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by gioele 14y ago
Nostalgia aside, the most important part of the (scarce) article is > “The Minitel was innovative for about 20 minutes, and died due to where it failed: by its centralization that never allowed it to evolve technologically: because it w
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by gioele 14y ago
These articles may interest you: http://www.dissidentblog.org/en/articles/hungarian-democracy... , http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/12/22/fascis...
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by gioele 14y ago
> They're the only ones people can vote for to express a negative opinion on the EU. Demonstrably false. There are many decent parties whose position is "we want to stay in the EU, but a completely reformed and much better EU". People u
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by gioele 14y ago
Search for "party" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-nazism , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neo-Nazi_organizations and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism . Every European country has a nation-wide neo-fascist party a
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by gioele 14y ago
> (By contrast, Latin and Ancient Greek aren't things anyone argues about in Europe today.) Not that true. There is a growing political problem with the use of English in EU, also at the technical level (XML element names, for examples)
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by gioele 14y ago
plus RTL inside LTR and LTR inside RTL. Have a look at Wikipedia's pages of Arabic dishes for good examples.
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by gioele 14y ago
Bright people use other people's problems to their advantage: in pg's viaweb they deliberately put extra `cgi-bin/` every here and there just to confuse their competitors. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589
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by gioele 14y ago
The difference is that, once you have chosen who to trust, you are not forced to trust them forever; you can change who you trust whenever you want and for whatever reason you may have. Can you say "I would like to keep using Exchange, but
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by gioele 14y ago
Reminded me of Mark Pilgrim's One: «My attempts at compartmentalization have failed. There is only one inbox.» http://web.archive.org/web/20110514112041/http://diveintomar...
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by gioele 14y ago
Same here: I thought somebody proposed the use of different _self_ objects in Ruby procs to differentiate between the original containing object and the calling containing object.
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by gioele 14y ago
That is exactly what mercurial users say about code distributed on github. :) Please respect the author's right to decide how to distribute his code.
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by gioele 14y ago
> If you want any kind of speed you've got to generate shaders on the fly based on which features you've turned on or off. Otherwise you create an uber shaders that's show as shit. I think jwz's point is that he prefers having his old c
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by gioele 14y ago
Strange but true, the widespread `git lola` has not been mentioned yet. [alias] lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all http://blog.k
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by gioele 14y ago
> "good only if revolutionary" sure would make for a sparse & boring HN front page... Sparse yes, boring I don't think so.
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by gioele 14y ago
There is a worldwide political pressure around DNS filtering, redirection and manipulation. [1,2,3] The same pressure is going to come to IP as soon as DNS-poisoning workarounds will spread to more lay people. Probably China is trying to sh
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by gioele 14y ago
From the draft, «The main rules of the Autonomous Internet DNS are defined as following: * Rule 1: Each AIP network itself has a complete set of Domain Name System, which support traditional domain name resolution within the AIP. * Rule 2:
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Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots(tools.ietf.org)
121 points by gioele 14y ago|79 comments
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by gioele 14y ago
It looks a lot as VDE (virtual distributed ethernet) [0] (quickly referenced in the paper). Qemu used to support VDE natively for a while, then the development stopped and its support has been removed from mainline. It was cool while it las
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by gioele 14y ago
> 4. If, like last.fm, you were also allowing third-parties to authorize users... ... then you should stop doing that and you should start using OAuth, so the client application never sees your user's password.
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by gioele 14y ago
It is OK to suggest users to change their passwords, but shouldn't they stop sending their session cookies over plain HTTP? Session hijacking is now widespread and an easy way to get into non-important accounts and then escalate to more int
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by gioele 14y ago
> The move to secure boot means that firmware updates are signed Does this mean that flashrom will no longer be usable? Not even on boards that allow disabling secure boot?
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by gioele 14y ago
> Hardware vendors could already simply choose not to implement secure boot You are right, but if we had an easily installable coreboot we could just ignore whatever comes with the computer and just flash coreboot over the existing firm
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by gioele 14y ago
Maybe it is the right time to make all this rage converge into contributions to coreboot [1]. A free working alternative is the only practical way out of this future kind of subjection. Google has already contributed core for some current I
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by gioele 14y ago
Part 1 is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965150
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TCP optimization for video streaming, part 2(blog.sesse.net)
3 points by gioele 14y ago|1 comments
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by gioele 14y ago
> Here in Italy there are at least three kinds that are fairly common. Well, one of them is the Europlug (the "small" 2-pin variant) and that works everywhere in EU except UK. The problem is that the two grounded versions are peculiar t
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by gioele 14y ago
> Yes, I am sure Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank with the $99 that RedHat is going to pay them. This is probably a foot in the door towards more cumbersome and restrictive measures on servers , where security matters much
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by gioele 14y ago
> Our first stage bootloader will be signed with a Microsoft key. It is a sad sad day.
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by gioele 14y ago
It is a (design-wise) shame that the UK plug design forces adapters to be so big. Europlug USB adapters are much more slicker http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/339903558/_Euro_Plug_USB_T... .
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by gioele 14y ago
> It's not a matter of signed packages and security, but of corporate domination of technology and restriction of use of a hardware device you legitimately own. It is a matter of corporate domination of technology and restriction of use

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