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by nolok 5y ago
Not contradicting just genuinely wondering, what do you mean by windows doesn't? I have different permissions setup for various users on different folders on ntfs volumes in regular windows 10 installs. Or do you mean another sort of p
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by nolok 5y ago
> Windows should not install random drivers from the Internet when a non-admin user is logged in. In a perfect world, or at least a tech user world, sure. But there was a compromise to make, either this (and that behavior can be disabled
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by nolok 5y ago
This is even worse in my mind. "Oh I'm totally for vaccine, but not the one that went through full trials and helps stopping the actual pandemic going on right now, nope, that one is a no go better people keep dying when we could
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by nolok 5y ago
If Jane from accounting and Bobby from marketing know those trick (and they do) then Csv does open in excel, and its replacement has to do at least as good.
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by nolok 5y ago
Xlsx (office format for almost a decade now) are zip and XML all the way. Not fun to look at, but totally readable by a human.
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by nolok 5y ago
What I meant is that while I'm not the target user of it, the actual value of WinCompose to its user is not the method of composing, but the pre-compiled database of available composition. Unless I misunderstood you, yes it can be done
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by nolok 5y ago
The same way "2003 google can be done by yahoo" I guess
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by nolok 5y ago
I don't understand what your question means. Feels like you can answer that to basically every single thread on HN just changing two words.
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by nolok 5y ago
It probably does plays a part in why France's grid holds so well, but it doesn't explain why the US tolerate theirs.
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by nolok 5y ago
> and I didn't have to fight with their GUI all the time. I don't even know how to make it open my folder for me in the file explorer any more. I just ignore their thingy and go to the folder by myself now.
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by nolok 5y ago
I don't understand how a hyper developped rich country like the USA tolerates so many grid failures over times. I do not mean that as a critic or boasting about ours or whatever, and I do understand (a bit of) the specifics that gives
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by nolok 5y ago
> How many people build gnupg or gpg-agent from source? More people than those build signal from source > Seems like something your local apt/pacman repository mirror host could do too. Which is why I focus on build from source,
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by nolok 5y ago
You're focusing on signal for some reason, ignoring the larger point being made Also: > their crypto as well as their app-related code is open, well-documented, and repeatedly audited. And since nobody builds their executable from s
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by nolok 5y ago
You missed my point which was not about whether you could, but about whether someone else could, either from your backup or from a entirely different copy they could have acquired during the original transmission. Same way I wouldn't t
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by nolok 5y ago
The fact that you couldn't restore no matter what without the key speaks for pgp rather than against, in my book. By comparison I have very little trust in modern IM software.
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by nolok 5y ago
That's a very strong frog slowly boiling attitude. "It's been happening for a long time already, the only difference now is a 0.1 degree increase", says the frog while being boiled alive.
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by nolok 5y ago
Haven't read those specific books, but "keep the species at the level they were when discovered for preservation" is a very common trope of such things, and usually mapped on how humanity considers that "preserving a spe
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by nolok 5y ago
There is a law. You respect it, otherwise there is a fine. Are you saying european companies that are leaders in their fields should not be fined by the US if they disregard its law when doing business there ? If yes, you should inform the
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by nolok 5y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but to explain "how is that possible over 20 years without ever blowing things up": he says he uses visual studio since the beggining (the full blown ide). Since he's working alone, he can easily
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by nolok 5y ago
You're mixing a lot of things for no reason, the problem you describe really have very little or even nothing with open source or proprietary or even OSes. Points 2/3/4 are exactly the same on other OSes, even open sources on
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by nolok 5y ago
You do realize that making broad sweeping criticizing of an entire group of people based on your personal experiences with a limited amount of members of their group is exactly why these situation happen? I wish the best for you and nobody
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by nolok 5y ago
And Microsoft ACTIVELY went against Android manufacturers to get licensing fees a decade or so back, so those that didn't want to pay are much more likely to have a hard ban on exfat in place that will take time to overcome even after
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by nolok 5y ago
> I have yet to encounter a small group of people, let's say less than ~15 people (all adult and responsible, children and fools are another matter and must be protected by adults), where someone thinks that others shouldn't ac
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by nolok 5y ago
If that metric is true doesn't that already give google, lg, samsung, ... an out ? "manufacturer of motor vehicle equipment" is sufficiently large to include everyone we want that law for.
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by nolok 5y ago
Not american here. My reponse is not directly to this subthread, but to likening this subject to politics. I think there is a massive difference between political discourse (which are mostly about opinions) and fact vs lies discourse (which
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by nolok 5y ago
Which means that annually, Macs were still ahead by a large amount at iPod peak
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by nolok 5y ago
Well there is the one where he decided to call a guy saving kids lives a pedophile just because he said they weren't going to use the submarine Musk had his team build, back during thailand's crisis. That's not a very sane re
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by nolok 5y ago
Such a weird move. I want to start by saying I'm not sure Air France should be subsidized to the level we do. Its workers rules from the 80s are just not adapted anymore and protecting them with public money against normal competition
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by nolok 5y ago
I actually quite like windows and use it on purpose on pretty much all of my computers, except my outdoor work laptop on debian/xfce. You're allowed to dislike it, but for me windows 10 is a great OS with a thin removable layer of
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by nolok 5y ago
> Administrators always had this power. Sometimes, this power was used out of necessity. But given how much this power was used in FreeNode in the past week, a lot of the community has lost faith in the administrators. To be slightly mor

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