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by mdb31 4y ago
Without drowning in fan noise? This world... Sure, I guess you can get a Mac Studio, or some other 'workstation' class PC, but your switch will still need to be within a few meters of that endpoint, and it's not going to be v
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by mdb31 4y ago
No, it's not like that at all. My original point was that most end-users don't care about the license. Implied was that most end-users determine the state of the market, but whatever. So, here I am, 4 downvotes to my name for
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by mdb31 4y ago
25Gb/s is just overkill for residential use. It's really cool that's it's available, but I fail to see a use case over my 500Mb/s home connection. Even for the servers that I manage and that are bandwidth-heavy, 10G
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by mdb31 4y ago
My take: end-users don't care very much about the license, and even for technical users, the value of an 'open' license is overstated. I simply cannot fix bugs in, say, GCC, and it would also be pretty hard for me to pay some
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EULAs Aren’t Inherently Evil – Proprietary done right can beat free and open(writing.kemitchell.com)
21 points by mdb31 4y ago|46 comments
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by mdb31 4y ago
Reminds me of the "danger, radiation!" warning sign a local laundry put on its doors. Probably pretty effective in dissuading intruders. But, they got shut down earlier this year with a "seized by the authorities" action
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by mdb31 4y ago
The Spectrum was probably the last computer I truly understood. Not at a hardware level (too young for that, plus the Spectrum squeezes so much functionality out of the cheapest chips available at the time that it's not trivial to reve
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by mdb31 4y ago
Yes, there really needs to be some form of certification for lithium-ion (and other...) batteries used in personal transportation devices. The recipe is really simple: insufficient structural integrity of the entire product leading to flexi
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by mdb31 4y ago
"Provided a text document with specific fonts" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Pretty much by definition, text documents don't supply fonts. So, reading text documents is still fine, unless your OS "helpfully"
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by mdb31 4y ago
Yup, there were some premature release announcements, but it seems it's really available now. (Note that OpenBSD releases come out twice a year, pretty much like clockwork, and that version numbers aren't indicative of the magnitu
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by mdb31 4y ago
For anyone asking why enterprises disallow any code with the letters "GPL" anywhere near the license, here is your answer... Is it GPL? GPLv2? GPLv2+? LGPL? AGPL? The majority will enjoy their absolute freedom... to stay far, far
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by mdb31 4y ago
Interesting, and not just in the "memory safe languages will save the world" sense. Most of my bugs are either in the category 'logic' or 'ux'. For the former, unit tests remain the best defense IMHO, but there
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Taxonomy of In-the-Wild Exploitation(noncombatant.org)
2 points by mdb31 4y ago|1 comments
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by mdb31 4y ago
Not sure what to make of this. Given the active security incident, is "Heroku-like" really a recommendation? But even past that, what does this give me beyond AWS CodePipelines? All comparisons on the site seem to be against &quot
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by mdb31 4y ago
"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted
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by mdb31 4y ago
Tangentially related point: the names of certain kinds of sticky tape are, similar to vegetables, pretty much inscrutable between English and other languages. I've been looked at (and treated by) staff at Home Depot et al as a complete
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by mdb31 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the "algorithm" is "we count the number of end-user flags/reports, and if > X we remove it"? Public knowledge of what "X" is doesn't really help, I think, other than to aid spa
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by mdb31 4y ago
So, I'm not entirely sure what this post is describing. It doesn't seem like there is a "kernel.org transparency log" in general, but it's something that the blog author is maintaining? However, a "Git transpar
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Monitoring the kernel.org Transparency Log for a year(linderud.dev)
38 points by mdb31 4y ago|4 comments
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by mdb31 4y ago
Except that's not what's happening here. When doing anything on the internet "how are you going to control spam and obvious trolls" is question #1. Twitter has an answer to that: we mechanically and/or personally id
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by mdb31 4y ago
Yes, like the lobste.rs moderation log. It's cute because, like, nobody cares.
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by mdb31 4y ago
Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions. Don't like that? Start your own platform, and see how that turns out. Related: yes, I do support interoperability require
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by mdb31 4y ago
Cool! Now I can finally get rid of some of the paper tapes holding my priceless PDP-11 BASIC programs. Not sure yet if I dare look at the results (not, mind you, because I think the reader may have failed, just that 11-year-old-me probably
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by mdb31 4y ago
Yes, but without inventing a time machine to go back to 1985 or so (at which time the safe option did not exist , so better invent temporal code backporting as well), that's not a viable option. Any change to Excel's 'open
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by mdb31 4y ago
PSA: if you use Excel as intended, you would just go File/New/Blank Worksheet, switch to the Data tab, then use the 'From Text/CSV' wizard to specify the data types for each column in your data source, neatly bypass
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by mdb31 4y ago
Sure, as I said "a single static class: don't do that" -- however, the definition of a singleton, as per the GoF, is just " something that restricts the instantiation of a class to one instance". Nothing about glob
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by mdb31 4y ago
As a simple C# (and previously VB.NET, sorry not sorry) wageslave, I've never understood the disdain towards singletons. A single static class that is referenced all over the place (or, alternatively, some huge state object): sure, don
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by mdb31 5y ago
Thank you very much! Sort-of surprising there is so much discussion about a long-fixed bug, yet, there we are...
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by mdb31 5y ago
I'm not sure we disagree? If you read The Economist weekly, you should be fine (although you can still be caught out not knowing about, say, today's Oscar's <tm, now go away> scandal. But completely disconnecting from &
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by mdb31 5y ago
I love pretty much everything about this. From emulating a bunch of Z80s (a processor I know and love from my ZX81/Spectrum times...), to building it into an enclosure suitable for on-train use (in other words: how to tell me you'

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