[D. Richard Hipp] designed SQLite in the spring of 2000 while working for General Dynamics on contract with the United States Navy.

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Well today I learned!

A penny saved is still a penny saved. I’m not saying it would amount to much, but it is non-zero.

Depends on how much traffic you’re talking about. Encrypting/decrypting isn’t free.

One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.

Avoiding shorts is a feature IMO

I’m not claiming that it was “intuitive”, just that the browser did tell the user exactly what the add-on was allowed to do. Sure, Chrome and Firefox deserve some blame for not making the warning more explicit/dire, but they did make an attempt. Overwriting cookies and rewriting affiliate links are subsets of “access your data”.

Also, I’m not claiming that I knew exactly what Honey was doing, just that I suspected it was shady and recommended no one use it.

It wasn’t “uncovered” though. This is their business model. I’ve told every person I know using Honey for years that it’s a shady extension and they should stop using it. Unfortunately I don’t have a huge following to offset Honey’s massive ad spend.

I’m not calling anyone stupid, but stop treating this like it’s new information. Your browser warned you this might happen when you installed the extension:

I think you meant to reply to the parent comment?

Vaccines protect the workforce and allow individuals to produce more. People being against vaccines cannot be good for capitalism, can it?

But you couldn’t release your own projects based on this under pure MIT or Apache-2.0. Presumably you’d need to include the same restriction about selling on Atlassian’s marketplace.

Don’t give them any ideas.

I run Gentoo as my main distro, and have for a couple years now. It’s a pretty stable rolling release (IMO more stable than Arch), and since you’re already an advanced user, the experience should be pretty rewarding!

The wiki is great, and the installation handbook is top notch.

You get to control exactly what features each package is compiled with, so no bloat at all.

KDE 6 just landed too!

Shit, that’s where my sex drive went. Can I have it back please?

Linux is whatever the Linux Mark Institute says it is.

You don’t need reproducible builds. You can get by if you trust whoever compiled it, like your distro’s maintainers or the pidgin developers.

Copyleft means: “if you modify the program and share it, you also have to include the source code for your modifications.”

The owner of the copyright (usually the developers or their employer) can still change the license later.

I recently started using it and screw you all for recommending it. My walks take like twice as long now.

Eh, it’s also much easier to slap a client-side detector on because you can use generic detection methods. When you’re doing it server-side, you have to rely a lot on statistical analysis and it’s all game specific.

In the end you can, of course, reduce it all to not shelling out money, but there is some nuance too.

Let me preface this by saying I don’t see the value of 99% of NFTs either, but it is technically possible to make one that stores the image on the blockchain or on IPFS. Most don’t, obviously, but it is possible.

Mailing lists are pretty awesome. They’re like a decentralized forum. There are even good web UIs!

That said, submitting and reviewing patches over email suuucks.