions about junk to get rid of.

Another part of the hoarder condition is that often stuff you board does actually become useful again, I'm regularly coming across things in the house that need fixing or batteries replaced and a quick look around the workshop or in the dedicated junk draws and I can usually find the thing I need. This reinforces the habit.

But back to my point, can I suggest you supply your mom with a rubbish pick up a few times a year, rent a trailer or skip and drop it off to be filled for taking to the dump.

The time based urgency should help make some decisions.

I also wouldn't have let her wait to look that up, I would have looked it up on the spot. Putting things off is a good way to lose the war.

onlypositive··on FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says
https://www.ndlegis.gov/assembly/67-2021/testimony/HPOLSUB-1...
onlypositive··on FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says
No they didn't.
onlypositive··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
Were not out here trying to ensure a perfect pristine protection of the ecosystem. This is about a toxic weed spreading into areas we don't want it.

Next you'll be telling me we can just keep drilling for oil because humans are animals too.

onlypositive··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
Yes, we call plants invasive when we see them spreading uncontrollably, that's the word we have decided to use to describe this occurrence.

Native plants is a term used to describe plants that were present before humans got involved.

It's a human centric way to view the world but I guess it's better than us trying to dick around making everything human agnostic considering we're all human and share a bunch of human context with each other.

onlypositive··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
It's not worth noting. There is quite a few people in this thread arguing for the sake of arguing about what a weed is in a thread about a very serious weed taking over very large swaths of habitat.

It's kind of disgusting.

onlypositive··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
> that some species are 'invasive' and others are native is just picking a snapshot in time.

What's your point?

Invasive plants are still invasive. It's not always a problem but if they're getting labelled invasive it's usually because they're having a negative impact on the existing ecosystem or would if left unchecked.

Negative is relative to our human needs of the status quo I guess but again I don't really see that as an issue what other frame of reference would we be discussing?

onlypositive··on How ‘open’ should your open source be?
I stopped caring what those people think a decade ago.
onlypositive··on How ‘open’ should your open source be?
open-source /əʊp(ə)nˈsɔːs/ adjective denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified

Adding community to this definition is a stretch.

It really doesn't matter if in practice communities form around projects, there are far more open source repositories on GitHub that have zero outside contributions, those projects are still open source.

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