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by mfer 7y ago
Nice. Thanks for sharing. I didn't see that documented. Would be great to have it documented.
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by mfer 7y ago
They have checksum hashes but not crypto verifiable signatures.
843.
by mfer 7y ago
If a hosting server is compromised the hash and download can be changed with something nefarious. crypto signing/verification will catch that case. hash checking will not. This is a legitimate case as it's happened to other projec
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by mfer 7y ago
It just struck me that the Go team does not provide PGP or other cryptographic signing/verification of releases.
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by mfer 7y ago
In preferences search for DNS. You'll find a checkbox to enable/disable it along with a select for choosing a provider.
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by mfer 7y ago
The comments aren't just by the WSJ. It's many other new publications and many intelligent people who aren't afraid to speak out. The number of voices speaking out is increasing.
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by mfer 7y ago
> It's not a case of a lawyer working on something that happened to be in a business that Google competes in. In the Forbes link Google talks about competitors. The legal folks from News Corp would be in a different category to that
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by mfer 7y ago
While I'm not making a statement on either side in this case... A situation where one side is corrupt or doing things wrong does not mean the other side is right or not corrupt. Both sides are capable of doing wrong and corrupt things.
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by mfer 7y ago
Google notes... > “But we’re also concerned with the irregular way this investigation is proceeding, including unusual arrangements with advisers who work with our competitors and vocal complainants." There are two interesting thing
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by mfer 7y ago
I wonder... Do the big telco's remove the history of their own execs when selling it? What would it cost for someone to buy the browsing histories of the execs at these companies ... or that of politicians and their staffs.
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Forcing us to get consent before selling histories violates free speech says ISP(theregister.co.uk)
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by mfer 7y ago
I wasn't writing software or using computers in 1983. But, my uses cases in 1990 were pretty close to my personal use cases today. 1990, I think, was the year I wrote my first word processor. So I could write, save, edit, and share doc
853.
by mfer 7y ago
> you can easily setup a command line interface or Linux system and move blazing fast. Maybe the HN crowd can but not your average or median computer users > I remember turning on the computer and waiting for the motherboard company l
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by mfer 7y ago
The issue many people will have on hn is that the design flaws (not just software issues) have been discussed at length along with mismanagement that has shown little to no regard for design flaws. This has eroded trust in Boeings ability t
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by mfer 7y ago
Kubernetes wasn’t an influencer. In fact go modules require semver and kubernetes doesn’t use semver. There are little things like that
856.
by mfer 7y ago
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike are mostly our not at all involved with Go anymore. They are 2/3 of the original creators. It’s different people making the decisions now
857.
by mfer 7y ago
Didn't they make a Marvel movie about this titled Captain America Winter Soldier?
858.
by mfer 7y ago
Modern PHP has good error handling, too. There are differences in style and views on things from the way they were long ago that float around. These impact a lot of opinions.
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by mfer 7y ago
Doing a full time day job + leading a busy open source project team is a lot of work. It's like having 2 jobs. Then on top of that you have all the other things in life like family stuff (or dating), spending time with friends, taking
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by mfer 7y ago
This is ultimately about time, energy, priorities, and all of that. One of the things many open source maintainers (and especially leads) run into is time constraints. More mentoring and empowering of others while not trying to do everythin
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by mfer 7y ago
Making provenance of software and data easier will be of increasing importance in the future. We need to be able to prove things have not been tampered with.
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by mfer 7y ago
When someone says UFO many people immediately think aliens. The military often means something different. For example, a new Chinese aircraft they can't identify is a UFO. In this article the word "alien" only shows up twice
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by mfer 7y ago
> That said, while the Tribune and Penumbra both used off-the-shelf phones, the FCC largely tested phones supplied by the manufacturers, including Apple. This speaks to a method that can be used to game the system. What prevents manufact
864.
by mfer 7y ago
I was recently reading about intelligence and intelligence tests. Who defines what as things that make someone intelligent? For example, we have a separate category for emotional intelligence because that's not traditionally been consi
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by mfer 7y ago
Technology both represents and influences our culture. For example, usenet and other forms of Internet posting in the past were more long form. They types of thinking and discussion were different. These days it's much shorter leading
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by mfer 7y ago
The software doesn't "expire" or "perish". The software isn't gone. The software may go into a state of not getting updates. A lot of the problems outlined in the post have to do with device and solution design
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by mfer 7y ago
I’m fascinated by the language we use. They have not observed the particle. It was found in computer simulations. Yet, the word used for this is discovered. At first I had the impression the observed it. I hope they do.
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by mfer 7y ago
Research has been done on this. There is a sweet spot range. Too few or too many decreases results. This is looking at grade school classes. Not sure how this plays out at the university level where the expectations are different and teache
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by mfer 7y ago
According to the article it was manual rather than automation. That this was an intentional act to take this down.
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by mfer 7y ago
Too much isn’t useful. For bosses or those we produce for there is as opportunity for a short regular summary (like once a week). Can take like 5 minutes to create Over communication is shallow work. We should limit that. There is a useful

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