calcifer

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by calcifer 9y ago
> harass those doing the latter and accuse them of sexism day in, day out I’m a man. I feel neither harassed nor accused by this post simply because I don’t harass woman. If you feel accused though, maybe it’s worth taking a closer loo
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by calcifer 9y ago
How is an Ubuntu engineer seeing that some random computer somewhere has a gay porn folder a problem for you specifically ?
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by calcifer 9y ago
Title is editorialized and should be changed. They are not saying they will do it, they would like to do it and they are asking for feedback.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> private data (e.g. file names/paths or usernames) Can you give an example of a path, file or user name that would cause problems to you (or anyone else) if Ubuntu engineers see it when fixing bugs?
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How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?(tnhh.net)
803 points by calcifer 9y ago|376 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
It's not really a concern for Git [1]. [1] https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/7tp2gYWQugL
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Go doesn't "do" that Literally the first example of the Go tour [1] tells you to run "go get". "dep" is not (yet) an official part of Go's tooling. So when the only official tool fetches HEAD and
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The Magic Washing Machine (2010)(ted.com)
1 points by calcifer 9y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
Over the years, the Guardian has responded (satisfactorily, IMHO) to such claims many, many times. Here are a few that I personally remember: https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2008/mar/06&#x
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by calcifer 9y ago
> browser.showQuitWarning I tried setting this (and only this) to true, but ctrl+q still quits without a prompt.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> if tabs with active audio or video can't be hidden That's for a good reason. I don't want a tab I can't see to record audio or video. Why would you want to?
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by calcifer 9y ago
Not really. From TFA: > The "subscriber link" mechanism, suggested by our readers, has become one of our most powerful marketing tools. All told, it is not a model that has made any of us rich, but working for LWN is not an ex
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by calcifer 9y ago
Is that a passive aggressive way of saying it requires javascript?
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This Photograph is not free (2012)(petapixel.com)
1 points by calcifer 9y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Named for Hypatia of Alexandria, the first prominent Western woman astronomer How is a middle-eastern woman who lived circa ~400AD "western"? "The west" didn't take the lead in science until much, much later.
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by calcifer 9y ago
... ask them? Many businesses ask for one or more of address/official ID/credit card info.
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by calcifer 9y ago
But it's not? Let me try to rephrase that: If you do nothing at all your privacy will be protected by the GPDR. You, as the consumer , are not required to know or do anything if you want your privacy.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> If I click "off" does that turn it off, or does that turn it on? It is required to be off by default, so you'll be turning it on by clicking. > am I turning on GDPR protection or turning on invasive tracking? You&#x27
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by calcifer 9y ago
It's barely alive and it doesn't even resemble what it was supposed to be. Google Books was originally meant to scan - and make available online - all of the worlds books within 10 years. The New Yorker has a good article on how
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Exploring over 30M feelings towards 3000+ topics(pudding.cool)
2 points by calcifer 9y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
Indeed. I prefer the Dutch system. Here, if you go to a hospital without a) being sent there in an ambulance via a 112 call or b) being referred by your GP ("huisart") insurance won't cover anything . It works wonders for ke
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Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement(shindoisshin.net)
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Basecamp now pays all employees SF salaries(m.signalvnoise.com)
9 points by calcifer 9y ago|2 comments
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by calcifer 9y ago
I think you misunderstood me. The Pocket integration in Firefox does literally nothing (not even a single network request) if you don't actively try to use it. So by "remove Pocket" or "disable Pocket" all you rea
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by calcifer 9y ago
> The only way to disable Pocket was to go into "about:config", as the option was not available in the "Extensions" toolbar. This isn't exactly correct. The Pocket integration did absolutely nothing at all unti
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by calcifer 9y ago
In those cases, I would still ask myself the same questions. Namely, am I fine with being associated with a person with these views? and am I fine with them being associated to my project? If the answer is no, I would kick them out just
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by calcifer 9y ago
I'm not sure Bryan "Mozilla funds terrorists" Lunduke is a credible source, no matter how articulate he is.
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by calcifer 9y ago
I believe in rehabilitation, so I would most definitely hire ex-cons trying to go straight. People who are actively sharing white supremacist screed are not nearly in the same category.
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by calcifer 9y ago
I'll bite. Let's say I'm in charge of a FOSS project to which you and I are both contributing to. If I find out you are posting white nationalist propaganda on Twitter, I'll kick you out of the project, simply because I
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by calcifer 9y ago
TLA?

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