erikbye

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by erikbye 9y ago
> So here's my thing: Imagine a world where facebook didn't exist. Would it have been impossible for this guy to get their photos and videos, post them on the internet? Uhm, yes. There are a lot of venues on the internet floodi
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by erikbye 9y ago
> Yes obviously the lesson is not to take pics like that in the first place, but sadly a lot of the victims may not be that computer savvy or mature enough to realize what a mistake those things can be. In a lot of cases pics like that a
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by erikbye 9y ago
I expected GitHub to attempt further monetizing but perhaps not something as cheesy as an "app store".
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by erikbye 9y ago
I think a dev-social site like that should be separate to GitHub and just use their API to pull in repo data. Someone should probably give a go at making a site like that. Making it easier for project owners to find contributors and for pot
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by erikbye 9y ago
And few things are as rewarding as an Unix expedition. If these management people at work used awk instead of Excel for some of the things.... man, they'd save hundreds of hours in just a month.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Teaching an old dog new tricks. It's very common to think of the first thing you learnt as more intuitive. Learning the second thing you have baggage and expectations of how something is supposed to work.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Modern C# seems confused about what it is. I think a lot of stuff should exist exclusively in F#. And C# is just as bureaucratic in nature as Java.
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by erikbye 9y ago
The fact that your shell is not a programming language is not a real gripe. Treat your shell as a shell and you'll be fine.
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by erikbye 9y ago
we use POSH extensively at work and I haven't seen a single person not using the built-in Unix aliases. Even the TIER 1 peeps got it. Also, there's a story behind all these commands, their naming, the symbols, reasons for the brev
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by erikbye 9y ago
Just have a look at the XML configuration files for the exploits used. They are on GitHub. Windows 10 was not a target.
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by erikbye 9y ago
The point was that it is worldwide.
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by erikbye 9y ago
There are two exploits. One targets SMBv1 and the other SMBv2. Then there's the backdoor.
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by erikbye 9y ago
If you are working with SCCM and 20,000+ clients (computers), you will know that all machines will never be patched. It just does not happen. On any given large network there will always be a certain number of unpatched clients. There are a
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by erikbye 9y ago
The tools in reference are from the Equation Group dump the Shadow Brokers did. Equation Group is believed to be the NSA (a group within). EG activity dates back to at least 1996. More info on EG: https://securelist.com/file
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by erikbye 9y ago
Yes, 70+ countries.
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by erikbye 9y ago
What is so hard to get people? VS Code and any other Electron based software is too slow. It is not performant at all. First of all, UI responsiveness is just not on par with native editors, second, the entire thing absolutely croaks, espec
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by erikbye 9y ago
> I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations "The HandBrake and HandBrake Documentation projects are not accepting monetary donations. Please instead consider donating to the VideoLAN non-profit organization and the Blender Founda
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by erikbye 9y ago
A business friendly license (like BSD) usually results in exactly what Apple has done. Take whatever they want, close it off, and hardly contribute back upstream.
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by erikbye 9y ago
I don't see people driven away from OSS. Rather I see even big corporations embrace it. Even Microsoft. And look at the explosion of public projects with Github.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Why is the lack of certain AAA games held more against Linux than macOS? Linux has 1950+ games on GOG and 6500+ on Steam. Some of them AAA. When it comes to file formats, I'm sure there are certain formats that poses a problem, but at
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by erikbye 9y ago
I don't even see the catch 22. There are more than enough Linux users for a thriving ecosystem, has been for many years, and it's only growing. Like I said in a comment above, Apple's desktop share is incredibly small percent
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by erikbye 9y ago
Linux is big and unspecific. But if we talk about a user count of Linux on the desktop vs OS X/macOS on the desktop, then Linux is not far behind, according to various statistics. Linux numbers are actually a lot higher than the record
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by erikbye 9y ago
To me, cross-platform is not the holy grail--Linux is fragmented enough as it is. And certainly not to a platform like Apple's. Porting free software to a walled garden is grotesque. I think focus and efforts should be directed at mak
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by erikbye 9y ago
You are right. That was naive and wishful thinking on my part.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Ok. You are talking about problems with the software on a proprietary system... Sorry, I don't support closed platforms. These problems do not exist on the Linux version.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Most quotes are regurgitations, they just don't get traction until attributed to someone famous.
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by erikbye 9y ago
If there is one thing I am certain of, when it comes to software and licenses, as for new software (not using licensed code), let the copyright holder release on his terms. That means he's the party that gets to choose the license. He
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by erikbye 9y ago
Users cares about features, bugs, regressions. Who fixes these things does not matter, but if we don't have the source we can't fix it.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Who are you calling hackers? Zuckerberg? Creators of Instagram? Snapchat? Please.
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by erikbye 9y ago
Noone takes ESR seriously. At least shouldn't. And he has no influence on people working on real and useful open source projects.

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