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by nisa 5y ago
It's kind of ironic reading that from Martin Fowler that is for me the astronaut architecture goto person :). I have huge respect for this work but I guess a lot of technical debt is probably caused by implementing these complicated pa
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by nisa 5y ago
But this applies to any software that has auto-updates. Can we be sure that Microsoft/Google/Apple don't sign backdoor updates for the NSA for specific targets? As far as I know these national security orders are non-public a
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by nisa 5y ago
Actually it's not. Just add an exclusiun for C:/ - it still hogs some memory but the i/o drawbacks are gone. There is probably also a way to let it scan Downloads only but I didn't found it yet. In this configuration it
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by nisa 5y ago
twitter.com##+js(cookie-remover, guest_id) in ublock origin as a rule works reasonably well to remove the nag screens.
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by nisa 5y ago
as an adult with adhd that got medication in his mid 30ies - yes it helps, got me unstuck after years of suffering - but it's also a double-edged sword as in you still have to direct the attention to the right thing at the very moment
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by nisa 5y ago
they are busy doing blockchain projects :)
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by nisa 5y ago
ZFS on Linux does this pretty well. Performance is close to ext4 for most usecases.
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by nisa 5y ago
> why go through all the trouble of setting this up instead of just using AWS I will never understand that mentality. Maybe I always was to poor to pay for the cloud but a bunch of old notebooks, electricity a switch and internet is all
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by nisa 5y ago
Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of non-fiction books a lot of them are succinct descriptions of scientific discoveries: https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Non-Fiction
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by nisa 5y ago
there are reports that they do exactly that: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/26/i-m-panicking-where-...
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by nisa 5y ago
I've recently had to use KDE from Ubuntu 18.04 (Plasma 5.12) and my daily driver is Arch Linux with the current 5.24 beta. Improvement in Plasma is really incredible. Kudos to everyone contributing to make it better. It's such a s
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by nisa 5y ago
problem: systemd-resolved fails randomly: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19118 - this happened to me on two arch linux installations for different domains - I was unable to debug this - would love
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by nisa 5y ago
thanks for the clarification.
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by nisa 5y ago
But it's true: https://web.archive.org/web/20190105145403/https://tumblr.ze...
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by nisa 5y ago
Could you please elaborate? I'm reading his newsletter for quite some time and I'd like to read a rebuttal that's more in depth than just 'that's garbage'.
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by nisa 5y ago
In this case there is a treaty for help and the kazakh dictator just requested help via this treaty. I guess the russian military will only protect important infrastructure and will try to avoid shooting civilians. Of course there is a lot
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by nisa 5y ago
Thanks for the links. Stumbled upon Otus Lisp / Owl-Lisp while looking for a sh/lua replacement for OpenWrt - the small footprint and architecture independend binary format as well as the FFI for .so files are looking great for th
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by nisa 5y ago
Not so exciting but still pretty cool: Conways Game of Life in a few lines of otus lisp* https://github.com/yuriy-chumak/ol/blob/master/samples/Conve... * otus lisp is a descendant of owl lisp ( htt
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by nisa 5y ago
see also: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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by nisa 5y ago
I'm running a small (at the beginning it was completely public, now I'm keeping an eye on registrations) homeserver with synapse for a few years - I really like Matrix on a conceptual level and I'm happy that it exists even t
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by nisa 5y ago
I argue that a healthier approach would be to own the foss-components you use and to try to build an internal understanding of them - no need to audit every line of code but at least some high-level understanding what every component does w
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by nisa 5y ago
> The open source maintainer problem isn’t going to get much better in the near future. People are gonna keep blaming “Capitalism” for this. People are gonna keep blaming “Capitalism” for a lot of irrelevant things. People are gonna argu
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by nisa 5y ago
> A few years back they raided a German host of the Riseup email service due to some alleged online threat Much worse than that, they raided the private home of one of the members of the nonprofit organization Zwiebelfreunde that passes
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by nisa 5y ago
basically I just looked for an excuse to post the link to the article - which is really a great article and describes the problems inherent to software in an - for me at that time - new and fascinating way. Of course in practice it's a
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by nisa 5y ago
Complexity kills your product - Overengineering is just one instance of complexity - Technical Debt like having state and data all over the place is another one - I quit my last job and I happily blame this article for convincing me to quit
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by nisa 5y ago
I misunderstood your comment then. Sure what is billed is a different thing. Sorry. For the dentist: They often bill you for stuff that is covered but it lucrative to add something to the bill.
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by nisa 5y ago
What are you talking about? As long as you are not private insured - which is not difficult to do usally - if you have a job you are insured (a percentage of your pay is used for insurance, if you study you are insured (90 eur) or you can j
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OpenEngiadina: From ActivityPub to XMPP(inqlab.net)
5 points by nisa 5y ago|0 comments
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by nisa 5y ago
found this article while debugging another issue with Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 on my notebook. After fiddling with module parameters it looks it works but the whole mess in the article is on another level.
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The Curse of the Intel Wireless AC Chipset(seedy.xyz)
4 points by nisa 5y ago|2 comments

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