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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Wikileaks made a request to the US government that it had to know the US government would refuse (for the reason I gave in my other post in response to you upthread). It did that so it could disingenuously claim that it gave the US gov
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Wikileaks is not a journalistic organisation because it lacks the editorial expertise, ethics, and resources essential to carry out responsible journalism. There's (luckily) no exams (yet) for what makes a journalist. Someone who
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Except of course she fails to note that Assange tried[1] to do that and was rejected. She cites the Guardian who has a history of questionable reporting on Assange and WikiLeaks because they didn't do a good job[1][2]. In fact WikiLeak
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Seriously?[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/07/covid-19-cr...
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Why would the intelligence community be involved with decision-making inside the department of justice? Because the intelligence community hates Assange and what he represents. They spied on US lawmakers, tortured, manufactured evidenc
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Imo the problem is that the ruling accepts the premise that the case has merit i.e. is criminal in the UK, that itself is a threat to press freedom given the charges.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> It seems to me she looked at the appropriate laws and made a reasonable decision. It is true that the UK technically doesn't guarantee 'freedom of the press' per se, it does have laws however that protect the freedom of
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Most of the people in the intelligence community and beyond who hate being challenged will stay at their posts way past that date, not that Biden has a different take here.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
A caveman may well find that while he was hiding there the outside world no longer dumps in random places.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Yes, the fact that the extradition wasn't rejected on press freedom grounds makes me think maybe it's just a way for the judge to shake it off so that it's not HER who goes down in history books as to have made the decision t
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Have you ever heard of mdev? As described in "mdev like a boss"? Or its cousin mdevd from https://skarnet.org/software/ ? I have. I also have heard it runs into trouble with the likes of GNOME/KDE.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> complaining is free Is it? I know a lot of HN thinks in terms of stocks, options, VC rounds etc. but time and energy is not 'free' either and is exactly what the author had to spend.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Those that conform will have easy lives, riches, and will coast off the hard works of others. Agreed. Exactly like Rand and now her institute do[1]. 1 - https://reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand-.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Were these other systems willing to pick up the slack in maintaining consolekit or coming up with their own solution? Didn't look like it. What about udev? Why did systemd devs have to pick the slack on that too? Is is perhaps because
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> I've never seen the inconsistencies, I've seen plenty to convince me that having a full shell scripting language and not a very good one at that as your service definition language is a terrible idea. > No other service sh
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> I want to remind that, parallel sysV-init was pretty fast machinery and was very manageable. That does nothing for the fact that SysV init was a pile of shell scripts inconsistent across distros and even individual packages. I'd
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> My personal opposition about systemd is about binary logs syslog-ng supports the systemd journal natively so you'd never see a difference from before if you don't want to. > doing against "doing one thing, well"
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You need to seriously read more on Rust before making judgments. You're clearly confused. What '2 is Copy' means precisely that Rust WILL NOT 'introduce pointers where they don't need to be' - 2 is fine to &#x2
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> why the heck would you copy pointers? Pointer aliasing is not always obvious.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Variables can be varied... you can increment, decrement, do whatever you want with them. Variables by themselves are not much. They inherit the properties of the type they are bound to. So what you can do with them can be as restrictiv
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> ...but it can also have values in it which are not 'static. I don't think that's right. It can only have references which live at least as long as 'static does (or longer, but 'static is the longest so...)
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> T: 'static does not mean the references in T must exist for the lifetime of the application. It means that T does not have non static references, so it is not a requirement that it lives for the lifetime of the application but can
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Is there somewhere they are saying the name is morally wrong? Literally that wording? No. But that's the same as a politician doing favors for their biggest donor and then pretending there's no pay to play here since you didn
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
App developers on what names are 'inappropriate', if you will.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Apple themselves have featured this app[1], which feels like they endorsed it before. 1 - https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> implying Apple is uniquely evil. It's not that they're uniquely evil, rather that they don't have the moral authority to lecture.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Not because of violence btw.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
What systemd gives is structure + consistency; service definitions are declarative and knowledge distro portable. To me that that is the big benefit of systemd over sysV init. > Pounds of additional attack surface Again, show me a major
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
From experience, I highly doubt it was actually unrecoverable. I did something similar many times & all it takes is to read archlinux.org news section & apply .pacnew config diffs where needed. Arch is a bleeding edge distro constan
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Systemd is a security nightmare I have yet to see solid evidence it is any bigger of a nightmare than a mess of bash scripts that was what came before, but ok. > taking over various network services ... poorly. The networking featur

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