samc

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[–] samc 20 points 6 months ago

Whilst I've heard lots of talk that lunduke is getting increasingly politica, and I disagree quite strongly with his politics, I'll have to agree with him here. IA did something unnecessarily risky (redistributing unauthorised copies of print books), which has more jeopardised their mission of archiving the internet.

I also agree with everyone here saying that current copyright laws are ridiculous (and not just because they are "outdated", the Victorians had better copyright laws than we do). However, I think only the most radical overhaul of copyright law would condone what IA did, and that isn't coming any time soon (If ever).

[–] samc 2 points 7 months ago

There's a former apple designer on the team I think, which they've been leaning into hard to get the hype train rolling.

[–] samc 2 points 7 months ago

How bloody dare you!

[–] samc 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, fixed! (TIL you need the https:// bit on Lemmy)

[–] samc 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

There is, they just don't publicise it. Actually one of my favourite features of the service tbf. Just load up a web page and all my messages are there, regardless of where they came from.

[–] samc 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Iirc microkernels have been the future since before Linux existed. There was a bit of a flame war between Linus and the guy who wrote the MINIX kernel about how being monolithic would be the death of Linux.

GNU Hurd also wanted to show the world how good microkernels could be, but sadly never got off the ground.

I'm not saying microkernels are bad, but I do wonder if there's some reason we don't see them out in the wild much.

[–] samc 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?

Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.

I agree with your main point though, it's kinda creepy when you realise just how much we are expected to allow other people's code to run on our machines.

[–] samc 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a common thread between a lot of the missteps listed here and Embeacer group's recent troubles. The idea that you could fund 230 Spiderman 2's for the same price as buying 1 Activision-Blizzard-King really drove the point home to me.

The problem (in my obviously uneducated opinion) is that when you spend so much money in acquisition, especially of established companies, you're neither funding nor rewarding innovation. You spend $70B on ABK and some randos in suits get a huge payout that they invest in oil or crypto or whatever. Spend $70B on talent and early career devs and you could unleash a tidal wave of creativity and experimentation.

[–] samc 2 points 8 months ago

Is it me or does this feel like it was originally a saga?

[–] samc 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The mention of cost has me curious. Are by-elections costly for (I'm guessing) the electoral commission to run?

I imagine the main costs involved are party funds for campaigning, but they probably see it as a proxy for the main event, so hardly money wasted. Even if it were, its not public money.

[–] samc 1 points 8 months ago

I do wonder if this being an election year has an effect? Maybe there's a trend if you go back far enough.

[–] samc 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

By default, XWayland apps are now allowed to listen for non-alphanumeric keypresses, and shortcuts using modifier keys. This lets any global shortcut features they may have work with no user intervention required, while still not allowing arbitrary listening for alphanumeric keypresses which could potentially be used maliciously

This is... very smart actually. Any reason this is limited to Xwayland? (Is that XDG portal a thing yet?)

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