shane

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[–] shane 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like you're unhappy with your client? Maybe try a new one?

[–] shane 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He said 12 is too young for him.

[–] shane 1 points 1 week ago

How much of this is an actual problem with coordinating between countries and how much just German rail having gotten incredibly shitty?

[–] shane 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you please explain this more? I've not heard anything about this, but I am ignorant of many things.

[–] shane 46 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Planes are the safest form of transportation if you look at safety per km travelled. If you look at other metrics, like safety per trip or per travel time then they are less safe than busses or trains.

https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/184330

[–] shane 26 points 1 week ago

In the distant past Facebook was a place that small parties and candidates without lots of money could organize and reach voters.

Now it's just another propaganda tool for capitalists and fascists.

[–] shane 5 points 1 week ago

Intel dominated chip making for decades. This is more like restoring competition, I think.

[–] shane 1 points 1 week ago

I mean... it does seem less terrible?

[–] shane 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry I replied to the wrong comment in the thread.

Let me try to explain.

GPL was designed to give users access to the source code for hardware they control.

This worked pretty well until TiVo came up with locks that would only allow you to run kernels they signed. This was to prevent people from putting in cheap disks to their hardware.

So GNU came up with GPLv3, which closes the TiVo hole. It also tried to address the evils of software patents to an extent.

That works okay, but then people invented SaaS (software as a service). In that case the user doesn't own the hardware, so companies don't have to publish the source under GPL. Which meets the letter of the license and gives a big middle finger to the intent.

So AGPLv3 was developed to close that hole. With AGPL users must have access to any open source run by a service to provide them with that service, restoring the ability of users to see what the code is doing, and possibly forking and making their own version if it doesn't do what they want.

[–] shane 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, I don't like Mastodon much, but I never used Twitter so probably I just don't get it.

Lemmy seems fine to me. I honestly don't need improvements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] shane 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

AGPL is the superior license!

[–] shane 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not the person you're asking but surely they just told the compiler to treat warnings as errors after that. No warnings can creep in then!

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