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by h91wka 7y ago
> He's harassed and bothered dozens of women in and outside of MIT. In the ideal world any claim like this would be backed up with evidence.
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by h91wka 7y ago
As a professional Erlang developer I don't trust libraries that are heavy on NIFs, and Rust isn't going to change this. Key feature of BEAM VM is process preemption. It makes NIF development harder than it looks, and typically per
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by h91wka 7y ago
rebar3 itself supports reproducible builds via lock files. Applying patches like this instead of embracing the right way that the upstream designed for this exact purpose is just ignorance. I would be totally cool with any incompatible patc
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by h91wka 7y ago
rebar3 itself supports reproducible builds, so applying patches like that and breaking it for anyone who uses it for local development is a problem.
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by h91wka 7y ago
Yes, they do have an agenda, because how else you explain patches like this: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1137200d6b7fcf8fc401b5... Note that they didn't fork the project under some different na
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by h91wka 7y ago
> He missed a big one: you have no way to stop Linux distributions from hacking up your software, and you'll suffer the consequences of whatever they do. I remember the frustration when I found that NixOS maintainers downright cripp
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by h91wka 8y ago
My not-so-tech-savvy relatives use matrix. It's as easy as opening a web page.
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by h91wka 8y ago
Both Signal and Telegram use SMS for authN tokens, enough said. Being secure and censorship proof while relying on mobile networks just doesn't compute. Correction: or at least they used to? Now I realize that I am not completely sure
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by h91wka 8y ago
This claim is... very detached from reality. Source: lived there for 20+ years.
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by h91wka 8y ago
Conversation topic transition diagram in the past few years: Politics -> Trump History -> Trump Computing -> Trump ... Mathematics -> Trump Trump -> Trump * -> Trump That gets old pretty soon.
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by h91wka 8y ago
Western countries indeed have functional democracies, but freedom of speech is not sacred here either. Consider Britain for an extreme example. And you're only talking about the current situation, while I am making a pessimistic predic
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by h91wka 8y ago
Russia. The first bill was passed around 2012. There is one key difference, though. As Russian government generally lacks influence on Western tech companies, they chose to target ISPs, while the EU law in question goes after hosting provid
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by h91wka 8y ago
This is wrong on more levels than it seems from the first glance: 1) I've witnessed creeping internet censorship starting just like this: first it's something as innocuous as "let's protect creators" or "let&#x
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by h91wka 8y ago
That still makes torrenting illegal
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by h91wka 8y ago
Full disclosure: yes, it's my tweet. I reposted it not for the sake of self-promotion, but because I believe this may be important, and I am interested in more attempts to reproduce this "bug". Regarding your comments: my his
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You can't really disable Google history(twitter.com)
2 points by h91wka 8y ago|2 comments