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by catdog 9y ago
> PCs are not status symbols but smartphones are and fashion is a huge component in why smartphones are replaced. For those who buy the newest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy every year this might be the case but the rest of the world either do
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by catdog 9y ago
Someone needs to build an ultra portable (more or less) full size keyboard, then it would be enough. ;)
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by catdog 9y ago
Depends on what you want. It's used (for many years usually) Hardware which increases the probability of failure and you only get whatever single configuration is currently available. It's nice though that they offer you to cancel
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by catdog 9y ago
I also don't get what this offers over renting these machines individually. It can't really be some preinstalled software with no support whatsoever as installing usually is the easy part.
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by catdog 9y ago
It's gaining popularity in modern file systems as CPUs paired with fast compression algorithms like lz4 or lzo are generally fast enough nowadays to easily outperform most common storage devices. Saving space also means you need to rea
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by catdog 9y ago
In itself it's probably not that catastrophic because the likelihood of that mail actually falling in the wrong hands may still be small enough to fit inside the risk model of credit cards which regularly puts convenience over security
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by catdog 9y ago
It's pretty well known that simply building more roads does not fix traffic problems, it basically only generates more traffic.
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by catdog 10y ago
Even history tells us that some tiny bit of harmless personal information may be disastrous in the wrong hands when circumstances change, especially combined with automated data processing. In the 1930s The Netherlands recorded the religiou
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by catdog 10y ago
Then simply do not connect thousands of such devices if you can't handle it…
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by catdog 10y ago
> Why lawyers? This is a technical problem. You need to push the industry into solving this technical problem, it's not happening on its own.
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by catdog 10y ago
Well take a Mini-ITX case and put a trash can on it, best of both worlds, still less expensive.
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by catdog 10y ago
> So you'd rather destroy a promising program just because you weren't asked about your opinion? Canonical made blunt claims about deficiencies in Wayland which did not exist, they even made claims that others like KDE would ha
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by catdog 10y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of "App Stores" where some random company which managed to put itself between you and a substantial part of potential customers decides what you can distribute under what conditions covered by their
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by catdog 10y ago
Easy, there will be special agreements for some of those bigger fish. And of course on the special versions of Windows enterprise customers get (which you can't buy individually that easy) this will still be allowed
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by catdog 10y ago
As far as I know this are more or less custom configurations of the same CPU i.e. how many CPU/GPU cores, how much cache etc.
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by catdog 10y ago
That ties it into the .Net ecosystem. Better to pass strictly data and not behavior but in a more structured way. Yet it should still be pretty simple so sth. like json would be the right direction to go.
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by catdog 10y ago
Totally agree, the concept is nice and really useful but its implementation is for a large part really a big pile of fragile and confusing hacks. Most of the power comes of powerful tools like find, sed, awk (being a programming language on
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by catdog 10y ago
> However, OSes have been written in Lisp, and it has been used for embedded programming, so it's possible to make a language with more abstractions available similarly performant. The right abstractions even increase the possibilit
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by catdog 10y ago
Providing no stable ABI and not being easy to bind to in general is really a major pain point of C++ for library/framework code. In contrast everyone and their dog is able to call into C in practice which is, I assume, a not to be unde
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by catdog 10y ago
1. C is heavily used in areas where it might not necessarily be the right tool for the job (for various reasons), the areas where you really need to fiddle around with low level stuff and safeguards turned off are comparatively small. 2. C
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by catdog 10y ago
> When the rust compiler can produce code that runs on my micro with harvard architecture, 14-bit instruction words, and 64 bytes (not megabytes or kilobytes) of RAM, we can talk. Pretty irrelevant in this case because your micro doesn&#
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by catdog 10y ago
The amount of problem denial in the line of "experienced C programmers make no mistakes" or "what? Memory safe languages can avoid only maybe half or so of security bugs, totally not worth it" is astonishing. Granted, it
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by catdog 10y ago
Indeed not a very interesting read at that point, the idea itself is nice but pretty obvious. There is also nothing concrete about tackling the hard tasks like power supply or interfacing with the keyboard yet. The author only briefly talke
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by catdog 10y ago
Ah you are right they introduced that change late 2013. //edit: But how it is stated in the parent post is still wrong ;)
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by catdog 10y ago
> Well, that happens if you have a conservative government which does not understand technology. Sometimes it's even scarier when they do and discover what great capabilities for surveillance and control it can offer.
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by catdog 10y ago
> It belongs to the Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (literally “federal ministry for transport and digital infrastructure” i.e. highways and data highways). That's blatantly wrong. It's the Federal Min
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by catdog 10y ago
You are exactly right, not sure why you get down voted. Let's Encrypt does domain validation. It's perfectly fine that it issues a certificate to paypal.com.phishysite.com to the rightful owner of phishysite.com. It's not the
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by catdog 10y ago
Gajim [1] implements a lot of modern XEPs (directly or through easy to install plugins), including OMEMO. I don't know how well it works on non Linux systems (they provide Windows binaries at least). [1] https://gajim.org&#x
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by catdog 10y ago
Same here, I own a Galaxy S3 LTE which I also keep up to date using custom roms (though official CM/LineageOS support is lacking lately making it a bit less straightforward) and even that is basically already fast enough for everything
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by catdog 10y ago
Not really. They are spec'd well enough for some years now to perform most common tasks well and conceptually they are all basically a big touch screen, nothing new here. You may get small improvements, bigger numbers on the spec sheet

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