Ticking time bomb! Think of the children!!! Law or no law, this will be abused if it can be. Having the law is still a good thing I guess.

It’s hard to understand the purpose of this. The difficulty of the project (i.e. complexity of the web) is the real problem that needs solving. We don’t need another fork of the browser-verse. We need a fork of the web itself.

How are they going to produce these patches if microsoft is no longer releasing them?

First there were glassholes. Now we’ll have earworms?

Do I want to know what opensea is?

Who is he? What does he stream about? Is he really a doctor?

I’ve never heard of this guy but I’m not very attentive to streamer drama. Is this significant beyond there now being N+1 known bozos in the world instead of N?

You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That’s KB with a K.

Named after astronomer Vera C. Rubin (1928-2016), I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

There is also an observatory under construction in Chile named after her.

Yeah I don’t see mention in the article of (so far) any observable reaction from the US pharma industry. It’s maybe reasonable as conjecture but not something we can claim as a fact.

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya…”

Almost all of those have Internet. And they’re generally expensive and/or only available cartier locked.

Good luck with that!

“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk” – John von Neumann.

HN thread is here and it’s on the front page 7 hours old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

Many mentions made that a significant part of the issue seemed to be Cloudflare IP addresses getting banned in some countries. They wanted the customer to switch to a bring-your-own-IP plan.

Also, the discussion took place over 1 month, not 24 hours.

I think the HN thread is reasonably informative and nuanced. CF didn’t do great but it was somewhat a fog of war situation.

I don’t mind the crazy answers as long as they’re attributed. “You can use glue to stop cheese from sliding off your pizza” - bad. “According to fucksmith on reddit [link to post], you can use glue…”. That isn’t so great either but it’s a lot better. There is also a matter of the basic decency of giving credit for brilliant ideas like that.

You mean if you build it yourself? I guess that is something, but it is still conceivable to sneak stuff in. Look at that xzlib backdoor from a few weeks ago.

Even if they accept patches, contributing still sounds like a bad deal. It’s free labor for some company. FOSS at minimum means the right to fork, precisely what “source available” seeks to deny.

Leaving aside the question of winamp vs comparable programs, does anyone even care about desktop music players any more? I’m a throwback and use command line players, but I thought the cool kids these days use phones for stuff like that.

I understand there is some technical obstacle to porting Rockbox to Android, but idk what it is and haven’t tried to look into it.

Is it important? It was a cool program 30 years ago but it’s just a playback UI right?

Download as epub then use pandoc to convert to whatever. I’m throwback enough to prefer plain text.