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Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:46PM (#47970162)
> Expecting a FOSS project to go track down all of its (millions of?) users seems like a very unreasonable expectation, and is well outside of their scope of responsibility.

The post you are responding to says that it would be nice if they copied literally one mailing list.

Re: on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:27PM (#47596456)
The increase of freedom of the slaves is an indirect side effect. But a direct effect, which is guaranteed to happen is the loss of freedom of the slaveholder.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:59PM (#45664123)
What if I care more about the performance of things that aren't being used right now than the things that are? I'm sick of switching to my DAW and having to listen to my drive thrash when I try to play a (say) sampler I had loaded.
Re:Show HN: A C-Suite AI Agent Meant for SMB on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:40PM (#44011105)
Yippee
Re:I Accidentally Deleted a Game from MAME on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:07PM (#39564698)
I expected to add a game to MAME but instead proved that it didn't exist
Re:Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016) on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:19PM (#39425254)
This was a lot easier before they removed the Zerk fitting from the Macbook.
Re:We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:34PM (#34687890)
> How do we know we’re not doing the same or similar in our brains?

How do we know that we're not made of magic?

Instagram is prematurely releasing this only because they heard that Tinder was about to release their own CPython fork.
Re:Removed gem breaks Rails ActiveStorage on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:46PM (#26569678)
Why would closed source software be safe? Say I copy shared-mime-info completely, compile it, sell it to you as MimeWizardPRO2000, you include it as part of your closed source web framework and sell that. You're still distributing GPL code without making your source available.
Yes, it's more of an intrastate disagreement with this particular infectious disease.
But none of that matters. You have x number of people, you need y number of tests. Just because it's harder to do doesn't mean you need to do it any less.
Yes, you do. It's honestly not that complicated.
Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:37PM (#23150364)
Are you arguing with yourself?
Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @09:46PM (#22941211)
That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.
Re:How does one appear in the Google News carousel? on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:29AM (#19114393)
That's a stretch.
Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:50PM (#19111366)
> That was the basis of a lot of early 20th century regulatory thinking. That was thoroughly discredited because it turns out that government price controls are worse than duplicated infrastructure.

I'm sorry, I don't buy it.

Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:48PM (#19111357)
Note, that in spite of my opposition to chemotherapy, I strongly support curing cancer.
You're just lucky that you have an archipelago for a supermarket.