I’ve been thinking about this topic along similar lines. There’s a race to the bottom, and someone’s fully licit corpus is just going to end up being worse (in user perception, not in whatever gamed metrics/benchmarks are de rigueur) than someone else’s illicit corpus, even if they are broadly similar at a glance.

There are also likely other, smaller factors that make this difficult. I expect my small body of public work with permissive licensing has been an input to one or more of these things at some point, but I would not be surprised if the fidelity of provenance were not maintained consistently, because that is not easy to do, and it doesn’t buy you much if you don’t intend to provide attribution.

wait wasn’t g moral too? the more, the better…

related, but tonight I will pour one out for Conkeror

NGL I always wanted to use IceWeasel just to say I did, but now it might be because it’s the last bastion!

Not that it should be a regular thing but it is fun to watch this post get swarmed by slopfan reply guys

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normally I’d say that’s true but he wanted to impart the juggling in particular to his progeny

maybe his endgame is proving the halting problem

thought I checked it, my bad T_T

A couple months ago I lobbied for (and won) my weekly trivia team to use the name “mike’s hard lemonparty”

Then I learned exactly how old I was

You’re right, Borkfan is too easy to remember, my not-ban fork is now called Frabnok.

Look out, professional Nix crybaby Jon Ringer is back with his fork.

In other news, I have my own as well called Borkfan, absolutely not a ban fork due to my having threatened multiple people, but instead dedicated to the idea that a technology that lacks chud approval must necessarily not be in the true hacker spirit.

Orange site on pager bombs in Lebanon:

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting.

Yup I refused to even post that nonsense because I did the exact same scroll through it and was nonplussed by the amount of preamble this dude absolutely did not merit in defense of his terminal poaster syndrome.

So the orange site is having a normal one over Python BFDL trying to skirt CoC by talking about mod actions against some old dude who caught a suspension for being precisely the sort of edgelord poaster I’d expect out of a Python maintainer, which the orange site was also not happy about. I even read a bunch of his posts in the thread, like where he calls people standing up to NixOS leadership “true villains”.

Pauly G is telling on himself here: what he means is that his kids learned English from movies.

I’ve been out-of-the-loop for a bit on the Nix drama. Is there a good summary of the last couple weeks?

This is my favorite thing to do.

I’m having fun thinking of infinite leather daddies whacking keyboards with dildos now.