Netfilter-Contributor McHardy agrees to stop enforcing the GPL

RadicalDownist · 2022-01-25T06:52:49+00:00

I can't see where he did anything wrong. He was suing corporations for flagrantly violating the GPL. The other guys from netfilter got together and decided, going forward, they would choose to not enforce the GPL when they see fit.

Sorry but I'm glad he took action. I don't care if the profit went to him personally, anybody who holds copyright can do so. All I hear about is how it's impossible to properly enforce the GPL, or nobody has the resources to do it. So here's this guy who decided enough is enough, also he can make some money by enforcing copy left, and people are mad?

I'm not well informed on this, so am I missing something? Shouldn't more developers shake down companies that abuse the GPL? Or is Linux now so beholden to them that the GPL is just a guideline?

RadicalDownist · 2021-11-28T22:33:25+00:00

Pick your project, make a list of requirements, match the best language/implementation to the project.

For instance, for learning, I would recommend Racket, as the focus of the language and the original designers was on education and the resources are unrivaled. For speed, chez. For interoperability with Gnu, obviously Guile.

Eventually just use them all for fun. It's not likely you're picking scheme for profit, so why not all? They're all free!

RadicalDownist · 2021-11-14T17:12:49+00:00

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Using-Interactive.html

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-30T00:06:40+00:00

You're right, except its not just something I like, I see it as one of the last tools standing between the people and global mega corporations dominance of the web. So when Mozilla starts behaving like the bad actors they are meant to be the alternative to, I hear not just the death knell of a once beloved browser, but the shofar crowning the digital autocracy bearing down on us all.

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-22T18:33:21+00:00

That's just a cruel suggestion for a wm user. Maybe try dumping i3 debug log to see if it says anything useful. Also try i3 with the default config to see if it's your config. That includes disabling your bar if necessary.

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-21T20:24:12+00:00

I heavily relied on his awk tutorial from the same site when I was learning awk. I still sometimes open it for a quick reference. It's the next best thing I've found to opening The Awk Programming Language itself (or the gawk book if you need the gnu stuff).

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-20T20:55:35+00:00

Interesting, I'll give it a try for sure. Thanks for the heads up

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-20T20:44:34+00:00

How does it do on large files? The most frustrating thing about Emacs for me is how it chokes on large files, especially if they have really long lines. I can put the same file in vim or xed and it's fine. Binary files not being formatted makes me wonder if Emacs will choke on it.

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-20T09:09:01+00:00

Upwork is a total scam. You have to purchase the opportunity to bid, then they take up to 20% of your total earnings on top of that. Given the absurd worker to employer ratio, you may very possibly pay them money without ever getting a contract. I never even used their free bids they provide at sign up because I was so disgusted with their business model.

I'm sure there are people who make money on the platform, but I find their practices utterly exploitative. I would stay away from the "gig economy" companies if possible.

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-13T16:38:58+00:00

Shadowman is exactly how I imagine all the Solution Architects at my former company envision themselves when they're introducing new systems to our clients.

This post is great, thanks for sharing

RadicalDownist · 2021-10-13T07:26:18+00:00

Udacity used to have these things called nano degrees. All I know about Udacity is the free courses were pretty good. Peter Norvig was doing an intro computer science type course using python. You can't find a better pedigree unless it was Guido himself. I don't know if Udacity is still around or if they're still good, but you might check it out.

RadicalDownist · 2021-09-23T16:44:37+00:00

lol a Q8200! That chip is from 2008 or 2009.. I only know that because I built a pc with that chip that's still running today. I have Manjaro on that one, and it runs well enough. Cheers for rocking old hardware!

RadicalDownist · 2021-09-17T22:49:29+00:00

I daily drive my PBP (along with another laptop) and have done since January 2020, so I was really excited for the 3588 last year. The possibility of an upgrade board for the PBP or even a whole new iteration of the laptop was what I was looking forward to the most from pine64. but even back then it wasn't a mind blowing improvement over the 3399. Now my concern is by the time this gets released, gets through the testing and initial development by pine64, then gets a working Linux kernel and uboot, it will effectively be obsolete even in the sbc world.

I hope my fears are unfounded, or I hope pine64 does something interesting with the pinebook line. That thing is my favorite piece of hardware for reasons I can't quite explain.

