michel-slm

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by michel-slm 3y ago
Stream gets faster fixes in general, but yeah for embargoed security fixes it goes the other way around Even if you are Meta. The only trick we use is something anyone can do - hotfix it in Hyperscale, or download the Stream fix as soon as
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by michel-slm 3y ago
Right. But it does not matter in this case - Meta rolls out its own kernel (we employ a lot of kernel engineers, and PSA our Linux teams are hiring software engineers!) and we maintain our systemd backports and some other packages in the Ce
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by michel-slm 4y ago
> That is: on 64-bit x86, you have with frame pointers twice as many available registers as 32-bit x86 has without frame pointers Indeed. > I don't think getting rid of frame pointer omission would be viable if Fedora still suppo
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by michel-slm 4y ago
Big Tech firm - acknowledged it with a day of learning but no day off, which is not fun especially for parents whose kids' schools do close on Monday
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by michel-slm 6y ago
yeah, I wonder when the Facebook container will make it to mobile - it's one of their own after all so there should be no safety issue.
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by michel-slm 6y ago
Freenode's IRC servers were down which was unexpected for me. I was expecting old-school communication networks to not have a dependency on Cloudflare.
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by michel-slm 7y ago
Ironically, the best phones to do that are Google's own Pixels - to give credit where it's due, at least the phones have unlockable bootloaders (unless you buy the Verizon variants). eg GrapheneOS currently only supports Pixel 2,
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by michel-slm 8y ago
Roku and Amazon Fire TV works fine with captive portals though (Roku elegantly asks you to connect to a custom WiFi AP that just forwards the captive portal to your phone). So this is another case of Google making assumptions that limit the
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by michel-slm 8y ago
It's been awesome. The one feature I'm still missing from LastPass is being able to mark some entries as more secure and reprompting auth on those.
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by michel-slm 8y ago
Which desktop client did you try? The official Mac client, at least, has secret chat just like the mobile clients (I just used it yesterday) Note that Telegram secret chats are end to end encrypted (default chats are not) but you're st
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by michel-slm 8y ago
Ouch, which university is that? I've heard of universities negotiating deals to get student discounts with certain vendors, and others requiring students (normally in engineering programs) have laptops meeting certain requirements, but
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by michel-slm 8y ago
> Maybe you could make the argument that the really poor Facebook users are essentially drafting off of imperfectly targeted advertising? Note that the really poor Facebook users can still be targeted for advertising by politicians to cu
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by michel-slm 8y ago
Indonesian ISPs are required to filter certain domains, but go further than the Denmark case - they also block access to third-party DNS servers. Using DNScrypt or a VPN (or hosting your own DNS on a port they're not blocking like 80)
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by michel-slm 8y ago
The one recent kernel bug I remember is poll returning early: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/11/poll-on-mac-10-12-is-...
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by michel-slm 8y ago
From what I hear, at Apple you're not allowed to contribute to open source projects (unless it's part of your day job) even in your own time - in contrast to Google (from what I hear) and Facebook (personal experience) where you c
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by michel-slm 9y ago
from a previous blog post: "Our engineers were comfortable with Git and we preferred to stay with a familiar tool, so we took a long, hard look at improving it to work at scale. After much deliberation, we concluded that Git's int
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by michel-slm 9y ago
It's not as simple as choosing which service not to use - for example, people who have your details in their address book might inadvertently leak your data without your knowledge. So while I agree that people should be free to trade p
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by michel-slm 9y ago
This is a refreshing move. Doing a traditional IPO is not a recipe for success anyway (hello, Snap). I personally would be watching this and probably try and buy a couple of shares - Spotify is a streaming music pioneer and I shudder at the
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I personally am fine with using Firefox (though after Looking Glass I've disabled the setting to allow experiments). IIRC the person that advocated for Chromium (instead of a third-party Firefox rebuild) base it on performance (they we
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Indeed. I'm seeing people recommending Chromium (not Chrome) instead of Firefox because of this.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
That's similar to my experience when using HDMI cables. Switched to using USB C -> MiniDP cables and things are better now, except since I can't daisy-chain the two monitors with DisplayPort (the rMBP can't drive them both
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Anyone knows if Secure Boot on these laptops are locked down, or if they allow users to add additional keys? i.e. can we run Linux on these?
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by michel-slm 9y ago
As someone originally from Jakarta, thank you for sharing this! Some of it resonates with my experience (esp. the rejection of colonial buildings) and some of the observations never occurred to me before. Tidbit: "Pancasila" actua
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Minnesota always struck me as very... Scandinavian. Must try and visit in summer when it's not so cold.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I find it kind of cute myself (and went ahead and starred it) but I could see how others might find it distracting.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Also affecting those arriving on H-1B, I bet. If your previous job is in a non-Western, non-Middle-Eastern country (plus Japan, Singapore etc.) your previous salary is likely much lower.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
I'm tempted by this (had the previous 2015 Chromebook Pixel, ran great except storage is limited, which this version fixed, and the battery is now dying). I've just splurged on some hardware this year though, but keeping an eye fo
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by michel-slm 9y ago
better than the Facebook trick! Thanks
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by michel-slm 9y ago
Google forked WebKit and called it Blink, which Chrome uses. It might be partly this but I guess also that Google prioritized implementing a multi-process architecture.
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by michel-slm 9y ago
For something in-between the two the Xonsh shell might be nice. It's basically a Python-based shell with full access to Python for scripting purposes. I like Bash but writing anything remotely complex in it is... not recommended

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