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Comment · 3 years ago
Technically Bandcamp is a very simple payment and file host.

A small team can quickly copy how it works and get all the artists to move platform if they were to shoot themself in the head. Right now this doesn't happen because Bandcamp functions and exists and has a reputation for musicians.

Lose that, all the artists start looking for a new home and someone will make an alternative quickly.

Comment · 4 years ago
How does it compare to wikis, eh? Isn't that what they do.
Comment · 4 years ago
I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is.

All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it?

edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...

Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, like they have much to gain in Ukraine either. It's not like they are a rational actor at this stage.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
You lie, or have no idea what has been discussed in Finland for the past few months. The public has given a very clear mandate to join NATO ASAP.

Here's the latest poll news from 2022-05-09. "Yes" at 76%. https://yle.fi/news/3-12437506

And additional interesting bits, both the president have backed joining, and Sweden is joining NATO too: "A possible Swedish application for Nato membership would raise backing in Finland to 83 percent.

A clear position by the Finnish president and the government backing membership raise support by around the same margin, to 82 percent."

Meaning the support to join is overwhelmingly in majority.

Comment · 4 years ago
Users who are vocal and complain, cause 95%(out of my ass number) of the users who silently like the software they way it is to suffer.
Comment · 4 years ago
Dominance of iPhone? Do we live in the same planet?

Android won the masses.

Comment · 4 years ago
You seem to lack the simplest terms when talking of IP laws. Copyright is something you infringe. You don't even say what you are referring to here by talking of "IP". The important stuff is always in details.

There's a large amount of misinformation and people lacking an understanding on the differences between copyright, patents and trademarks. Making these threads repetitive to read. Always such a pointless anecdotes such as yours, truncating all IP systems under "IP laws".

For example. The patent system came to existence to ensure that inventions were not hidden, but published to the public in a form patent. Instead of the inventor hiding the invention, the society grants the inventor sole rights to the invention thanks to them making it public.

Copyright and Trademark are different beasts to Patents, and all these are very linked to the laws of single countries, bar signed treaties. Please distinguish what you are talking about. Otherwise your point is moot.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Version control contains problems that are not trivial. Git exposes the right parts of the problems and conflicts for the user, that are in no way trivial for a computer and require human decisions on what should be done with them.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's always amazing to think that Pizza existed long before tomatoes were brought to Europe.
Comment · 5 years ago
The less you use external dependencies, more time for you to focus on your own product instead of solving problems updating those dependencies and replacing them.
Comment · 5 years ago
Denial is strong in humans. You'd have to actually change your behaviour if you didn't deny it. You'd have to become responsible.

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