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by ajdlinux 9y ago
As a fellow non-USAian, I don't think it's helpful to equate US law enforcement agencies with Nazis and Communists. The FBI is nowhere near as evil an organisation as the Gestapo, the NKVD, and so on. Using Nazi allegories all t
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Huh, thanks for mentioning that! I didn't realise there was still a flag for it - serves me right for not doing my research. Though losing Electrolysis will defeat one of the main benefits of running Firefox 57...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
There won't be a bypass - Fx57 has completely dropped legacy extension support. This is a good thing, and it's just a shame that so many addons haven't been updated yet.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Twitch is a video gaming streaming service. YouTube is a general video service. Twitch isn't superior.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Indeed. Really I want a decentralised system where I have my cake and eat it too, with a single mechanism for accessing my content while also not giving a single company control over and profit from the entire industry. Oh, and this hypot
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/faci...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I remember seeing thermal cameras in HKG when I went there in 2005, in the aftermath of SARS.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Westpac - 6 char alphanumeric password, with stupid virtual keypad. CommBank - at least last time I had an account with them, I'm fairly sure their passwords were case-insensitive - which can be done while still using hashed passwords,
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
As a non-American who still gets a free checked bag on all non-discount carriers, me!
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Singapore isn't a paragon of social equality, not at all. However, in spite of that, the PAP has done a very good job of ensuring there's just enough by way of public services and subsidies to keep enough people happy that the gov
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> But for another example, well, every other country seems to have an easier time running a working train system than America does Going somewhat OT, but in contrast, America seems to have an easier time running a working freight train
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
It's interesting - when OMSCS started, there was so much speculation that it would be flooded with overseas students who would use it to get a cheap US degree that would ultimately help them to migrate. Instead, OMSCS actually has a fa
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The point of the DCO is to protect downstream, not upstream. It's a method of certifying the origins of the code, no more, no less. There's no transfer of rights whatsoever in either direction.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
You say "smaller open source projects" - it's worth noting that the DCO was devised by the Linux kernel community, and was a direct consequence/response to issues raised in an actual lawsuit, namely SCO v IBM. Most open
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The level of bureaucracy depends on the project of course, but any type of CLA will cause problems for many corporate contributors. Where I am, policy allows us to contribute small patches to open source projects without legal approval - bu
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
To allow people to post audio/video messages in Messenger?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
As an Australian who lives in our national capital, I can assure you that our friendly local FVEY agency will happily employ Australian citizens at a Top Secret Positive Vetting level who are naturalised immigrants or dual citizens (a huge
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> Is electricity, say, easy to use because it is all supplied by one centralized world-wide supplier, or is it easy to use because voltage, frequency and so on are standardized, so you can plug in your appliances no matter who the suppli
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Given the financial risks associated with ICAO's commitments for carbon neutral growth of the industry, and potential impact of current and future national/supranational emissions trading and carbon tax policies over the expected
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
In Australia you can choose a PIN up to 6 digits, though the banks may warn you that a >4 digit PIN can be problematic in countries like, well, the UK I suppose. edit: huh, it's actually more than 6. According to Commonwealth Bank,
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Given no one checks card signatures, a signature based system relies on you reading your statement carefully and going through the process of disputing a charge, and depending on the scale of the fraud you may well not notice. With a PIN ba
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> Why do you think that the centralization is essential? Decentralisation, as a general concept, has a lot of benefits. Ease of use for new users is generally not one of them. I'm a Linux kernel dev by day, where we still submit pat
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Speaking as someone who, per my other comments in this thread, also dislikes how GitHub is a dominant proprietary platform in an open source community - I have no choice but to agree with you. I remember SourceForge. It was the best we had,
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
What I'm more interested in is how GitHub has reduced friction in developer workflows, as the Thank You GitHub statement discusses, and how fragmentation of the git hosting ecosystem would change that. Right now, if I want to fix a bug
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
No. I'm a professional open source developer who is paid exclusively to work on GPL and Apache licensed software. I basically don't believe in large-scale open source being a volunteer endeavour - it's futile to have a mostly
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
GitHub is fantastic in so many ways, but I think it would be remiss not to point out that the hegemonic platform for open source and Free Software development is itself a proprietary platform, run by a company whose business model is reli
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
All good points. Also as someone who's a software engineer working in the firmware space, I suspect LTE base stations are just plain more reliable than home WiFi routers...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Anyone here who understands Wifi + mobile networks better than I do able to ELI5 why 3/4G is more reliable than 802.11 in so many situations?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
"Assassination" generally carries connotations of politically motivated violence that "slaying" does not.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
If you make it easy enough and obvious enough to figure out how to buy a card and don't impose a significant card purchase fee, I think a lot of temporary visitors are willing to do it. The problem is when transit agencies don't m

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