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by pipo234 3y ago
There is off course the technical issue: crypto is hard, attacks never progress to get weaker . In the realm of privacy this is especially important because you have to loose your privacy only once to not have it. There is also the issue o
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by pipo234 3y ago
I'm not sure if this is illegal . The developer (john doe) honours the EULA up to the point where the sources are on his computer and cancels hist account (or has RedHat do that). From there, it's just GPL code that can be re-
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by pipo234 3y ago
> [..] promising complete privacy Sure. But somehow I'm not so confident about that ...
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by pipo234 3y ago
Would it be possible to: 1. create a free dev account 2. get the sources 3. merge changes into rocky repo 4. have the account terminated by the Hat 5. goto 1? Subversive, but mostly in compliance with GPL and Red Hat EULA... Ish. Kinda. B
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by pipo234 3y ago
So the absolute killer features that I would say SQLite offers are: 1. Embedded (single, small library, very fast) 2. Portable concurrency using native OS/FS abstractions. Full SQL support is nice, but I'd also be happy if it only
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by pipo234 3y ago
We sell live http media streaming and use sqlite3 locally to solve most of the hairy race conditions you would expect when serving files while they are simultaneously being written to. Despite our advice and common wisdom, every now and the
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by pipo234 3y ago
Amazon actually seems to have seen this coming. While Amazon Linux 1&2 was a basterdized CentOS6& derivative (with some newer packages), the latest breed (Amazon Linux 2022/2023) is based off Fedora. Also, I'm not convince
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by pipo234 3y ago
Alma, Rocky, fair enough. But isn't the elephant in the room here Oracle Linux?!
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by pipo234 3y ago
I, for one, learned a new word: Ennui. And I believe I finally understand what people mean when referring to a cargo cult. A tweet most definitely would not have sufficed. Thanks for the long read, interesting an well written. (And: true, I
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by pipo234 3y ago
I'm often wondering why we value the opinions of CEOs so high in the first place. I mean, it's a demanding and complicated role, being responsible for everything and anything. But especially in the larger enterprises they are not
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by pipo234 3y ago
Or an RSA private key of a mere 256 bits, which would be way too small. :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
I feel sorry. Hope enough HNers (like me) jump through the CAPTCHA hoops to report the false positive to Google. That won't of course solve the bigger issue of Google feeling it's their responsibility to litter the Internet with t
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by pipo234 3y ago
I've disabled safe browsing protections and the site indeed seems operational. Sign up form, video playing in the background...
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by pipo234 3y ago
Nice! Did a similar thing in C++ way back when; routing short sentence fragments (questions in a bank website search box to the correct FAQs). One of the things we quickly discovered was how hard it is to separate Spanish (Castilian) from C
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by pipo234 3y ago
I understand very little about (macro) economics and have no numbers to back this up — but it feels like increasing poverty is a global trend. Am I right? If so, what is causing this (primarily)? Distribution of wealth? Productivity decline
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by pipo234 3y ago
So his rationale is: 3000/y is big enough to have a real business around, yet too small to invest in alternative SBC?
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by pipo234 3y ago
I think what @userbinator is referring to is the opaque firmware blobs and uefi surrounding typical SoCs, not the ARM software.
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by pipo234 3y ago
I understand very little about earthquakes, tectonics, etc. Indeed, straining fault lines is probably asking for trouble. But conversely, would not drilling pipes, building dams, flooding large regions somehow improve (long term) safety?
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by pipo234 3y ago
One of the proposed options, flooding the Qattara Depression was actually proposed by the CIA to President Dwight Eisenhower as a way to achieve peace in the Middle East. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatta
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by pipo234 3y ago
A 30 year old documentary, called Jurasic Park (1993) , clearly shows that locking them up doesn't do a whole lot in terms of keeping the bad stuff contained and making the world a safer place. ;-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
The Metaverse — mostly a solution in search of a problem. Like many (if not all) of the hypes of the last decade, being hugely expensive, was just a way to "invest" all the cheap money pumped into the world economy.
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Was it VC that killed computing? That certainly played a role. But as your first citation already suggests, another major factor is that personal computers have steadily evolved into incredibly complicated systems, the details of which
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by pipo234 4y ago
Agree with the observation, there is no such thing as apolitical. At best, "just leaving the politics out of it" is a sigh attempt to depolarize a discussion that it is about the explode. "Let's not go there" — as i
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by pipo234 4y ago
> 3. Discovery is laughed out of industry as "impractical", "academic", etc. To be fair, sometimes academic inventions are impractical given the technical landscape du jour. They only become feasible as technology a
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by pipo234 4y ago
Very good point!
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by pipo234 4y ago
The intro got me thinking of MDL model selection. I.e. to express X you can choose a language L that can represent X, and rather than focusing on the conciseness of just L(X) (which for some powerful L might be a single bit) it's more
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by pipo234 4y ago
The trend toward smaller, nimbler start ups is evident. Even before the cheap money dried up there were clear signs that the core of start up success wasn't centered about MBAs or capital. Sure you can over shout competitors and grow a
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by pipo234 4y ago
Echoing a comment made at the verge ( https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23690216/elon-musk-micros... ): > I feel like we're all doing the Trump thing again. This "news" is completely inc
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by pipo234 4y ago
> Officials in Kyiv said they suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but the US space agency told the BBC it was still in orbit. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65331823 ) Aren't there a dozen
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by pipo234 4y ago
I have mixed feelings about "the conversation" and social networks. Frequently there is no conversation. There is the perspective that social networks are about connecting people, having deliberations, the town square. And then

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