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by rauhl 8y ago
True, but one very great advantage of Common Lisp is that it’s a (reasonably) well-designed system, borne of the combined experience of many people. It has many features which seem like hacks (e.g. optional dynamic scoping) or historical b
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Why you should buy into the Emacs platform(two-wrongs.com)
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You raise a good point about tradeoffs: it probably is true that most people really neither want nor need a replaceable battery. But here’s another tradeoff: if one is producing phones for the great portion of the market which needs or wa
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by rauhl 8y ago
The key insight here is that this should not even be possible . Yes, corporate-owned phones need to be administered remotely. Yes, Google needs to be able to perform internal testing (this is in fact just an example of corporate ownershi
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Go2 contracts go too far(npf.io)
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> Can you really blame the whole world for misusing a tool, without taking a critical look at the tool itself? I’m reminded of all the folks who — in 2018! — try to claim that C is a perfectly good tool for writing large, secure systems.
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by rauhl 8y ago
‘Most programmers can’t be trusted with macros’ is a sentiment I read a lot, but at one point in time people might have said the same about functions, and arguably they could say the same about pointers or recursion today. I think that bein
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Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter(zdnet.com)
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by rauhl 8y ago
> > “No more fumbling with your boarding pass while you have two carry-ons, maybe a kid; no more trying to find your QR code or trying to refresh your screen.” > Yikes, this sounds like Idiocracy to me. Yeah, or one of those ludicr
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How can we resist the seduction of the mobile phone?(timharford.com)
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That sounds awesome, but if it’s network-wide, then marketers (who are also in the network) can also use it. Even if it’s some sort of cryptographically-secure bitstring, all it would take is for you or one of your contacts to leak it once
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Choose wisely(jmoiron.net)
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The problem is that facebook.com.google-safe-pages.verizonmobile.evil-site.cn also displays the ‘facebook’ portion leftmost. Also, due to the way DNS works you really are trusting ICANN, then the com registrar, then facebook (CAs add an o
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by rauhl 8y ago
> It's not about getting rid of URLs, it's about not displaying them to most users. And one of their incentives in doing so is that Google is an alternative to URLs. Already many users Google ‘facebook’ and click on the first
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Fabulous text-only websites, 2018 edition(rickcarlino.com)
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I think that ‘noöne’ is the logical next step from the (widely viewed as permissible) ‘no-one’; OTOH ‘noone’ would just be wrong. Keeping it as two words would be like writing Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften as rechts shutz versiche
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by rauhl 8y ago
In his reddit post[0], the author does note that this link goes to a spam site about 10% of the time. 0: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9cv585/orgmode_captu...
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Org-mode capture update(joshrollinswrites.com)
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by rauhl 8y ago
Y’know, folks complain (with some justification) that Bitcoin wastes a massive amount of energy globally. But almost noöne uses Bitcoin, or mines it; I wonder how much energy is wasted on transporting & executing useless JavaScript. I
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by rauhl 8y ago
> The pay back when they are pre-teens is going to be painful. And when they’re teens, and young adults, and older adults too. I think that misparenting & malparenting (and miseducation & maleducation) are to blame for a lot of
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by rauhl 8y ago
A Mozilla team member closed it as invalid, pointing to an online discussion of the bug as a reason why a bug isn’t necessary[0]. Interestingly, this ‘just once’ attack is why Firefox Accounts are broken as designed: it’s possible for Mozil
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Why emacs is awesome(irreal.org)
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by rauhl 8y ago
That’s just the default. You can always put (setf *print-case* :downcase) in your .sbclrc (or whatever the equivalent is for your implementation) and never have to see all-caps again. And yeah, the default upcasing is ugly and ine
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To wash it all away [pdf; 2014](scholar.harvard.edu)
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LaTeX – a document preparation system(latex-project.org)
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by rauhl 8y ago
‘Cheating’ is an odd word to apply to playing the game as designed & delivered, without using an exploit. That one of the developers considers it cheating is interesting, but ultimately not determinative. Playing a poorly-designed gam
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Software freedom ensures the true software commons(ebb.org)
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by rauhl 8y ago
> 2FA authorization needs JS if you want to use it conveniently, otherwise you would have to refresh all the time How do you mean? IME 2FA works via an CLI utility or mobile app, and JavaScript doesn’t enter into it at all.
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18 September 2018: International Day Against DRM(defectivebydesign.org)
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by rauhl 8y ago
> how annoying websites are which use Javascript for things which could be done without A good example of sites which use JavaScript for things they don’t really need are those GP mentions: ‘government sites, e-stores, banking.’ Governme

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