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by amiga386 8mo ago
They say "an open-source developer requests to remove the dependency that links xz to OpenSSH" while showing https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31550 on screen, zoomed and focused so the word &
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Lovely video, going into almost everything... ...and yet, zero mention of systemd's recommendation for programs to link in the libsystemd kitchen sink just to call sd_notify() (which should really be its own library) ...and no mention
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by amiga386 8mo ago
New York City already has fewer bus stops, or rather it has express buses that stop at fewer stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_Bus_Service
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Most bus users I know don't mind how far away the stop is, within a certain time. They really care about waiting long times at the stop because the bus is infrequent or unreliable. Humans walk at roughly 2.1-3.0mph. "European ci
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by amiga386 8mo ago
That's a search engine / reputation problem and it's also present even in Daddy Google's and Daddy Apple's walled gardens. If you search any web search engine for "thunderbird", https://thunderb
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by amiga386 8mo ago
They are, but this the next-layer-up problem. Most people don't type memorise and type URLs into their browser bar, they use a search engine result, browser history or browser bookmark. It's therefore on their choice of search eng
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Do you need Google to compel the author to start a business relationship with them, which they can cut off at any time? Or would you be OK knowing that Thunderbird you downloaded from https://thunderbird.net/ is signed by
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by amiga386 8mo ago
It sets a verified lower bound on baggage loss. An achieveable ideal that other airports should aspire to. Lots of orgs claim to aspire to 5 nines of uptime but can barely manage 2 nines. Kansai airport with an average of about 17 million p
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by amiga386 8mo ago
It doesn't even have to be malicious. The UK government had the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal where it lost the only identity documents of thousands of people, and also tried to remove them from
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by amiga386 8mo ago
I'm amazed the guy is still ticking at all. He's 94! Seems he's also still driving... and eating his breakfast at traffic lights: https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/20/william-shatner-eating-cereal...
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Let's say the government issues hundreds of thousands of IDs to people who don't exist and uses them to verify bots (or room full of paid humans) that post pro-government messages all day, at "normal" rates that a human
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by amiga386 8mo ago
I don't know what to say. You will live in a world "where the average person unknowingly interacts with bots more than other individuals and where black market actors can sway public opinion with armies of bots", even more
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by amiga386 8mo ago
You're not thinking more than one step ahead. If you let a third party define who "has ID", "is human", etc. you give that third party control over you. You already gave control of your attention away to the sites w
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Reminds me of https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user...
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by amiga386 8mo ago
I feel personally attacked. I still use that exact mousepad from 1994. It's a 32 year old mousepad.
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by amiga386 8mo ago
When digitising my collection and using MusicBrainz as the main source of metadata, I had to add about 50 albums nobody had entered before. It has a huge amount of stuff - it already had 95% of my collection - but it's not perfect. The
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Is email evidence of misconduct in high office suitably "tech"? https://jmail.world/thread/vol00009-efta00751685-pdf?view=in... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209&#x2F
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by amiga386 8mo ago
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/94d44c63-7dee-3921-aa6... all with the barcode 075596073820 and catalogue number 60738 / 60738-2 / 9 60738-2 Interesting to read that the reason for the removal was Cat S
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by amiga386 8mo ago
This reminds me of MusicBrainz, whose database stores "release groups", e.g. the album Nevermind by Nirvana is one, which can have hundreds of "releases", as different media (tape, CD, LP, promo, ...), different countr
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Most cars tend to have both rear lamps and reflectors. Reflectors tend to be positioned around the bumper. For example: - https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9PQAAOSwlbdkueA8/s-l1600.jpg - https://i.e
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by amiga386 9mo ago
That's a very good argument!
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Yes. I want the 2017 recipe, not the 1901 recipe. The 1901 recipe has 11g sugar per 100ml. Also it lacks caffeine. The 2017 recipe had 35g sugar per 100ml. The 2018 recipe has 4.5g sugar per 100ml. The sugar tax is £0.18 per litre for 5-8g
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by amiga386 9mo ago
That's a motte-and-bailey argument. The government set out to reduce consumption of high-sugar drinks. They had choices on how to do that e.g. they could've targetted demand. They chose to target supply with a "sin tax&qu
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Yes, but if there's an axe murderer in my house, I don't care how much he intends to murder me. I don't want him to murder me. The government has a variety of aims and objectives. Certainly, shooting for a more healthy popu
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by amiga386 9mo ago
The trouble with sugar taxes is it does drive soda-company behaviour. A. G. Barr killed the real Irn Bru in 2018 to avoid the Scottish sugar tax. It could've passed on the tax to the consumer, but it didn't. It has ceased making
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by amiga386 9mo ago
No, that's exactly what the vulnerability is as far as I know. "An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that lo
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Hiring specifically in Texas or Arizona because you heard it's lower cost-of-living than the Bay Area, and not being willing to offer Bay Area salaries to people there... that's still exploitation. If you were instead hiring from
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by amiga386 9mo ago
The fact that other countries receive investment, which they welcome, doesn't mean they're not being exploited . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour#In_deve... The Western companies who empl
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by amiga386 9mo ago
Just to be clear, "Scots" means current denizens of modern Scotland, who are mostly descended from a mixture of Picts and Gaels. It's not the case that the 5th century "Scoti" wiped out everyone else and they'r
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by amiga386 9mo ago
> why would you ever go to Falkirk? Callendar House, Falkirk Wheel, the Kelpies... Also not far from Culross or Stirling, which also work as a nice day out.

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