bscphil

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by bscphil 2y ago
Yes, it's true that for the choice to be a free one you have to actually want it, but making another person the arbiter of that reduces freedom insofar as there will be people who do freely want it and are forced to wait, or who free
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by bscphil 2y ago
The user you're responding to is very clearly presenting a hypothetical argument, not something that actually exists. The GP asked "Who decides on the duration of the waiting period? Why can’t people be in charge of their own live
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by bscphil 2y ago
Yeah, I find the idea of using a rating site like this extremely bizarre. And after clicking on the link, that opinion is only further cemented by what seems to be a deliberate opinionated and sarcastic tone. I can only assume they want to
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by bscphil 2y ago
> The people here that claim "secureboot prevented that". No, it didn't. A simple call to sbctl to sign the rootkit is missing, because, as every Linux device, you will have to have the signature keys available locally. Ot
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by bscphil 2y ago
At least with Bluesky you can trivially download the entire firehose and determine the number of e.g. users liking at least one post. According to public stats [1] based on this data, ~2.8M unique users liked posts yesterday, which aligns v
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by bscphil 2y ago
My guess is that as a queer person, scarecrowbob gets regularly exposed to opinions that rise far beyond a mere difference of belief , and looks more like perpetual small doses of unmoderateable hatred. People who are willing to say that q
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by bscphil 2y ago
What enclosure do you have? Do you like it?
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by bscphil 2y ago
> Atom though unambiguously specifies that the <title> (and other) elements should be treated as plaintext unless specified otherwise with the type attribute. I haven't looked at the part of the Atom spec you're talking a
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by bscphil 2y ago
You can have copyleft without virality; the Mozilla Public License 2.0 requires any modifications to a covered work to be released under the same license (copyleft), but does not extend this requirement to other code included in a combined
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by bscphil 2y ago
I can't see the original issue, but it's interesting that the title chooses to highlight the fact that the GPL code was modified . Actually, under the GPL, this fact is immaterial. If the Winamp player contained any GPL code at a
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by bscphil 2y ago
> Neither GOG or Steam are selling games. Both are selling licenses. The only people who own copyright works are the rights holders. You can't take a GOG licensed game and sell copies or make a derivative work so you don't own
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by bscphil 2y ago
This looks super cool but I could only get 10/21 to scan with the classic zxing scanner (>100M downloads), and 3 of those took a bunch of playing with camera angles and distance, so I'd recommend against using anything too fanc
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by bscphil 2y ago
I'm surprised to hear this. Fortunately it doesn't look like the source code itself got taken over [1], and of course F-Droid, which is always the best place to get any open source Android application, still has the same version a
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by bscphil 2y ago
It's kind of surprising that a presumptively legitimate company (and YC-funded startup) would out themselves as buying black market residential proxy bandwidth, isn't it?
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by bscphil 2y ago
I don't think this is right. If there's a shared secret like a TOTP seed, that's in theory a "something you know", but if I don't know it, then who does? The point of "something you have" is that
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by bscphil 2y ago
re "pro-slavery" specifically that seems very clearly intended as a hypothetical argument in response to someone else; e.g. you can imagine an argument about whether you ought to raise the minimum wage where one person points out
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by bscphil 2y ago
That's why protocols like this have what Wormhole calls a "mailbox server", which allows two ends separated by firewalls to do secure key exchange and agree upon a method for punching through directly. See also STUN: https:&
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by bscphil 2y ago
The fact that a JSON parser is the sort of ecological niche where you naturally get a single best library which does basically what everyone wants it to do with minimal dependencies is exactly the argument for putting it in the stdlib, th
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by bscphil 2y ago
> Number of dependencies is correlated with ease of package management. I disagree with this, Python makes it trivial to add dependencies. [1] And yet Python developers tend to have the mentality of an older generation of software develo
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by bscphil 2y ago
In this case transferring the data at the slow rate would have taken more than a week, so it's no small difference. Actually one side had a 10 Gbps line, so if the other side had had faster networking I could easily have exceeded the l
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by bscphil 2y ago
An order of magnitude isn't a defined quantity, it depends on what base you're working in.
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by bscphil 2y ago
> with a large enough receive window Yeah, that's the issue. I didn't have root permissions on either side. Moreover, a transfer tool should just work without requiring its users to have expert knowledge like this. In this case
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by bscphil 2y ago
The folks on the wormhole-rs fork (who appear to share your Github organization? [1]) already have NAT punching working 95+% of the time in my testing, so maybe what they're doing could be ported over to the Python implementation. [1]
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by bscphil 2y ago
> For some more exotic testing, I was able to run my own magic wormhole relay[1], which let me tweak some things for faster/more reliable huge file copies. The lack of improvement in these tools is pretty devastating. There was a fl
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by bscphil 2y ago
Seems like the overwhelming majority of the listed sites require you to already have an account, then go to a difficult-to-find URL on a settings page, enroll a passkey, and then you can login with the passkey. So granted, a handful of si
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by bscphil 2y ago
Do you have examples of a few popular sites that support them? I honestly don't know that I've seen one, unless the Apple / Google / Github / Gitlab "single sign on" links have all quietly switched to usin
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by bscphil 2y ago
The editorialized title "Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be" is extremely misleading. The "winter" is not 50 degF hotter than "it used to be", portions of East Antarctica are &quo
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by bscphil 2y ago
> Originally it's just about being able to show both really dark and really bright colors. Sort of. The primary significance of HDR is the ability to specify absolute luminance. Good quality SDR displays were already very bright and
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by bscphil 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how much total storage do you get with that drive configuration? I've never tried "bundle of disks" mode with any file system because it's difficult to reason about how much disk space you end up with a
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by bscphil 2y ago
> since cachyos made it an install option and it's honestly worked better and caused less problems 0 problems in 2.5 months is not necessarily better than 1-2 problems in ~3 years, though. If we're just talking about the single

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