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by diegocg 6y ago
I have working hardware that is no longer usable under Windows because drivers no longer work. Hardware companies have no interest supporting old hardware and they drop support in a few years. I recently got a new computer at work with a pa
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by diegocg 6y ago
ReactOS should be pretty interesting for any Windows shop. If you have some in house app and you can run it in reactos, you can stop paying licences.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Yeah, RSS is used pervasively. Despite not being a mainstream technology in the way people expected it to be, it's still alive because there is just no replacement.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Every once in a while people rediscovers asymmetric cryptography, and try to apply it to EVERYTHING while ignoring the difficulties of PKI. Meanwhile in the real world we still don't have E2E encrypted email by default fire everybody.
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by diegocg 6y ago
These losses are likely to be strategical. They are essentially buying customers with ad money.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Related: Rejuvenating Autoconf https://lwn.net/Articles/834682/
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by diegocg 6y ago
No, 1 USD = 1 USD tomorrow The actual value of 1 USD may change. But so does the value of 1 BTC
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by diegocg 6y ago
The xor swap can be dangerous: if variables have the same value, they xor to zero so you end up losing the values of both variables.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Harry Reid funded the "Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" with 22$ millions per year from 2007 to 2012 to research UFOs. And most of that money went to Robert Bigelow. Which happens to be friend of Harry Reid, is in
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by diegocg 6y ago
Simply managing the text files with git would solve that retirement
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by diegocg 6y ago
Political bias? Like when Wikileaks supported researching the Pizzagate conspiracy during the 2016 US election and posted links to /r/The_Donald "investigation" threads?
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by diegocg 6y ago
Hardware hasn't historically been seen as a security boundary. A buggy driver has always been able to take over your computer and crash it by fiddling with the hardware.
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by diegocg 6y ago
It has already happened in Europe.
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by diegocg 6y ago
To the surprise of no one - it's well know that the Taycan focused a lot in repeated long term performance, an area where electric cars have historically been weak (Google "Tesla limp mode") https://imgur.com/
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by diegocg 6y ago
Btrfs has added some checks to prevent these issues. It can't catch everything, but some people have apparently hit them so it certainly helps https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tree-checker
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by diegocg 6y ago
5.10 is a Long Term Support release that is going to get used by many distros for a long time. Maintainers might have tried (unsurprisingly) to get some interesting features merged.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Gnome has historically been written in C (after having played with Obj C and C++, which they didn't like), and while it has adopted other languages like js, large parts of it are still written in C/Glib. I don't find surprisi
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by diegocg 6y ago
Linkedin
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by diegocg 6y ago
Small building pieces of it are being included in each release, including this one, not sure when they will finish.
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by diegocg 6y ago
There is surely demand for it, just not at the prices they bought it
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by diegocg 6y ago
FYI, there is a subreddit for 10 years old news. It doesn't receive much traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgo/
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by diegocg 6y ago
The FSF is a non profit organisation, Google is one of the biggest corporations. There is a big difference.
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by diegocg 6y ago
Well, this could probably encourage the creation of privacy-oriented proxys (they just have to forward queries, so it should be relatively inexpensive compared to a full DNS server). What is the likehood of someone getting logs from Cloudfl
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by diegocg 6y ago
The proxy sees the client IP, but can't look at the encrypted DNS request. The DNS server sees (deciphers) the DNS query, but not the client IP address. It's a proxy, but with the sensible data encrypted with the server's pub
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by diegocg 6y ago
I have never had ADHD, but I used to have a lot of problems to concentrate on class and while studying. My (perhaps naive) idea about my problem these days is that we just train our brain to be distracted. I have tried to fix it by applying
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by diegocg 6y ago
You could argue the same for 16 bit CPUs. If the vast majority of CPUs sold are 64 bits, we will to a point (we are already halfway there) where 64 bit CPUs could be cheaper (more competence and variety) and even more energy efficient.
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by diegocg 6y ago
They can seem not that useful by themselves. Their power comes from the integration with the rest of AWS services.
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by diegocg 6y ago
I don't think so. The essence of draid is that, instead of keeping a spare drive unused in case one of the working drives fail, it incorporates the spare drive to the array and uses it, but one drive worth of free space is reserved ran
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by diegocg 6y ago
To me, writing cryptographic software in a memory unsafe language these days seems a huge mistake.
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by diegocg 6y ago
>the perception has always been that MacBooks are the best built laptops available First time I hear that.

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