calcifer

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by calcifer 7y ago
> do your fucking job > I'm not taking sides Sure you are not. > I'm talking simply from a contractual standpoint that you signed on the day of your employment. As the article states, the people in question were union org
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by calcifer 7y ago
> Unless your instance has a reservation of public IP you are sharing the outbound IP with thousands of other traffic On which cloud provider do you share an outbound IP with others? AWS, Linode and Digital Ocean all assign a public IP p
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by calcifer 7y ago
If the reason you are using a VPN is to avoid potentially untrustworthy middlemen, sure. But if you are after the privacy benefits of sharing an IP address with thousands, then a self hosted VPN won't help you.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> infiltrate all distros > hard dependency from GNOME to systemd > both projects belong to the same corporation It is honestly impressive how you've managed to fit three different factually incorrect statements in a single sen
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by calcifer 7y ago
> free software developers time It's always amusing when the peanut gallery think they get to decide what other people spend their free time on.
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by calcifer 7y ago
An init system is just one of many, many projects under the systemd umbrella. Perhaps you should learn more about a project before launching into criticism?
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by calcifer 7y ago
You don't "publish" Go modules manually. If it's a public package, it'll be added to the official mirror and sum database on first use.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> But that's what video post-processing is for. You can do all the touch-ups in real time in software. Really? Which button do I click on Zoom or Hangouts or Skype to make that happen?
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by calcifer 7y ago
> If I highly prioritized kindness and told you how much I respected your viewpoint and appreciate your taking the time to engage with me... ... you would be patronizing me, not showing me kindness.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> But when your goal is to solve difficult, material problems- it can be beneficial to prioritize clarity over all else. That's begging the question. You take it is a given that when solving a problem clarity and kindness are mutual
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by calcifer 7y ago
What a pointless question. The answer to "Do you imply that actions by the $x government are always ethical?" is always No for all values of $x.
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by calcifer 7y ago
That's begging the question. You assume it's a given that the oil must be transported from Alberta to Texas.
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by calcifer 7y ago
Because defaults matter, very few people opt-in to anything and therefore opt-in metrics are by definition biased and useless.
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by calcifer 7y ago
It's about as unique as a user agent that only says "Firefox" or "Chrome". Seems pretty acceptable to me.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> When there's a bug in the CPU microcode, you're at the mercy of your motherboard vendor to release a new system BIOS that will update it for you—you can't just go to some download link at AMD and apply a fix yourself.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> You could take every penny the oil companies have and it would barely make a dent in the problem. Citation needed. The top 10 oil companies [1] had a cumulative $2.5 trillion dollars in revenue in 2017. I'd say that'd go a
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by calcifer 7y ago
> the institution who defines the institutionnal use of the official language in the state ... and forcing everyone to put up signs in French [1]. Compelled speech, if you will. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offi
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by calcifer 7y ago
Hear hear. No EU border agent ever asked if I had a phone, let alone search it.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media Why do you think those people react that way? Nobody is born with an opinion. What politics they were exposed to growing up? What did the schools teach them?
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by calcifer 7y ago
I'm not familiar enough with Windows to answer that, but I imagine HTPCs are much more likely to use Linux and would make a $6/month backup a very attractive target.
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by calcifer 7y ago
I imagine the problem isn't closed vs open source, but the fact that on Linux it would be trivial to mount a massive NAS (think dozens of TBs) in a way that's completely invisible to the Backblaze client and pay $6/month for
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by calcifer 7y ago
> Blizzard should not pick a side. Not picking a side is siding with the status quo, which is Chinese oppression in Hong Kong.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> I wonder what are options to commute other than by walking, cycling or taking a public transport? Honestly that sounds a bit like "what are my options for breathing other than using my nose or my mouth?" .
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by calcifer 7y ago
It sounds like you are just airing your general grievances about Gtk2 and Qt4. The fact is, you claimed X11 with Gtk/Qt wasn't "sane", because sane platforms like win32 "will still remain around even if it wont get
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by calcifer 7y ago
> X11, if you ignore Gtk and Qt You don't need to ignore those. GTK+2 was released ~17 years ago and Qt4 was ~12 years ago. Apps written with them still run perfectly fine on modern Linux distros.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> Well, the future is now. Really? How can I buy the shows & movies I want and literally nothing else?
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by calcifer 7y ago
Amazon doesn't provide any APIs for querying your non-device Kindle library, so naturally you won't see those books in Calibre. But, you can integrate Amazon's email-to-Kindle feature with Calibre [1] so new books are automat
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by calcifer 7y ago
When you plug your Kindle in, a big Kindle icon appears on the top menu and you can browse the contents by clicking on it. How is that unintuitive?
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by calcifer 7y ago
> Everyone who's running containers in production is either already using Kubernetes with CRI-O or planning to move to it. Yes, everyone except those on the biggest cloud vendor using its containerized application platform [1]. [1]
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by calcifer 7y ago
> But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring. A cesspit is still a cesspit even if some people choose to call it a hot spring.

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