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by growse 4y ago
Not quite sure what the logic of "I want to use this tool because it provides me value, but I also want to sabotage the development process of this tool" is meant to be.
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by growse 4y ago
> When you install a compiler who's respecting your privacy, and without opt in it starts sending telemetry, you can't expect that to go well. Are the currently deployed and used versions of the go compiler going to suddenly st
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by growse 4y ago
> So, is it time to fork the go codebase and have a telemetry-free version? Why is maintaining a fork and remembering to use it everywhere easier than just setting an environment variable? > ... product because "everyone seems to
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by growse 4y ago
> A lot of people, me included, are upset because now all of the SMS message history within Signal is locked inside Signal, and it doesn't seem to transfer to the default app. I seem to remember there was a button to export SMS hist
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by growse 4y ago
> Couldn't disagree more. Having a singular app handle all messaging was brilliant and a key feature to bring people over. > Apple disallowing competition isn't a good reason to remove something useful for Android users. Nic
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by growse 4y ago
It's not that ECC consumes power, it's that systems that support ECC tend to consume more idle power (because they're larger etc.)
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by growse 4y ago
> What if you are, say, an animal rights activist, silently protesting in front of a slaughterhouse? Or an advocate for criminal justice reform, silently protesting in front of a private prison? Or an environmental activist, silently pro
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by growse 4y ago
I feel like the entire concept of version control is "unintuitive", especially when you have multiple people working on the same codebase. What's worse, is that a lot of people who seem to be asking for the same workflows a
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by growse 4y ago
Interesting. I do remember something about some French people getting a bit uppetiy and moving to Belgium. Whether that had any actual measurable effect on the economy is the actual question though. I suspect not...
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by growse 4y ago
> Attempting to solve problems with micro-targeted taxes is a rather unfair strategy that is also unlikely to work. This article claims that a private jet is <2 orders of magnitude worse than more conventional transport. That means th
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by growse 4y ago
We get it. You think sex and gender are the same thing, and have very narrow views on how they're defined and a woeful lack of acknowledgement that there's even a sliver of complexity here. But you're not even trying to argue
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by growse 4y ago
You expressed incredulity that someone would define men/women in a reductive way (they didn't by the way, you missed their point) and then in the very next paragraph demonstrated that you have an extraordinarily reductive view of
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by growse 4y ago
> Because that innovation is market driven and turns out "brick of glass" is what people want, no matter what you or I or the Brussels bureaucrats say. History has countless examples of how the market is very bad at accounting
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by growse 4y ago
> There should be no settling, no clearing, every transaction should be immediate and final. I hear they're trying this idea on something called the "Blockchain" and that it's all going really well.
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by growse 4y ago
POSIX is not a platform.
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by growse 4y ago
You need an IPv4 src address to connect out to an IPv4 origin.
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by growse 4y ago
> Why? It hasn't changed in years. It has though. RCS has come along, which means that you might send an SMS to someone, and their response gets "upgraded" to RCS. If your app doesn't support RCS (and it's imposs
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by growse 4y ago
Huh, wasn't aware of that. Reading through, it looks like this is just talking about Microsoft "Secured-core" hardware, which seems to be hardware specifically marketed to provide a Microsoft-certified boot chain. I'm no
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by growse 4y ago
I keep hearing that Microsoft is making things "harder", but I've yet to see any evidence that this is true. All I can see is that Microsoft mandate that laptop hardware sold with Windows installed have secure boot capabili
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by growse 4y ago
> That never worked and will not work now. You can't choose something that's not being offered. Why do you think you're entitled to something that's not being offered? I think there's a general point here about h
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by growse 4y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by growse 4y ago
> This is exactly NOT the way to do things in open source. Someone made a decision, others didn't like it so forked. Sounds like open source is working exactly as it should?
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by growse 4y ago
It sounds like you're demanding to use someone's service on your own terms. I'm not sure why it's obvious that the service provider is under any obligation to entertain your desires. So.... vote with your feet and choose
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by growse 4y ago
No-one's making you use it. Choose a distro that doesn't package it - there's plenty to choose from.
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by growse 4y ago
DNS (without DNSSEC) doesn't claim to be secure.
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by growse 4y ago
> > there's no way to revoke .COM > I think there is no need to revoke .COM because .COM can attack any domain within .COM anyway, even with/without DNSSEC and/or with/without CAs? Or what am I missing? The poin
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by growse 4y ago
The owner of com. (which is effectively the US govt) can hand out whatever records it likes for anything under .com. All DNSSEC gives you is a false sense of security as you merrily validate signatures on spoofed records because they'r
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by growse 4y ago
Because for some people, the notion of sovereignty is more important than human rights. The problem is that then leads you to a strange place where you're ok with a government persecuting / murdering its own people because it&#x27
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by growse 4y ago
Ah yes, "retention". Or: "we know how bad this place is to work, so we have to backload your pay to convince you to stick around once you work that out too".
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by growse 4y ago
> Why do they need to hedge against rates falling? The value of a mixed portfolio of stocks and bonds will also move with changes in rates. Because the value of their present liability goes up more than the value of their bond assets, me

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