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New comment by reedciccio in "Ubuntu 26.04"

reedciccio — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:43:13 +0000

Unix workstations had mice with 3 buttons. The Mac had only one. Windows, Amiga, Atari had two. The Unix developers had choice that others didn't have. They came up with a use that existed forever. Now someone decided to remove the default for no apparent reason. It's like the Android product managers continuing to change the color, size and gesture to answer a phone call: every release, the first call is an exercise in managing frustration.

New comment by reedciccio in "Ubuntu 26.04"

reedciccio — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:51:32 +0000

What???? That's the most expected feature of any *nix user since the dawn of X Window!

New comment by reedciccio in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

reedciccio — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:35:15 +0000

Mr. Martin was also paid to support the production of GoT, not just royalties. There is no reason to believe that he wouldn't be called to do the same sort of consulting work on the script, dialogues, visual, etc if the copyright expired.

New comment by reedciccio in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

reedciccio — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:59:51 +0000

Thunderbird has been re-added to the products steered by the Mozilla Foundation. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/the-untold-history-of-t...

New comment by reedciccio in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

reedciccio — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:58:45 +0000

Uhm... The article lacks quite a few citations.

New comment by reedciccio in "World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client"

reedciccio — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:22:11 +0000

I love your innocence! :)

New comment by reedciccio in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

reedciccio — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:02:01 +0000

Doesn't Whatsapp already use an open source protocol? https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

New comment by reedciccio in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

reedciccio — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:59:09 +0000

Yeah... Ask Schrems about the hefty fines and all that pretty things bright to Europeans by the GDPR. Come on! The GDPR is at best a pretty face to a rotten nothing-burger.

Virtual fireside chat with OllyGarden co-founder and CEO Juraci PaixãO Kröhling

reedciccio — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://chinstrap.community/fireside-chats/juraci-krohling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602548

Points: 1

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New comment by reedciccio in "FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub"

reedciccio — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:35:10 +0000

They don't violate licenses otherwise they would have been blown out of existence a long time ago, drown lawsuit after lawsuit.

New comment by reedciccio in "My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL"

reedciccio — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:29:02 +0000

The theory is being tested that you don't need to be a copyright holder to file a lawsuit https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

New comment by reedciccio in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

reedciccio — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:14:18 +0000

The FSF can't pull the rug because of its bylaws

New comment by reedciccio in "Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost"

reedciccio — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:58:07 +0000

Same as today? Empirically demonstrated: The only ones getting richer and richer after the Napster wars are the publishers, like Apple Music, Spotify and the other mega corporations. :)

New comment by reedciccio in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

reedciccio — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:59:40 +0000

Delayed Open Source, and it's an old practice https://opensource.org/delayed-open-source-publication

New comment by reedciccio in "Free software hasn't won"

reedciccio — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:33:32 +0000

That means that Graphene OS is "eventually open source", which is a practice as old as open source (call it free software, if you prefer) itself. More on https://opensource.org/delayed-open-source-publication

New comment by reedciccio in "GNU Health"

reedciccio — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:45:16 +0000

I'm extremely interested in this topic. Would you be able to share your presentation?

New comment by reedciccio in "Overthinking GIS (2024)"

reedciccio — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:20:53 +0000

Any architect and urban planner is aware of the problems with flatlands near river beds. It's the politicians who decide to ignore the science, known since the times of the Romans.

New comment by reedciccio in "Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book"

reedciccio — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 06:01:48 +0000

Is it Llama violating the "copyright" or is it the researcher pushing it to do so?

New comment by reedciccio in "Deepseek R1-0528"

reedciccio — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:37:54 +0000

Search more, there is a lot of literature discussing how hard the problem of reproducibility of GenAI/LLMs/Deep Learning is, how far we are from solving it for trivial/small models (let alone for beasts the size of the most powerful ones) and even how pointless the whole exercise is.

New comment by reedciccio in "Deepseek R1-0528"

reedciccio — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:23:07 +0000

> if you do it twice the same way, you'll get the same output

Point at the science that says that, please: Current scientific knowledge doesn't agree with you.