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by progval 7y ago
And then you can't see the article, because its CSS hides the text and Javascript un-hides it; and people call you an extremist.
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by progval 7y ago
It is not used in everyday language, but it's used by journalists and PR.
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by progval 7y ago
Also, any Dockerfile that downloads something that might be updated (especially package managers, but also any wget/curl/... that doesn't check against a hardcoded hash) isn't reproducible at all.
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by progval 7y ago
IANAL > 1a. Google uses FooProject in delivering one of its GoogleApi, but does not opensource GoogleApi with AGPL. Depends. GoogleApi may fall under any of these three cases: i) is considered a covered work (A "covered work" m
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by progval 7y ago
> What are the common use case of file attributes? CephFS (a distributed filesystem) uses them to allow users to control the layout of directories and files, ie. how they are split into chunks and what pool they are stored on; and each p
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by progval 7y ago
You send them an email to the address associated with to account with a verification code.
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by progval 7y ago
> American attitudes towards public transportation Unfortunately, this is happening in France too. SNCF used to be publicly funded to manage all inter-city/town railways and trains, but is now privatised and expected to make a profi
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by progval 7y ago
MPs are supposed to serve all their consistuents, though. Open source maintainers' duty to their users is more controversial; but I think most people would agree it's not as strong as an MP's. > then, well, you must be sel
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by progval 7y ago
> You're claiming that if a piece of information has an identity that makes it reachable, then that makes it censorable too, but you left out what would be required to make that censorship happen. The gov't would have to requir
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by progval 7y ago
IPFS is not uncensorable. The protocol is based on a DHT that allows anyone to find what IP addresses are hosting a particular content, so it's possible to take them down. It only appears uncensorable because it's not (yet?) popul
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by progval 7y ago
The author's point is that adding some technologies such as JS sound like a good idea because at the beginning they are used reasonably, but they then get abused. Encouraging better design and graceful decay didn't work, because i
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by progval 7y ago
Yes, and it only tracks defaults; and you're notified 30 days before being added to the file. And you are removed from the file as soon as you repaid what you owed. Source: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers&#x2
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by progval 7y ago
> Blacking out credit history would obliterate lending Credit history companies like Equifax are very much an American thing; lending still works everywhere else. They are such a non-topic in France that I only learned about them last ye
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by progval 7y ago
This probably assumes you can't trick the program into connecting to the wrong bootstrap nodes.
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by progval 7y ago
Plus, even if not malicious, this script messes with a bunch of system config: * installed unattended-upgrades (from a random github repo instead of apt repos * passes --yes to apt-get, which may remove important packages * reconfigures &#x
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by progval 7y ago
> My users much prefer having working potentially unsafe software in the exceptional case where the software would connect to the network (eg reading a youtube stream in VLC or something like that) that non-working software. Do they, tho
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by progval 7y ago
"temporarily storing the waste" is mostly what the US have done since the late 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage#United_States Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the solution this temporary s
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by progval 7y ago
Amazon thinks, "music is Prime, video is Prime, pantry is Prime, day is Prime, ..."
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by progval 7y ago
Mozilla doesn't provide binary packages for all architectures and OSs supported by Nix/NixOS Maintainers also sometimes need to patch software to conform to their distribution's norm. For example, Debian patches it to accept
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by progval 7y ago
I won't blame them. Firefox is a huge piece of software, and is updating every month . It's a bit shitty of Mozilla to expect every single distribution (most of which are run by volunteers) to package all their new dependencies a
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by progval 7y ago
Poor Mr Graham-Cumming. Both an hyphen and a word banned by Lyft.
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by progval 7y ago
> auto-update more than a thousand packages, praying my Python and other projects survive, just because I want a browser update You may want to check out Nix. It's a package manager which isolates each program's dependencies; s
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by progval 7y ago
> Rust seems to be the only one that mostly circumvents this problem. Are there other good examples? Rust is not the first one to have an Option type; it's a common feature of functional languages because they have ADTs ( https:&#
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by progval 7y ago
> browsers are still not able to handle very large files well They are. But every improvement is matched by websites getting even larger. https://zainamro.com/notes/unbearable-news
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by progval 7y ago
This is mostly the goal of MongoDB's license, the Service-Side Public License: > A company that offers a publicly available MongoDB as a service must release the software it uses to offer such service under the terms of the SSPL, in
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by progval 7y ago
But they only work with a subset of architectures (only x86_64 in this case) and a subset of OSs (Windows with GNU installed, Linux with GNU libraries including libc and libgcc)
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by progval 7y ago
You're describing proof of work, not blockchain. It's easy to implement it without a blockchain: make MTAs require the hash of the enveloppe of the mail (+ a nonce outside the enveloppe) to start with a certain number of 0 bits. A
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by progval 7y ago
Researchers in applied fields other than CS spend this kind of money on a regular basis. eg. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-costs-for-lab-rat-testing...
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by progval 7y ago
In addition to other answers: SIMD in rust is currently exposed via a very low-level API. But in the future, someone will probably build a safe API on top of it.
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by progval 7y ago
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