People say this place is a street.
But they behave like it's their living room.
While in reality, it's a soapbox on the main square.
Meanwhile all I wanted is a watercooler.
Theory:
1. Reinvent a square wheel
2. Understand what's so hard about making wheels
3. Observe how a round wheel someone invented a while ago performs better than your square one.
4. Appreciate the brilliant and simple solutions to all wheel design issues that a round wheel implements.
5. Throw away your square wheel.
Practice:
1. Reinvent a square wheel
2. Push it to production
I really appreciate the balance that NearlyFreeSpeech.net takes in this blog post on "free speech" and what it actually means for their service:
https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-2021/
Yes, they'll host content from racists, but they won't give special assistance, and they'll absolutely turn people in to the authorities if they cross the line into illegality.
This is a rare stance to take these days, and I bet it gets them shit from "both sides". (It's also more than I'd personally have patience for!)
nyaa.si, a popular anime-focused torrent tracker, has had its source code removed from GitHub after the MPA filed a DMCA takedown request.
Read their lunacy here if you'd like: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/01/2021-01-14-mpa.md
Chestertonβs Fence
https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
CompSci student at Uni of Warsaw
Linux nerd, sysadmin
Likes The Unix Way
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