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by lbeltrame 8y ago
IMO it's also the release model, which follows the even (stable) and odd (unstable) version numbers. When 2.10 was released there had been lots of unstable versions prior to that, but as they're marked unstable (and can be) dist
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> Surely most of the problems with the opensource tools they were using could have been resolved by helping the opensource projects fix bugs. Actually LiMux did that. From an external PoV, I saw quite a number of commits coming from LiMu
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
Although not all faults can be attributed to the current mayor, the current one is IMO the worst the city could have: elected because she was "honest" and green (as in inexperienced). It turns out that real or perceived morality w
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> I don't like that cz.nic decided to make something so different than vanilla OpenWRT. They said it so themselves. When TurrisOS was made (don't forget that it also runs on the older Turris routers), openWRT was stagnating (th
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
Those are digital (unused) licenses, that although can't technically be resold, they "can" be in Europe as they contradict a ruling made in 2012 (I don't have time to dig the link up, unfortunately).
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> Collective bargaining is practically a profanity in the US While this is not true for all Europe, excessive "collective" (quotes intended) bargaining in my country has ensured indeed a sort of equality... an equality where e
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> Italy's relationship with science is mired in corruption Not any more than any other countries. I've dealt with many people from all over Europe thanks to a particular project I was involved in, and bad behaviors were truly c
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
The problem was not only related to the (ridicolous) attempt to indict, but rather with the fact that nowadays in my country (at least for the media), being prosecuted means you are guilty. Another, equally embarassing story (a little off
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
One note since I see many people talking about "KDE": the term does not refer to the DE anymore since many years, and instead refers to the community behind it. In fact, the DE is just Plasma, while Applications (like dolphin, a
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
Actually, most of the packages in openSUSE related to KDE software are handled by community people: two SUSE employees are part of the team, but they don't work on KDE stuff as part of their day jobs. Disclaimer: I co-maintain the KDE
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
For the record, a popular ISP in my country designed its own router, which uses shell commands to compute the password hash, without even attempting to sanitize input[1]. If you have access to the login page (and until recently, it was also
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> of the road infrastructure here, bridge included, had been privatized That's not correct. They're not privately owned: they're a sort of lease (I can't quite translate "concessione") because the government
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
> unfortunate and doubtlessly due to gnupg's lack of a real API Doesn't GPGME (also developed by the GPG people) offer said API?
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
Around the same time there was another experiment, from Commodore instead, that didn't turn up that well either, the CDTV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV I remember seeing that in a store or two back
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
According to Werner Koch (link to the email posted by other commenters already), the GnuPG people weren't contacted about this issue. So that comment from the researcher looks a little out of place, iMO.
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
I skimmed through the posts in the thread but no one seemed to mention the major pet peeve that (IMO) PyQt has, which is not the licensing, but the development model: 1. SIP files are generated and dropped into the tarball: no way to do tha
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
That was just the tip of the iceberg though. That place had some serious thefts going on. Once, a group leader's iMac was stolen one day: it was tied to the table with a Kensington lock, but the chain was just sawed off...
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by lbeltrame 8y ago
Back during my Ph.D. days people stole coffee capsules from others. I remember having a few in my drawer, only to find none the following morning. It can be mind-boggling, but it definitely happens.
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by lbeltrame 9y ago
A question: how it is for people doing research but not in traditional academic settings (e.g. no profit foundations)? As far as I understand, you're tied to grants anyway to get money, but there's no clear concept of "tenure
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by lbeltrame 9y ago
This is true in life sciences as well although IIRC this is more of a tradition than something written and defined.
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by lbeltrame 9y ago
Or you can limit the percentage of funds you can get from certain types of entities in order to reduce or prevent dependence. My current employer (a research no profit) has this limitation in its basic rules
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by lbeltrame 9y ago
> The problem isn't the jargon itself, it's the fact that most labs have built up decades of institutional knowledge that they hoard for fear of their research being "scooped." Unfortunately it's the same for sof
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by lbeltrame 13y ago
I'm not sure if I can understand the reasoning behind this comment, but if I were to follow up, there have been (not sure how factual), in the case of the so-called Arab Spring (or Arab Winter, as I call it, given what happened afterwards),
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by lbeltrame 14y ago
KDE has a policy of not relying on non-foss services, as explained more eloquently by the other reply to this comment.