noble_pleb

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Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL(github.com)
26 points by noble_pleb 6y ago|111 comments
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Brainstorming is the key, take each one of your ideas and scrutinize it from all perspectives. Ask the journalists' questions (how, what, why, when, etc.) and read as much as possible. If its a technology or programming language you da
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
There are still other processors like Mastercard and Paypal, I believe. And then there is also bitcoin, the last remaining refuge of free speech activists.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Those who HAVE money can AFFORD to work on solving interesting problems. So yes, as a plebeian, money comes first for me.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Seconded. $(document).ready(fn) is far more easier and comprehensible than document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', fn, false). Even if I'm aware of the latter, I refuse to use it when former is available just for the sa
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
In other words, the prospective APT or YUM of the windows world.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Ability to turn off all political content (not just ads) is the most needed feature right now. Once they start that feature, only then they will understand how many of us twats are really interested in consuming that toxic stuff!
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
The bigger question to ask here is where is the Google Adsense competitor? Google may have some favorite political inclination and being a private firm also has the right to deplatform anyone. But why has no Adsense alternative emerged even
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
But unlike earlier, it has several alternatives now.
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What country is most likely to start World War 3?(quora.com)
1 points by noble_pleb 6y ago|0 comments
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
We do that by keeping culture and politics out of tech, what do they have to do with active software development, anyway? If that doesn't work and the Americans still keep imposing the toxic cancel culture on us, then I'm afraid i
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
>> The bug was introduced by the (increasingly infamous) ‘Windows 10 May 2020’ update and it breaks an important feature for many: Fresh Start. So, the factory reset feature (ability to reinstall Windows 10 without losing user data) i
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
I remember watching a show in which Indian scientist Yash Pal had proclaimed that number to be zero. Argued that more a civilization progresses, more the chance of it being devastated by forces of nature, etc., thus its highly improbably th
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Just like you, I use github pages for hosting my blog, but I also use a static generator called Pelican[1] to generate its contents (pages and blog posts). Its written in python and open source, although other options like Jekyll and Hugo a
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
The division has become stark and serious now that homed is about to release. Its not even about the GNU philosophy of "each program must do one thing", its that people have now started wondering how far should the intrusion of in
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
"Modern hipster" is whatever goes against the conservative approach, their thought process is based on the premise that whatever happened in the past was bad (and there were true horrors in the past too). So yeah, what goes agains
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
The traditional way of naming was to base in on the product function or feature. For example, MS Office is literally an office suite composing of a spreadsheet, word processor, etc. Windows is another example, "floating bordered boxes&
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
One of the major benefits of the Single Page App (SPA) or REST API based development model is that there is a clear separation between the backend and frontend (teams). And as long as they've documented their interfaces properly, they
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
I wish more and more people start doing this.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Brave is perhaps the only platform which is trying to compensate the ads viewer by giving them a part of that revenue pie (in terms of BAT crypto-currency). No other browser or even affiliate system is even trying to do this AFAIK.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Exactly, this is just going to open up a pandora's box. What about black box testing, is that racist too? And english terms like blacksmith and black-belt? There are terms like "blue-collar vs white-collar" too which (accordi
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
This followed after golang project which is supported by them got rid of blacklist/whitelist and also master/salve terminologies.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Its a vicious cycle, unfortunately. The more rioting and violent protest goes on the streets, the more they will empower the police and thus even more chance for future brutality.
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
Can someone eli5 what this means for regular desktop users of linux distros?
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by noble_pleb 6y ago
More interesting than 5G is the Amazon's ambitious LEO Project[1], a plan to launch several lower orbit satellites (LEOs) so that plebs can have internet access directly. Will be very useful in dictatorial regimes who censor/contr