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by lwf 10y ago
Sure, which is why we have `libopenssl0.9.8`, `libopenssl1.0.0`, etc. In Debian at least, the policy is that package names for libraries should include something approximating the SONAME to allow for exactly this. Eventually you drop the ol
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by lwf 10y ago
The Senate version of the bill is S.283 https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/283 If you live in the United States and want to voice your opinion with your senator, http://www.dig
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by lwf 10y ago
If you have an existing Ubuntu system you trust, you can verify the authenticity of this release via: $ gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg --verify SHA256SUMS{.gpg,} g
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by lwf 10y ago
And even then, you could keep that record in local storage.
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by lwf 11y ago
Yes, and I'm guessing gp was suggesting that I might want my units in dm rather than cm.
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by lwf 11y ago
> for many apps That's the app developer's fault. They thought they were being smart by saying "oh, if you're in en_GB, lets give you Yelp.co.uk by default". And yeah, sure, that works for most users. On the othe
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by lwf 11y ago
In re the Ransomware point, Dropbox provides all users with access to snapshots of their files going back 30 days: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/11 So, as long as you notice before the clock runs out, you should
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by lwf 11y ago
Referring to these as "rules" when they aren't is exactly what great-grandparent was warning against: > […] will always end up being dogmatized and multiplying complexity needlessly. If more than one process helps you get
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by lwf 11y ago
There's nothing fundamental that means that has to be the case; in fact, Debian does (in some cases) ship multiple library versions in a stable release. The primary reason this is usually not done is the work required: it means you nee
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by lwf 11y ago
Launchpad pushes people into two options: - Receive all emails about this bug except comments - Only receive email when this bug is closed There's also an "this bug affects me", which records that and then gives you the optio
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by lwf 11y ago
Most of the dependency weight is due to -doc packages. For example, `texlive-latex-extra-doc` is a 325MiB download. Here's a (partial) listing of the dependencies that were automatically selected sorted by download size†: https:/
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by lwf 11y ago
That sounds like a local caching issue — an `apt-get update` first usually fixes that for me. Or, you have a third-party APT repository specified in `/etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*}` that you didn't install the keys fo
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by lwf 11y ago
In the United States at least, ™ doesn't mean "pending" per se — you can use ™ even when you have a registered mark, and marks do not need* to be registered to be valid: > Is registration of my mark required? > No. You
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by lwf 11y ago
https://matrix.org/ — Matrix is increasingly looking like the only sensible player; they get so many things right: * Federated * Fault-tolerant * Cryptographic attestations of messages
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by lwf 11y ago
Facebook's already doing similar things in their Messenger app with some narrowly-defined usecases, such as ordering an Uber: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/12/introducing-transportat...
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by lwf 11y ago
> Facebook, Google, and the DOD all rely on yubikeys now to mitigate a lot of remote attack vectors. Yes, but not as the sole factor . I've overseen a rather large deployment of Yubikeys, and I believe they provide a huge security
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by lwf 11y ago
Ubuntu has actively moved away from directing users to Launchpad to report a bug from a crash, and instead moved towards reporting to a crash database where they're triaged by actual developers. Debian, in a similar vein, doesn't
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by lwf 11y ago
GitLab is still centralised (whomever is hosting…), not distributed.
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by lwf 11y ago
Sure, SmartCards are two-factor, unless the token has a hardware/software bug. This has happened in the past[1]. I'm a huge fan of the CCID/GPG capabilities of the YubiKey, but I'm not sure they should be used in isolati
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by lwf 11y ago
Greenfielding when there's already existing code to do what you want adds bloat and allows for regressions. Using previously-developed frameworks for e.g. validation, can help reduce bloat, and can help ensure the codebase is maintaina
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by lwf 11y ago
> Tokyo University has this pledge to make sure basically no military research is done on campus, which I feel to be pretty laudable. So, you move it off-campus. See e.g. the MIT Lincoln Lab, https://www.ll.mit.edu/
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by lwf 11y ago
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gobby
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by lwf 11y ago
This. The X220 is still my day-to-day personal laptop, and I've yet to find anything else that's comparable (key feel, small size, durability, ease of service...)
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by lwf 11y ago
Oh, welp. That's what I get for gendering names. My apologies, to both you and Kelsey.
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by lwf 11y ago
The author is a she.
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MkLinux: Apple-Funded Port of Linux to the Power Mac / Mach Microkernel(mklinux.org)
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by lwf 11y ago
It was actually neither, most probably. Rather, a prompt generated by https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/Plymouth/
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by lwf 11y ago
(Zulip committer here) Definitely agree that user onboarding could use some work, feel free to send feedback. hn-username @zulip.org , or https://groups.google.com/group/zulip-devel
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by lwf 11y ago
So, I'm not sure the optional warranty disclaimer variant is actually sufficient under US law. Disclaimers of implied warranties, e.g. warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, need to be explicitly, and "c
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by lwf 11y ago
and written by a former Debian Project Leader: http://www.wtfpl.net/about/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar

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