riskable

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[–] riskable@kbin.social 67 points 2 years ago (19 children)

I may be just a pie-in-the-sky optimist but I think the duplicate communities thing will die down eventually. Natural selection will do it's thing and we'll all eventually settle in specific communities on specific instances.

Based on the nature of life itself all living things become specialized over time. This includes creatures, jobs, products, communities, etc. So what's likely to happen is some communities will die out or be abandoned while others will thrive and yet others will simply become more specialized.

Hypothetical example: /m/gifs on Kbin might become the place to find perfect loops and high quality/serious stuff while /m/gifs on some other instance might become the place for animated silliness.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't all solar power space based?

I'm kidding, of course. I look forward to getting microwaved from the sky and then later, watching our sun dim and the earth ultimately freezing over from the Dyson Sphere being built around it.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

While you're using your camera you'll now get popups like, "I see you're suffering from bad human skin! All Lizardio™ skinsuits get the 12-step treatment in our human testing lab. Try one today!

'I've been using Lizardio™ skinsuits for over a decade' -Ron DeSantis"

[–] riskable@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The S in IoT stands for security.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haha "1 hour of AOL" allowance... I used to hack AOL (before AOL4Free came out) by generating fake accounts using fake credit card numbers. I even automated the whole thing with Quickeys (kinda like AutoIt! For Macs back in the day).

Freshman year of high school I was generating loads of fake accounts and giving them out to pretty girls (haha one of my slickest moves in high school). It was genius: The accounts would only last a few weeks before AOL would discover that the credit card numbers were fake. So the girls had to keep coming back to me for new ones 😁

It wasn't something you could plan either: You would be chatting away with your friends and strangers in 23-person chat rooms (a/s/l? Haha) then suddenly you'd get disconnected and your account wouldn't work anymore. So the next day at school I'd have these girls desperately looking for me like I was their crack dealer!

One morning in the cafeteria before school started a couple girls were rushing--fighting--to get to me first (I would sit waaaay in the far corner with my pack of geeks). There was a teacher standing right next to us talking with the cafeteria workers and these two girls were smart enough not discuss illicit activities right in front of teachers so they both said at pretty much he exactly same moment:

"RISKABLE! I NEED YOUR NUMBER!"

Both the teacher and the cafeteria workers were stunned and amazed, haha. After the girls left the teacher came over to me and said, "Wow! You're a popular guy!"

For reference, I ended up marrying one of those girls 😁👍

[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

AT THE TONE THE TIME WILL BE 12:49 AND 50 SECONDS. BEEP!

No thanks. I like my internet time sync and GPS navigation.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 109 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL

[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That Seagate drive you linked to is used. Might as well throw your data away, LOL!

[–] riskable@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

6TB WD Black (7200RPM spinning rust) is ~$130 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NCMMSQX/ whereas a 4TB SSD is ~$150: https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal-SP004TBSS3A55S25/dp/B0BVLRFFWQ/

So you get slightly better bang for your buck with spinning rust but not much.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

KeepassXC. Migrated from KeepassX which I used for a long ass time (over a decade? Maybe more!)

[–] riskable@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I chose Kbin because at the time I went searching it was the only option that was working/responsive haha.

[–] riskable@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh this is no big deal at all (because your code is already open source)! I've dealt with similar situations at businesses before and it's just a matter of including the correct licenses and annotating the code where appropriate.

Let's say you used some AGPLv3 (strongest copyleft license) licensed code and you're not distributing your code under that same license. How do you use the AGPLv3 code in your code even though you're using say, Apache 2.0 license? The simplest way is to move that AGPLv3 licensed code into it's own folder/file(s) and put that license in there along with it. Also make sure you add a note about this in your LICENSE file and indicate that if someone includes that specific code in their own implementation they'll need to adhere to the AGPLv3.

Some FOSS licenses are incompatible with each other but I don't think you have that issue. For stuff like the Zip license, Apache license, MIT, and similar licenses where you must "give credit" just add comments surrounding that code saying where it came from, what license it uses, and also include references to it in the LICENSE file.

Loads of FOSS repos have complex stuff like this! It's a bit tedious for sure but it's not rocket science. You just have to do your homework and basically, "write everything down" (giving everyone credit and paying close attention to special cases like the AGPLv3).

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