MadhuGururajan
@MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
- Comment on Vectors Part 2 2 weeks ago:
Its easy to think about vectors in the first sense (as anything with direction and magnitude) when we’re working with classical units (space, force, electric fields, etc)
But it becomes a nightmare to understand intuitively when the vector is defined as something with magnitude and direction when speaking about units that are not obvious to us humans (like time)
- Comment on Random text message 1 month ago:
Yeah fair enough.
- Comment on Hide your couch! 1 month ago:
Yeah but some urban legends deserve to be kept alive for some time.
- Comment on Random text message 1 month ago:
Wrong number… right energy
- Comment on The duality of Lemmy 1 month ago:
Funnily this post is so meta as it is trying to ascribe multiple behavior to what looks like a single entity called Lemmy whereas it’s a town square that anyone can post to.
- Comment on Hide your couch! 1 month ago:
Ooh it’s one of those “fact-check” articles. Welp… pack it up boys…
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 7 months ago:
Do some websites refuse to function even with useragent spoofing?
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 7 months ago:
No the claim is that the inflation is artificial… not the prices.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 7 months ago:
You and other trans who are asking people to stop are missing one important point: Harry Potter is the reason many trans people are still alive.
A story can walk farther even if the storyteller faltered sooner.
You have to understand that people often lose their way. It’s in the nature of many humans to do so.
- Comment on Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability 7 months ago:
It takes time to implement features. Execs and managers don’t want to implement the wheel and developer time costs a lot more money than security vulns.
- Comment on Expanding the P.D Development Team! 7 months ago:
The fediverse already has a mechanism to guard against some corporation coming in and taking the code from a platform and building a commercial product on top of it - defederation. We don’t need GPL to “protect” us from anyone here
I disagree. The reason GPL works is that legal action (Such as from GNU foundation or EFF) deters bad actors.
The fediverse already has a mechanism to guard against some corporation coming in and taking the code from a platform and building a commercial product on top of it - defederation.
Defederation only helps the corporations: When the corporation comes in, overwhelms the fediverse with their huge network of active instances and then defederate, the only ones holding the bag are the open intances. . It’s much easier for a private corporation to get numbers to defederate and come out on top than for open source enthusiasts.
However, there are also many that want to be recognized (financially) for their work. GPL ignores the latter.
If you want to be financially recognized for building on top of other people’s open source projects then you should write proprietary code. You shouldn’t be allowed to take open source works freely and call the entirety your own. MIT doesn’t prevent that from happening. GPL prevents that from happening.
I don’t believe that is the case any more
It’s actually really important in the long run. There can never be true open source without GPL or similar legal licenses.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 8 months ago:
Orangepi, rockchip, Arduino.
There’s nothing novice about wanting to learn.
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 8 months ago:
A router of industrial scale which i see at work has its ports to be l3 ports by default. They don’t down the network as the router rejects config where two ports are given the same subnet… at least the ones i operate at work.
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 8 months ago:
Are you just throwing networking terms together? How does a LAG prevent a switching loop?