communism

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean, you can create a GPL fork of the Rust coreutils if you so please. Or you could do a rewrite in any programming language of your choice and license permissively.

In any case, I profoundly cannot bring myself to care about the fact that you can legally create a proprietary fork of permissively licensed FOSS. I don't think it's right to impose any restrictions on what people can do with software/code, which of course conflicts with the fact that other people can take your code and restrict what other people can do with it. So choosing between copyleft and permissive licensing is a balancing act of that contradiction. I don't think it's wrong to end up on the side of permissive licensing.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Do you seriously think that's how IP law works? If you weren't able to write GPL Rust code, Rust would not be free software. That would require the Rust project to issue software licences to programmers that stipulate that you must not create GPL-licensed software using Rust.

Rust is free and open-source, like most programming languages. That means you are allowed to make whatever software you want with it, including GPL software. There's nothing stipulating that you can't...

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

But consider, Rust being named what it is led to the project name ffmpreg

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 hours ago

Initially used by Black USAmericans to mean "aware of the racist reality we live in". Then racists started mocking Black people for saying it and using it as a slur against social movements. Now people mostly treat it as a meme word meaning vaguely left-wing, but in a funny way.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

it’s always available

Until the AI companies run out of money.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

A lot of legal protections for workers aren't enforced, or are difficult to enforce due to standards of evidence and other factors. A union is a worker-controlled means of enforcement. Instead of appealing to power from above, workers can exert their own collective power from below. In other words, it's better than having rights on paper, because the government can't just sign a piece of paper to take them away from you or decide not to enforce the rights.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Until they release what the books are, it doesn't say anything about the suspect's beliefs. I'm sure plenty of people have some literature by a communist because a lot of classic or influential lit was penned by a communist. If you've got a bookshelf full of obscure Verso books then sure, probably a lefty, but a few classic books that happen to be by communists doesn't say anything lol.

Edit: not sure if it came across this way but I'm not arguing with you to be clear—I'm sure you haven't jumped to the conclusion that the suspect is a communist. Just commenting is all.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

Lack of distraction, easier on the eyes, larger screen, much easier to read if it's sunny out.

I like to use it as an extra screen for when I'm taking notes on a pdf/ebook on my laptop, so I don't need to dedicate half my laptop screen to the book. And like I said, it's a bigger screen than my smartphone.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

As the other commenter said, only Teflon permanently loses its non-stickiness. After seasoning your cast iron or carbon steel pan (carbon steel addresses your wife's problem of heaviness, and it's basically the same substance as cast iron), make sure the pan is hot before adding your food. I've cooked eggs, fish, veg, all sorts of commonly sticky foods in well seasoned hot cast iron and not had problems. I only get sticking problems when the pan is not hot enough. For seasoning, I wash, dry by heating on the stove, add a little bit of oil, spread it thinly with a paper towel, put it upside down in the oven with a tray beneath to catch any drippings, and let my oven run on max temperature for about an hour. I've only had to do that I think twice over the several years I've had my cast iron pan though; the seasoning should maintain and heal itself just by cooking with it. The same applies to carbon steel if that's what you get, btw.

My only exception is tofu, which I have literally never managed to fry without sticking except on Teflon. I think it's because of the moisture of tofu. I don't press my tofu tbf, out of laziness, but perhaps I'll have to once my Teflon pan gives out.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 days ago

Like all of this ranges from unenforceable to spuriously enforceable (eg for rule 1, you can guess whether something has AI vibes—with vibe code it might be easier if the AI has just hallucinated a function or something). Seems more for the purpose of making a point than anything, or perhaps relying on others respecting your policy, but other projects with much more lenient no-AI policies still have people flagrantly breaking them.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I think no win no fee is commonplace in the EU.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I think if you're at the point of poweruser where you're deciding an init system, you probably should just try them out in VMs. It doesn't have to take loads of time. Install an OS, try writing some basic services, try doing some basic config for your use-case.

For the vast majority of users, they'll never have this problem, because they'll just use whatever init system comes with their OS. I know some distros give init freedom, but most are locked in to one or another init. The fact that you have this problem suggests that either you're using the wrong distro and should switch to one that chooses for you (or just pick based on one-line descriptions), or it'd be worth your time to spend a day or two poking around with the init systems under consideration in VMs.

 

President Trump dialed into “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning and revealed his newest and truest motivation for brokering an end to the war in Ukraine: He’s worried he might not get into heaven after he dies.

“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he explained. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”

lmao?

 

Title, I'm sick of online tech communities that clearly are casually of the opinion that women are stupider than men or stupid outright. Funny how the example of a tech incompetent person is always your grandma never your grandpa—have recently been seeing this archetypal person mutate into your mom now, not even your grandma. I know so many women my mom's generation who have been programming for decades... The assumption that anyone in online tech communities must be a guy because women are too stupid or uninterested in tech, etc.

