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by cat199 7y ago
not to mention that eu+us+uk does not equal the so-called '1st world' in it's entirety (see also: canada, japan), and also that there is some notion of a '2nd world' as well.
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by cat199 7y ago
... awaiting OpenBSD wscons(4) soft font in 5.. 4.. 3..
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by cat199 7y ago
jury probably still out, and no direct insight, but the overall incentives/philosphy driving acquisition for each could theoretically be drastically different (e.g. optimizing for openness, community, xyz instead of vendor size, abili
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by cat199 7y ago
not a lawyer, but there is 'vague allowing room for interpretation' and 'so vague it cant be interpreted'
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by cat199 7y ago
arguably not 'mainly' though
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by cat199 7y ago
The modern turkish state has been suppressing various kinds of intellectuals since its foundations via forced secularism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_Turkey what has happened is a shift in who is being s
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by cat199 7y ago
No fan of Erdogan, and dont doubt that his policies have impacted investment to Turkey, but this ignores: - greek debt crisis - brexit - recent market turmoil - syrian conflict all of which have huge impact to Turkish economy as well.
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by cat199 7y ago
> sank with unknown causes. do you really think military intelligence would always release information in these cases? money down, 9/10 times in cases like these someone protecting a source or hiding some knowledge for sigint/o
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by cat199 7y ago
> I was never happy with the way docker was designed - it tried to steal too much work from the operating system. Docker should never had logging framework not should it be a daemon+client talking over socket, creating permission, indire
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by cat199 7y ago
by disagreeing with the philosophial argument that gender is different from bilological sex without actually being afraid (phobia) of being wrong, nor being 'hateful' to those who claim it (e.g. treat them like people)
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by cat199 7y ago
> What good is a performance designation (A2) if no device in the real world supports it? this is often the case for new hardware specs/protocols.. see also: any SATA/SCSI rev N+1, TCQ/NCQ, UASP, PCI n+1, etc.
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by cat199 7y ago
scheme & lisp actually have quite a history in computer music - see snd editor, common lisp music in the late 80s/early 90s, adding a processing core to a lisp/scheme was probably the easiest way to bootstrap an interactive&#x
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by cat199 7y ago
interesting - they mention: "Slack connectivity is now available for testing. It's still pretty rough and missing a lot of features." any further insights here? could just try it myself, but slack is our key communication so
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by cat199 7y ago
cue the downvotes, but, if your 'progressive' ideology requires constant 'progress', eventually you will need to invent new 'progress' to keep 'progressing' when you run out of things to 'progre
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by cat199 7y ago
> DVD drives weren’t even a thing when people stopped buying soundcards. pretty sure these happened at around the same time. Single data point: my 486-era machine (92): - bolt on sb16+cdrom as part of 'multimedia upgrade' (MPC
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by cat199 7y ago
> American people that run American businesses are prohibited from hiring people they believe to be best suited for the job. Or american people in positions of power are free to use that power against their fellow citizens by importing p
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by cat199 7y ago
> Letsencrypt solves any need for legitimate certificates. ... unless you want any private keys to be personally signed and or generated by bob & alice over in security after checking some boxes in an internal audit form, or any oth
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by cat199 7y ago
> You're proposing that the penalty for being suspected of subverting the firewall is death. no, he's being hyperbolic to make the point that in an extreme situation, a default-deny approach could facilitate mass suppression of
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by cat199 7y ago
.. just had a not so pleasant flashback to the thoughts occurring while watching a web server log for a porn site when I worked in web hosting..
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by cat199 7y ago
> Fixing /dev/urandom to block until enough entropy is available once causes breakage like in the article. ... not to mention it is the entire point of /dev/urandom .. if you want something to block for entropy, you
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by cat199 7y ago
> It's not a full-time job for any OpenBSD developer, either, but they do seem to do a better job of this than on Linux; don't blame the linux kernel, we're just waiting on the dbus interface, gnome3 applet, and systemd b
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by cat199 7y ago
systemd didn't even learn from pseudo-systemv in this case - from tfa: "Basically as of now the entropy file saved as /var/lib/systemd/random-seed will not - drumroll - add entropy to the random pool when playe
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by cat199 7y ago
you mean you haven't heard of /etc/grub.conf.d/entropy.d/randomseed.d/grub-entropy-randomseed.conf and it's good buddy systemd-enable-grub-conf-d-entropy-d-randomseed-d.target ?
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by cat199 7y ago
> I work in Biotech and every time I read one of these articles/posts about how somebody hacked their insulin pump people start asking why there aren't already affordable closed-loop pumps on the market if people are hacking th
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by cat199 7y ago
> Any claim that Google would have helped China censor Chinese citizens ignores the fact that Chinese search engines are already censored. so, maintaining the status quo is not 'help'? > I know some people prefer to stick th
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by cat199 7y ago
(2013)
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by cat199 7y ago
Really? Spam is unsolicited commercial email. if I sign up on a site, click the 'yes email me' button, and then mark the email as spam when I get it, I am the one acting incorrectly, not the sender who is literally doing what I in
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by cat199 7y ago
sometimes, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
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by cat199 7y ago
the entire premise that companies should be large enough to influence the discourse is what the problem is, not the regulatory framework within which they do this.. bellheads vs netheads 10.0
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by cat199 7y ago
agree - voting system is only 1/2 of the pie - the other piece being the actual governmental structure.. when parties not candidates are voted for, and coalitions have to be formed, the need to heavily fund 'magical individuals&#x

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