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by claudius 13y ago
> A bank loses this kind of money, they get it back for free. Customers lose that kind of money, they get it back for free. Socialising losses is an annoyingly common theme in ‘capitalist’ countries; unfortunately, it is politically infe
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by claudius 13y ago
No – the enemy is the American people, collectively and individually responsible for the actions of their government. How you sort that out internally is not really my concern :)
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by claudius 13y ago
Found the issue: Apparently, Firefox disables web storage if cookies are set to ‘ask me every time’, which then causes a ‘SecurityError: The operation is insecure.‘ error in the console. Curiously, there was no pop-up or somesuch asking me
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by claudius 13y ago
Hm, this doesn’t seem to load for me on Firefox 28.0 – I just see the brown-ish circles, but nothing is filled in. Curiously, in another profile, everything is fine. I’m new to Firefox, any ideas on how to debug this? Disabling add-ons didn
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by claudius 13y ago
It is not the job of a university to motivate its students, they are supposed and assumed to be grown-ups who can motivate themselves to learn things they want to learn.
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by claudius 13y ago
At the dpkg level, this mostly works, yes. I can extract to e.g. ~/local, set $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. and stuff works. However, I'd also like to have some dependency resolution (ideally including already system-installed pack
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by claudius 13y ago
My favourite solution to this would be an APT extension which allows installation of binaries into $HOME by unprivileged users and for all these language-specific things to be turned into simple APT repositories. I can still have dreams, ri
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by claudius 13y ago
‘Talks From Incredible Women In Tech, Every Month’ does not sound like 50/50. That said, even a 50/50 ratio is lopsided given the ratios of graduating students in the relevant fields.
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by claudius 13y ago
> Men are worse than women at being able to effectively mediate conflicts between two members of the opposite sex. Do you have any sort of justification for this archaic, idiotic and entirely out-of-place sexism?
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by claudius 13y ago
> But if you're an ordinary office worker, and aren't doing heavy labor, no, pregnancy is not generally an obstacle to doing work. It’s been a while since I last saw a televised brawl in the Italian parliament, but I would not
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by claudius 13y ago
> The problems here are not specific to GitHub and certainly are not specific to her. The problem here is that nobody has yet given a concrete example of such a problem. In this particular case, there are a bunch of vague tweets, in othe
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by claudius 13y ago
Sorry, but which of the two points in the ‘pro’ section (storing truly sensitive visible information and hacking of client-site databases) makes a browser less capable of acting as a password manager than a ‘real’ password manager? Or maybe
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by claudius 13y ago
UTC would save you w.r.t. timezones, but it still has leap seconds and the like to adjust for nonuniformities in the earth’s rotation (around itself and the sun). However, these jurisdictions change timezones in autumn and spring, so spec
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by claudius 13y ago
Not really, no, at least if you concentrate on Central/Western Europe, where most of the high-speed railways are located: US: http://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/71789-050-459169a... EU: http:/&#
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by claudius 13y ago
It happens relatively rarely that a large multinational food company poisons half its customers (or so I like to think), hence I would assume that laws and proper auditing can stop such problems. In summary I have spent at least five to ten
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by claudius 13y ago
The spam to mine goes back to at least March 2013 (yeah, I like to keep spam, makes it easier to train filters later one…), possibly earlier, so I don’t think that it is a recent leak. I have stopped using Dropbox shortly after receiving th
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by claudius 13y ago
My spam folder is also full of, well, spam addressed to the email address I supplied to Dropbox (and only Dropbox) when I first signed up there sometime in 2011 and later leaked (I think 2012). Sometimes I wish data privacy laws were strict
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by claudius 13y ago
I would argue that it not only matters how large you build your ‘business’ and how many billions you make eventually selling it, but also how much you care for your employees, provide value to society and, most importantly, what sort of bus
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by claudius 13y ago
Yeah, but running it in a Virtualbox is not quite the same and I don’t think IT would let me install it directly on the HDD (even though all the workstations run Ubuntu).
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by claudius 13y ago
Oh. Okay. Sorry.
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by claudius 13y ago
Regarding the Debian OpenSSL disaster, the question was brought up on the OpenSSL mailing list (and read there); regarding the Tarsnap bug, it is not an unbraced if but a non-incremented nonce. If two of the five comments in an article ar
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by claudius 13y ago
Speaking of Homebrew – is there a way to get it installed on Mac OS without an Apple ID? I got this fancy shiny Macbook (with a broken keyboard, but who cares…) from IT and it might actually make sense to use it sometimes, but I don’t reall
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by claudius 13y ago
You are usually free to leave your country (the GDR likely being one of the few exceptions…), but other societies obviously have the right to reject you entry into their countries. And if you don’t like the choices you have at your electi
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by claudius 13y ago
Calling that a ‘feature’ seems somewhat strange to me – the native maps applications on both my E63 and N9 allow me to download whole countries (or parts of them) onto my phone.
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by claudius 13y ago
You are free not to use any of the services offered by society to you, which obviously requires leaving the country.
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by claudius 13y ago
I like the convenience of ordering online, but paying 5€ for each order is too much and makes me want to combine different orders, which takes some of that convenience away again. Just paying 29€ flat for a year was perfect, I could order o
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by claudius 13y ago
Opera 12.16 on Debian, no Silverlight here. I even have a Firefox installed, too, but that still needs Silverlight which is not available for Linux (at least not in any of the official repositories).
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by claudius 13y ago
It’s annoying because now they expect me to pay 49€ rather than 29€ for the same service, namely for them to ship stuff to me at costs competitive with going out to buy said stuff directly. I don’t know of any company competing with Amazon
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by claudius 13y ago
So, hum, why would I accept the hefty price increase on Prime if I get quite literally nothing in return? I do not own a single one of the ‘compatible devices’ and apparently my browser (which works just fine on Youtube…) is not ‘compatible
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by claudius 13y ago
Not really data in any sense justifying the plural use of the word, merely a look down the hallway of the chair where I work – nobody comes in before 8:30 and most people have left by 18:30, averaging a nice-ish 40h/week, given that th

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