The thing that annoys me the most is that these men don't think of themselves as anti-woke gamergaters or anything. They probably think of themselves as "progressive" #resist libs IME. It's sad that growing up I had to deal with the attitudes towards me being the only girl who chose to do IT classes at my school (and like, not to blow my own trumpet but clearly the most competent kid in the class by far too—I don't think that's too much of a brag considering I'm talking about a group of like 20 children) and nothing's changed when I'm in online communities of my own choosing as an adult years later.

It's so detached from reality when people think that misogyny is an oppression that's been "overcome" when clearly the majority of men still have as a base unchallenged assumption that women are stupider than men.

Your communities are only going to have fewer and fewer women over time because of these attitudes. And then the men in them will wonder why there's so few women in techy communities. Must be because our feeble female brains are too dumb to understand tech.

 

I had a bit of a look around and the food-related communities seem to either be a bit more specific or not just about recipe-sharing. Is there a community out there that's just for people to share recipes (whether ones they made themselves, or ones they found online and are recommending)?

 

The issue with Google's personalised search results is, imo:

  1. Not only is it not opt-in, but you can't even opt out of it. Personalised search results should be opt-in and disabled by default.
  2. The data kept on you is used to sell you ads
  3. The data kept on you will be handed over to state entities fairly easily

Given those three problems, how feasible would it be to self-host a search engine that personalises your results to show you things that are more relevant to you? Avoiding issues 1 & 2 as you're self-hosting so presumably you have made the decisions around those two things. And issue 3 is improved as you can host it off-shore if you are concerned about your domestic state, and if you are legally compelled to hand over data, you can make the personal choice about whether or not to take the hit of the consequences of refusing, rather than with a big company who will obviously immediately comply and not attempt to fight it even on legal grounds.

A basic use-case example is, say you're a programmer and you look up ruby, you would want to get the first result as the programming language's website rather than the wikipedia page for the gemstone. You could just make the search query ruby programming language on any privacy-respecting search engine, but it's just a bit of QoL improvement to not have to think about the different ways an ambiguous search query like that could be interpreted.

 

Basically I have a lot of friends who self describe as bad at tech. It seems like a lot of learned helplessness and refusing to even listen to instructions because they've already told themselves they can't do it. But they would like to get better and do trust me. So I was trying to come up with some "tasks" to give them to help them gain confidence and to gain some basic skills as well.

I have zero qualifications in tech/computer stuff, and no professional background either, so I know that all this stuff can be self-taught.

I was thinking gaming-related stuff might be a good entry point: setting up a Minecraft server, installing mods for games, hacking your 3DS. These things boil down to following instructions so maybe it would help people learn that if you follow the documentation/guide you will get things done. It doesn't require much thinking or problem-solving, just following instructions.

Would like to hear what other people think and what "tasks" they suggest tech illiterate or tech-averse people try in order to build their confidence and gain some basic competence.

 

I've finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I'm playing with Proton.

I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).

Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can't be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.

 

One example is bread. I was baking bread the other day, and obviously the cost of the ingredients I put in the loaf are less than the cost of buying a loaf at the supermarket, but that doesn't include the cost of putting the oven on.

Or dry beans vs canned beans; does the cost of boiling the beans actually bring the cost up to be equivalent to canned beans?

I know that everyone's energy costs are different so it's not possible for someone to do the calculations for you, but I've never bothered to do them for my own case because bills I get from the energy company just tell me how much I owe them for the month, not "you put the oven on for 30 minutes on the 17th of June and that cost you X". It sounds like a headache to try calculate how much I pay for energy per meal. But if someone else has done that calculation for themselves I'd be interested to read it and see how it works out. My intuition is that, in general, it's cheaper to make things yourself (e.g. bread or beans like above), but I couldn't say that for sure without calculating, which as I said seems like it would be a pain in the ass.

 

For a while, I was running a conduwuit server. Conduwuit has been abandoned, and I wanted to migrate my server to upstream Conduit.

Has anyone done this before? I'm using Docker Compose for Conduwuit.

 

Meaning that the author is maybe not very good at their craft, but inadvertently created a work with a lot more meaning than they intended, or they accidentally did something quite clever that they didn't mean to. Or maybe a work which is good in its own right but there's a particular "unofficial" interpretation which makes it so much better.

Obviously a bit of this question involves knowing authorial intentions, but in a lot of instances authors have been able to state that they did or didn't intend a particular interpretation.

 

It appears to work fine (it contains my home partition for my main machine I daily drive) and I haven't noticed signs of failure. Not noticeably slow either. I used to boot Windows off of it once upon a time which was incredibly slow to start up, but I haven't noticed slowness since using it for my home partition for my personal files.

Articles online seem to suggest the life expectancy for an HDD is 5–7 years. Should I be worried? How do I know when to get a new drive?

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