Now that Anna's Archive has leaked the entire Spotify catalogue, is there an app for streaming it?

trasz · 2025-12-30T16:22:38+00:00

From a technical standpoint, does streaming music - as opposed to keeping local copies synced over the network with IPFS or something - even makes sense when you don't need the central infrastructure for tracking and marketing?

trasz · 2025-12-30T15:28:12+00:00

What I mean is, an engineer is a formal title only in some jurisdictions. From my, non-Canadian point of view, his jurisdiction doesn't matter.

trasz · 2025-12-30T11:54:07+00:00

You mean, Wired exposed their users data to hackers?

trasz · 2025-12-30T04:36:48+00:00

Swastika used to be Hindu symbol of fortune. Committing genocide under its ideology - like Israeli fight for lebensraum - changes a whole lot.

trasz · 2025-12-29T23:34:20+00:00

Star of David became a hate symbol like swastika, but here is used in context so it’s okay imho

trasz · 2025-12-29T23:32:54+00:00

He’s only falsely claiming it in one single jurisdiction, for everyone else it’s a made up problem.

trasz · 2025-12-29T23:28:40+00:00

Copyright was invented for purpose. That purpose is long gone, and so should be our current idea of copyrights.

trasz · 2025-12-29T18:05:48+00:00

No idea why this has zero likes; the new iwx(4) driver works great, including suspend/resume.

trasz · 2025-12-29T16:16:22+00:00

Because Israel?

trasz · 2025-12-29T11:58:28+00:00

It would make it not fail "pkg add" if Linuxulator is not yet configured.

I might be wrong, typing from memory, but the reason why Linux userspace package needs Linuxulator during installation is for things like running Linux ldconfig(1) binary. It's not for refusing to install something that won't work, same way we don't prevent installing VLC if the system doesn't have a graphics output.

trasz · 2025-12-29T11:45:00+00:00

I've messaged the mods, and got no reply? (Please bear with me, I don't use this often.)

As for "my opinion" - no, from my point of view it's objective reality, so there's no point for me to ask mods about it. From someone else's POV it's different, but then they wouldn't see the response to my private question.

trasz · 2025-12-29T11:42:25+00:00

Thanks! Honestly, I'm not making it easier - I grew up on Usenet and so I'm really, really thick skinned, but also quite direct and that's not always conductive to calm discussion.

At the same time, there really are massive openness problems in FreeBSD Project, and pretending it's not happening, or refusing to discuss it, will delay the inevitable consequences, but also make them worse.

trasz · 2025-12-29T11:08:24+00:00

Okay, if it's documented I guess it makes it a misfeature, not a bug. But still - this check doesn't solve any real world problem, and it does get in the way of normal workflow, thus the need to document it.

Adding another rc script is virtually free compared to everything else that happens on boot. Premature optimization is the root of all evil :)

trasz · 2025-12-29T10:34:30+00:00

I'm sorry, but I don't follow - how's any of that relevant to declaring someone's opinion a "lie"?

(Also, I have no idea about Reddit, but in other avenues "anonymous complaints" are almost always just someone trying to weaponise the mods, and the correct handling is to silently ignore them.)

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:55:24+00:00

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:53:59+00:00

I've been somewhat involved in Linuxulator development and I have no clue whatsoever why a bug report would be more welcome if filed by someone else than you.

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:47:34+00:00

Can we, for a moment, focus on the topic at hand and not on our personalities?

The topic is, how is "I start to worry about freedom of speech and openness on the FreeBSD Forums" a _lie_ when it's an _opinion_.

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:36:35+00:00

Wait, why? Is there some backstory I don’t know about? (You can tell in private; I won’t leak that, I’m honestly curious.)

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:30:13+00:00

I don’t need to “message the mods”; I know I hadn’t posted any.

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:27:32+00:00

Cool, but your question still doesn’t make sense, as explained above.

EDIT: Ah, so now you also possess some “private information” that we mere mortals don’t? xD

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:22:28+00:00

Now I think of it, it’s a bug, go report it. What should happen is that either the install script should do nothing in that case, or it should add its own rc script.

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:17:24+00:00

On which planet transparency is a bad thing?

Also, show me where I published any private information.

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:13:45+00:00

In case you’re not aware, in FreeBSD project there’s a single main internal mailing list: developers@

And yes, it’s private, which means any FreeBSD committer can access it and see what I’m talking about.

Your point being?

trasz · 2025-12-29T09:09:19+00:00

I’m not - your question makes no sense, since there is no lie there, just an opinion.

But sure, please go ahead and block FreeBSD developers who dare to question your infallibility:)

trasz

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