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by rlpb 3y ago
> Let's look at Python for example. If you want to install a package, it goes into /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/$PACKAGE. Do you want two version of it? That's not possible. This is ultimately a la
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by rlpb 3y ago
> I don't want Netflix to prompt me, "Want to watch the next episode for 4 cents?" No prompt needed - just as your electricity company doesn't prompt you before you watch TV either. You trust the rate to be reasonable
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by rlpb 3y ago
I'm just going by the article I cited. I don't know any more than the reason given there. And come on: how is refusing contributions when the cited reason is not contributing not ironic?
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by rlpb 3y ago
Canonical volunteered to maintain LTS kernels within the community, but upstream refuses to accept Canonical's contributions - ironically because apparently they "don't work within the community". Source: https:/&#
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by rlpb 3y ago
This looks interesting, but there are some questions I still have after reading your website. Perhaps you could clarify, please? Your website says: > Verify yourself at any one of our partner branches across India How do I find out if th
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by rlpb 3y ago
In the rest of the world, private homes installing solar panels and batteries is seen as a good thing. Doesn't this at least give South Africa a head start in something , even if energy grid instability continues to be a problem?
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by rlpb 3y ago
I think this is being approached backwards - both by the article and by commenters here. A Unix account is a viable access control mechanism. If you create one, you give its human user access to do everything that the Unix user can do. This
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by rlpb 3y ago
> Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels. It's not really 5 years. For example, if you buy a Pixel 6a today, a product that is not yet discontinued, you'll get less than 4 years support. Unless you
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by rlpb 3y ago
That's not how Bitcoin works, and the article doesn't make any claim to the contrary. Neither Bitcoin owners nor Bitcoin miners control the rules of the network. If they were to unilaterally change the rules, their (now forked) Bi
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by rlpb 3y ago
Talking of alternatives, I'm also aware of Gambas, though I've never tried it: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
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by rlpb 3y ago
I don't think this works because the local exchange rate will plummet unless there's a flow in the other direction, and if there is an opposite flow (eg. through market arbitragers) then the original benefit becomes questionable.
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by rlpb 3y ago
> I can't speak for every person's experience, but what I believe is that most dishwashers being sold today, anywhere, are capable of being connected to domestic hot water, or cold water. They will work with both. This is not m
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by rlpb 3y ago
> confirmed that they think it is a real security issue There is no definition or even industry consensus of what is a real security issue. Scoring systems are widely accepted as flawed. So in practice, this isn't how it works, as t
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by rlpb 3y ago
A CVE is just a common identifier, like a bug number when you file a bug report. Just because you can file a bug in most projects doesn't mean these bug numbers present valid bugs, and the same applies to CVEs. Some in the industry ten
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by rlpb 3y ago
> This is a general problem for law generally, one that is usually resolved by imposing a reasonableness standard. Exactly this. Here in the UK we have "merchantable quality" as the standard for the required quality of any good
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by rlpb 3y ago
Indeed - and curl requires `-L` to follow redirects whereas wget just does that by default too. So for ad-hoc CLI use, I turn to wget rather than remember all the curl options required.
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by rlpb 3y ago
> But I've been told that Polish is perfectly phonetic without any weird pronunciation surprises. I don't know about Polish, but I have had conversations where native speakers think that until exceptions are pointed out, becaus
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by rlpb 3y ago
> It would be nice to have a language with sensible spelling/pronunciation I get the impression that this is impossible in the long term because pronunciation tends to drift, but spelling is more rigid, so over time they mismatch.
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by rlpb 3y ago
Ubuntu developer here. I don't think that's fair. The OS, as shipped today, isn't designed with this threat model in mind. It's correct to say that for TPM-based LUKS unlock to be safe, the initramfs must not allow the u
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by rlpb 3y ago
By that logic Switzerland isn't in Europe either :)
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by rlpb 3y ago
> because snap doesn't work over remote connections Nor does Wayland, which is the default in Ubuntu now.
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Captchas require human intervention. This method is transparent for the legitimate user.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I think the presence of this PoW system might mean that this form of abuse is discouraged enough that in practice it means that PoW will not be required. Who is going to compete with a huge amount of compute to DoS others? They'd need
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by rlpb 3y ago
> and the citation notice is a one-time thing you can silence permanently This doesn't scale. Imagine if all the software you used nagged you and had their own individual methods to silence them. I don't think this would be rea
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by rlpb 3y ago
I agree that it's not universal amongst all native English speakers. But otherwise, that's just a prescriptivist/descriptivist argument. What's "correctly"? You'll note though that there are only a few v
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> because native Anglophones will not know either I'm not sure that's true. There are still underlying patterns to it, even if it's very convoluted. The exceptions are in the core language that native Anglophones know well
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I think your sentence is accurate if you replace the word "factual" with "accepted". But in public discourse some people tend to want to use the word "factual" when they mean "accepted", and others wo
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by rlpb 3y ago
Sounds like you want a client-side redirect blocker :-)
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> The codes are outside in a public space. They could easily be replaced, I do not trust them. This applies whether there's a redirect in place or not. If you're in the "False Napkin Restaurant", and they have QR code
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by rlpb 3y ago
Your average small business don't control "their own domain". They have some IT or marketing company managing it for them. The problem comes when they want to switch supplier, and either the losing or winning subcontractor do

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