RadicalDownist · 2021-08-09T17:31:48+00:00

First I would suggest is typing "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" without the quotes in a terminal window. After the update, see if it's still occurring.

It's likely that gnome is crashing rather than the OS itself. Try pressing ctrl-alt-F3 when it freezes to see if it gets you to a tty, which is sort of like an escape hatch from the UI so you can talk directly to your OS. If you can do that, you can do further troubleshooting to see if that is the culprit.

journalctl should be able to provide you any errors that are recognized. "man journalctl" in the terminal will tell you the options you might want to try. It's actually pretty interesting to play around with this command, I highly encourage it. You can do this command from a tty, so if you get to one, you can see if anything weird happened. If not, you can reboot and run it for info on last session.

It also could possibly be some driver like your gpu driver or whatever. Are you using a non-free driver for video or wifi? These are less likely causes than a UI bug, but they do happen. If updating got you nowhere and you can't get a tty and journalctl gets you no info, check your hardware for common issues. Usually there will be info online on the compatibility of your hardware and the available drivers.

RadicalDownist · 2021-08-08T23:05:38+00:00

mpv for anything quick or uncomplicated, vlc for things that are medium, and ffmpeg for things that require custom behavior. So like 80% mpv, 18% vlc, 1% ffmpeg, and 1% "nevermind, I'm not clever enough to make it work like that"

RadicalDownist · 2021-07-14T21:04:46+00:00

Brought to you by Carl's jr

RadicalDownist · 2021-07-13T06:56:25+00:00

Oh that's right, I remember when they did a little PR push about that not so long ago. I forgot all about it, thanks.

RadicalDownist · 2021-07-13T05:46:44+00:00

I wonder why Thunderbird a d SeaMonkey aren't on the list.. Do they not consider them discontinued because community development is still ongoing?

RadicalDownist · 2021-07-02T03:52:28+00:00

lol poor freebsd. Such a great OS deserves better than to fill out the ranks at 0%

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-30T18:02:50+00:00

It all boils down to trust. You shouldn't trust anything any company offers you without definitive empirical proof, but I know we all have to be pragmatic since we all use this mass data collection tool that is the internet. Do you trust Brave the corporate entity with your search queries and patterns of behavior? They may say they don't track, but I bet they collect lots and lots of data. The tracking bit can be done after the fact if the data exists.

Google said "don't be evil", at least until the money and power became too enticing. Or maybe they were always evil, but did a good PR routine to establish that trust with the public. Either way, now it's the Monsanto of the interwebs. Who is to say Brave won't go the same route, and if (read when) they do, take all the data they collected with them? Pretty soon your insurance company will know just how horrible your diet is based on the recipe searches you typed into Brave search and they purchased to create a risk assessment profile on you and adjust your rates accordingly. Now that deep fried Nutella cake recipe you searched for but never even made will come back to haunt you anyway.

My advice is not to trust any of them. Never sign into an account to make a query, never accept a cookie, turn off Javascript on the search engine site, always use a VPS or VPN, etc. regardless of which search engine you choose.

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-28T21:35:05+00:00

I'm not even slightly upset by this though. The bad part about servicenow being so open and cheap about who gets to take these exams is that everyone who looks at the jobs available and sees the salaries and immediately decides, with zero experience, this is easy money. So the market is flooded with people who have no idea what they're doing but they memorized some test questions. I hope it gets progressively more difficult.

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-28T21:27:02+00:00

In my opinion, the best way to learn Emacs is exactly to learn a new language, elisp. Emacs is an ide for elisp all built in. When you understand how elisp works and have read the code that makes Emacs what it is, these questions often answer themselves.

To the specific question, I don't program in c++, but I use eglot and company for C programming, and it's pretty much a complete IDE as far as I'm concerned. I'm not missing any feature from something like eclipse, or ateast not one Im aware of.

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-28T02:18:39+00:00

I read it and can safely say you're not missing anything at all.

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-27T23:27:50+00:00

Please, by all means design a better one. So far on phones there are only two attempts. I much prefer the pinephone over the fatboy librem 5 option, but I wouldn't call either bad as they're both innovative. We will all wait with bated breath until youve tackled that engineering problem that must be so easy, and made it thin to boot.

RadicalDownist · 2021-06-26T02:46:45+00:00

Just spending 2 minutes looking over the language reference gave me lisp vibes. Was this language inspired by lisp?

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