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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> for probably >6 months The first real issues for XMPP came up about a decade after it was formalized. Matrix is too young to demonstrate how it will cope with unforeseen issues. E2E working? Mobile support? No surprise, both were mu
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
It's free on F-Droid and there are a couple of free forks and rebuilds. It's also available for the Google Play family library (so it's one buy for moderate sized families). However Daniel really took XMPP and ran with it: Th
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> it was a major pain It demonstrated that it can overcome major pain points though: Gajim (Desktop), Conversations (Android) and Monal (iOS) [edit to add: and conversejs on the web] cooperate quite well these days. Matrix? Let's se
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> such as liquid democracy The German Pirate Party tried liquid democracy, and the result was similar to what's going in Wikipedia: There's a small set of people with more time on their hands than it good for them or others, an
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
"decades of work by the author" presumably C++11 didn't exist back then.
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https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0387.html is more or less trying that, and I think the active developer teams are following it.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
That's what coreboot moved to (incl. the timestamp of the commit in its timestamp field) for reproducibility. Thing is just that host + build time is what was traditionally used. There's no single commit you could use in cvs.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> it's still facilitating an immoral action (running an oppressive government that doesn't respect freedom of movement) In that case, Google and Apple should completely withdraw from Saudi Arabia: no iPhones, no appstore, no Ad
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> It becomes a question of whether you support the principles behind the functionality provided I prefer to listen to voices of people directly affected rather than organizations operating on the other side of the world. As soon as women
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The "gov app tracking women" angle is a PR stunt by international advocacy groups and it points at the wrong problem. The app provides various official services, among them a digitized version of the "yellow sheet" a leg
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> or even their own government I guess it depends on the relationship between government and military, but how common is it for the government to ask all its appropriate organizations (intelligence services, military, weather service, se
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> I have zero doubt that one or more militaries in the area, especially Singapore, know exactly where MH370 went, or at least what direction it eventually took off in. There were so many cranks producing ideas where MH370 went, they coul
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Or Programming Language One ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I )
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No, but "got ridiculed because apparently nobody does it this way" reflects poorly on the coworkers (or on the author's perception of the world), while "I certainly pretended that my colleagues were hopeless idiots"
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Antivaxxers tend to do their proselyting for free. What this may discourage is that professional trolls meddle with it because they promote any "oppressed" outlandish claim to optimize for clicks (and therefore ad revenue).
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
I started to use ditaa ( http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ ) to render inline ascii art diagrams into something "pretty". asciidoctor supports that (and lots of other specialized diagram tools) with little effort ( http
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Not strictly true, okay. Still, it's nothing new that browser vendors just add the things they think may be useful and see what sticks (which then eventually ends up in some standard at some point like asm.js/WebAssembly - or fizz
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
web standards are descriptive not prescriptive, and have always been: nobody asked before adding the <blink> tag to their web browser, it was just added (and later removed) after it was used by more than one implementation and consens
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
>> But at least Airbus has accounted for all the A380 dev costs > I also highly doubt that the A380 has broken even. That's not what it's saying, but that A380 dev is written off, while Boeing still has it on the books so
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
It's sometimes easier when you're composing command lines: `cat foo | bar` is easier to transform into `cat foo | baz` (esp. when foo or bar are rather long). Also, piping doesn't mean that cat does all its work and only then
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
just a heads up: An Impressum is rather hard to find even though you seem to be based in Germany (Berlin, assumption based on the "Sauspiel" connection) and with commercial interest.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Why did Google create Kubernetes and open source it? I think it's misleading to conflate questions whether Google's k8s engineers can use shortcuts through the organizational fabric around k8s with the project's source l
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Not literally PowerPoint: The Challenger disaster was in 1986, while PowerPoint 1.0 shipped in April 1987
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> The EU ponied up nearly a billion Euros for the decommissioning, which I can't help but notice is almost as much as the new Chernobyl sarcophagus. It's less than 2/3rds (<1bn vs. 1.56bn) and the new sarcophagus is the
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Administrators showed a lack of interest in supporting nuclear energy designs that don't come with "weapon grade" by-products since the 1950s, even if they're potentially safer. That's a somewhat different scenario
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Subsidies for modernizing homes exist for a long time in Germany: Tax credits, super cheap loans (0.75% p.a.), financial aid (not having to pay back up to 30kEUR)... Among the supported measures is: modernizing heating systems.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> your salary as a Google employee, where you are almost certainly making well over $100k ... I can sympathize with non-tech workers at Google who are probably making less though. Quite a few of these "non-tech workers" are emp
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
But only in the first year after first publication. So if the feature was available elsewhere for long enough, no patent for anybody.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
And yet there's fx!32 (WinNT for Alpha), x86emu (of XFree86), Bochs, VMware, parallels, Plex86, QEMU plus numerous other implementations of i386+ in software (one of them shipping in Windows 7 and newer to run PCI Option ROMs) where no
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
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