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871.
by liotier 11y ago
TL;DR : don't use synchronous channels for asynchronous communication. There is a continuum from real-time discursive to solid archived legally-binding documentation, with a whole nuanced palette in-between... But - everything in chatr
872.
by liotier 11y ago
So, JSON passed between a bunch of Javascript things from Github means that the browser is the new EMACS ?
873.
by liotier 11y ago
There are already many applications that won't run on my Cyanogenmod 4.4.4 because I refuse to have any Google binaries onboard... I hope that this is not the future.
874.
by liotier 11y ago
I just like Senegal and I have quite a few Senegalese friends in Paris. My Openstreetmap activity there started with cycling there with no usable maps at all in 2008... Some time after coming back I discovered OSM and began making the maps
875.
by liotier 11y ago
Crowdsourced manual kerning !
876.
by liotier 11y ago
> "A series of public squares, and in the middle of each one a church and churchyard. It can be extended over and over again - it's a perfect grid plan" Wow - I have been extensively mapping Senegal on Openstreetmap and th
877.
FOSDEM 2016 – The state of XMPP and instant messaging [pdf](fosdem.org)
5 points by liotier 11y ago|0 comments
878.
Debian will ship ZFS as a source-only DKMS module(blog.halon.org.uk)
6 points by liotier 11y ago|2 comments
879.
by liotier 11y ago
Not just the self-signed ones - also some others... I wonder what the whitelist is. The proxy is the infamous McAfee Web Gateway - I don't know if the list is user-maintained or supplied by the vendor.
880.
by liotier 11y ago
> Firefox refuses to let me look at this page because of a certificate problem. Me too, but I know why: my employer's proxy MITMs any SSL connections whose certificate authority it does not recognize as bona fide. Quite aggravating
881.
by liotier 11y ago
I thought about it and found it a bit too social and too insular - having "rooms" as a central feature feels odd to me who would rather use a global search of the whole file-sharing network. Also, having to run a desktop client wa
882.
“Bit Rot Thursday” – how to deal with old code you left in your wake(blogs.perl.org)
3 points by liotier 11y ago|0 comments
883.
by liotier 11y ago
In the good old days of using (Napster|Audiogalaxy|Gnutella) I could point the file-sharing application to my collection and presto - it was all shared and available to whoever was interested. Nowadays, I just share whatever torrent I have
884.
by liotier 11y ago
> I don't agree with the apparently widespread conclusion [..] that not publishing is better than publishing using a less-than-lovely platform And moreover, I don't agree that not communicating is better than communicating usin
885.
by liotier 11y ago
Reminds me of TERCOM's predecessor, DSMAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM#DSMAC
886.
by liotier 11y ago
Disclosing which packages you download might tell an attacker something about your configuration. Of course, the tradeoff with download throughput might not be valuable for most users.
887.
Always download Debian packages using Tor – the simple recipe(people.skolelinux.org)
3 points by liotier 11y ago|3 comments
888.
by liotier 11y ago
> -only- distribute their app via Google Play And even if after much begging you get a .apk from them, it often still won't work on a Google-free Android because it uses the damn Google API that requires the Google binaries that you
889.
by liotier 11y ago
But why would golang developers concentrate in such touristy locations ?
890.
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are mortal enemies(dagolden.com)
4 points by liotier 11y ago|0 comments
891.
by liotier 11y ago
Wow - the WAD editors have come a long way since 1995 - and I guess that with contemporary computing power, one doesn't have to wait a few minutes while the level renders, only to find a stupid bug to fix and render again... Which remi
892.
by liotier 11y ago
For an analogous tool, see http://shorewall.net/Shorewall-Lite.html - text configuration files instead of web UI. Also, Shorewall is much more mature - although I don't know if the Shorewall-lite distributed configurat
893.
/r/IPv6 Redditors point out the disappointing state of Android IPv6 support(reddit.com)
3 points by liotier 11y ago|0 comments
894.
by liotier 11y ago
> new residents, who want to add bike lanes. The congregation doesn't like that because it would reduce on-street parking. One can easily imagine the bike lanes being used as stealth exclusionary devices, which depresses me as I wou
895.
Air-gap bypass techniques using smart electromagnetic interferences [pdf](botconf.eu)
2 points by liotier 11y ago|1 comments
896.
by liotier 11y ago
Regulatory compliance is secondary to having an hospital information system at all - remember that this software aims at the developing world.
897.
by liotier 11y ago
Yes, but the access to sources creates transparency and furthermore the lack of lock-in creates trust... Very much like in romantic relationships where freedom of choice actually strengthen the bonds. Users who feel locked-in will be planni
898.
by liotier 11y ago
I found myself thinking "WFT - this is Chrome, not desktop and with an Android dependency at that !" and then realizing that it may be time to question my assumptions about "desktop" meaning Linux/Windows/Macin
899.
Open Geo interview – Peter Karich, GraphHopper(blog.opencagedata.com)
11 points by liotier 11y ago|0 comments
900.
A look at Darktable 2.0(lwn.net)
64 points by liotier 11y ago|10 comments

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