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[ssokolow]

To be fair to Rick Falkvinge, I was just using the plumber as a concise example of my own design. His article questioning why one group of entrepreneurs...

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Not to mention that:

1. Copyright as we know it began with the Statute of Anne, a "censorship in exchange for monopoly" pact between the British

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Do you often see spam peddling shoddily-designed dildos? :P

Seriously, though, we really need smarter anti-spam. For example, something that's...

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Ping! Unapproved post.

[ssokolow]

Exactly.

There's a lot of stuff you can buy DRM-free if you shop around. (eg. GOG.com, DRM-free Humble Bundles, StoryBundle.com, eBaying...

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According to an article on TorrentFreak, market fragmentation actually is causing piracy to start to trend up again. People are paying for whatever service...

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I'm not sure this is the appropriate time for "comically missing the point" humour....

[ssokolow]

That's why I don't use things like Bayesian filters or machine learning to manage spam on my own stuff. Computers get confused in very weird ways and...

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Doesn't matter. Google would still kick them out unless it's paid for through a method that lets Google take their cut of the proceeds....

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*facepalm*...

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I'm not sure that's something to be proud of, given how much the world has dragged its heels on IPv6 adoption, even as we see things like carrier-grade...

[ssokolow]

Yeah. That's why Wayland scopes un-privileged fullscreening-related operations to the lifetime of a window.

Screensaver suppression is another...

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When did I ever talk about Qt? It's hard to craft Google keywords for stuff from that long ago, assuming it's still up, but I'm remembering a specific...

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Ping. Another unapproved reply.

[ssokolow]

Unfortunately, my knowledge tends to be piecemeal stuff gained over the years through lurking and googling.

For example, I know that Python...

[ssokolow]

Where do you think things like D-Bus and the various other FreeDesktop.org projects and standards came from? FDO is a forum within which KDE, GNOME, Xfce,...

[ssokolow]

What attitude? I'm talking about being a spectator to public interactions between the GNOME and KDE teams on places like mailing list archives and blog...

[ssokolow]

Yeah and, from what I've seen since the early 2000s when I got into Linux, the GNOME devs are the ones who have trouble understanding that....

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Paging Michael. Unapproved comment in aisle 9.

[ssokolow]

Probably because they want unused memory to be freed as quickly as possible to keep memory use down and foo = open(foo) is more concise than this:...