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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 4 months ago (10 children)

No thanks. One more centralized service to enshitify. Will stick with Matrix.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we need a new movement (or revisit past ideas from the 70s) that focuses on ensuring the openness regarding freedoms of computing (😉) that combat proprietary SaaS offerings? idk.

This is why OSS as an org needs a change IMO. Licenses like SSPLv1, where software can be supplied for free with options that allow a company to make money without risk of a cloud vendor snapping up their software (think Redis, MongoDB, etc) need a place at the table.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 points 4 months ago

I read this as you wrote it: "its farts", like the envelope has farts, vs "it is farts". Both are technically correct, but seems so much funnier that way.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 4 months ago

Vector is still pixel maps. Open an SVG in a text editor 😉

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

UnitedHealthcare has defended the company and Thompson. In a December statement, UnitedHealthcare said “highly inaccurate and grossly misleading information has been circulated about our company’s treatment of insurance claims” and that it “approves and pays about 90% of medical claims upon submission.”

Having worked with insurance companies, this is a PR metric. Volume of claims in no way equals cost of claims. If the denied 10% are suspiciously in line with the procedures that contain the top 40% of costs, there is a problem.

People don't care if you covered a generic version of a bottle of Tylenol, they care if you bankrupt them or leave them with no hope.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Everyone who agrees should click and read vs just checking the synopsis, letting CNN know this is the case.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 4 months ago

You cannot know the answer without seeing the underside of the forks. How will you know if they correctly conform to the curvature of your thumb and/or fingers.

One of the best gifts my partner got me was completing a set of cutlery I had grown to love via eBay and other random shops. How she found decade old stuff in mint condition is beyond me.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you copy a font, bitmap or not, you're doing it as a pixel map on a pixelated monitor.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 24 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Funny, but fonts can't be copyrighted.

They say the ad used XBand Rough, an "illegal clone".

If you redraw an entire font, pixel for pixel, manually, it is not an illegal clone. This happens all the time. The creators of the ad just used a copy that was free.

So ironic, yes, illegal, no.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Full rewrites do happen. The first commit of PiKVM is a copy of my repo: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/commit/70eebd5c59da26dc3f6ad56730adbb616055f4e5#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R4. I was referenced there for a long time before eventually being removed, and I'm pretty sure by then my code had been fully rewritten.

Though I did find it funny when LTT covered them and said they complained about a copycat who wasn't giving them credit 😆

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So for those wondering on comparisons to other FOSS options:

Fittrackee (https://github.com/SamR1/FitTrackee): Very similar, but Endurain also seems to track weight vs just activity.

Wanderer (https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer): Also similar, but has social sharing and geared more towards trail recording like Alltrails. Also does not have weight tracking.

Note: Another big differentiator seems to be Garmin and Strava integrations.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Other than the obvious archives and survival/legal information, anything and everything to do with ham radio, meshtastic, SMS obfuscation, and LORA WAN.

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