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by Gaelan 6y ago
I mean, there's nothing too magical about boot camp—even if apple removed all support for it from macOS, you can probably install windows on a partition the normal way without too much trouble. I think the only thing that might break i
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by Gaelan 6y ago
They claimed they would "complete this transition" in 2 years.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I don't have personal experience, but I wouldn't be surprised if employees in larger companies need to have a lawyer read any contract before signing it, which may be an expensive and/or slow process.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Presumably, there's at least one US citizen who is on the LibreSSL "core team." With a gag order, get them to write a subtle backdoor (see [0]), and add it to the codebase however they normally do. The developer is presumably
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I don't get this one, but for the larger Snow products, yeah, it's for transferring data too large to realistically sending over the internet.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
@mods can we get this headline changed? as other comments have pointed out, it's pretty misleading.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I mean, there's an argument that this is worse. If a security bug is found in libc, in the "old world," your distro would have an update out in a day, and you'd be completely safe. With flatpak, you also depend on whoeve
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Equivalents on a Mac: drag a folder onto terminal's icon in the dock to open a shell there, and "open ." in a shell to open finder there.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
It is possible to use WhatsApp (on iOS, at least) without giving it contact access. I do this and it isn't too bad—you still see people's WhatsApp nicknames, so it's not like you're just looking at phone numbers. Of cour
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Client-side.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
So… these aren't accessible without specially configured DNS, right? Given that the point of domains is to let people get to your site, a TLD only accessible after reconfiguring your computer to use a little-known DNS competitor seems
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Of course, anything this complicated should probably be a proc macro in Rust.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I think the implication here is that "Mongo's documentation is deliberately bad in order to hide their technical deficiencies," i.e. they're hoping people will use the defaults, be impressed by the speed, and never reali
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by Gaelan 6y ago
It's probably Radar, which is Apple's internal issue tracker, which isn't public (you can see issues you submitted, but nothing else). Sometimes people cross-post issues they submit to http://openradar.appspot.com
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Assuming GP is right about the patents, the College Board would open themselves up to patent suits by using that without a license.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
If you compile statically, you've got musl, which is still a (build-time) dependency.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I mean, if you count the compiler/interpreter (which nix does), realistically that's a bare minimum of two.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Nix is a package manager, and nixpkgs is its "official package respositry." Both of those pieces should work on any (decently popular) POSIX system. NixOS is a Linux distribution that uses Nix in place of apt or yum or what-have-y
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Touché. Totally agree that DoH is a win, and "DoH that doesn't protect against some attacks" is more of a win than no DoH that protects against no attacks.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Reese's peanut butter cups [0] are a fairly popular "candy" item here. Try one if you get a chance, they're pretty tasty. [0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reeses-PB-Cups.jpg
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> Furthermore, if there’s any hiccup with the DNS-over-HTTPS connection, Chrome will fall back to the regular DNS service of the user’s current provider by default, in order to avoid any disruption, while periodically retrying to secure
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Thanks for the chuckle.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
To expand a bit on what the parent said: you're allowed to sell GPL software, but the person who bought it is still welcome to give it away for free. The FSF is of the opinion that this can be a viable business model, but I'm not
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Man is a terrible tool for quickly remembering how to do something I do once in a while. The examples—usually the most important part—are usually at the very bottom, if they’re even there.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Couldn’t that just be a stipulation in the contract?
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by Gaelan 6y ago
In the US, AP tests aren't really used for admissions—that primarily falls on the SAT/ACT, GPA and the more subjective things (essay, rec letters, etc). AP tests mainly are just for the college credit.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Normal AP tests are half multiple choice and half "free response." What "free response" means depends heavily on the test, but they are always human-graded. This year, the tests are free-response only.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
fwiw, a few of them say "mention this header"—so perhaps there is some accelerated path that it goes on.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
On Reddit, moderators are only allowed to add or remove moderators below them on the list. Therefore, the moderator who is listed first—generally the one who initially created the subreddit—can not be removed by anyone else, and has the pow

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