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by pserwylo 9y ago
For those who are unfamiliar with the Attorney General George Brandis, this is one of the people instrumental in implementing two year mandatory data retention. This is a famous interview he gave which is shows how little he understands abo
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by pserwylo 9y ago
The government who changed away from FTTP is the more conservative (and pro small government) of the two major parties. As such, although I disagree, I can see why they may argue that it is not the governments responsibility to deliver broa
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by pserwylo 10y ago
The post itself has a pretty good list of 10 sources of non-determinism: 1. timestamps 2. dates/times/authors etc. embedded in source files 3. timezone sensitive code 4. directory order/build order 5. non-sanitize
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by pserwylo 10y ago
I can't recommend this talk enough. If you have the time, it is one the best keynotes I've ever been privileged enough to watch. Ever since then, I've been very interested in all the paperwork sent to my grand father about hi
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by pserwylo 11y ago
I was curious about the downward trend in Twitter and Facebook at about the same time. I nknow it doesn't imply causation, but adding "Snowden" shows the downward trend for Twitter begins about the same time. It is hard to se
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by pserwylo 11y ago
This is the type of project which really interests me. In the future we plan on building a service to wholesale trivia questions to pubs, schools, fundraisers, etc. I'll read this paper with interest, because at a quick glance the gene
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by pserwylo 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Particularly because it was human error which released the information. If there was genuine human error on Ladar's part then I guess there would not be a lot of leniency. I don't know how the govern
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by pserwylo 11y ago
While I also look forward to letsencrypt being generally available, the fact your parent comment charges $234/yr for a cert is in response to: > I'd actually pay more than I do now for SSL certs to get that kind of simplicity.
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by pserwylo 11y ago
For a more interactive version of this, check out the visualization by ABC News in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/pluto-comes-into-focus... This shows a time slider, where you can see the differe
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by pserwylo 11y ago
> 3, the number is just for a time period (like $904 million per year) and their valuation is over a much longer period (e.g. decades) Okay, so this along with your sister the comment from raldi points at what I probably missed: The dura
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by pserwylo 11y ago
Genuine question, as I am not well versed in valuations: How can a company be "valued at $10 billion" when it is sharing the "$904 million global market for business file-sharing"? Is it because of the term "busines
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by pserwylo 11y ago
I see no evidence that Firefox is being dropped (at this point in time). - This page doesn't explain that it is being dropped [0,1]. - there is no signals from the F-Droid team that I can see that it is dropping firefox [e.g. on #fdroi
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by pserwylo 11y ago
> Addons are user choices, and trying to limit that choice is self defeating in free speech. I believe you are talking about the big red boxes that mention it has "Non Free Addons". This is what is known as an "AntiFeature
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by pserwylo 11y ago
Edit: What makes people think Firefox has been removed? Correct. I've been using Fennec (the custom build) ever since the team managed to get it to build, and have had zero complaints. As far as I'm aware, that is the last upstrea
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by pserwylo 11y ago
While I am not against rapid UI evolution, as seems to be the case with GitLab, I think you may want to revise the choice of background vs text colour on the sidebar. It does look pretty, but the WCAG guidelines describe a minimum level of
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by pserwylo 11y ago
Not always. If something is free, and it is a commercial company offering it, then you are probably the product. But if the offering is from a not for profit company, a charity, or volunteers building something open source for their enjoyme
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by pserwylo 12y ago
It is worth keeping in mind that the download stats which determine popularity [0, 1] should consumed with care. They represent HTTP requests which hit the server to download a particular apk file. Thus, things such as web crawlers can trig
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Not sure you should have been down voted, but nevertheless, your question is addressed well elsewhere in this thread [0]. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332157
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I would suggest that the security issues in Java are due to bugs in the various JVM implementations, which are likely written in C, right? Not to say that Java is going to eliminate all bugs. However, it should eliminate all bugs to do with
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by pserwylo 12y ago
> Can you explain why? Over the years, we have refactored our PHP code base to something which is much more bug proof, and a lot of it is because we demand certain types to be passed to types. Currently we use doc types (for which the ID
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Small correction: F-Droid doesn't yet support automatic updates [0], but rather, automatic notifications that updates are available to be manually installed. Merge requests always welcome though :) [0] - https://gitlab.com&#
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Although being off topic, I think this is still a good observation to make. About five years ago, I was looking up something related to bulimia. Low and behold, I ended up on a site that had advice for young people with this disorder, and t
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by pserwylo 12y ago
This is very cool indead. Reminds me of my time as an undergrad at uni, where one of our projects revolved around making a game/sim like this. Everybody else was trying to make 3D adventure games, but we were interested in "good q
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by pserwylo 12y ago
This has also happened at train stations in Melbourne. The music of choice is usually classical. Anecdotally I haven't noticed any specific change in behaviour around the music, but it did and still continues to sound like a good idea
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by pserwylo 12y ago
After my original RaspberryPi which was used for a media centre running OpenELEC died, I've gotten a new Pi and installed Raspbmc on it. Although it did what it said on the box, and I am appreciative for the work done by that team, goi
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I'm an F-Droid developer, and we do in fact do secret option D. There is a small but passionate group of people who are very focused on deterministic builds in Android working with us as well [0]. The end goal is to be able to install
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by pserwylo 12y ago
> If the code was signed using a key that isn't kept on the server (normally a code signing key will be kept on a developer's computer, and often protected by a password so it rarely exists in memory unencrypted) And to take t
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by pserwylo 12y ago
I believe so. crankycoder1975 was asking for some pointers on #fdroid irc a few hours back to help build 1.0 for F-Droid. Hopefully any issues will get ironed out. While I appreciate my siblings comment about the app auto-updating - I'
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by pserwylo 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, bug I believe the issue with Googles wifi collection was because they had code which intentionally read (and stored?) all data being transmitted over open wifi networks.
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