meruru

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by meruru 7y ago
The Pinebook too.
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by meruru 7y ago
I hope you don't code the way you talk ;) Seriously though, it's bad writing. Not a crime as bad as starting an off-topic subthread, but still...
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by meruru 7y ago
Sun doesn't exist anymore though. Is getting sued even a possibility?
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by meruru 7y ago
How does this compare to other methods of isolation / running untrusted code? What are the pros and cons?
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by meruru 7y ago
>at a large 3-letter-starting-with-S Unix company (no, not the graphics guys, nor the suing-Linux-for-Microsoft guys) Is it Sun? Why use more than 20 words to (probably) mean "for Sun"?
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by meruru 7y ago
>Saudi Arabia an enemy too Drop the "enemy" talk. If there are good reasons not to do business with Saudi Arabia you can state them and if there are good reasons not to do business with America you can state those as well. None
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by meruru 7y ago
It's a dictatorship with no concern for human rights. You decide whether to call it an "enemy" or not, but I think we should definitely avoid doing business with them.
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by meruru 7y ago
It's funny that you say that because FreeBSD's ZFS support is the reason I use FreeBSD, and it's the number 1 thing I wish OpenBSD had.
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by meruru 7y ago
It would be nice if you provided sources when making such harsh accusations.
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by meruru 7y ago
There's nothing I want more out of my computing environment than being able to run OpenBSD with ZFS.
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by meruru 7y ago
I'm fine with that as long as it's clearly explained. The issue was that the program would nudge the user to upload personal information without making it clear what was happening and that it was unnecessary for Riot to function.
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by meruru 7y ago
I'll take the chance to plug miniVector again. It doesn't solve the problems discussed in this thread, but it's a stripped-down Riot fork that requires fewer permissions than the full program: https://github.com&#x
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by meruru 7y ago
>most users want an app which works like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc Most users are already using Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc. I don't think it makes sense to sacrifice privacy to make Riot work similarly to them when the whol
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by meruru 7y ago
They could sell under a special brand.
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by meruru 7y ago
Linux is the last GPL component of Android. Dropping it would enable Google to close up Android source whenever they want.
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by meruru 7y ago
Oh I see, the bird is a bamboo. Thanks!
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by meruru 7y ago
Is this correct? I don't have a pair: https://files.catbox.moe/p651pq.png
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by meruru 7y ago
I think if Google drops Linux for Fuchsia, there's a chance Microsoft picks up Android development. That would be incredible.
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by meruru 7y ago
Yes, it's open source. I wouldn't try to claim it isn't, like the parent is doing. However Google being behind it still makes me nervous, specially since this might end up replacing the copyleft Linux kernel and contributing
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by meruru 7y ago
Yes, I've addressed that in my comment. I was wondering if there was some third aspect I wasn't considering.
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by meruru 7y ago
That's what Silence does. It is in fact the SMS part of Signal standalone.
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by meruru 7y ago
In your anecdote, your parents weren't really using their PC before they got the iPad. I think this is true of a lot of people who are smartphone-only today. Android and iOS are expanding to a market that PCs never really got to.
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by meruru 7y ago
I'm not sure anything below Minix can be considered a UNIX kernel.
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by meruru 7y ago
One contributing factor to that statistic it that the phone lifecycle is a lot shorter than the desktop/laptop lifecycle. Also desktops and laptops are more likely to be shared between family members. The point is people still have acc
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by meruru 7y ago
Drivers are far from the biggest problem for Linux adoption. The biggest problems are: + Network Effects + Brand recognition in the general public + Indifference to FOSS principles + Resistance to change
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by meruru 7y ago
This is basically it. I upvote things I want to go up and downvote things I want to go down. Off-topic meta discussions about votes should always go down.
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by meruru 7y ago
You make a good argument for UBI.
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by meruru 7y ago
I didn't mean to say Linux is the best OS overall (I'm a *BSD user after all). Just that Linux became big among developers for practical reasons rather than ideological (though ideologically-driven contributors certainly helped).
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by meruru 7y ago
Or you can actually add the engines you use to your browser and skip the middle man.
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by meruru 7y ago
>The thing I like about Signal is that I can use it for regular texts as well as encrypted communications. Can you expand on that? I'm afraid I don't quite understand the advantage here. Also, have you tried Silence for sending

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