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Re:There's never been a better time to build websites on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:26AM (#29635921)
Because it's a massive footgun, no, footcannon. It also most likely violates the GPL.

It's copy-pasting from stackoverflow except a little faster.

Re:Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:54PM (#29620376)
When a command line tool for listing filed has its own website, you know it's too much.

Seriously. All I need is a program that can tell me what files there are in a directory. That's such a trivial problem.

Re:How the GNU coreutils are tested on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:32PM (#29466582)
Also Hungarian, and a bunch of other languages in the general are AFAIK
To be fair, Windows was named way before the WWW was a thing. And Apple Mail is an email client, so it absolutely makes sense.
I once saw someone there posting asking what to do with actual, physical rust (i.e. asking for removal tips)
Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:19PM (#26548098)
You don't seem to see the difference between the letter and the spirit.

Sure, Tusky complies with the letter of the definition; that doesn't make it moral

This is what Stallman said:

> If a free program has a malicious feature, other developers in the community will take it out, and you can use the corrected version. You can also run free application programs and tools on nonfree operating systems; this falls short of fully giving you freedom, but many users do it.

Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:16PM (#26548073)
But I think he did say that such restrictions are bad and people should remove it
Re:A call to improve London's lighting at night on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:30AM (#26503667)
I live in a country which uses both (it's moving towards white lights but it's not uniform), and I like yellow lights MUCH better. The very bright white lights just hurt my eyes.
Indeed, as always competition benefits the costumer
Depends on how you do it. Of course if you want to move instantly then that's gonna be hard. But slowly moving isn't that bad, or creating new projects somewhere else and slowly porting old ones.

Even then, it's possible that just companies that planned to buy GHE will simply not buy it and use something open source instead.

No, but GHE is paid software. And not like it's impossible to migrate, it's just a fancy git frontend after all. Gogs/Gitea/Gitlab CE is completely capable of doing what it does.
And neither does it violate any similar law (because not many people know, but the DMCA is not an idea from the US, just barely the US implementation of the 1996 WIPO treaty), in the European Union or anywhere else.

So it really, isn't illegal anywhere (well except obviously authoritarian regimes).

I had that installed by default though. Weird.
It is indeed not mobile friendly, but it is using HTTPS.
Re:Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:31AM (#25810189)
> except maybe irc, but except for a few nerds, it's hard to get anyone on there anymore

Well IRC isn't really meant to be used for persistent communication anyway