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by ddevault 6y ago
This is why I call for zero-knowledge information exchange, decentralization, and genuine end-to-end encryption. The most secure data is data you don't have, and any company which claims to store data "securely" is grossly ir
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by ddevault 6y ago
Anyone who is a "extreme power user" is doomed to fail on any new platform. You should approach a new platform planning to learn and embrace what you find there, and become a new power user. Trying to port over the most "ex
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by ddevault 6y ago
We have to deal with this from time to time on sourcehut, too, mostly recently last night.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Exercise your civil disobedience: http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=3A72C1636EFF4111F923AC1E... Open standards or bust. Accept no substitutes.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Do you send emails through a service that let’s you see if the email was opened? No.
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by ddevault 6y ago
9front offers the "scram" command to immediately power off the machine, likely making your filesystem grumpy.
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by ddevault 6y ago
It signals that they're not making a long-term committment to open source. When they pull the rug out from under you, the community will have to scramble to put together a viable fork. It is a highly disruptive event that we've se
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by ddevault 6y ago
They're asking contributors to sign a CLA which assigns copyright for your changes to them. Quick reminder: do not sign this kind of agreement. It's deliberately designed for them to pull the rug out from under you and make this p
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by ddevault 6y ago
I'm 27.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Well, dang just banned the account, so I'm feeling pretty confident that I was in the right here.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>The world is full of many inconvenient truths. We should be able to discuss these openly and consistently as adults, without resorting to emotional name calling. I agree. But you're not examining these "truths" critically
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by ddevault 6y ago
If your arguments always get called racist, maybe that's a cause for introspection, my friend.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Something any proposal of this nature tends to be missing is an inquiry into the implications for non-English langauges.
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by ddevault 6y ago
A skillful evasion of the question. >I encourage you to look at the data you yourself have posted and to draw your own conclusions. This is quite irresponsible. You can't just leave it at "black men shoot more people than other
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by ddevault 6y ago
Just what are you trying to find out with this question?
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by ddevault 6y ago
Meanwhile we've had >1 homicide per day in 2021 in my home city of Philadelphia. https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-audits/mapping-gun...
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by ddevault 6y ago
This is a really nasty argument. "Old people" are (1) not the only people who understand mailing lists, (2) not the only people who like mailing lists, and (3) not "set in their ways", so to speak, or failing to "up
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by ddevault 6y ago
This seems to have everything to do with Debian and nothing to do with git-via-email.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I use an email client I wrote for this purpose: https://aerc-mail.org/ Greg-KH has also written about his mutt workflow: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I don't really understand what this is doing here. It definitely does not pique the hacker interest. This is just a simple syscall wrapper. The most interesting thing about it is that it somehow got upvoted 14 times. Maybe it's ju
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by ddevault 6y ago
No, I haven't run into any such issue, though I have only used it with small to medium sized repositories. The repo simply grows linearly with the size of the secondary repository. With a submodule, you would have to clone it just the
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by ddevault 6y ago
I'll play the weeb card for this one. I like danbooru, which mainly categorizes fan art for anime and such, and is the gold standard in community image indexing and categorization. Their main site is NSFW, but you can access an SFW ver
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by ddevault 6y ago
I came here to recommend subtrees. They're pretty good.
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by ddevault 6y ago
We should definitely do both, and we'll almost certainly have people on the Moon again before sending them to Mars, if for no other reason than to test some of the necessary technology. I hope that a permanent human presence on the Moo
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by ddevault 6y ago
I'm no expert, but one thing which concerns me about Venus is the feasibility of sourcing local materials. It would be way more expensive to fetch resources from the surface and carry them up to floating cities, even in the energy cost
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by ddevault 6y ago
Taiwan already officially considers itself an independent country, and maintains a large, sophisticated military for the purpose of defending this status.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Oh no, he has to delete a tweet ! A two-year old tweet! The humanity! This is ridiculous. Where's the fucking fine?
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by ddevault 6y ago
Likewise, but I don't bother scanning it. I just throw it away and get another one off the pile. If it's important I'll transcribe it in the moment, but it's almost never that important.
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by ddevault 6y ago
See also quotes.cat-v.org: http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
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by ddevault 6y ago
Aye, hence the "might". They'd have to accept well below market rates.

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