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Comment · 1 year ago
^ is a confused demonstration of my point:

> They are different things. A project can be both; a person can talk about these two aspects of one project.

BTW, your pouring on of qualifiers (elsewhere "weasel words") shows your (correct) lack of conviction:

> the details of definitions, but I think by most people's definitions of 'open source', something that is 'public domain' qualifies as such

Comment · 1 year ago
drones

- with bright lights,

- flying over the same populated areas

- at the same time each night.

Not fake at all.

Comment · 1 year ago
> conversational casual chitchat : "open source" includes "public domain"

No. What are you talking about? They are not related... other than for people virtually completely new to, well, open source.

You are also completely confused, here, too:

> Yes, the SQLite home page does say "public domain". However, when people interview SQLite create, Richard Hipp, he himself calls it "open source". He also doesn't correct others when they also call it "open source".

They are different things. A project can be both; a person can talk about these two aspects of one project.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Biden: Israel and Lebanon Agree on Ceasefire

This is correct for all uses of the word "Agree" and "Ceasefire" in which

- "Agree" means "surrendered after central Beirut was bombed until the Lebanese capitulated."

- "Ceasefire" means "Lebanon stops defending itself; Israel continues to bomb Lebanon whenever it feels like it, sometime before during or after automatic approval for more mass-murder by the USA."

Comment · 1 year ago
or use POP , POP3, whatever, which will delete the email off the server - which (unpopular opinion) is a feature not a bug.

Yes, one copy of each email; yes, I don't want to handle each (any) email multiple times, even if the second is a once-a-week mass delete of have-processed-already emails.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have not, but I just asked chatGPT and it, chatGPT, suggested a starting point solution.

I asked:

how would I:

- use IMAP to read email from my email server

- call a local LLM (say ollama) to classify the email

- file each email into one of N folders or maildirs or mboxes ?

and received a reasonable python program.

Comment · 1 year ago
> If you don't want Bluesky to hide anything for you, go to the moderation settings on your account and turn everything off.

That is really the crux of what is going on here. This is the N-th example of someone being auto-banned from bluesky due to saying "there are only two sexes"; "excess death rates are up by 10%" or other non-permitted thoughts/speech.

... and the user only (?) has to change a moderation setting (?) and then all would (have been) well ?!

Comment · 2 years ago
Each of these are _completely_ invented and then dishonestly presented as valid:

- Using collected data to facility spear phishing campaigns. - Running a child pornography/sex trafficking ring. - Participating in dogfighting. - Been a back channel for selling trade secrets. - Had some people killed. - Routing all the information collected to foreign groups, like Russia. - or.. has the other half of messages to someone under investigation whose phone locked.

A real-world example of "zero evidence". Let's stick with "no lying". Also, in late 2024, giving the monstrously corrupt FBI the dishonesty-based benefit-of-the-doubt is beyond naive and comfortably in the realm of dishonest.

It has been days since I have seen such an example of "zero critical thinking skills"

Comment · 2 years ago
unfortunately, we can't - should not ever again - believe anything stated by corporate media.

So. . . this (article) is an interesting idea. And that's it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, yes. This. Piper is already pretty good . . . and then this.

It may not be _them_ doing it, though.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you had seen the qbittorrent code . . . it's _awful_.

Pages long un-commented functions, single spaced, appearing most like the prison notebooks of a wrongly-incarcerated psychotic. No testing of any return values at all (in the small part - a few packed pages - of the code that I looked at).

There was some field and if it got a correct 3-char (instead of the usual correct 2-char) value, the program would crash or something a minute or so later (I forget). As I was paid to program C++ ~~once~~ twice about 20 years ago, and from a "why don't _you_ have a look at it" message from a maintainer (which was 100% fair-enough, I thought) I ran it in a debugger. I got to the wrong & correct value(s) being read in from the GUI . . . and started following it/them . . . and then . . . so now there a -1 being passed around, and now everything just carries on, for a while.

Eventually the wrong valued-run would crash in some somewhat remote function with a wrongly-incarcerated psychotic's error message.

one of the real qbittorrent programmers did, then, fix it next release. But any how ...

Comment · 2 years ago
Came here to say this: BBC news as a source ... hmmm, no thanks.
Comment · 2 years ago
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