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by cwyers 7y ago
At a certain level, if you don't trust someone, you can't do anything. Let's say you have the source code. You have the source code audited. You have reproducible builds, so you know that the source code is what was used to g
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by cwyers 7y ago
If the server can decrypt the messages, then it is not end-to-end encryption. That's what the term means.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Neither is bandwidth.
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by cwyers 7y ago
WhatsApp messages (even group chats) are by default end-to-end encrypted with keys generated on your device that WhatsApp does not control.
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by cwyers 7y ago
You Get What You Pay For. Yes, this is a bad look for DO. But the way they're able to beat AWS on price includes things like "worse support." And if AWS goes out of business, you'll know in advance. DO isn't the sam
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by cwyers 7y ago
I have seen multiple people, mostly elderly, who will go to whatever search engine that loads by default in their browser, search for Facebook, and click on the link. Nothing close to everybody has Facebook's URL memorized.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The video is set to play back at a funky speed, playing at 1.5x speed is much more natural.
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by cwyers 7y ago
No they won't. I, and a lot of other people, cannot get accounting at where I work to cut a check for that kind of sponsorship. I can get accounting to cut checks for things that matter. Typically if someone asks what's the differ
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by cwyers 7y ago
Considering that the article is from 2012, it "went" a long time ago.
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by cwyers 7y ago
On my Surface Go, it's solid red in Chrome and (surprisingly) Affinity Photo, but not Paint. I'm surprised that Paint has better support for this than a paid photo editing app.
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by cwyers 7y ago
On one hand, this is true. On the other hand, this is being put forth as a reason to not make a change in the entire Python ecosystem, and it's not really Python's job to bend over backwards for shops that have bad risk assessment
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think "MS-funded" is doing a lot more of the work there than the kernel and graphics API are.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The Xbox One has an NT kernel and DirectX as the graphics API. Stadia's use of Linux and Vulkan are probably about as helpful for a port to desktop Linux as an Xbox One game is for a Windows port.
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by cwyers 7y ago
How does Stadia advance Linux+Vulkan? The games run in a data center (and they're not running a standard Linux port, the presentations I saw made it sound like they were running basically another console port).
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by cwyers 7y ago
That animation of a knife slicing a bananaesque object is going to give me nightmares. I never knew there was an uncanny valley for fruit before now.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah, you can't picture "Disney's The Handmaid's Tale" or "Disney's Castle Rock."
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by cwyers 7y ago
It would be better if we had a community here that could handle discussing topics like this in a sensitive and respectful way.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The IBM XT was released in 1983. What's changed since 1983? A lot, actually. If you look at home appliances, the savings in energy usage have been substantial[1]: > For example, the average refrigerator manufactured in 1981 consumed
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by cwyers 7y ago
It is so awful. I came to the site this morning because I expected to see discussion of Assange, but this is just unbearable.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing? There were so many benefits to the PC compatible/DOS monoculture in computing. Competition drove down prices, the need to be compatible meant that many new advan
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's possible that it's less effort for a top notch compiler developer to come in and fix Julia's compiler than it is to give Swift the data science ecosystem that Julia is building. I have little experience with it, but it&#
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by cwyers 7y ago
The charitable way of looking at that is Chris Lattner is leading this project because the project requires certain things Lattner has experience with, and therefore the language he designed is one that meets all their criteria. Now, it&#x2
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by cwyers 7y ago
They explain what other languages they looked at: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif... Presumably Kotlin wouldn't work for the same reasons they excluded Scala and Ja
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think for this to be dispositive, Apple Maps would have to be as good as Google Maps.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I am pretty sure that the main use case of Works With Nest is to tell the thermostat to go up and down. I don't believe you can do that with Works With Google Assistant.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I was so excited when they announced that they were bringing this back as the IntelliMouse Classic. It's amazing how much they got right that most mice today don't get right.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Okay, flip it around -- how many places are using a piece of hardware that doesn't have a proper Linux driver? How many people are still using laptops where Linux has problems with sleep/hibernate? And where do the benefits of usi
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by cwyers 7y ago
All it takes is one application that's Windows-only and a lot of places are locked in. And maybe it's an app that isn't made anymore, or maybe it's an internal line-of-business app with no ready off-the-shelf replacement
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by cwyers 7y ago
> What could Microsoft create for which Microsoft Linux would be an option so compelling that companies would pay money to buy Microsoft Linux? Single-source licensing for enterprise-grade Linux and Windows, with a sweetheart deal. And t
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by cwyers 7y ago
...why? In the consumer/desktop hardware space, Windows has much, much better driver support. What benefit would they get from this?

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