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cmhe , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web

"Copying is theft" is the argument of corporations for ages, but if they want our data and information, to integrate into their business, then, suddenly they have the rights to it.

If copying is not theft, then we have the rights to copy their software and AI models, as well, since it is available on the open web.

They got themselves into quite a contradiction.

cmhe , 9 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

Generally, I tend to think more in the direction of that there is some misunderstanding happening, then people being stupid. Maybe that is just the optimist in me.

What exactly is meant when people say they don't know git. Do they mean the repository data format? Do they mean the network protocol? Do they mean the command line utility? Or just how to work with git as a developer, which is similar to other vcs?

I think if you use some git gui, you can get very far, without needing to understand "git", which I would argue most people, that use it daily, don't, at least not fully.

cmhe , 17 days ago to Technology in The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

It also means that anyone can make their own instruction set extensions or just some custom modifications, which would make software much more difficult to port. You would have to patch your compiler for every individual chip, if you even figure out what those instructions are, and what they do. Backwards, forwards or sideway (to other cpus from other vendors) compatibility takes effort, and not everyone will try to have that, and instead add their own individual secret sauce to their instruction set.

IMO, I am excited about RISC-V, but if the license doesn't force adopters to open their designs under an open source license as well, I do expect even more portability issues as we already have with ARM socs.

cmhe , 17 days ago to Technology in The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

"you" as in person with required skills, resources and access to a chip fabrication facility. For many others they can just buy something designed and produced by others, or play around a bit on FPGAs.

We will also see how much variation with RISC-V will actually happen, because if every processor is a unique piece of engineering, it is really hard to write software, that works on every one.

Even with ARM there are arguable too many designs out there, which currently take a lot of effort to integrate.

cmhe , 24 days ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi becomes a public company

Also state owned is only really useful for infrastructure, where it doesn't make sense to have multiple providers and monopolies are easily attainable. Like roads, rails, electricity, internet backbone infrastructure and providers, social media, etc. Democracy is the currently best way we know of managing monopolies.

For other stuff, you probably want employee owned democratic collectives. You would still have competition on the market, but its ordinary people that have the say. This would give more power to the people enthused about the tech and long term success, then all the short term gains.

cmhe , 25 days ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi becomes a public company

No, publicly traded. One of the first steps to enshittyfication.

cmhe , 25 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

Well, the issue with that is that achievements are global over all playthroughs, so it doesn't really work as a checklist.

cmhe , 25 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

Sure there are some interesting achievment, like the Stanley parable ones. For instance: 'Go outside: Don't play the game for 5 years' (https://thestanleyparable.fandom.com/wiki/Achievements)

cmhe , 25 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

I only play single player games, but couldn't care less about achievements. It is all about exploration, story, game mechanics and modding for me.

People treat achievements as if they are a status symbol. I mean sure, if you don't know what else to do in a game, they can give you some goal, but IMO the game itself should encourage you to reach the goal, not some external badge. The experience doing the task should be the reward in of itself.

cmhe , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

Yeah, but we are talking 2000-2005 or so.

cmhe , 1 month ago to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

I wasn't that much a fan of the skins and found the interface of winamp very small and fiddly.

The milkdrop plugin however was rather nice though.

cmhe , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source

Maybe someone can explain to me why Winamp is still so popular?

I have used Winamp 2, 3 and 5 around 2000ish, and it was a fine player, but nothing really special. After Winamp I think I switched to MediaMonkey, which IMO was easier to manage my music collection. Then I used VirtualDJ, which supported cross fading between music with synchronized beats. I think I also used foobar2000 a bit.

Winamp was an okayish player, but there was much more powerful software around at that time. It this just nostalgics or is there really something that people miss today that Winamp provided or still provides?

cmhe , 1 month ago to Technology in Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows

There is a different term for that:source-available

cmhe , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in New Teslas might lose Steam

So you can play a racing game in your car, while letting the autopilot kill you.

And so that the manufacturer can sell you a new car, so that you can play newer games.

cmhe , 2 months ago to Technology in Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app

What I meant is that is caches the password database for offline use.