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by catdog 7y ago
Software inside the official F-Droid repository has to be open source. You can however simply add additional repositories to the F-Droid client which everyone can host following its own rules.
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by catdog 7y ago
I agree, shitty bug but not the end of the world. The official power supply also seems reasonable priced and it's really difficult to find a good USB power supply which is capable of providing such currents in a stable enough way (that
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by catdog 7y ago
In addition to that Gmail at the beginning was a really outstanding offering so people accepted the waiting time. It offered a massively better web interface than practically everyone else and really a lot of storage space. It took other fr
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by catdog 7y ago
It really depends what your goal is if you choose a copyleft license or not. As far as I know even the FSF acknowledges that for pursuing some goals (e.g. driving adoption of open standards) a more liberal license is an appropriate choice.
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by catdog 8y ago
You mean OTR? 1. OTR is some old hack and not really usable 2. OTR has nothing to do with XMPP at all OMEMO only really needs XEP-0163, the thing which also gives you avatars and such, supported nearly anywhere. There is some problem that y
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by catdog 8y ago
Also the beginning of this statement is not really true: > Germany, which went all-in for renewables… This might have been the case more than a decade ago with the green party being part of the government but the political climate change
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by catdog 8y ago
Yep, being dependent on a single person might be unavoidable if you can't afford to hire a backup but not backing up mission critical data is simply incompetence. Doing it at least half way properly does not cost much nor is it difficu
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by catdog 8y ago
> The fact that so far the UK has _zero_ post-Brexit trade deals They thought they could simply quickly negotiate trade deals using the existing EU ones as a blueprint. I think they now reached a single digit number of agreements but not
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by catdog 8y ago
> Cameron resigned as PM and was replaced by May. You missed the part where May called a general election right after sending the official withdrawal notice where she only barely gained a majority giving the Brexit hardliners a lot of ad
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by catdog 8y ago
That's the downside of duck typing, could as well be `obj.method_which_might_get_created_at_some_point_at_runtime()`
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by catdog 8y ago
> A pre-commit hook in your revision control system can block checking in code that doesn't pass a lint check. That would reduce your CI build failures. Omg don't use commit hooks for that, just make it as easy to use as possib
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by catdog 8y ago
Maybe legislation should focus on that problem makeing sure that a) people who could have this autonomy can get it and b) where fixed schedules are unavoidable they get shifted accordingly instead of playing with the clock.
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by catdog 8y ago
> Ras Pi 3: CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz. GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV. RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz) Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless. Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy. Storage: microSD. That&#
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by catdog 8y ago
http://archive.is/ChaL9
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by catdog 8y ago
> The countries of Europe are our allies and friends, the EU as an entity seems to treat the UK as an enemy. Do they? Nobody wants the UK to leave as far a I know. > It's important to note that the EU has not agreed to /anyt
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by catdog 8y ago
> This is similar to the situation with design patterns. When design patterns came along, Java folks talked about them as though they were a wonderful new invention. They are/were a bit over-hyped and sometimes overused inside the J
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by catdog 8y ago
> it's that the deal that's being offered by the EU is awful. That's because full membership was already the best deal the EU had to offer. A lot of UK politicians seem to live inside a dream world where they think the re
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by catdog 8y ago
That's simply not true if implemented correctly. Maintaining an open connection yourself has at most minimal impact on battery life. See for example Conversations (XMPP client) which is able to do this just fine on Android.
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by catdog 8y ago
> Also from what I understand JMAP should be friendly for mobile usage. They kept notifications out of it, you're supposed to implement notifications using whatever the mobile platform provides. Interacting via JMAP is via plain HTT
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by catdog 8y ago
True, but on the other hand those technologies have evolved more or less drastically as well. E.g. the Java or C++ skills from 1995 won't get you that far today, both in terms of the language itself and the framework/library ecosy
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by catdog 8y ago
My experience is exactly the same, I had a lot of different sleeping schedules over the years (usually late to very late). Currently waking up at 6AM is also the new normal for me. It just can be really hard to change it if you are not forc
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by catdog 8y ago
> "Hey if you like my stuff consider adding my <public bank account key> to your monthly payments. Here in Europe a lot of content creators do this. You can simply set up a recurring payment to any IBAN, transaction fees are u
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by catdog 8y ago
> One benefit of writing a test before fixing code is it avoids the problem of writing a test which passes but doesn't actually check the broken thing Luckily code is version controlled so I can apply the test written afterwards to
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by catdog 8y ago
Yep, the UI might be a bit dated and often a bit convoluted but it's really a powerful tool which does the job well.
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by catdog 8y ago
We use such things too, it's exactly to test if someone is at least in general able to code. Surprisingly often there seem to be candidates which look good on paper and talk like that but are unable to perform such toy coding tasks. Ev
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by catdog 8y ago
> They actually were into digital fairly early on. But they had fears it would cannibalize their existing business so they chose not to go that route; newcomers in the space were able to take over. Sounds a lot like car manufactures, the
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by catdog 8y ago
Maybe alando which was basically a blatant copy of ebay and quickly acquired by ebay? But this was a long time ago. German PayPal? Not that I know of. The banks are helplessly trying now after many years but they aren't even able to ma
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by catdog 8y ago
Even if they do it probably does not matter much. They are able to convince most of their customers to buy new every 1-2 years so marketing will simply state: "Well we did what we could but people want the newest shit, not our fault&qu
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by catdog 8y ago
In Germany one reason might be that basically everyone learns to drive with the stick so it's the normal. To get a drivers license it's mandatory to go to a driving school and drive quite a lot of hours under supervision of an ins
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by catdog 8y ago
> Tuition is free (I believe?) There was a brief period where it was not free everywhere (but still very low for US standards) but this legislation has been largely rolled back so it should be basically free. You only have to pay a small

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