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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Ha, I just posted about this in another discussion about an hour ago [0]. It astonishes me how a link to an article tucked away in a thread can find itself in the top page of HN an hour later. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I would argue that you really did learn the Unix way with FreeBSD.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I think it might be because most airlines don't make almost any profit on tickets themselves, but now rely on selling frequent flyer miles to companies to turn profit [0]. In other words, ticket purchasers are not their costumers anymo
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
True, but one of the advantages of the BSDs is that they provide an alternative way of doing things. For FreeBSD, you have Jails with Pot and Potluck and other alternatives. It might not be the de facto way of doing things, but the BSDs hav
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
To be fair, Debian used to work even for FreeBSD back in the day with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Yeah, it seems to be an ever increasing issue. I wonder what would be the minimum server specs to successfully fend off the hug of death.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Gotem
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
The only thing valuable that academic journals and conferences bring to the table is the peer-review process. Which, to be fair, is needed. In this case, the peer review is being conducted without the need for publishing venues. However, I
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
If I am trying to contact a business, it is because I have a question that their site wasn't able to answer, or I need to contact a representative to do something I can't do on the website (think canceling a service). Having a tal
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Parents on spot in Mexico piracy ads (2006)(variety.com)
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Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers (2009)(latimes.com)
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
You can see evidence of this genetic experimentation with crops in Moray, a set of terraces built at different altitude levels created by the Inca culture in the Andes mountains [0]. It is believed that the Incas would acclimatize crops to
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I literally just bought some nixtamal online the other day, I wish there were more shops that carried it. More interestingly, I was extremely surprised to discover that nixtamal is completely absent in South America, despite the high consum
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I think the main difference is that Apple already controlled what operating systems can run Safari via other mediums. Adding this to Safari effectively changes nothing regarding the web ecosystem on Apple devices.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Yep, as well as charging for support and consulting. Anything that has to do with developers'/maintainers' time should not be expected to come for free in FOSS projects. Unless the devs are happy to do such work for free ofc.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I am of the idea that software should be free, but software development should be for profit.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I actually created an over-engineered LaTex template for my invoices, and it was such a pain in the arse. I can't believe I never thought of using Google Sheets or Excel.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
What interests me about the article is the fallout between astronomy and astrology, akin to the fallout between medicine and magic. Western scientific culture is so obsessed with the tangible that we minimize (and to some point ridicule) sp
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
> What seems new to me is that software that used to be good deteriorates I think you can say the same about any industry, not only software. There are countless products that "aren't made how they used to".
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I am not a hopeful romantic, but the EU has been investing on vendor neutral web-browsers like Nyxt [0] and the UR Browser [1] through the Horizon Europe program. I doubt that legislators (at least in the EU) will view this as a positive de
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I think people are attached to Wordpress for the same reason we are attached to Javascript. At the time, it was one of the only ways of easily creating a blog. The problem with Wordpress is that once you need to do something outside of the
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Yep, that is actually a big problem (benefit?) with Wordpress, were all the code is redistributable because of the GPL license. So paid plugin developers are in this weird limbo were they are charging people for their plugins without tellin
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Thank you for using an MIT license :)
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
You are indeed correct, should have dug a little deeper (or maybe not doubt the OSD's definition in the first place). Thank you for the clarification :)
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Just wait until they add AI voice assistants to the windshield wipers.
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
After a bit of brushing up on my acronyms, one could indeed use FOSS or FLOSS to denote that a piece of software is either free (or libre) or just open source [0]. The term "open source" is not referring to software with a free li
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
Hence why the "free" in "Free and Open Source Software" really matters. :)
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The Mitnick Attack(wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca)
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
I first learned about Mitnick on a network security course where we had to recreate the now iconic TCP spoofing attack he employed against Shimomura's X-Terminal [0]. He was definitely a legend. [0] http://wiki.cas.mcmaster
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by kykeonaut 3y ago
> Proof of work, while extremely wasteful, does the job. True, yet you could even have Proof of Work without cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is used to incentivize PoW which attracts more people to the blockchain and strengthens the net

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