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by alerighi 8y ago
A thing I always didn't like of Bootstrap is that it requires you to load a full version of jQuery just to use it. Maybe I don't need the whole jQuery, because I use another framework, or because I have a very simple site that doe
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by alerighi 8y ago
3.7 it's a minor update from 3.6, that basically consists in changes to the standard library rather than the language, and 3.8 I think it will be the same, so once the 3.6 support is implemented it will take less time to implement 3.7
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by alerighi 8y ago
She is not communist, communism is all about meritocracy, I don't read anywhere in the books of Marx all this gender and equality bullshit. Communism says that no matter who you are you are evaluated for the work you do, having policie
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by alerighi 8y ago
Nobody will sue them if they install macOS on a standard PC hardware, probably they use standard PC hardware to develop internally
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The problem is that you don't really have choice, these company created monopolies that are difficult to avoid, I wish I could switch all my computer to Linux, unfortunately I have to use software that works only on Windows, I have har
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by alerighi 8y ago
The drawback to use https everywhere is that a big company can't cache locally things that gets downloaded again and again from the network like OS and application updates, videos on the web, and so on I think that we need an alternati
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by alerighi 8y ago
For what I understand, this framework is compatible only with Bash, and not with other POSIX shells. Tipically on a router and other embedded platforms you find a minimal shell, like ash, that is POSIX-compatible but lacks of all the GNU ex
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by alerighi 8y ago
Not logging data means no revenue from ads, or smaller revenue, and thus it's not convenient to comply.
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by alerighi 8y ago
The T2 chip for what I understand it's a proprietary CPU that executes proprietary software, how can you consider that secure ? It's not different from the Intel ME in that sense, just another secondary processor that have access
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by alerighi 8y ago
If you have a normal laptop when it fails you can take a screw driver and put the SSD of the broken machine into another functioning computer, and in 10 minutes you are continuing you work where you left it. That is more convenient than hav
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by alerighi 8y ago
Telegram protocol is open and the official clients are open source, unfortunately a lot of my contacts still use only WhatsApp, even if Telegram is superior in a lot of ways.
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by alerighi 8y ago
If you are debugging a program inserting printf or other debug prints in the code you are doing it wrong, for debugging you should use a debugger. It's slow and inefficient, you add the debug print, then you need to recompile the progr
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by alerighi 8y ago
I like people like Linus that say directly and without filters what they think, if some work is crap they say it, if someone needs to be insulted they do it, and sometimes is useful (look at NVIDIA for example, since Torvalds insult they im
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by alerighi 8y ago
It's 15 million of codes the full source, that includes supports for like 10 different hardware architectures, and device drivers for every hardware that was ever made! When you compile the linux kernel you will compile only a small fr
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by alerighi 8y ago
Well not quite, we have euros but prices are different in every country. For example look at the prices of electronic products, for example Apple, in every country there is a different price because of different taxations and other reasons,
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by alerighi 8y ago
So, if that is the real intention of the EU, why they didn't write that in the law instead of threatening everyone with a 20M fine ? Because for how the law is written now you could in theory get a 20M fine for the smallest violation,
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by alerighi 8y ago
I think the reason is because glibc is a fundamental OS component that always works, and if not you have bigger problems, you don't want to rely on other daemons or libraries to authenticate the user. Using a daemon is against UNIX phi
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by alerighi 8y ago
Which other violation could cost me a 20 million dollar fine ? Sure, they will probably don't give that fines, but they could, what if I run a small business that interferes with the activity of some other business run by for example s
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by alerighi 8y ago
Having a public register that tells you who owns a particular domain or IP address could be useful for a lot of things. Sure, they could take away a lot of fields that are not necessary and might be a privacy problem, like address and phone
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Also encryption done well should not rely on some particular hardware being closed or the algorithm secrete, like this system does, but only on the secrete that the user know, the password or other authentication methods. Like disk encrypti
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by alerighi 9y ago
They can't, and I would like to know what Europe wants to do about it. Block wayback machine in Europe ? Well, I can still access it with a VPN if I want. Also I want to know what they will do about git and GitHub, or even blockchain p
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by alerighi 9y ago
First, it could be as simple as you use a legacy proprietary software that you don't have access to the sources to recompile it 64 bit, on macOS is less of a problem because 32bit was used for a short transition period, but if you thin
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by alerighi 9y ago
Signal has most of the problems that has WhatsApp: mainly the fact that it's dependent on a smartphone, yes you have a Chrome-based application that is the same as WhatsApp web, it's only a remote interface that connects to your p
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by alerighi 9y ago
iPhones are secure, maybe they contain backdoors from Apple and we don't know, but Android are not secure at all, especially because most Android vendors usually don't update the OS to the latest security patches, so the majority
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by alerighi 9y ago
I have a mac, it's a great piece of hardware, and it works great for doing basic stuff, surfing the web, responding to emails, writing documents, but for my work I find Linux so much simpler to use. Linux just works, sure it's isn
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by alerighi 9y ago
Why not ? If I don't care about portability because for example I'm writing a software that it's meant to be used only on Linux because it uses Linux specific libraries or system calls and I know that there gcc it's the
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by alerighi 9y ago
Clousure costs a lot if we are talking of real closures, that capture variables from the scope where they are defined, because you need to save somewhere that information, so you need to alloc an object with all the complexity associated. A
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by alerighi 9y ago
With free software no one can shut down a service like they are doing. A product will continue to function and it will continue to receive updates as long as there is enough interest by the open source community in that product. Let's
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I think it's because the first Linux image has to be written in the firmware ROM, so this make upgrades difficult because you have to flash a new firmware on every kernel update. So it's more practical to have a stripped down Linu
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by alerighi 9y ago
The problem is that every fix that you could think for Spectre reduces the performance of the CPU. So not enabling this by default it's a good choice, Spectre is very difficult to exploit: so if you do critical things you enable the fi

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