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Apple iTunes 12.3 update breaks OS X USB tethering
2 points by bro-stick 11y ago|0 comments
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Please gain more points by not demanding impossibly-unreasonable answers. Life experience and wisdom cannot be taught easily.
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by bro-stick 11y ago
That's a given, of course, and doesn't need mentioning... it's a false dichotomy. Reduce risks meaningfully with less security theater. Locking your front door and such, not taking off shoes, belt, pants and so on. Common
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Yup. Btw: it's kind of shocking to see concrete and metal garbage receptacles (shrapnel-enhancing, hiding systems) in the US, after working abroad in FR and UK. These things need to be proactively replaced with tiny alumin(i)um hoops
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by bro-stick 11y ago
TL;DR: DR-DOS routed around it and it cost MS .28 gigabucks after lawsuits.
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Windows 3.1 beta crashed on 3rd-party DOS(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by bro-stick 11y ago|4 comments
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by bro-stick 11y ago
We use FreeBSD on a few 1k's of servers in production, where nearly all of our critical processes are supervised by daemontools.
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by bro-stick 11y ago
It's not a panacea. Open source software is nice when it doesn't put contibutors into the poor house while corporations depend on the code at large-scale and don't support what they take. Open source software is great for
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by bro-stick 11y ago
R&B, EDM, pop and so on wouldnt have much left without remixes and sampling.
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by bro-stick 11y ago
It might be jealousy combined with power to destroy something cool and maybe eliminate something a competitor might leverage. If they're fewer cool companies thriving, it makes the sucky behemoths look less terrible by comparables
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Exactly. The challenges with convergence are akin to a simplified gpg+keybase... increasing its popularity needs further development and proponents to gather a critical mass of users and providers. Trust is hard. For top-down TLS CA to w
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Lots of good points. Autotools has a steep learning curve and makes a good deal of project maintainers nervous because it's not obvious how it works and it's diffult to cut through all the abstraction steps to figure out what-goes
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by bro-stick 11y ago
TLS is a pile of IETF design-by-committee extensions uncomfortable with saying "no;" OpenSSL is a mountainous kitchen sink of TLS and other features. OpenSSL seems to "work," but the endless pattern of vulnerabities lie
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Formal methods have their place. I think we do need more waterfall-type design and documentation of cryptosystems (not massive pointless documentation, but relevant documentation and security/engineering tradeoffs design justifications
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Shame on you for making a load of assumptions and jumping to wrong conclusions. Some crimes are worse than others, especially systematically harassing tenants (Macy) and murder (Reiser). It's the person whom stands on a soapbox preachi
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Minor issue, corrected. Yes, I'm well aware. The leader of the FLDS still runs his town from prison, so you're wrong. For all we know, Hans is still coding on pencil and paper or on a computer. The bigger issue: Should violent f
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Holier-than-thou? Exclusion makes it okay? What makes you any more of an authority? Seems hypocritical, doesn't it? Code is only one piece of a project, and can't be divorced from the users and community, because living code
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Compartmentalizing behavior is cognitive dissonance. It's completely fair when they're selling themselves as leaders for change. They are clearly trying to set an example, give presentations, recruit users/contributors and s
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by bro-stick 11y ago
No worries. I'm disappointed when organizations such as FreeBSD have ostensible Codes of Conduct but do not investigate matters consistently and/or give certain contributors carte blanche: it pays lip service to the values it cla
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Code by itself isn't often very useful, the community around it is often far more valuable. It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't leave landmines in code or is hard to work with when it com
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Definitely. Military too, by proxy, hence tank with kettle. Ideally, a tank should be a fully-stocked RV, containing everything a crew needs to avoid venturing outside unnecessarily.
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by bro-stick 11y ago
In modern times and in most companies I've visited in London, tea-break culture is a relic no longer formally observed. Perhaps every now and then, but it no longer seems a pervasive ritual. Whether that's good or bad is another
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Exactly. As humans, we can our food and beverages because we are able to make them mostly safer by killing many potential pathogens. A millenia ago, wine was one of the most popular beverages because it also fairly sterile... but you would
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Wikipedia could be wrong, but it currently says Kip Macy is involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextBSD And, indeed, kmacy commits show up https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD/commits&#x2F
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Then you agree with the unfairness. If a black person did this, they would get 30 years. End the War on Drugs and let many more of the mandatory minimum folks out, not just because it's costly, but because it's unjust. But that&
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Exactly. Thank you. Trust is the most important part of the social contract. Burn that, and someone like that should be DK'ed until they can prove otherwise. Others quick to defend by attacking the messenger damaging their precious
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by bro-stick 11y ago
Nope, read the article again. Here's an excerpt: Kip Macy, 39, and his wife, Nicole Macy, also 39, were deemed "landlords of hell" by authorities for menacing the tenants of their San Francisco apartment building. There ar
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by bro-stick 11y ago
The weaker road is to circle the wagons, my friend. Because someone seems good at something excuses criminal behavior through systematic harassment, intimidation, threats and attempted endangerment the lives of others? I think not. We sh
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by bro-stick 11y ago
FYI: http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-landlord-hell-defends-ter... It would be foolish to support this effort, considering the reckless and uncivilized nature of one of its felonious founders. Someone like this shou
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by bro-stick 11y ago
It's a mixed bag. Reintroduced wolves are breeding like crazy in some areas northern US states like Montana while not as much in Michigan or Wisconsin. 1 Also, this should not be taken as a free pass to stop conservation or efficienc

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