Hacker News: rcdwealth

New comment by rcdwealth in "Mistral Small 3"

rcdwealth — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:45:06 +0000

Meta’s LLaMa 2 license is not Open Source – Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-ope...

If it would not be hijacked, then such articles would not exist.

META is falsely and deceptively, but also carefully, pretending to be Open Source.

The Open Source Definition – Open Source Initiative https://opensource.org/osd

What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Word "Open" as in "Open Source" - Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Open

Please refrain from using "open" or "open source" as a synonym for "free software." These terms originate from different perspectives and values. The free software movement advocates for your freedom in computing, grounded in principles of justice. The open source approach, on the other hand, does not promote a set of values in the same way. When discussing open source views, it's appropriate to use that term. However, when referring to our views, our software, or our movement, please use "free software" or "free (libre) software" instead. Using "open source" in this context can lead to misunderstandings, as it implies our views are similar to those of the open source movement.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch"

rcdwealth — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:50:35 +0000

I always do first:

apt-cache search netsurf

New comment by rcdwealth in "A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)"

rcdwealth — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:35:00 +0000

That is great, and in reality entertaining and for listening and sleeping in, good story.

So did you make it with that GPT-2 from this page?

New comment by rcdwealth in "Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city"

rcdwealth — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:12:18 +0000

Majority of this world is still not literate, just be happy to be there

New comment by rcdwealth in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

rcdwealth — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:39:25 +0000

Thanks Andrew, and very good that you prepared enough evidences to counter those issues raised by drama queens. All the free software is protected by copyrights, foundations, and so is the infrastructure. Somebody has to pay for it. Somebody does have assets, be it foundation or private individual or a group of individuals, but somebody is always considered owner of the assets and those assets have to be protected.

Thanks for doing the work, and I kind of feel it unfair and totally unjust to you as a protector and supporter of the IRC network. It is free because of people like you and others.

IMHO, all that drama was staged, planned.

The reason why such networks have to be held under legal entities is funding number one, as to keep networks financed by sponsors, and protection number two. Legal entities are formed under country's laws and in case of trouble it is legitimate to use laws to protect assets. You have not done nothing wrong in doing so.

Keep doing well!

New comment by rcdwealth in "Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:03:16 +0000

Make your own CA, install on each computer, install certificates, voila.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:46:17 +0000

robots.txt is well... for robots. It is not a binding agreement, it is a preference by website owner not to index some pages in search engines.

Public pages are still public pages, and regardless if they are indexed in search engines, everyone is free to to hyperlink to such.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:39:44 +0000

Those links are public.

I can sell my public website to paying customers, but cannot prevent non-paying customers to see the links. There is no TOS or agreement with non-paying customers to agree to pay me money, they are free to click on links.

Their digital chains management is not affected.

Your best statement is your last paragraph, you are not a lawyer.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:37:21 +0000

Sharing with friends and public references that publishers provide online is nature of Internet. It is not "really unethical", to contrary, it is very ethical to share.

If somebody complains "I am losing money because you pointed to my website links" -- must have some serious internal legal and technical conflicts.

Keep sharing.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:35:45 +0000

It does not apply as hyperlink is public, referencing to someone's hyperlink published by someone is not a fraud neither abuse.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Threated with legal action if I don't remove deep links to another site"

rcdwealth — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:33:32 +0000

That is great service, thank you. Please keep deeplinking.

Quote:

Deep Linking: The most straightforward case is so-called "deep linking," which refers to placing a link on your site that leads to a particular page within another site (i.e., other than its homepage). No court has ever found that deep linking to another website constitutes copyright or trademark infringement. Therefore, you can link to other websites without serious concerns about legal liability for the link itself, with the exception of activities that might be contributory copyright infringement or trafficking in circumvention technology (discussed below).

From: https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/linking-copyrighted-materia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlink...

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface"

rcdwealth — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:35:55 +0000

> I once submitted a bug to the Emacs mailing list and after determining > it was indeed a defect, a flame war ensued between maintainers of > different subsystems that were competing over how a specific feature > was supposed to be used, which was the source of the bug. It was > offputting and felt juvenile. Social problems are inevitable in any > open source project, but I can’t help but wonder if the highly dynamic > nature of Emacs Lisp causes more problems than a less dynamic language > would.

Commercial developers have many internal discussions, with the difference that they will not show it to you.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface"

rcdwealth — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:34:03 +0000

Use Emacs in simpler way like you use other editors and it will always work.

Use it in complex way and you will stumble upon plethora of troubles. That is feature, not bug.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface"

rcdwealth — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:31:57 +0000

Unix philosophy to use single programs for one task has its particular context, and Emacs does not fit into the context, just as no other programming language is made "for single text". Your comparison is out of the context.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)"

rcdwealth — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:24:06 +0000

I like simple outline mode. In the Emacs development version it folds now with TAB on the heading, so that is maybe one of major options. I could insert "TODO" but is not necessary. Org integrates many things together. But it is not my main note taking application. I am using PostgreSQL for note taking and exporting assignments, tasks, etc. from the database into the Org mode. It is quite different workflow.

Org is not collaborative, database is collaborative, redundant, it offers way easier development then trying to handle database things by using text.

By the way, people speak "Org mode is plain text", that is was back in time, today Org mode is everything else but plain text.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)"

rcdwealth — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:19:33 +0000

I have tried it, it says something like: bash no file found, and there is no -h or --help option to know more about invokation. In general, it does not work on GNU Hyperbola/Linux-libre free OS, based on Arch Linux.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)"

rcdwealth — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:13:09 +0000

That looks as great application, thank you. I am not now hot to download all dependencies, and especially Qt as dependency is overkill. Did you see Leo editor? It works similar. Emacs works well on console and in GUI, so it is not just GUI application, that is big advantage. If you develop SQL application like that, I suggest you develop API in the same time and have the editor rather use the API, so that any other language can access the Outline structure you are creating. I wish I could run it, try it out, but dependencies are too much.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)"

rcdwealth — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:10:13 +0000

Org mode is plain text. Basic text editing in Org style may be done with any editor. Let us say those features to enter TODO or change state from TODO to DONE or PENDING, could work faster if then in other editor exists macro function. With macro functions you can pretty fast prepare basic Org functions. Folding headings is maybe something that cannot be easily implement in other editors.

Vim has Org mode too https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

Those mobile editors usually do not have macro functionality. But as soon as you have editor with macros it is possible within some 30 minutes to make few macros to add tags, change TODO states, add SCHEDULED or DEADLINE stamps or similar basic features.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)"

rcdwealth — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:37:59 +0000

It is so. Emacs contains the full Emacs manual, non-fragmented, compact and complete, including the full Org mode manual, non-fragmented. It is self-documenting program. Users can learn what is built-in feature and what exists before starting to use extensions.

If you try to do too much at once, of course, you are prone to give up as you started on a too high gradient.

New comment by rcdwealth in "Ask HN: Is this simple landing page clear enough?"

rcdwealth — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:26:25 +0000

When I landed I have seen too enlarged version, so frames were not visible and those window elements as well. I had to minimize it with C-- and I use Iceweasel browser.

My impression is that you sell UI elements. But I am not clear if you sell UI elements.