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by gue5t 11y ago
FxOS uses an Android kernel: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
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by gue5t 11y ago
The folks at neo900.org and the leftover enthusiasts and hackers at maemo.org are working on building open-source replacements for the proprietary bits (pulseaudio codecs, a couple drivers, various middleware bits) from Maemo. They'd a
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by gue5t 11y ago
You don't need to run a "backend" if you're trying to empower the people who use your software rather than just hold them captive. Who ever thought hacking meant "building centralized services to sell to plebes&quot
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by gue5t 11y ago
Why are all these encrypted chat programs (Signal, Telegram, &c.) still centralized and not TOR-style onion-routed?
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by gue5t 11y ago
You're right that it's certainly within the financial means of anyone to run a web server; "class mobility" is not terribly difficult here. The problem is, as you state, that virtually nobody wants to have to administrat
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by gue5t 11y ago
The web separates endpoints into two classes: the "land-owning" pays-for-a-domain-name server class, and the disenfranchised client class where users live. Interactions between users are necessarily mediated by a server, which is
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by gue5t 11y ago
Quack flags: "natural", silver bullet, forgotten techniques from the past, citation is a documentary
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by gue5t 11y ago
See also: http://langsec.org/
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by gue5t 11y ago
Why do people keep writing domain-specific package managers?
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by gue5t 11y ago
Corporations aren't monoliths, but that's no excuse for the toxic situations known to fester in pockets of mismanagement. If these situations are inevitable in big companies, we'll have to dissolve big companies to get an e
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by gue5t 11y ago
It's a lot easier to produce properties like constant-time execution by construction than to have to shoehorn things into them after the fact. One project that tries to do something like this is Nadeko: https://www.reddit.co
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by gue5t 11y ago
this comment is too real
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by gue5t 11y ago
What precisely is the logical flaw? My line of thought was that it's productive to delineate the costs borne by those who wish to create and share digital objects into two categories: costs of designing/making the thing and costs
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by gue5t 11y ago
"I would argue that your browser should be helping you safely, securely, and easily make purchases of content and services across the web." It's tragic that the author's highest desire for what was envisioned as a global
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by gue5t 11y ago
I think the sentiment was intended to be "fuck the military" in general, not "fuck the military from your specific country but leave the rest of the military alone".
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by gue5t 11y ago
Without the military, who would have killed us?
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by gue5t 11y ago
Thank you. People calling web-render wrappers "native applications" must not realize how great it is when applications are mere coördinators on top of an integrated platform full of services designed to improve user productivity
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by gue5t 11y ago
Maybe then we'll be able to convince people that they can't use benevolent hackers (geohotz, comex, et al.) as the get-out-of-jail-free card for having given money to companies that do not respect them. The current status quo of t
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by gue5t 11y ago
This article is about salary negotiations, not software-engineering negotiations. I was hoping this would be about negotiating feature sets and timelines, which would actually be relevant to the set of people working on software (rather tha
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by gue5t 11y ago
What are some good resources for learning about >10Gbps transceivers (and high-speed communication in general)? I'm not sure where to start a Wikipedia crawl.
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by gue5t 11y ago
One such unix tool is "dtrx", which has been around for ages. http://freecode.com/projects/dtrx
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by gue5t 11y ago
Passive income is the epitome of privilege.
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by gue5t 11y ago
They seem to have accidentally replaced their README with their INSTALL file.
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by gue5t 11y ago
Agreed. "C/C++" as a term tends to be a crutch for cases where the author hasn't thought about the specifics of how their statement might apply differently to each language (much less the various versions and implementat
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by gue5t 11y ago
I think you are technically correct, but your proof contains a non-sequitur: limiting tag-nesting depth doesn't limit the size of a string accepted as HTML, because the textual contents of any tag (or an attribute, or sequenced rather
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by gue5t 11y ago
The point of being a hacker (in the traditional sense) is that your utility function is completely wack. You prefer to make the lights on the screen (and by proxy, the state of the registers) the way you envision than to have free time for
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by gue5t 11y ago
I think you'll find hackers were never trying to change the world. Therein lies the charge of activists and idealists. The original set of hackers, on the other hand, were merely captivated by the ability to explore the realm of comput
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by gue5t 11y ago
I tried it, because although it doesn't let me keep using my web browser to read RSS-syndicated feeds (which often has pictures that don't do well in the terminal), I couldn't tell from the website if it remembers what you&#x
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by gue5t 11y ago
What differentiates this from every other feed reader, aside from a million emoji in the README? I'd like a feed reader that has low memory consumption, marks things I've already seen as read so I don't see them again, and wh
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by gue5t 11y ago
The difficulty of reasoning about strictness and memory consumption in Haskell is by far its biggest flaw. This is why I stopped writing Haskell: even if you understand your own code perfectly, you can't tell how well-behaved it will b

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