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by codewiz 7y ago
And then everyone crucifies Boeing for their user interface bugs...
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by codewiz 7y ago
That's so typical of airline booking websites!
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by codewiz 7y ago
For the contract portion of the EULA to be enforceable, you have to get the user to explicitly and willingly agree to it. Tricking the user with a shrink-wrap license ("by opening this package you have agreed...") would not hold i
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by codewiz 7y ago
The source code of the Linux kernel portions is still a huge step in the right direction, even if it comes without detailed datasheets and and talks to proprietary firmware. It still lets you continue to evolve the internal kernel interface
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by codewiz 7y ago
No, Android (or rather, AOSP), is fully open source. Most device makers fork AOSP and distribute binaries containing their modifications. These always come with source code for the GPL portions, and occasionally also the portions licensed u
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by codewiz 7y ago
From the git changelog, it doesn't appear to be completely unmaintained, but not very vital either: https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/commits/master Red Hat's announcement (posted in February 2019)
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Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Male Aggression(nautil.us)
2 points by codewiz 7y ago|0 comments
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Yes, and its binary serialization format Windows Metafile (WMF) also predates Windows 95. Microsoft tried to push it as an alternative to PostScript for printing, with some success in low-end PC printers with thick drivers. https:/&#x
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by codewiz 7y ago
Couldn't Huawei debunk the allegations of having backdoors by just releasing all source code of its 5G equipment, along with a verifiable build? It wouldn't even have to be licensed as open source, just available for security revi
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by codewiz 7y ago
Have you tried changing browser? -- Written from my Chromium browser installed from the Fedora Linux package repository.
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> As we saw with Ethereum. They simply pushed out new code that rewrote history. Do some basic research. History was never rewritten and new code was never pushed on users. Users voted in favor of the DAO fork, then users voluntarily dow
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by codewiz 7y ago
Could you elaborate? Have they been leaking selectively?
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by codewiz 8y ago
The CNN has a summary: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/03/health/diet-global-deaths...
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Bad diets are the leading cause for most deaths worldwide(thelancet.com)
3 points by codewiz 8y ago|1 comments
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Google blocked... what? The blogpost shows the answer from Google, but crucially omits to say what exactly the author was asking for.
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Mastodon, however, has already picked up traction well beyond any of its predecessors, and continues to grow steadily. https://the-federation.info/mastodon
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by codewiz 8y ago
There could be another reason why most people decided to follow the DAO fork: perhaps it's simply because they agreed with the actions taken by the Ethereum developers to return the money to the shareholders instead of leaving it to th
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by codewiz 8y ago
The stereotype of Japan being overcrowded comes from high-density wards in the middle of Tokyo. Everywhere else, there's plenty of unused land. In fact, the government is trying to give away 8 millions of abandoned homes in areas where
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by codewiz 8y ago
Your argument implies that young immigrants will somehow find it affordable to have babies in Japan when Japanese citizens do not. This is perhaps true for skilled workers? But unskilled Japanese workers cannot fill that demand, and without
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by codewiz 8y ago
It's not at all surprising that red yeast rice would be as effective as a prescription drug in lowering triglycerides. In fact, "Some red yeast rice products contain large amounts of monacolin K, which is chemically identical to t
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KDE Connect 1.10 released(nicolasfella.wordpress.com)
218 points by codewiz 8y ago|65 comments
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I picked https://mstdn.io/ because it's a medium-size instance hosted in Europe, the sysadmin seems very competent, and the site rules seemed reasonable (especially where it says "We only block/silence foreig
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by codewiz 8y ago
Isn't Chrome sync data encrypted end-to-end? Matthew Green's blogpost made it sound like Google had access to everybody's authentication cookies and cleartext passwords. Comments on both HN and cryptographyengineering.com sho
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by codewiz 8y ago
MediaWiki is indeed very easy to self-host. I've been running several instances for the FSF and Sugar Labs. From the sysadmin perspective, it's a dream app to deploy: just unpack (or git clone) the latest release in a directory, p
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by codewiz 8y ago
You can create multiple named lists and you can add people you follow to them. I mostly post publicly, but I used this feature to create a list of friends who live in Japan.
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by codewiz 8y ago
Someone's clearly trying to win an IgNobel Prize in Physics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
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Wow. The author of this paper should be awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for both math and physics :-)
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Of course, but the victim can create a new account on another instance and upload the same content again. Note that this also makes it hard to deal with spam and DoS attacks. As adoption grows, instances might voluntarily adopt protocols fo
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by codewiz 8y ago
Why do you even care if someone blocks / mutes you? It's their right to do so, and you can do the same when someone annoy you. Since starting to use Mastodon 6 months ago, I had to mute exactly 1 nazi account. Muting is quick and
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by codewiz 8y ago
Mastodon is part of a federated network called the "fediverse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse The fediverse works by propagating statuses a set of standard protocols: https://en.wikipedia

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