Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe)

@ignaloidas @sir

It's an interesting point about obfuscated code. See, for instance,

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

@amiloradovsky

ad-blockers don't. don't block, that is.

they are more like, decline-to-request-ad-ers.

but that's awkward, so here we are.

@sir

but they can use it.

they just have to fork it and do their own work on it.

no upstream owes, by dint of FOSS licensing alone, any specific feature set to downstream.

@sir

in short, so long as someone is free to fork and make the changes they wish (eg, remove the rickroll, remove moderation tools), it's free software through and through.

@sir

the flip side of this is what Purism did with their fork--clearly within the scope of their software freedom, but deplorable (yes) in terms of how they exercise their right to associate

@sir
clearly we disagree

@sir

If the *licensing* discriminates, it is not FOSS.

Customization to fit a particular use is a very different consideration. The ability to make discriminations at run time is the essence of all the password, login, access-control mechanisms in ubiquitous use.

@mwlucas

lol that last bit.

I'm imaging a slow but steady feed of fruit leather ...

@InvaderXan

Sure! What I can offer is pretty stale but would be happy to talk it over all the same.

@anne @anarchiv

@anne @InvaderXan @anarchiv

I did a couple of structures from the PDB that way, once, back in the day.

solvent-accessible surface rather than electron density as such but very similar process

@InvaderXan

every. damn. day.

@InvaderXan @anarchiv

are those sp2 or sp3 carbons among the alkynes & phenyls?

eg, planar?

neutral?

ugh. got to get up & move around

post-lunch sleepies are stalking me

@nolan

not just optimizing, but casting why-do-you-hate-the-users shade at anyone not keeping pace in the same direction

@hirojin @nolan @baldur

also "the numbers we have" sets off the WMD klaxons for me

https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/

@pamela @katzeilla

it's a flanocopia

@yardgnome

something tells me the state is not uniformly generous in its recognition of other mammalian squatters' rights

@juliobiason

my dog

@kensanata

@sydneyfalk

oh no

@emsenn

https://ia802908.us.archive.org/22/items/bbragg2000-07-16.flacf/bbragg2000-07-16t09.ogg