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Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit(perc.org.uk)
117 points by reidrac 10y ago|206 comments
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by reidrac 10y ago
I liked it. It felt quite natural to look for the pages in my app list, instead of getting to the browser and then switch tabs. I guess I tend to use more websites than native apps. Also the new (old?) behaviour keeps the last tab open when
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by reidrac 10y ago
I got mail from Ubuntu Store, linking to this site. The mail didn't have a link to read the announcement in a browser, so let me sum it up a little. Basically Debian packages are going away for commercial applications and they will be
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by reidrac 10y ago
You're right, but you can use LVM to solve that problem: make an LVM snapshot, run your backup solution (eg, rsnapshot) on the LVM snapshot, remove the LVM snapshot. You still have the problem of caches and transient data, but all file
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by reidrac 10y ago
Each project may have a different versioning scheme and that's just fine. Not everyone follows "semver" (although it sounds sensible to me).
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by reidrac 10y ago
I think it is because OpenSSL changes the API frequently and it'll break things in subtle ways. I may be wrong, but this is not a problem with dynamic linking but with OpenSSL as a project.
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by reidrac 10y ago
I don't agree with "Every top 5 song, from 1958 - 2016, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good". Because "top 5" doesn't mean "good", does it?
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by reidrac 10y ago
I hate this "branding of security issues" trend, I don't think it adds anything at all to the security process; but there you are.
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by reidrac 11y ago
My experience with a Chinese fab was different: I got all the PCBs shorted, and because they were quite cheap their customer support was good enough to never admit that the problem was on their side, so I didn't bother because... it wa
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by reidrac 11y ago
MSYS (as part of MinGW project) doesn't use Cygwin AFAIK; with the licensing implications that it has, because Windows programs written with Cygwin run on top of a copylefted compatibility DLL that must be distributed with the program,
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by reidrac 11y ago
MSYS is not Cygwin and IMHO is way better. Yes, is not Linux, but is a native binary without emulation (translation?) layer. It's been around for ages, before I did cross-compiling from Linux to Windows, that's what I used in Wind
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by reidrac 11y ago
I see a problem with that "License is MIT". That's not how software is licensed and if the author wants this to be used, the legal part must be flawless. Who's the copyright holder? How can I contact that person? What&#x
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by reidrac 11y ago
If you're using Linux only like me, Kazam is unbeatable to capture your screen. I got similar results with ffmpeg, but Kazam is just dead easy to use. After that, in case you need some editing, I recommend Blender. It has a steep learn
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by reidrac 11y ago
Related to open source, you probably want to track OSS Security mailing list [1]; or if you're part of an organization relying on open source software, you should have someone looking at that list. I think it is a good complement to th
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by reidrac 11y ago
My point was that mirroring Twitter on identi.ca made identi.ca worse . Lots of people were automatically posting their Twitter updates on identi.ca, but never replying or caring about the interactions they had there. Same with blogs RSS f
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by reidrac 11y ago
In my humble opinion, that's what ruined indenti.ca back in the day. If you're mirroring Twitter and losing the interactions you have in GNU Social, your account is just a bot and you're not really using the social network .
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by reidrac 11y ago
I used StatusNet when it was identi.ca for quite some time, specially because back then Twitter really allowed 3rd party clients and with multi-protocol clients was really easy to use both. When I was using identi.ca it was pretty much abou
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by reidrac 11y ago
In my case, before the Internet there was "the programming & shareware magazines". They usually included a CD with lots of freeware, shareware and some open source too (that's how I got DJGPP or POV, for example). And you
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by reidrac 11y ago
I've been programming for more than 20 years, slightly over 10 professionally, and although I'm more than a programmer... programming is what I love most of my job. I guess I'm around 8/10, probably because I'm not
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by reidrac 11y ago
The game main character is a bear and that appears to be the "working title" at least.
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by reidrac 11y ago
I found it shocking too. If she didn't have much in common with her colleagues, is that really because she was a black woman and they were white males? It makes me think I don't understand the importance of race in US. I mean, I h
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by reidrac 11y ago
Is not just the UX of using the client certificate in the browser, there's also the problem in the server: maintaining a CRL (Certificate Revocation List), or using OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol). I've been forced to us
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by reidrac 11y ago
Besides the MSX suffered from lots of lazy ports from the ZX Spectrum, what is really a shame because they didn't use the full potential of the machines (kind of like happened with the Amstrad CPC, but that's a different story).
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by reidrac 11y ago
I may be wrong but I have the feeling that KHTML case is a good exception . Apple traditional way of complying with OSS licenses is not that nice (tarball + patches and there you are). See for example: http://www.opensource.appl
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by reidrac 11y ago
ADOM is one of the major 2nd gen rogue-likes (including NH and Angband in this group), and they're similar. I played ADOM first, so for me NH required re-training; so I may be biased. ADOM offers a more complex world with different end
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by reidrac 11y ago
I'm happy NH is still being developed with new releases, but for me... the rogue-like event of 2015 is ADOM hitting steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/333300/ I know this post is about NH, but some migh
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by reidrac 11y ago
Why the proxy? This is the direct link: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/only-3-northern-white-rhinos... EDIT: actually I found the proxy more interesting than the story itself.
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by reidrac 11y ago
I've always find these fascinating, but I don't know if I would actually use one. Basically when I would need it is when I'm programming and in those cases a Python REPL is easy to start (new terminal, run python), and for me
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Amstrad CPC Edition of “10 PRINT” maze generator challenge in 11 bytes(github.com)
1 points by reidrac 11y ago|0 comments
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by reidrac 11y ago
That doesn't sound completely right. If it was a 10% performance hit, I could blame the driver but comparing 60 FPS (I presume) with 1 FPS when people are playing the game in Mac OS X using WINE; that sounds like something is probably

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