quazeekotl

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by quazeekotl 6y ago
CUPS was almost entirely[1] made by Michael R Sweet who left Apple close to a year ago[2] and now works for his own company. Completely understandable to move the upstream repo away from Apple, I don't think there's much else to i
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Cups has been forked after Apple supplied only one commit in all of 2020(github.com)
4 points by quazeekotl 6y ago|1 comments
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by quazeekotl 6y ago
So you would be perfectly fine with Hitler at least being elected then, and anyone who tried to stop him would be a bad person?
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by quazeekotl 6y ago
Do you really think people at large didn't know about hanging, slavery, human sacrifice, and ideas about a flat earth in societies where these ideas were applicable?
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by quazeekotl 6y ago
Maybe, but the argument is that mere public existence of an idea effectively promotes correct ideas and demotes incorrect ideas. That is absolutely not in evidence.
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by quazeekotl 6y ago
Most of those ideas didn't die out because one day people found out about them, and then we put an end to them. Most of them _everyone_ knew about for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, why didn't this "sunlight&q
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
> The poorest of the poor in this country is in magnitude better conditions than their companions in other countries. This is objectively untrue by pretty much any measure. For instance on plenty of health related metrics the US is signi
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
How many non-complicit-with-the-government North Koreans do you think have safe, unmonitored access to computers and the internet, and so can safely (or even unsafely) use cryptocoin? If the number is not 0 it is very, very close to 0. We a
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The Day the Clown Cried(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by quazeekotl 7y ago|0 comments
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
This is a bad excuse for the really flakey nature of nfs, other network filesystems do not have its issues.
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
I don't think having a system sit completely unresponsive to anything for a huge amount of time is exactly optimal either.
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
nice! was not aware of that syscall, however, patching the entire world remains...
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
Unfortunately enabling swap in linux has a very annoying side effect, linux will preferentially push out pages of running programs that have been untouched for X time for more disk cache, pretty much no matter how much ram you have. This
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by quazeekotl 7y ago
The fine is 5 billion dollars because Facebook flagrantly violated the 2011 agreement with the FTC, as bad as Equifax is they haven't essentially gone "so what are you gonna do about it" to the regulators.
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
This is the typical corporate abuse enabling flaw in a lot of libertarian thinking. Withdraw limiting regulations and replace them with market based compeititve mechanisms. Except somehow the second part inevitably seems to get forgotten ab
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
I think thats pretty unfair when mozilla has been straight up refusing to implement webextension equivilents to XUL based functionality that a lot of addons depend on. Such as the fact there is no way to enumerate what sites have html5 loca
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
Do you have any evidence this is actually true? XUL is still there, the firefox UI is still written in it and it will be for quite some time to come. I find it hard to beleive disallowing XUL extensions have significantly sped anything up.
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/ Unfortunately 75%+ of the most used extensions either arnt ported, wont be ported, or cant be ported. The situation is pretty grim, mozilla really needs to delay this move, web extensions
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
>the same people who are most vocal about this are the same people that are most vocal about not having multi process support and about having compatibility issues with extensions when the browser updates or when one extension steps onto
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
a filesystem is a database
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
This site is being run in part by weev aka Andrew Auernheimer, somebody that basicly spends all their time finding ways to stir up shit, and generate controversy. This site has absolutely nothing to do with genuinely disseminating white pow
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
yet somehow it ran at 60fps 20 years ago on hardware that was 10000 times slower hmm
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
Im sure ad companies claim much the same thing, tracking is just telemetry for statistical anonymized bulk purposes, that is really just benefiting the user! The point is you cant have it both ways, both decrying tracking of users and then
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
That drags in all the other google services and "telemetry" and gives google root on his phone, which he may not want
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
BSDs also have a command that does the same thing, but its called chflags https://man.openbsd.org/chflags.1 https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chflags http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bi
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by quazeekotl 9y ago
It dosen't fix the problem unfortunately, the JIT code in firefox is effectively 32bit, it can only operate on a 32bit contigious range.