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New comment by mardifoufs in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

mardifoufs — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:01:42 +0000

I dont think the constitution has an amendement that guarantees freedom of Marijuana ownership. I think that's the main difference. This is akin to saying that you need a license to drive to why not be required to have an ID to walk around on the streets. The difference is rather simple, one is protected by the constitution and the other isn't.

Also I don't think the consumerist gun ownes commit a lot of crimes with their guns. Unless they are a demographic that is known to be prone to lose or get their guns stolen super often, I don't see how they cause any real issue in term of gun violence. I agree that it is really cringe to see, but they are actually usually responsible in terms of ownership, storage, etc.

New comment by mardifoufs in "Sony V. Cox Decision Reversed"

mardifoufs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:27:48 +0000

I think they still sometimes go for it even when they know they aren't recouping their losses, to deter/scare potential users. Obviously that doesn't scale and it's mostly for publicity stunts but it did happen here in Canada. They more or less just scanned a few trackers and went after every Canadian IP address they found for the given torrents.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/movie-studios-bit...

New comment by mardifoufs in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

mardifoufs — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:24:18 +0000

Wait I thought being able to update without rebooting was a good thing? It was a relatively common argument against windows

New comment by mardifoufs in "Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build"

mardifoufs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:25:21 +0000

I think they are now doing better than ever. And they have been bought out already by Mirantis, unless I missed something.

Podman isn't really a competitor at this point, it's just the "docker at home" NIH project from redhat. It works fine, but docker isn't going anywhere really.

New comment by mardifoufs in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

mardifoufs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:19:25 +0000

For you. But is it the biggest dash? And what is its intended purpose? I've never seen one that big before.

New comment by mardifoufs in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

mardifoufs — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:02:03 +0000

Well at least crashing drones into trees has never been cheaper hahaha. So it's super easy to get into nowadays, especially if it's just to play around with flight systems instead of going for pure performance.

New comment by mardifoufs in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

mardifoufs — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:06:30 +0000

I think the big difference is that python 3 took over rather quickly once it hit a threshold. There was a clearer path for adoption too: as more major packages started supporting python3, adoption accelerated and eventually python2 support was dropped. For IPv6 it's a lot less straightforward. You could cling on to IPv4 with basically 0 practical downsides in the current ecosystem as everything that supports IPv6 also supports IPv4, and IPv6 only networking basically doesn't exist. Even mobile users with only IPv6 adresses get to use IPv4-only services through some translation layer that every ISP has to provide when running IPv6.

New comment by mardifoufs in "Poor Johnny still won't encrypt"

mardifoufs — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:47:14 +0000

Well I don't think most people choose who they work with. Even if you like your team a lot, you might have a discussion with someone from another team or division, and that's where it's useful to have a good chat history haha.

New comment by mardifoufs in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

mardifoufs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:49:55 +0000

American IT Mafia? That provides free certificates? You'd think setting up renewal would be less of a hassle than dealing and paying CAs even if it's once every 3 years, so that would be a rather benevolent mafia. Which of those CAs went out of business by the way?

Do you think Let's encrypt is less popular outside the US?

New comment by mardifoufs in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

mardifoufs — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:18:48 +0000

It is unique in the sense that the charter itself has a clause that makes itself almost useless. And that provinces can also use it at will (that's really the main problem, as the federal government is way less likely to use it, and hasn't used it), and doing so short circuits any federal court oversight.

But I agree that parliamentary sovereignty is an even bigger can of worms.

New comment by mardifoufs in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

mardifoufs — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:35:40 +0000

The Canadian parliament can vote laws that break/infringe upon most of our charter rights with a simple majority, using the non-withstanding clause. The Quebec government has already used it and is signaling that it will use that clause even more often.

Again, that requires a simple parliament majority and courts aren't allowed to really do anything about a law once that clause is invoked. That makes for one of the worst places to be in for something like grapheneOS in the long term. You're just a single election away from a PM like Legault deciding that encryption is against "Canadian values" or something.

(They wouldn't even need that to restrict encryption, but it still makes us unique in the west since it's just a "routine" clause that can be invoked to suspend almost every possible legal challenge against a law outside of any emergency situation or extraordinary circumstance, and is used almost on a yearly basis nowadays )

New comment by mardifoufs in ".NET 10"

mardifoufs — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:23:42 +0000

It's mostly about pay too. And yeah some people want more exciting jobs and maybe even outlandish stuff like the ones you listed (regardless of the sarcasm!). Yes at the end of the day most software isn't super exciting, but it doesn't make a tech stack or platform where most of your job prospects would approximate to "working on some run of the mill, mega enterprise or SMB software project" any more attractive for devs.

Especially when even its advocates somehow use that as an "upside". It might very well be for a lot of people! But it's also a massive turn off for others. I have never worked in a startup or big tech, and work on very concrete and critical products yet I'd very much rather work on even outlandish SV stuff (at least the pay is usually great and the job environment could be good!) rather than on some SMB CRUD or some generic backend service. If I don't have a choice I could do it but it's not super enticing.

New comment by mardifoufs in ".NET 10"

mardifoufs — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:09:19 +0000

Which version worked flawlessly? And I guess blazor can work great but that's super specific to what you use it for. Much more so than most front end technologies/stacks. And both WASM and Server versions have a lot of compromises.

New comment by mardifoufs in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

mardifoufs — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:47:37 +0000

I don't think that expecting to get the product you pay for (even if it's just crowdfunding) is too much? Or putting them under too much scrutiny? I don't think people expect less from any other tech company? It's just really basic stuff.

New comment by mardifoufs in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

mardifoufs — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:45:17 +0000

Huh? You think that the VoLTE requirement is something unique to the US? What new innovations are you referring to by the way?

New comment by mardifoufs in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

mardifoufs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:53:02 +0000

React isn't 100kb when compressed (which is how 99% of websites deliver it to clients). IIRC it's 7.4kb when minified and 2.4k when minified+gzipped. That's smaller than typically "small" frameworks like htmx.

In fact, Backbone is 17.7kb minified+g zipped. So I guess other frameworks make less sense than react?

New comment by mardifoufs in "Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch""

mardifoufs — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:26:35 +0000

Why? The only complaint I hear about and sort of agree with is that they use snaps, and that's not always a good idea for some packages. But otherwise, for regular users, I'd say Ubuntu has much less foot guns than even Mint. Everything just works, and it's easier to find support and help online whenever something doesn't. I

Pop_os is in a weird state right now too, with the upcoming migration to their new GUI framework

New comment by mardifoufs in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

mardifoufs — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:15:18 +0000

Yeah, the tech sector's understanding of the notion of consent is so unique and twisted. It makes sense now that the industry has the reputation that it has w.r.t misconduct/harrassment and how it's generally seen as being filled with creeps. Just keep asking until the user slips up or gets tired of the endless prompts/manual work required.

New comment by mardifoufs in "Datastar response to misunderstandings"

mardifoufs — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:57:39 +0000

I don't think anyone would be pissed at projects that ask to get paid upfront. When you provide a product for free, then switch the features to a paid model, it's normal that people will talk about it and won't be super happy about the situation. Sure they aren't entitled to anything, but maintainers aren't entitled to a criticism-free discussion of their project just because the project is open source (in part) either.

New comment by mardifoufs in "Datastar response to misunderstandings"

mardifoufs — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:53:35 +0000

Yeah, "allegation" is almost exclusively used for crimes nowadays. In fact, I automatically associate the word to sexual misconduct accusations. I know that's not even remotely implied in the word's actual definition but it's just not a good idea to use it for an article like this, because I know I'm not alone in making that connection lol.