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New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pocksuppet — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:42:06 +0000

The free-software answer to something like Amazon/ElasticSearch is a license that forces Amazon to pass on all their freedoms to their customers, which is something that Amazon doesn't want to do. That license isn't necessarily AGPL or SSPL as those have their problems.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

pocksuppet — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:39:20 +0000

It's a pretty low risk if you don't put your identity out there. I know there's at least one Git forge that's a Tor onion service. Even on GitHub 99% of the time this ends with a DMCA takedown of the repository. You should probably put it on a pseudonymous alt account but you don't actually need to use a Tor onion service.

You could also get someone else to put their name on the web hosting and so on. Don't know who exactly, but there are a lot more people willing to take legal risk of having reverse-engineered an FPGA toolchain, than people who can reverse-engineer an FPGA toolchain. Doing the work is what's most important, and the rest can be figured out later. But you don't even see that. You don't see people being like "I reverse-engineered Vivado but I won't give you a copy because I could get sued."

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pocksuppet — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:36:15 +0000

The entire purpose of an element like is what it looks like. If we're being inclusive, then the entire purpose of an element like is what it looks like, how it sounds, how it feels in Braille, and so on. Nothing more. It does not map to some abstract concept.

It should be defined as: When rendered on a visual display device supporting bold font, it makes the text bold. The specific behavior is not guaranteed and may vary based on the user-agent. For example, screen readers will pronounce the text with emphasis.

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:17:15 +0000

I don't see why I'd refuse to use something like nginx just because it's open-source. If it's good, it's good.

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:33:01 +0000

It's up to the copyright owner to sue for copyright infringement.

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:47:15 +0000

Terms of service are not legally binding, copyright licenses are legally binding.

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:46:13 +0000

Copyleft is about freedom of consumers to make whatever choice fits their target, unlike permissive licensing, which is about freedom of corporations to take away freedom of consumers.

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:44:32 +0000

> Murder is a capital crime regardless of who you work for.
Not true btw, the military can do it.

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

pocksuppet — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:43:46 +0000

Nobody should be incentivized to exercise power for the sake of exercising power. They should be incentivized to exercise power to change things they don't agree with. And they already have that incentive. And they are already using it. What is there to change?

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:15:58 +0000

Congress always had the power to remove delegated power from an institution if it didn't like how that institution was performing. It's also had the power to disband the executive branch regime at any point since January 20. Everything that is happening now is happening with the complete approval of Congress.

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:14:36 +0000

> The US is a Russian style oligarchy
FTFY. From the outside, people can easily see it.

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:54:17 +0000

You might recall there was a large and vocal minority of software developers trying to bring about exactly that.
You might also recall it used to be true. The aforementioned minority was trying to bring about a state that had already occurred in the past.

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:52:12 +0000

And this is the premise on which Anna's Archive operates.
The operator isn't even called Anna, just in case that wasn't already obvious to literally everyone.

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:49:30 +0000

YouTube could not give less of a shit about people skipping in-video ads, since they don't get paid for those anyway.
It's all about playing the incentive structure. When the party who can stop you from doing something is different from the party who wants to stop you from doing it, nobody will stop you from doing it.

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:48:29 +0000

This can never be legal. When I worked in media streaming the copyright owners were very specific about what we were allowed to store, and wouldn't allow unencrypted files to be transmitted to any other companies.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:47:10 +0000

BLM protestors set it on fire and it's gone now, just like Portland.
No but really, probably nothing special happened. It's just another case of surveillanceists gonna surveil.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:52:10 +0000

A significant chunk of today's HN readership were less than 10 years old when Snowden leaked.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:51:06 +0000

Thank you for exemplifying this point. The justice system isn't about stopping crimes. It's about inflicting punishment. In some cases, the justice system even encourages or creates crimes, so it can punish someone.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:49:47 +0000

They could arrest everyone and have perfect order. Short of that, they can only arrest people at the first small sign that person might ever not preserve order. Which is what they are currently doing. Things like loitering, expressing political opinions online, or being LGBT, are signs that a person might in the future not be completely orderly, and they arrest for that.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pocksuppet — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:48:21 +0000

I think they're trying to say infinite force is needed to defend the city from the subhuman immigrants overrunning it. That's how I understood the comment.

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New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

New comment by pocksuppet in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

New comment by pocksuppet in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

New comment by pocksuppet in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

New comment by pocksuppet in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

New comment by pocksuppet in "On The
(2021)"