How I imagine you responding to your singular downvoter:
How I imagine you responding to your singular downvoter:
Digital piracy isn’t theft. Just your daily reminder.
Bandwidth is cheaper from the tower since the signal is the “same” for each client and it can then be distributed over a wide area. You send the “DRM” (Just a fancy encryption key) over the network since it’s relatively small and likely unique to each device (probably fingerprinting the device ids to the content invisibily in case of piracy).
And a pickup of gains from sending just the delta of changed data for one of their passive update beacons.
A pre-registered checksum will ensure that the downloaded file is what it says it is before running. So yes, it is safe. Unless you’ve found a collision in the checksum algorithm apple is using, although the chances are better that you’ll squeeze water out of dry desert sand.
(Edit: To those thinking they’ll rely on just code signing for this, you’re likely way off base.)
I see what you mean and understand you. It’s very idealistic and I appreciate the thought of it, but it just won’t apply to a modern world full of varied people in the way you wish. The reality of it is that most people simply are not interested in participating and it’s not in the best interests of any project to expect to change that. Contributions from someone who shares no passion or interest will be less qualitative at best. That’s not even to mention that you’re likely missing the forest for the trees, as most open source software is built upon hundreds of other projects. You cannot reasonably expect participation on that scale. You can encourage, desire, or structure an income stream to support it; but you cannot expect it as it’s just not rational.
Not sure what part of the open source community you’ve been diving into, but the expectation of contribution to the project is not realistic nor logical as there’s not “always” something a person can contribute and you’d absolutely run afoul of “too many chefs in the kitchen” (even Wikipedia acknowledges this and has structured editing in a way to help alleviate the issues). Though open source for me, and a lot of others, has always embodied passion, a desire to aid the community, and a drive to prevent closed alternatives. None of that is based around “co-op” style expected contribution development. Hell, even Stallman famously addressed my “free as in beer” statement, saying that open source is more akin to “free as in speech” overall, but since this particular project is not monitizing and are GPL 2 licensed, they are absolutely free as in beer.
I understand this, but we need to be reasonable and avoid extremes. This software is extensively free (as in beer) and requires development support. As long as the prompt doesn’t cross any lines into exploitive territory I think it’s fine. It would be nice for them to have explored other fundraising avenues first though and have saved this as an exhaustive “final” option.
Cloudflare is amazing , until it’s not. Chances are you’ll fall within the 95% that have a great time, but if for some reason you draw the ire of sales, engineering, or a system bug you’re gonna have a bad time.
Haha, I was reading through these and realized we both named our catch a rides after a borderlands theme. Mine is Hyperion, or hype for short.
Hyperion, Hype for short.
Thanks for the psa op
It is a high risk job along the lines of coal mining and such, since it will result in an increase in transmitted disease risk. It’s important to acknowledge that, but I am on the side of it being work. I just think we need strong protections in place and regulations to handle it akin to other dangerous jobs. Like, a sex work branch of OSHA.
We don’t ignore them. We scope out implementation plans constantly, it’s just when they hit the MBA managers desk they tend to end up in the shredder.
True, but if you look up relevant case law it more often than not sides with temporary emplacements still being a violation of the 5th amendment when emplaced without due process and just compensation. 🤷♂️ The amendments are significantly old, and are meant to be interpreted in modern contexts. You can’t take them at face “this is what is written” value.
Gosh you’re toxic, lol.
True, but I’m just pointing out that you’re being a bit extremist and that it’s a perfectly rational expectation to not host military at one’s quarters, listing the largest example I could. You might disagree with someone, but calling them insane for sharing an opinion that’s literally enshrined as a right for 400+ million people is a tad overboard, no?
That’s actually not the case in America. We have a constitutional amendment for it.
Gotta hire someone other than North Koreans.
Multicast still requires more expensive less widespread bandwidth than sending out analog signals ota & shooting off a few packets of encryption information every now and then. US infrastructure has rapidly improved over the past few years, but we’re still a farcry from anything robust and reliable enough to serve the people benefiting from this type of content.