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And it's interesting how you miss that it's not me I was talking of, assume I own an iOS device to check anything and am in the same region where the Tailscale client is geoblocked. Not to mention how you mixed Google Play and Apple App store during the discussion. Hm.

I'm not sure where you saw ire. The only direct negativity was aimed at restrictions themselves, which is the product of foreign policy of specific countries and Apple politics. I'm not angry at Tailscale, just disappointed and annoyed.

> Actually can you not just pull the app and then side-load it anyway? That's what I would do if I couldn't get Tailscale from the Play Store...

The issue is, even if it's possible (which I doubt, since the users in question are not in the EU), it's technically challenging and the whole point of using a VPN solution was connectivity, which, besides other things, facilitates me technically assisting others. Besides, where do I even get the iOS client to side-load?

The point of my initial post was to ask if Netbird suffers from the same deficiencies as Tailscale (which are a fact). The question still stands, BTW.

It's the only app from the ones I use that my friends and relatives who already use iOS can't even install due to geoblocking.

If you don't see it as a problem means you're not affected and perhaps lack some empathy.

Yes, I understand the Apple ecosystem is a problem. But it's not an insurmountable one. Builds of Free Software exist on Apple Appstore and none of them exhibit this problem, unless they are tied to a commercial entity in the corresponding jurisdiction. The issue with Tailscale is that they use their open-source clients and headscale as means to gain user trust, but their solution is deficient due to everything mentioned above.

> I'm not even sure you understand what you're asking for.

I'm asking for a free software client to go with the headscale server that can be installed everywhere technically viable, without idiotic additional restrictions.

It's clear that it's you who don't really understand the crux of the issue (which you partially admitted by you "not even sure", but still), but it's somehow I who's ridiculous.

I don't care why. They do nothing to circumvent this so they are not a reliable solution for those who have network participants using the restricted platforms.

There could be a million reasons, but not a technical one — "headscale client", for example, could exist in current hostile app stores, but there isn't one.

Tailscale is great and headscale is an important step to gain trust. However, headscale is useless without the clients, and Tailscale geoblock installing clients where they can. If the platform requires jailbreak for installing user-chosen software, as is the case with iOS, then it all becomes useless.

Open (preferably free software) clients without idiotic restrictions could be one of the main advantages for any competing solution. Does Netbird provide them?

If you subscribe by that definition, lots of things and actions become art. You might live by it, but it will make communication with others difficult.

It's catchy but unusable in any serious discussion because it's frivolously extensive and ambiguous in the "unnecessary" part.

> it is simply obvious that they can be.

Wow. Great way to set the mark for the rest of the article.

It's obvious they can't (right?).

In all seriousness, even for the "traditional" multimedia/interdisciplinary art the question is not settled, and it's even harder to argue for video games being art.

Using the more conservative framework it's easy to posit a game can be a vehicle for showcasing art (music, graphic, literary), but if it's not bereft of the basis of a gameplay, the end result becomes encumbered with additional purposes (like player enjoyment/subscriber's engagement/competitiveness/etc.) which dilute the intention of the object's existence and make it not art.

Photoshop (and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the CC suite) is a bloated abomination.

>5 web view processes, some "IPC broker", CCXProcess that launches a long-lived node instance, some system services. Most of it runs after you close the main application. Nothing of it all is really to any benefit of the user, some of the processes can (and commonly are) substituted with dummy binaries.

About ten to fifteen years ago I had hopes the development direction was aiming for true platform independence and we might get a Linux version. Since then it deteriorated into a telemetry-ridden dumpster fire of a graphics-processing OS with the same symptoms as their hosts (duplicated dialogues with different generation UIs for the same action, hello Windows!).

Makes sense achieving it work under Wine is a worthy goal, as long as it depends on implementing obscure parts of the API, and not just making hacks for the specific programs to work.

It's appalling to think Adobe CC is forcing so many people keep Windows installed, considering how hostile the software itself is. Hope it all implodes and the industry moves to something more sensible (no way).

I've seen unconfirmed reports of strange blocking patterns in Russian Federation that suggest individual profiling has at the very least been tested already. No need to wait a year.

Giving uncharacteristically large direct stimuli for procreation disproportionately incentivizes the people in dire need of money, meddling with the rationality of the decision and increasing social tension later.

The only other way to be promised a big pile of cash from the govt there is a military contract.

> If someone painstakingly hand sculpted an exact replica of "David", does it make it art, or a forgery? Is hand written code to produce generative art not art?

No and no.

If you raise and teach a child and they generate a painting, are you the artist?

There certainly are. If you by chance imply equivalence based on time and effort spent, neither is the thing that differentiates arts, crafts and other activities.

You're confused at multiple levels.

> free to continue making whatever music that they want

Never said they weren't.

> can refuse to listen to the AI music if they don't want to

A musician can be a listener, indeed. If you believe a listener has this freedom and will keep it, you're most probably mistaken. No one besides musicians and discerning, ideologically relentless listeners is interested in making NN-generated music distinguishable and supporting the right of filtering it. The goal is to supplant one with the other.

