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by kevinoid 9y ago
Could someone clarify: What's the standard? Is it adopting EFF's DNT policy https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy ? Is it hosting any privacy policy at /.well-known/dnt-policy.txt? Do any tools or browsers u
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by kevinoid 9y ago
I don't understand the advantages, could you clarify? - In what way are RESTyped definitions lighter? A Swagger definition is just a JSON or YAML file and can be used without shipping any additional code (e.g. by https://gi
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by kevinoid 10y ago
It looks like the FICLONE ioctl was chosen over the copy_file_range syscall[1] for use in coreutils due to concerns about copy_file_range not preserving holes.[2] I agree, it would be interesting to know how these compare, both in filesyst
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by kevinoid 10y ago
Sometimes. It depends whether you have the time[1] package installed. 1. https://packages.debian.org/sid/time
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by kevinoid 10y ago
This is a great list, it looks useful! In addition to clib[1] mentioned in this list, there's also CCAN[2]. It's another collection of small C libraries, but unlike clib and this list, the libraries are maintained as a single pro
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by kevinoid 11y ago
For those interested in commemorating in person, there are events planned in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, NYC, and SF https://info.thoughtworks.com/celebrate-aaron-2016 and Seattle https://mako.cc/copyrighteous
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by kevinoid 11y ago
The standardized ones are described in the Shell & Utilities section of POSIX:2008/SUSv4 online at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
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by kevinoid 11y ago
Are you referring to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708423 ? If so, it was fixed in December 2013 and doesn't affect the current Debian release (Jessie), although it does affect the previous re
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by kevinoid 11y ago
This is an elegant solution with a lot of good properties: Equal population balancing, politically unbiased, reasonably understandable by the layman, typically geographically compact districts. But where's the discussion of the desir
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by kevinoid 12y ago
In addition to several of the ones already mentioned by others, I'd include Free as in Freedom - http://faif.us/ - It covers legal and policy issues in technology (particularly FOSS), rather than technology directly, b
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by kevinoid 13y ago
Could anyone comment on how this compares to The Linux Documentation Project < http://tldp.org/> ? It seems like there's a lot of overlap in objective. Why was it necessary to create a competing project (if it is
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by kevinoid 13y ago
I feel your pain. I actually ported Duplicity to Windows about 3 years ago for a client, but the code was never merged (or commented on).[1] In the end, that client decided that it was easier to use a commercial package, given their typica
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by kevinoid 13y ago
> The spec says you must be able to change it. This is true for x86, ARM has the opposite requirement. Presumably esolyt was referring to the Windows 8 Hardware Certification Requirements: Client and Server Systems[1] which state "On a
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by kevinoid 14y ago
Sure. How about adding "This does not require registration in advance." (Or "previous registration" or "a previous account" or whatever is clearest). The problem is users searching for "Create Account" instead of "Sign In" when there is
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by kevinoid 14y ago
You can be "personally in control of the trusted root CA" using SecureBoot. Just replace the Platform Key with your own key.[1] Or am I misunderstanding your objection? 1. http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/owning-your-windows-8-uefi...