Beej Jorgensen

Off topic, but with DeCSS the problem wasn’t that it was proprietary or a trade secret. Once the algorithm got out, it was out. Since it had been a trade secret, there was no patent protection on it.

However, some laws and treaties prohibit distributing code that circumvents copy protection schemes, and this is where they ran into trouble.

And that’s why they were all those songs and t-shirts and other free speech items made with the DeCSS algorithm on them. Eventually the cases were dropped.

FFS. How are these ideas remotely patentable in the first place? Software patents are pure dogshit.

Good God… I don’t even think there’s a place in my entire town that charges that much. :(

Another potential route: your public library. Mine prints for 5¢ per page and has a web interface for uploading documents from anywhere and printing them when you go in.

In the 6 years I’ve been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn’t render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn’t run or weren’t performant.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.

LLMs won’t get smarter in the next 10 years, but they will rapidly outpace humans.

Basically “does this JSON object contain at least these two properties, and is the value of one particular properties a string of digits followed by the letter ‘Z’”, for example.

I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.

Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.

If Trump’s goal isn’t to cede most everything to China, he’s doing a poor job.

A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn’t, but at least you learned something.

Yeah, we computer people don’t typically count networking as a forté. But I fear that while before the network was merely important, now it could turn into the only thing that matters.

States rights! Lol

On the simple side, Ghostwriter is a markdown editor with no frills.

I also write my books in Vim. I use Pandoc to convert markdown to other formats.

Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

This won’t work for you because it’s not enough space, but other people might consider paying money to a place like SDF. I think it was $3 a month (IIRC) for 800 GB of space, and it’s for a good cause.

I use rsync and gocryptfs to back my stuff up there. I also have local hard drives for backups.

Maybe there’s another pubnix that you can pay to get more storage.

Back in the day, I had local hard drives that I would mirror and sneakernet to my friend’s house every couple weeks. We’d trade drives and then we’d have an off-site.

If I weren’t using SDF, I’d probably set up a home server someplace or talk to a friend who already had one and rsync to that.

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.

The service can determine what they accept as a password.

And what password manager you use, I think was the poster’s point.

XFCE, mostly.

How much does Firefox development cost? The Mozilla Foundation itself has a dearth of friends even among hackers. But Firefox is worth preserving. Could we get enough paying supporters to continue development?