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by fmajid 3y ago
Denial isn’t the sole Big River, it seems.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I recall Cantwell being on the right side in the crypto wars in the nineties, when she was a congresswoman, so I'd be inclined to give her the benefit of doubt. So many alleged Federal privacy regulations are a transparent ploy to pree
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by fmajid 3y ago
I live in the UK, where we can only aspire to technofeudalism, being stuck in medievofeudalism, where most of the land is still owned by the feudal aristocracy, i.e. parasites descended from thugs, and most people don't own the land be
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by fmajid 3y ago
Let's be very clear: when a commercial outfit uses open-source software, the "supplier" is the person who imported the project, not the original author.
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by fmajid 3y ago
There is some protection to be had in using non-mainstream platforms (in my case, Alpine Linux, OpenBSD and Illumos, though I do have some Ubuntu or Pop-OS! laptops).
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by fmajid 3y ago
Systemd provides via libsystemd a call sd_notify() that tells systemd the daemon is not only started but ready to accept connections. libsystemd, being a kitchen-sink like everything else systemd, has a bunch of unrelated functionality incl
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by fmajid 3y ago
Same here, work for a FAANG in London. They don't move more jobs to the UK despite the far lower wages because they don't want to deal with the complexities of managing across time zones.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Mac OS quality control has been declining since they fired Scott Forstall, and it wasn’t amazing under his tenure to begin with.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I've only read "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor" 30 odd years ago, which tries to make the fantastic world of the Arabian Nights mundane in juxtaposition with a magical Chesapeake Bay. The former work better than the l
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by fmajid 3y ago
There's some context in the comments to: http://antirez.com/news/121
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by fmajid 3y ago
I've had to go over open source package licenses as part of due diligence when my startups were acquired, but LGPL was never an issue, unlike AGPL.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Thank you for your work on Redis, Madelyn, and I'm sorry for the utterly unjustified abuse that's been thrown your way simply because you work at AWS. One feature that would be very helpful would be some form of analytics and a me
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by fmajid 3y ago
Are you sure? I'd asked antirez to clarify 6 years ago, and he said he had transferred the Redis IP to Redis Labs, without being more specific (see the comments on http://antirez.com/news/121 ) In any case, congra
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by fmajid 3y ago
The sleaze was in falsely claiming to be the "Home of Redis" at least 2 years before actually becoming so by hiring antirez (I remember seeing their huge billboards on Bryant & 9th in San Francisco, and it rankled).
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by fmajid 3y ago
No, they didn't, although they misleadingly claimed to be the "Home of Redis" for a number of years. Then they hired Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), the author of Redis, and eventually purchased the copyright from him. Very s
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by fmajid 3y ago
KeyDB is great, with major performance improvements, but it has also diverged from Redis and lacks most of the newer features added to Redis since the fork.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Software R&D is a fixed cost. An ERP package with its at most 10,000 installations amortizes that cost on far fewer users than Linux with its millions of licensed installs.
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by fmajid 3y ago
OpenSSH is developed by the OpenBSD project and I have a lot more confidence in them than in any random "enterprise". The issue in this case is that Linux distros took it upon themselves to alter its code base by linking in libsys
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by fmajid 3y ago
There are economies of scale for widely-used software.
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by fmajid 3y ago
It's not the maintenance of the projects the enterprises have to fund (though that is certainly welcome if the mantainers are willing) but the slow, painful work of vetting the code. Google does that with Project Zero but few companies
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by fmajid 3y ago
Yes, it’s the equivalent to the Nobel in that it’s yearly with a big monetary prize, but the most prestigious award in the field remains the Fields medal, which is only awarded every four years.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Because many HN readers have moved on from Windows.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Many: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/23/chinese_nsa_linux/
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by fmajid 3y ago
China is 20& of the world's population...
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by fmajid 3y ago
2 years of one engineer's time is very cheap, compared to e.g. the NSA's CryptoAG scam. I'd say most likely a Chinese intelligence plant, kindly offering to relieve the burden of the original author of xz.
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by fmajid 3y ago
In this case the maintainer is the one who deliberately introduced the backdoor. As Andres Freund puts it deadpan, "Given the apparent upstream involvement I have not reported an upstream bug."
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by fmajid 3y ago
Or Apple's Swift for that matter. Or Oracle's MySQL or Java. Or more recently Redis. It has nothing to do with the technical merits of the technology, but with suspicions of the intentions of the company behind it and a desire not
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by fmajid 3y ago
No, it’s built using the .NET stack most Linux users won’t touch with a 20-ft pole.
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by fmajid 3y ago
KeyDB, the multithreaded fork of Redis, is already way faster as a KV store.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Or lazy lawyers using ChatGPT and hoping no one will notice. I think it’s clear Vultr noticed now.

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