> The fact that 2 other, unrelated 3rd parties both like to make AI music and listen to AI music…

Listeners is not an unrelated party to a musician. They form a vital symbiosis. And it's a zero-sum game, as listener's attention is a limited resource.

> They do not get to decide what other people like to listen to or make.

This is an unrelated point. Who decides what is a separate topic.

The crux of the issue is that we have two types of superficially similar product which are in fact substantially different (hope this does not require clarification) and incomparable in terms of resources necessary for their creation. This begets unprecedented power imbalance and incentives for deceit, biased legislation and other moves to solidify this situation.

> Whats the problem with someone playing a single player game with an aimbot on?

People are doing it on the server where all the musicians live, and they have no other place to go, only disconnect.

No, comparing to an aimbot is too charitable. Using AI for music is at best like watching a gaming stream and you barely choosing the game, though not the streamer.

Wayland is supported with LXQt, labwc replacing openbox. If anything, UX is snappy.

> In theory I could use an old version of Hugo, but I have no idea when it broke, so how far do I go back?

Had the same problem. Binary search is the latest trick people use.

For SSG there's not much point in upgrading if everything works, and planned migration beats the churn in this case.

You can just print a Hugo version in a HTML comment to track it in git.

I've met a few Poles in my life and they were friendly, positive and inquiring, and not contemptuous, inflammatory or nationalistically prejudiced like you, so I have faith your nation and culture are ok.

Another generic limited font that isn't solving anything.

No Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, not even Greek letters (poor frats and physicists). I understand it's a product of the US government, but don't they have international relations requiring using characters other than Latin? It's not even a recent font, so you'd think inclusivity was important. So much for the cultural pluralism.

And a site without a character table, which means I had to download the font to check if it's of any use.

Not a great job.

Single grapheme ;)

Have a long talk with any working teacher or therapist. If you think the regular workload is adequate for them to offer enough genuine emotional support for all the people they work with, always, everyday, regardless of their personal circumstances, you're mistaken. Or the person you're talking with is incredibly lucky.

And most people get by on those jobs by faking the emotional component, at least some of the time. AGI presumably can fake perfectly and never burn out.

We don't want awareness because it begets individuals by means of agency and we'd need to give them rights. This is industry's nightmare scenario.

People want autonomy, self-learning, consistent memory and perhaps individuality (in the discernability/quirkiness sense), but still morally unencumbered slaves.

Yep, and OPUS files are even lighter. That's why I just sync a "currently listening" music folder with Syncthing and do not think about connection, caching and all that. (I have the rest reachable when I need it, of course.)

200ms and even n+1 won't cut it for a subway, a semi-basement pub, a tunnel, a train or an airplane trip, a hike, a countryside visit, etc.

Reads like a cool sci-fi story premise. Remote access to base DNA for the robotic body for person verification, or for a self-mutating or rapidly evolving organism.

How come the connection is stable enough to be streaming on the go from the car? Or is there some serious caching happening?

The second sentence in the video hides a bit of complexity. Pink noise isn't a straight line on the spectrum analyzer unless a correction slope is active, and the common settings for the slope (3, 4.5) are just a convention.

I guess, that's why it says "you can make it look like a straight line".

> Programmers understand software ecosystems…

Some do, some don't and happily (or begrudgingly but willingly) contribute to building a hostile larger ecosystem.

> …of which free software is just a subset.

We're mostly talking about the movement here, but OK. Don't see what's your point here.

> If you observe a pattern where a lot of coders seem biased, maybe there's something else going on?

Of course, self-interest. Mostly the need to minimize work/pay and improve hiring or promotional perspectives.

> ...because they are divisive and completely incapable of working with others or incorporating ideological diversity

That's a great argument as it applies equally to uncommunicative, autocratic, self-absorbed, deceptive entities as well as to principled, unswayed and self-consistent ones.

I'm not arguing FSF is a pinnacle of leadership, au contraire.

> The FSF is now under the leadership of a "Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Culture and a Master of Arts in the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image" who probably hasn't written a line of code.

This is an exceptionally poor argument.

1. Coders are biased and often not aligned with users whose rights FSF is there to protect. Just look at any OSS vs FS discussion on this site to see examples.

2. Your "probably" here is too big of an assumption and of not much consequence. I have a degree in humanities, do not work in IT and have contributed code to Free Software.

3. You somehow imply that formal education affects _leadership_ in a _rights_ organization and a technical one would be preferable. That's a long shot.

Good initiatives require strong argumentative basis to have a strong wide following, you're providing a counterexample.

> If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank

Many more, like?

For an individual, almost none. I can boycott a bank (if it's not a government one), I can't boycott my own government, only leave.

An organization can start an initiative, but without an interested party involved it's only an initiative, you can hardly call it "pressure".