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by liw 10y ago
Alternatively, you could give yourself and your employees a decent amount of vacation each year. Two weeks per year. Sheesh.
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by liw 10y ago
The article this discussion has a lot of the points that make it unpleasant to me. Everything is slow. I don't dare touch the page until it's fully loaded (and I don't always know that has from the browser's progress bar
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by liw 10y ago
Mobile browsing is awful enough that I avoid it as much as possible. There's a few sites I trust or need that I use (wikipedia, a couple of news sites, train time tables), but otherwise I restrict my web browsing to the laptop. It woul
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by liw 10y ago
I wrote mine along similar lines, except without using hashing at all. Files of identical size are compared byte-by-byte instead, until first difference or end of file. As many files as possible at a time, of course, to avoid having to read
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by liw 11y ago
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... That documents that not all addresses have postal codes. This is another example of the real world existing in order to give programmers kicks in the head
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by liw 11y ago
I am most upset at this continued insistence of using a Bel as unit of data.
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by liw 11y ago
Imagine someone who travels around the world with a suitcase of SSDs to deliver data... possibly for criminals, big corporations, or governments. Johnny Mnemonic meets Transporter except plausible.
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by liw 11y ago
I architected and co-implemented Kannel, 15 years ago, at the now-defunct Wapit Ltd. I'm very glad that it's still being used, specially for something as awesome as this.
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First interview with Linus Torvalds (1992)(ibiblio.org)
6 points by liw 11y ago|0 comments
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by liw 11y ago
I maintain that IoT is short for "Insecurity of Things", not "Internet of Things". Makes the IoT hype so much easier to deal with.
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Writing manual pages(liw.fi)
3 points by liw 11y ago|1 comments
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by liw 11y ago
This. Running services under screen or tmux is a kludge at best. For unimportant or personal things, fine, but for any serious services, it's not the way to go.
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by liw 11y ago
I use the MAFF plugin for Firefox. This lets me save a page, with embedded media, to a file. Works with every page, not just selected sites. A generic solution trumps site-specific ones, in my opinion.
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by liw 11y ago
Relevant: https://plus.google.com/+MatthewGarrett/posts/Vx26ccdtdv6
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by liw 11y ago
I don't use TrueCrypt myself, and haven't followed what's happening with it in any detail, but I'll comment on the general question here: why do you need to keep up to date with vulnerabilities in order to keep secure. F
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by liw 11y ago
Wait, what? NASA had tapes with missing Doctor Who episodes?
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by liw 11y ago
I am strongly in favour of tarballs for releases. Git tags can be moved, for example, so that's an extra thing to be careful about, if one is worried about reproducibility. http://yakking.branchable.com/posts/relea
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by liw 11y ago
Why is it gendered?
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by liw 11y ago
Yakking has now been publishing weekly for just over two years, with 103 posts.
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Blog for topics relevant to someone new to free software development(yakking.branchable.com)
4 points by liw 11y ago|2 comments
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by liw 11y ago
If only it were possible to keep those things in git itself. Oh wait, it is.
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by liw 11y ago
A good word for these is anti-features, introduced by Benjamin Mako Hill. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anti-feature
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by liw 11y ago
Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords, even if some people use them as passwords. What's the point of a password you can't change? Once it leaks, you're screwed forever. In the autenticaion realm, there's three main
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by liw 11y ago
If you can't change it, it's a username, not a password.
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by liw 11y ago
All four of those have been making smartphones for many years now. Smartphones are still fragile, crashy little devices with miserable battery life and short lives.
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by liw 11y ago
Everyone who ever makes absolute statements is always wrong about everything. I didn't wear a watch for a long time. I used my phone instead. However, living in a place with proper winter means wearing winter clothes. Digging out a pho
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by liw 12y ago
http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ is my write-up of how I use GTD, in case it helps.
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by liw 12y ago
I'll point out that there is no required software for GTD. You can implement the system for yourself with just paper and pen, or a text file and an editor. (I use a few text files and an editor.)
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by liw 13y ago
It's been ported to FreeBSD as well. And should work on any reasonable Linux distro. http://liw.fi/obnam/download/ has some links.
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Obnam 1.7 (backup software) released(blog.liw.fi)
28 points by liw 13y ago|11 comments

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