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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 68
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como assim? chamávamos o cafezinho da saída do bandejão de "antídoto" por quê, então?
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stability is a very overloaded term. it's often used to mean either "doesn't crash much", "doesn't change often", "doesn't change much at a time", and combinations thereof. there's a contradiction among these terms already: changing a little at a time implies changing often (or lagging farther and farther behind). not crashing much is a matter of QA, but also of how much customization there was: the more one departs from the shipped bits and configurations, the more likely one is to hit a case that QA didn't cover (the combinations of possibilities grow exponentially). rolling releases take smaller bumps that may break stuff, compared with distros with identifiable releases, but some such releases are sometimes little more than global rebuilds with a different toolchain, which still has some potential to break stuff. as usual, issues are nuanced, rather than binary, and require deeper analysis rather than shallow hard rules
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I and some 7.8G people in the word have little reason to care about how messed up the US FDA is. I understand there's reason for concern there out of economic pressure and big media propaganda, and I have no doubt about the psychopathic fixation on profit within Big Pharma.
however, when a doctor who's long taken care of me prescribes me medicines for my chronic conditions, I take it, even if Big Pharma makes it, even if I knew Big Pharma pays him kickbacks for prescribing certain brands instead of generics. I take it, and I can measure that they make some difference, and I understand enough of the science to tell that that difference can have a larger long-term effect
doubt is good, questioning is the basis of science. we learn to doubt pathological liars. it's a good heuristic, but it does not follow that everything they say is a lie. covid-19 vaccines were made by Big Pharma on a tight schedule, and we all wish they were more effective, but they clearly lower risks
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pessoal não aprende a pensar na frente
(ou é muito bem pago pra não o fazer)
aconteceu mesma coisa com o Banco do Brasil, quando a IBM descontinuou o OS/2, em que o BB tinha se jogado de cabeça, de caixas eletrônicos e terminais das agências a servidores
resultado: BB tentou comprar os direitos do OS/2 da IBM, mas IBM não quis vender, e o BB sentou na graxa. foi aí que migrou pra GNU/Linux
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tem um erro de atribuição aí
formatos proprietários são usados como barreira de compatibilidade para preservar monopólios
não é atribuível ao software livre a dificuldade de compatibilidade criada e mantida artificialmente pelos monopolistas para preservar seus monopólios
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> He = Li
esperanto is chemically weird
batteries made with ions of inert gases.
who'd have though!
:-)
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you forgot the first sentence: "Sorry to disturb you with this call. We saw..." :-)
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I can't really comment on the other issues you raised, but if by "open software movement" you mean open source, I can tell why you're disappointed. open source was never against capitalist monopolies; it was actually the counter-revolution to the free software movement, and even the free software movement was not against capitalism monopolies, it was focused on a different, nearly orthogonal purpose: enabling every software user (including megacorporations) to control their own computing
so you may think you found counterexamples of what I said, but that disappointment follows from assuming goals that were never there. all disappointment arises out of misalignment between expectations and reality, I read once, I think in some Buddhist writing
and then, what's the alternative to doing something that, if successfully scaled up, can make a difference? not even trying? waiting for a silver bullet? despairing?
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$ ./configure && make && make install
? ;-)
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I sent you a link to an article that made exactly that point a few days ago, with references to data from several countries. you may have chosen to ignore it, but there's no point in waiting for something you've already got
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they stopped pretending, and the mask has fallen
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there's a saying, attributed to Gandhi, that "it may feel like what you do makes no difference, but it's very important that you do it". The trick IMHO is to think of what happens if lots of people start doing that, and understand that everything starts small and example is the simplest way to teach, and the easiest way for others to learn. don't let the feeling of being helpless and divided from others enable you to be conquered. that feeling too is manufactured industrially, and designed to last. return it, fight it, and show others how to fight. it won't lead to a sudden change, as in hollywood happy endings; it will take a long time, plenty of effort and struggling and teaching and sharing and cooperating, and that's by no means assurance of success. OTOH, not trying *is* assurance of defeat.
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is there any one that won't attempt to run a proprietary captcha on your browser?
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nunca curti praia (faixa de areia), mas adoro banho de mar. pra mim, ir à praia é pra entrar na água, furar onda até o dedo enrugar e ir embora. na minha infância e adolescência, a família sempre passava férias em Pontal do Sul, hoje Pontal do Paraná, praia bem legal na época. depois que vim pra Campinas, praia ficou bem mais longe e a poluição da água nas praias de São Paulo zoou a única coisa que eu curtia fazer :-(
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I'm surprised you conspiracy theory people haven't yet "figured out" that covid-19 and vaccines for it are "actually" a multi-staged biological war, with the first variants and vaccines setting the ground for the real thing that's yet to be released, and that will only turn into remotely-controlled zombies those who got both the alien DNA from the virus and the 5G radio from the vaccine. if only you knew that the virus was made by the Chinese, Russian and Cuban military, and the vaccines by NATO military in cooperation with the MIB!
(hey, it's actually fun to make such things up, I get why some people can't get out of it ;-)
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I'm neutral towards tatoos. the other day I learned of a local social project that fitted a bus with tattooing equipment, that they drive to vulnerable neighborhoods and offer tattoos to disguise scars, free of charge
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o assustador, pra mim, conforme notícias que vi, é que os cientistas do projeto não esperavam que pudesse haver reprodução. se isso for verdade, é de uma irresponsabilidade absurda!
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no me ha aparecido ;-)
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merging the improvements with the development version of the software is also something that would necessarily take place after the release.
how do other software bounty systems deal with this, and with quality of releases? there must be plenty of experience and best practices to borrow from them
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another aspect that seems relevant for software development is that validation is something that often requires user exposure. unlike works of art, that are there for enjoyment (or not), software is usually meant to perform a practical job. it's a little hard for me to picture how a release protocol could include some user validation so that the developer can't just take the payment in exchange for a very broken piece of software and disappear. OTOH, there could be buyers who won't take less than an unachievable perfection. I don't immediately see how to strike a balance of the risks, protecting honest developers and buyers, discouraging cheating, and giving users and developers the improvements that field exposure can bring. perhaps saving part of the funds for later release to the developer, as post-release bugs are filed, estimated, and prioritized by users through this fraction, and possibly additional pledges?
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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