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by byuu 11y ago
Maybe you didn't; I also wasn't directly referring to you alone. I don't know what you want, some kind of world where people are forced to be tolerant of intolerance? Regardless of which side you are on, or which side the p
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by byuu 11y ago
> The conditions were such that staying on as CEO was not an option for him. Why not? Plenty of companies have absolutely reviled CEOs, yet they stick around anyway.
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by byuu 11y ago
Yes, that's how free speech works. But Eich did not have to resign. The board never even so much as asked him to step down. He chose to step down because he realized how toxic he was to his company's reputation as CEO. The owner o
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by byuu 11y ago
Tell me again how Eich's employer made it a hostile working environment for him, please? Given that he had no boss (being the CEO and all), we can only assume you mean the board members. Please point out to me a single board memb
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by byuu 11y ago
Exactly! He managed to put the company's best interests before his own, and chose to resign. But he wasn't fired: the Mozilla board did not ask for his resignation. He could have stayed if he wanted to.
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by byuu 11y ago
> Ridiculous! He was hounded out, forced to resign and you damn well know it. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat... "On April 3, 2014 Brendan Eich voluntarily stepped
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by byuu 11y ago
Good thing he wasn't kicked out then, and instead voluntarily resigned, right?
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by byuu 11y ago
That's the only thing I respect him for. That he wasn't willing to lie about his position and say his views had changed. Because if he had, it would have knocked all the wind out of the opposition's sails. Yes, he's ab
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by byuu 11y ago
The US gets that, too. We get it a bit less because so much is produced here; but I've definitely had my share of "Sorry, the owner of this video has not made it available in your region" notices. It would be nice if it told
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by byuu 11y ago
Eich voluntarily resigned. He's not your martyr for freedom of bigotry.
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by byuu 11y ago
> And here is the end result of people leaving Firefox for Chrome. Mozilla brought that on themselves by racing as fast as possible to become Chrome. If I'm going to be forced to use the Chrome UI, why would I settle for an inferi
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by byuu 11y ago
I'm not sure. If your goal of carrying your data with you is that you don't trust it to stay secure on a system, then plugging in your USB stick to the computer seems like a security risk right there. Once you decrypt it, another
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by byuu 11y ago
> So your argument is that since locks can occasionally be picked, doors shouldn't have locks? A faulty lock on my house doesn't turn into Heartbleed. The thing is, I don't need a lock on my server that serves up static,
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by byuu 12y ago
If you don't know the API the application uses, you can't speak with it anyway. D-bus or not. If you want to talk to an entirely separate application, use a header for that application with its IPC/RPC functions defined in it
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by byuu 12y ago
Meanwhile, OpenBSD 5.7 came out today, with the following security fixes in LibreSSL (arguably the most secure SSL library so far): "Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-351
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by byuu 12y ago
> Is that sarcasm, or you don't know what dbus is used for? I know what it's used for in the desktop application space; but you might want to ask the authors of Xfce components like Mousepad that make their software rely on it
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by byuu 12y ago
> DBUS seems like a solution looking for a problem: The majority of the time there is no real reason to have such a complex layer of abstraction for IPC, when the system already provides much simpler alternatives. Indeed. I just use shm_
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by byuu 12y ago
The problem is that the 5-4 splits are almost always on the really, really majorly important issues like Citizens United (bad), VRA (bad), DOMA (good), etc. The exact issues that absolutely should not be partisan are the ones that seeming
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by byuu 12y ago
Yeah, all those anti-gay state amendments really drove out the conservative voter base.
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by byuu 12y ago
> It seems highly likely that somewhere between now and January 2025, the following Justices will be replaced: > Conservative: Scalia Don't tease me. That would literally make my decade. I wonder what Thomas would do without bein
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by byuu 12y ago
> If you request a carrot cake recipe but receive a modified recipe that uses arsenic instead of carrots.. Without https, this kind of thing can easily happen I can easily get struck by lightning when I go outside in the rain. I can easi
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by byuu 12y ago
The code that uses it is pretty complex (go up two folders in my gitlab link for that), so here's a minimal example of the full API: cothread_t a, b; //cothread_t is a typedef to void* int main() { a = co_active();
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by byuu 12y ago
Ah, neat. Looks like they have even more backends than me. I've never even heard of S390 before. Okay, nevermind then. Thanks for the link. That's the downside of these libraries, there's as many libraries as there are peop
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by byuu 12y ago
> Windows has the CreateFiber() API that creates "fibers", which act like threads, but use "cooperative multitasking". For POSIX, using a combination of setjmp(), longjmp(), sigaltstack(), and some signal (e.g. SIGUSR
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by byuu 12y ago
It seemed really unfair the way the "valid programs" was slightly out of bounds on C (meaning there are some things you can do in assembler, but not C, to which I agree); but then as he starts removing more and more features, the
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by byuu 12y ago
Oh, certainly. I agree completely with everything you said. But right now, the situation is that I go to arstechnica.com, which offers no encryption whatsoever, and Firefox just loads it up like nothing's wrong. Yet I go to self-signed
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by byuu 12y ago
Especially not when you pretend mycert.pem magically already exists, costs nothing yet works on all your subdomains, and that Firefox/Chrome trust it.
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by byuu 12y ago
I'd rather not spend hundreds on a wildcard cert, or thousands on an EV cert, plus the costs in setting it up, until I'm sure the model is actually sound. Trusting CNNIC, no DNSSEC, etc show that Mozilla and Google aren't tak
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by byuu 12y ago
But what kind of technology would think self-signed certificates could ever be better (let alone not infinitely worse) than no encryption at all? That sounds like hell. We should call this new, purely hypothetical protocol, SSHell, or S
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by byuu 12y ago
Even before gTLDs, that's why I grabbed .org and didn't worry about .com at all (owned by a Chinese squatter; unused for 14+ years now) org doesn't even make sense as "open source", but pretty much every open source

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