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by curt15 7y ago
When bugs get fixed in upstream projects, do they have to first land in Ubuntu and then filter down to Pop_os? Or does Pop_Os point directly at Ubuntu repositories?
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by curt15 7y ago
Facebook, for one, uses Btrfs for its containers: https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/btrfs/docs/btrfs-facebo...
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by curt15 7y ago
But by that logic, any large organization using an old JVM version and requiring developers to target that version would be holding back the Java ecosystem.
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by curt15 7y ago
Canonical is already moving to a Microsoft-style update model for some of its software. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
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Oracle v. Google Heads to Supreme Court(arstechnica.com)
10 points by curt15 7y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 7y ago
Why can't Apple push back and inform people of the difference through advertising?
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by curt15 7y ago
"He also noted that many doctors will use YouTube when looking for guidance on surgeries." How common is it for doctors these days to Google various health conditions? Are there any preferred online resources?
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Google Ends Support for OG Pixel(arstechnica.com)
3 points by curt15 7y ago|1 comments
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by curt15 7y ago
Any chance this project benefits nextcloud?
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by curt15 7y ago
Perhaps something like OSTree?
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by curt15 7y ago
Is there still any place in 2019 for "system containers" like LXC/LXD?
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by curt15 7y ago
>Same with "unsolicited popups". What are you using that does this? Open Chrome. "Try Microsoft Edge!"
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by curt15 7y ago
>Until relatively recently, Linux has effectively none, just chroot, and selinux which almost everyone disabled for a decade. Chrome has long used several Linux sandboxing features, namely user namespaces and seccomp-bpf [1]. [1] https:
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by curt15 7y ago
>I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding. What makes web browsers less secure on Linux than on macOS?
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by curt15 7y ago
>The Chromium browser is only available as a snap in 19.10. A little disappointing since snaps still have Windows 10-style unskippable updates and don't quite integrate with the system as normal deb packages would. What other debs a
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by curt15 7y ago
Fedora Silverblue aspires to implement read-only root for a general-purpose distro. The main cost of their implementation is that you have to reboot after installing or upgrading packages to make the changes effective.
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by curt15 7y ago
>Permanent removal from China would probably be worse for freedom in China over 20 years How does Apple advance freedom in China?
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by curt15 7y ago
What interest would Apple have in banning GPL-licensed web apps?
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by curt15 7y ago
The best test of any company's espoused "principles" is when it is forced to make inconvenient choices.
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by curt15 7y ago
"Find me a comparable computer that: - Ships with anything other than Windows (Linux, OSX, BSD, etc) - Has a corporate warranty" Support for mac-only software notwithstanding, Dell's workstations officially support RHEL, have
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by curt15 7y ago
>A single-year warranty is in general an indicator that a) the manufacturer doesn't have faith in reliability past the first year and b) the manufacturer is begrudgingly just meeting the minimum standard for warranties in most juris
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by curt15 7y ago
>For example in the UK the rehabilitation of offenders act means that once a crime is spent it is an offence to discuss publish information about the crime. But in that case, wouldn't a news website that provides its archives of old
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by curt15 7y ago
But if there were more people like Kim Peek who could recall anything they read, like a walking, talking, search engine, should they be muzzled online?
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by curt15 7y ago
Or Flatpak? Firefox is making progress on that front: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441922
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by curt15 7y ago
To clarify the principles behind the law it might be useful to perform a thought experiment. Imagine that there existed people with extraordinary abilities to absorb and recall knowledge -- think Kim Peek. These people could conceivably re
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by curt15 7y ago
People in the US have never had a right to control over what people in other countries write or think about them. Vice versa.
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The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law has broadened(nytimes.com)
54 points by curt15 7y ago|67 comments
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by curt15 7y ago
I seem to recall that back when I used Windows back in XP era when memory was limited, the page file would sometimes grow to a few hundred MB without GUI responsiveness suffering too much. Does Windows or Mac protect certain processes from
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by curt15 7y ago
I've tried that too and agree that it has a slick UI. However one inconvenient design choice is that it stores all the messages (headers and bodies) in a giant sqlite database. Sure, full text searches and Gmail-style multiple labels p
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by curt15 7y ago
Then what constitutes the bulk of the metadata? I seem to recall it being much smaller back in the days of yum (~20mb), and the number of packages in the repository has not ballooned that much since then.

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