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Scrapping the Internet is not illegal. All AI companies did much more beyond that, they accessed private writings, private code, copyrighted images. they scanned copyrighted books (and then destroyed them), downloaded terabytes of copyrighted torrents … etc

So, the message is like piracy is OK when it’s done massively by a big company. They’re claiming “fair use” and most judges are buying it (or being bought?)

Well, I don’t know the specific case about CoMaps, but forking is a really hard decision, and you need to have strong backup from community to dare going that way. I would assume when projects decide to split is because all the attempts to arrive to a good decision failed. Driving a fork for success is a very hard task, and I guess the majority of forks that fail (a lot) are because they didn’t have support from community.

About libreoffice winning over m$ or g$ ? Well, I also would like to see that happening, but not to be replaced by another non-FOSS or half-FOSS option.

What you call drama is a healthy community fighting against violated principles. So, according to you, what’s the alternative? Just keep working with broken principles and never complain? Allow a bunch of greedy members to take over the project?

If you have paid attention, basically community always win: libreoffice vs openoffice, mariadb over mysql, jenkins over hudson, x.org over xfree86, ffmpeg over libav, nextcloud over owncloud, etc.

Right to fork is one of the most important to keep project in community hands and follow declared principles. Some forget that and are just doomed to repeat the history.

Disclaimer: I work on iDempiere who forked adempiere because of community disagreements, which also forked from compiere because of corporative takeout.

Long live to CoMaps!

if you cannot decrypt the file, how can you know that the DMCA violation report is valid?

it requires to create an account

Thanks for sharing.

I did some tests and opened two issues in your github project.

Who are you?

This sounds really aggressive, he’s tobi_tensei, that must be enough.

Even a known and respected cryptographer would not release a tool with such confidence

Why not? Do you know about open source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often

First you need to request testing and code review before you announce to people that it is a “secure, anonymous file-sharing platform.”

I think he’s precisely asking for testing and code review, announcing the intention of the software is not wrong.

This is not a community for sharing your personal programming projects for feedback

Why not? It is related to privacy, it can be the seed for bigger projects, the author is sharing the code so you can evaluate and host yourself.

What a strange way to say “thanks for sharing”.

So, I’m going to try to say it better:

Thanks @tobi_tensei for sharing that code in the open source, please don’t stop your initiative for people criticizing, there are more people that likes and are thankful.

What about the education systems? One of those two countries is heavily denying basic science at schools, teaching creationism as something at the same level as evolutionism, letting religion pollute education, banning books from schools, teaching obsolete two genders theory, etc. Is the study short about the differences in education?

My point is that religious education trains the kids to believe things without verifying facts, even unbelievable fables. I’m just trying to point a potential source of what we know is a big problem.

This can be controversial, but my opinion is that religious education normally is the opposite of critical thinking. If you teach the kids to accept beliefs just based on faith, you’re killing critical thinking.

it gained big notoriety recently because the Oscar winner Flow was completely made with Blender https://m.filmaffinity.com/en/film989516.html

and how do you discover new things?

90% close it, bye 10% try archive.is if it doesn’t work, bye

and on the hands of the NSA

It can also be said: security by obscurity is the best scenario for the NSA

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German language is missing Austria

I’m wondering if this is a real threat, or a conspiracy theory. If it’s a real threat, wouldn’t be the same with the NSA?

I’m also a switcher from ovh to hetzner. Good service, good support, fast machines, the administration website is very good (ovh was slow and ugly), snapshots and backups are cheap and directly available (AFAIR ovh snapshots required a monthly fee). Hetzner is Germany based, good for GDPR, and now they have data centers in USA too.