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by mverwijs 10y ago
The question that pops up into my mind is: what steps preceed such a world? Microsoft blocking installs of Linux on computers that I own, seems one of those steps to me.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
Of course I do not believe it the way you portray it. It is called a 'sliding scale' for a reason, my friend. A 'slippery slope'[0], if you will. Completely different from 'directly comparable'. At the top of t
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by mverwijs 10y ago
With closed source software, such as the firmwares and MacOSes of the world, it is impossible to have 'checks and balances'. Yet without computers to run and develop open software on, it is that much harder to create alternatives
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by mverwijs 10y ago
Is this the first step towards the Electric Monk then? "Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. "
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by mverwijs 10y ago
Pointing ad host to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file so no DNS resolving takes place. Nothing beats that as a baseline.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
We accepted bitcoins from day one. Not sure if they still do as it was used I think 8 times over the course of 2 years. But given the people working there I wouldn't be surprised if they still accept them. (Disclaimer: Former employee.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
The filter will be opt-in, obviously. And, again obviously, they need to keep track of which account is allowed access to which article. If only to allow you to read the article across multiple devices. (Former employee here. Not in the exa
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by mverwijs 10y ago
A lot of them do. Per article. It's called https://blendle.com . Only an email address is required. And money. And it's not libre.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
To reduce noise, I always get the admins to turn on XMPP and IRC support. That way I can pick my client of choice, and limit notifications that way.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
For that, I've been looking into freeposte.io, so I can hop onto the container-train at the same time.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
Been running it for over 15 years. No SPF. No dkim. Never had complaints, though threads like these have me worried.
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by mverwijs 10y ago
Reminds me of "Right now, your government is doing things you think only other governments do." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wU92eycwmxY
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by mverwijs 10y ago
But than again, this is not your average bootcamp. From the FAQ: "What is Free Code Camp? We’re an open source community that helps you learn to code."
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by mverwijs 11y ago
Or is it called "educating"?
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I’m Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, Ask Me Anything(reddit.com)
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by mverwijs 11y ago
It is merely a recommendation.
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by mverwijs 11y ago
Let's cross that bridge when we get to it. We're innovative, imaginative folks around here. I'm sure a solution will present itself.
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by mverwijs 11y ago
I worked for Optiver (largest marketmaker in Europe) between 2007 and 2010. We hired grads for trader positions all the time. Optiver even sponsored the mathematic, physics and cs study association for students in Leiden for the longest tim
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by mverwijs 11y ago
One of the ideas of containers / virtualization is that the host operating system (Ubuntu, in this case) has as little to do as possible with the VM / container (Alpine, in this case). Running an Alpine container using Docker on a
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SpiderOak Semaphore: Zero-Knowledge Team Collaboration(spideroak.com)
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Virtual Reality Framework for 3D Visualization of Meteorological Data(projects.knmi.nl)
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by mverwijs 11y ago
[Citation needed]
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by mverwijs 11y ago
It was not the promise as I understood it. As I understood it the promise was to have my production environment run on my desktop. I cannot run my production on Alpine. (Yes, every startup I know can. But I work for a lot of older companies
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by mverwijs 11y ago
sudo apt-get install debootstrap mkdir deb8 sudo debootstrap jessie deb8 Combine that with apt-cacher-ng and whooosh. And now all you have to do is tell Ansible what needs to get done in that chroot. And you have a contai
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by mverwijs 11y ago
This does not give me a vote of confidence: http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-security/
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by mverwijs 11y ago
Came across this the other day: http://oristand.co/ Of course, nothing beats my TrippTrapp!
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by mverwijs 11y ago
Heheh. People used to do this with Debian when Debian wasn't widely available on remote hosts. Even made it to the official Debian manual it seems: https://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apds03.html.en
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by mverwijs 11y ago
My respons to the 'nothing to hide' argument is: "Why are you so scared of things that are hidden?" That puts them on the defensive. Since now they have to justify their fear for the unknown. And then we're onto t
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by mverwijs 11y ago
I was surprised by Fedora 23 when it asked me to reboot in order to apply patches. And these were not kernels that were updates. Huge step backwards.
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by mverwijs 11y ago
And ported to the most hardware architectures too. https://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released

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