[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Well, sure, wealth acquired unjustly is not made okay by inheriting it. But I feel that's a separate question from that of inheritance.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

he benefits from society, then...

He gives benefit to society. That's how he gets rich: by giving a benefit to society, and his riches represent the unpaid recompense from society back to him.

If he were living, he could, for instance, buy a restaurant meal with that money. In that way, society would pay him back by cooking him a meal at the restaurant.

Instead he leaves the money to his children, and they - for instance - buy a car. Then, society pays back the man who benefited them by providing a car to his child.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that. Wish I could offer you better help than, condolences and understanding from the other side of the internet.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

Lewis Carroll has an interesting piece about that. Brings up the point that if someone works hard to benefit the community, and their wealth represents the response of the community to repay that person's work, perhaps it's not unreasonable that that person's request is, "repay it to my children," i.e. inheritance.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 84 points 3 months ago

A province in the Netherlands. Lots of sea there; translates "sea land".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

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I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 125 points 4 months ago

LPT: instead of throwing your playstation away after each game, try turning it off and on again to choose a new game.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 107 points 6 months ago

Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they've been waiting for.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 152 points 7 months ago

There's an old joke about two mathematicians in a cafe. They're arguing about whether ordinary people understand basic mathematics. The first mathematician says yes, of course they do! And the second disagrees.

The second mathematician goes to the toilet, and the first calls over their blonde waitress. He says to her, "in a minute my friend is going to come back from the toilet, and I'm going to ask you a question. I want you to reply, "one third x cubed.'"

"One ther desque," she repeats.

"One third x cubed," the mathematician tries again.

"One thir dek scubed."

"That'll do," he says, and she heads off. The second mathematician returns from the toilet and the first lays him a challenge. "I'll prove it. I'll call over that blonde waitress and ask her a simple integration question, and see if she can answer." The second mathematician agrees, and they call her over.

"My friend and I have a question," the first mathematician asks the waitress. "Do you know what is the integral of x squared?"

"One thir dek scubed," she answers and the second mathematician is impressed and concedes the point.

And as she walks away, the waitress calls over her shoulder,

"Plus a constant."

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 81 points 7 months ago

At this stage kernel 2.6 is ancient culture.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 102 points 11 months ago

https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)

[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 97 points 1 year ago

I'll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.

... And then I'll put in my vote for Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)

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