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Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:10PM (#49781084)
If you leak it, leak it everywhere!
Re:Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:59PM (#49781003)
Sorry, I phrased it badly. I meant that in practice free-as-in-speech implies free-as-in-beer for copies: once anyone can redistribute the code.
Re:Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:39PM (#49780845)
> "Free as in speech, not free as in beer."

As I understand it, if you have the first, the second follows from it. So it's effectively the same.

Re:Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:14PM (#49780633)
I think I'm starting to forget, but could someone maybe tell me what the F in FOSS stands for?
Re:Nebula Sans on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:33PM (#49456832)
it's inverted asterisk. https://jmgbb.com/i/i4kTG25WrF
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:44PM (#49414997)
Volkswagen Polo I. It even does have some lights.
Re:Python string literals are kinda funny on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:36PM (#49225670)
do not get the funny part of the pythons string.
Re:Mario Meets Pareto on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:07PM (#49205504)
Finally, this page has some information that's actually useful in real life.
Hmm, that's pretty strange how it came with gpl license.
Re:Dht-spy – BitTorrent DHT telemetry on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:50AM (#49055128)
without the full info hash it's practically useless
someone needs to take care of the snares
So you came up with a pretty niche example where the LLM sucks, but otary solves it in just a few lines, and that’s the library’s whole selling point? Nice.
For some reason, this reminds me of my last shared memory system. It was an Athlon XP 1800+ with VIA ProSavage back around 2002. It was just barely able to run CS 1.6.
Better question is does average person have a disk drive to use a disk?
Re:DisplayMate on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:43PM (#48636630)
I had completely forgotten how beautiful antique designs are
Re:Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:03PM (#48592788)
Someone needs to tell this dude about the git branches.
Re:Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:42PM (#48577312)
work. sleep. reproduce.
Re:New way of making espresso with ultrasound on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:09PM (#48563543)
It immediately brings to mind that YouTube video where a guy was making whiskey out of vodka and oak chips in an ultrasonic bath.
Re:Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:25AM (#48541772)
Why the heck you want put video into a html canvas as text?
Well a model is not your buddy, there is no need to chat with it.
There is HNF in about 250 km from Aachen. Transportation there would probably be cheaper.
let them cook.
Re:Gdf: Git Diff Merge on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:15PM (#48436230)
nice. works faster than meld.
Re:Lossless URL Compressor – Piss.zip on Saturday May 30, 2026 @10:35AM (#48336692)
Best naming.
Re:I Gave an AI Agent $0 and Told It to Make $10k on Saturday May 30, 2026 @10:34AM (#48336673)
Well, will it prostitute itself and sell its virtual ass?
Re:The One Terminal you will need on Friday May 29, 2026 @03:44AM (#48320265)
but emacs has been around for over 40 years
Re:IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video] on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:07AM (#48289911)
Hairstyles used to be better than they are today.
Re:A few interesting modern pixel fonts on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:29AM (#48289647)
Quite impressive [1]. Did you base it on a specific font, or did you just draw it however you felt like?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/0jcNGHv

If you complain about the portability of open source on the level of compiler, so breathe in the spirit of the open source and shut the fuck up, then exhale and port it to you magic niche compiler by yourself.
It feels like cool edit pro 2 before it was turned to shit by adobe. Your app has a pretty good and intuitive UX. And that's the most important thing in an audio editor.

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