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by federico3 11y ago
The main benefit of microservices is that each team can deploy their service independently. This is really useful to reduce the level of required of interaction (and pressure) between teams.
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by federico3 11y ago
I'm quite amazed that the article does not mention Zen Buddhism, given that it's all about the "quiet ego".
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by federico3 11y ago
And there is more: many people in security would agree that education is critical. We educate users to download software from distributions rather than trusting random sources (that might be very safe or not).
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by federico3 11y ago
That's far from enough.
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by federico3 11y ago
This might be a good example: http://www.enricozini.org/2015/free-as-in-facebook/
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by federico3 11y ago
And here comes the good old "it's just a joke". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustJokingJustifi...
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by federico3 11y ago
...and that's why the Debian community is driving reproducible builds: https://reproducible.debian.net/reproducible.html
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by federico3 11y ago
This statistic does not account future deaths. If we were to stop using hydro or wind the number of related deaths would quickly drop. With a lifetime of 100.000 years, today's nuclear waste has a potential to kill tenths millions.
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by federico3 11y ago
Shameless plug: a software "checklist" for desktop users - https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/desktop-security-assistan...
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by federico3 11y ago
Indeed.
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by federico3 11y ago
And that's why there are Linux distributions with security teams doing that work for everybody. How is this service different?
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by federico3 11y ago
Freedom and security on mobile devices is arguably more important than workstations, given the amount of information they manage. I'm amazed there aren't large organizations interested in funding a Debian-on-free-hardware phone.
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by federico3 11y ago
>...in huge parts of the country, it's effectively a necessity to be able to drive... In many European countries sprawls are illegal. Roads, buildings and public transportation are planned to avoid large low-density cities.
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by federico3 11y ago
> for some people the ideal of open source trumps all. You said it as if its a bad thing.
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by federico3 11y ago
How so?
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by federico3 11y ago
That's why I'm looking at Nim http://nim-lang.org/ - it generates C code and compiles through GCC
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by federico3 11y ago
As much as I love it, Python is far from "good enough" for writing a system library.
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by federico3 11y ago
...actually we didn't.
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by federico3 11y ago
This is not different than having foo_bar and foo_Bar as two different variables.
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by federico3 11y ago
Safety! Having "my_cat" and "myCat" as different variables in the same space sometimes ends up with using the wrong variable, especially when using tab completion. The feature is not meant to encourage developers to use
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by federico3 11y ago
Age is not an excuse for being ineffective at your job.
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by federico3 11y ago
14 governments banning GMs (while not banning vaccines and other scares) suggests that dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable.
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by federico3 11y ago
> It's not "the industry" doing the labeling, scientific consensus isn't so easily bought - if it were oil companies (who have far more money than Monsanto et al) would have made sure the science on climate change was
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by federico3 11y ago
Because breeding is thousands of times slower at producing mutations and it gives researchers (and society in general) enough time to assess the health effects of a crop. In 2015 we are still learning about crops that has been around for ce
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by federico3 11y ago
*Tor
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by federico3 11y ago
Not at all, devuan is not considered trustworthy by the majority (to put it mildly).
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by federico3 11y ago
It's very unfortunate that many geeks refuse to learn how licensing work (just like many users refuse to understand software). Some licenses, like GPL/AGPL/LGPL, has been written by teams of lawyers to ensure protection for d
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by federico3 11y ago
Minus the security issues.
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by federico3 11y ago
Wait, are you saying that we should have the right to inspect the software running on our cars? Given that our life depends on it? Given that innocent people has been jailed because of undisclosed bugs? This would prevent car companies from
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by federico3 11y ago
Citation needed.

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