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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Stack overflow error on recursive function “blame parents” at line 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps they add code to split physics and grsphical fps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Innovate means needing to pay for an online service to transfer saves between consoles, saves stored on an SD card?

  Do they DMCA fan made games because the game concepts have been fully fleshed out? When copyright expires for FZero in a century perhaps we can find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I now require people who offer me to try out a solar powered car to provide directions to said car, lest your comment be labeled a sarcastic cock-tease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which projects?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you’ve implicitly agreed to it when creating your account

  Many people would agree with that, probably most laws do. However I doubt many users have actually bothered to read the unnecessarily long document, fewer have understood the legalese, and the terms have likely already been changed ~pray I don’t alter it any further~. That’s a low and shady bar of consent. It indeed sucks and I think people should leave those platforms, but I’m also open to laws that would invalidate that part of the EULA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I despise this use of mod power in response to a protest. It’s our content to be sabotaged if we want - if Stack Overlords disagree then to hell with them.

  I’ll add Stack Overflow to my personal ban list, just below Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know jailbreak refers more to rooting Apple phones but I think it’s a better term than root as it points out you’re not in control of your own hardware. You “break out of jail” to gain (software) freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact less people of that group actually wear it than do is significant when you want an average sample. When categorizing a collection of images then, naturally, the traditional garments of a group is associated more with that group than than any other group: 1/6 is bigger than any other race combined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the artifical segmentation pricing structure possible without lockout software? Software has wide applications but in the end this is about freedom.

  I would like an EV but I want an old dumb car converted as I don’t want the modern car computing systems (unless there’s one that runs a free OS).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps typical people can more easily understand how a physical device might work. People probably understand gears and electricity more so than “software” (never even heard of source code or binaries).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If manufacturers made parts available for longer (or perhaps at all in some cases?) then 2nd-hand cars already make for a cheaper option.

  I believe artificially limiting hardware is an unacceptable for a health society because proprietary software gives the developer power over their users. Even people with good intentions will be tempted to use that power at the user’s expense. A software update could suddenly make that 20 mil commute no longer possible unless you agree to pay more, or accept a new terms of service where you lose the right to sue them agree to forced arbitration or lose access to even using your vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to buy the car.

  If it’s a profitable decision then it has the potential to become the de facto standard standard and so simply not buying it isn’t enough.

  The manufacturer using software to lock use of hardware in people’s own cars is an attack on ownership rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Software-locked” is a weird way to say you need to install Linux to get it all working properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pay to disable a power save mode??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I own the car then either those are all my batteries or someone else has abandoned their property in my car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Multiple streaming services existing isn’t the issue - content exclusivity to certain platforms makes it so. If content was on all platforms then it would just be a choice based on price and service features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dropball

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they wanted to avoid being stupid. We need intelligent design (no not that intelligent design, actual intelligence).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having control over other people’s computing gives you power over them: you can gain from their detriment. It’s not like everyone is uncaring or greedy but even people with good intentions do not have infinite willpower to resist temptation. When the user doesn’t like a change from an update their choice is usually to put up with it because that’s easier than stop using the it. It easier to defend ads in a menu or opt-outs in hidden menus because that’s easier than;

  • learning what an operating system is and that you can use a different one

  • how to install and use a new OS

  By sharing the source code instead you give up that power - if you fail to be good to the users then other devs can work on it without you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This greatly affects the likelyhood of people choosing a particular OS later in life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardcopy images in a book are a bit different from the typical proprietary software doing who knows what on your personal computer. Not saying ads should be illegal but I would argue for software freedom where you can remove ads from ever running on your computer - like you can rip pages out of your book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t choose your childhood education. Microsoft and Apple offer schools deals to create adults dependent on it - after all they’ll be using it in work too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm giving up — on open source - Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue causing offence and collecting unuseful feedback is surely an issue in every project. Is there sometime unique or prominent regarding to open source software?

  We can judge opinions to the degree they appear to accurately represent reality or achieve a goal. I can understand wanting to monopolize your work (without money survival is difficult) but if we agree to the goal of human flourishing then we can same some opinions are better than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm giving up — on open source - Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A universal basic income would better permit developers to choose to create collaborative software rather than proprietary.

  Move on or keep using it is the normal choice when proprietary software changes in a way you don’t like. Trying to make money is fine but that doesn’t make choices immune to criticism. If you value your software freedom then one aught to criticize the creation of proprietary software, even if you never used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm giving up — on open source - Blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I gave my work out for free, no strings attached!”

  Usingsing a copyleft license instead gives me a chance to get access to any changes they make if they redistribute my code.

  Going proprietary isn’t an option: that denies others helping me and denies my user’s software freedoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Google is broken up what changes? Are there going to two different companies creating a map app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But their mother’s mother is to blame for their mother!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you qualify the security of a closed source code when you can’t verify it?

  I’d bet on for-profit motive over passion-project when it comes to being tempted to do something wrong.