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   by fafner 13y ago

   If Digital Restrictions Management gets added to HTML5 then it makes it far easier for content hosts to add restrictions. This is a huge risk. But more importantly the idea of HTML5 was to get rid of proprietary closed source plugins like
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   by fafner 13y ago

   If some copyright holder wants his stuff DRMed then they are free to implement their own DRM plugin or App. But I don't see why we should support them. Especially when it makes our nice open web depend on proprietary closed source bi
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   by fafner 13y ago

   They want to propose an API which would allow proprietary closed source binary blobs to display videos. In other words: They are pushing "yet another Flash" into HTML5.
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   by fafner 13y ago

   Thanks. Should probably be linked to on the homepage though...
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   by fafner 13y ago

   Is there no public version control (git, bzr, svn, cvs, hg, whatever) for this or am I blind?
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   XDC2013: Brian Paul - 20 Years of Mesa - A Retrospective [video](youtube.com)

   1 points by fafner 13y ago|0 comments
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   Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve(motherjones.com)

   2 points by fafner 13y ago|0 comments
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   by fafner 13y ago

   This could be an opportunity for AMD considering they ship the GPU for both the new XBox and PS4 and Wii U. But Carmack suspects that MS and Sony won't like it because it could boost Steambox. https://twitter.com/ID_AA
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   by fafner 13y ago

   Recently I tried to build a rust project (just to play a bit around with the language and the tool). The code was too new to build with the latest stable (0.7) but too old to build with the latest nightly. Servo (web rendering engine) eve
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Sadly it doesn't work with SMPlayer. They seemed to have changed some options.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Did you try: https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang
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    by fafner 13y ago

    [1] > In some unusual cases, Emacs gets the wrong information from the system, and <Backspace> ends up deleting forwards instead of backwards. [2] That's not the case with the GUI version because it works like any other applic
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    by fafner 13y ago

    > Also, I think clang was the first compiler to claim to fully support C++ 11, GCC 4.8.1 was the first compiler with complete C++11 support. Clang with complete C++11 support was released a bit later.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Kerry has spent the recent month advocating to send weapons into a conflict zone (Syria)...
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Not to mention that he probably could have used POSIX regex support from glibc: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Regular-Ex...
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Give GNU Global a try http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki/Comparison-with-Si...
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    by fafner 13y ago

    At least they are not trying to reimplement CVS http://www.opencvs.org/ > (Have you tried telling anyone in person that NetBSD still uses CVS? No? Try it and observe their faces.)
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    by fafner 13y ago

    50 years would still be far too long. We shouldn't forget that we are talking about our cultural heritage. Which we are currently damaging by such extensive and draconian copyright law. I'd say 20 years would be good. That way
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    by fafner 13y ago

    I don't think Oracle is the easiest to pronounce because of the c + l. There are certainly better names. DB2 is a simple one. Nothing fancy of fuzzy about it. If you want a word then, how about Firebird.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    That's why the W3C proposal is a proposal for an API which proprietary plug-ins would use. The plug-in will do the decoding and rendering. Therefore the EFF is absolutely not over-reacting. https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/
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    by fafner 13y ago

    We can NOT do this the easy way! Please read the W3C proposal. The proposal is NOT an alternative to proprietary plug-ins but rather a proposal to introduce proprietary plug-ins into HTML5. DRM can't be free software because you could si
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    by fafner 13y ago

    Ilja van Sprundel, the guy who found these vulnerabilities, gave an interesting talk about "unusual bugs" at the CCC conference a couple of years ago. Might be interesting to some of you: Video http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2006/23C
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    by fafner 13y ago

    > besides paying the performance penalty because you have the hard-to-optimize JavaScript in the stack Well the article proofs you quite wrong.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/PythonMarkers
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    by fafner 13y ago

    He's quite unspecific. He just says "it's bad" and that Red Hat is getting its ass kicked by Sun. Not to mention that the talk is from 2007.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    It's installed under a different name: firefox-trunk. It does not replace the existing firefox.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    What were you problems with SystemTap? I've only used it for some minor tracing but so far it actually worked quite nice. Except for the long compile time.
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    by fafner 13y ago

    It's an alternative to SystemTap or dtrace designed for use in embedded systems.
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    KTAP: A New Scripting Dynamic Tracing Tool For Linux(lwn.net)

    28 points by fafner 13y ago|11 comments
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    by fafner 13y ago

    pdf.js works as well.