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by rlpb 3y ago
The reason for the redirect is probably so that they can change the URL without reprinting the menus. For example, if a small business changes who they get to do their online ordering system, sometimes that involves a URL change because coo
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by rlpb 3y ago
I felt like that when I initially read this. But now, after reading some of the other comments, I think I see where they're coming from. I now see it more like "You destroyed someone else's entire life; the damages caused by
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by rlpb 3y ago
It seems to me that PayPal's responsibility ended when they delivered the check to the correct recipient, and that's what they paid for with the $1.50 fee. But that didn't happen, so it's PayPal who's been defrauded
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by rlpb 3y ago
> I've never understood the Linux culture of tightly coupling OS and package management (and so I use brew even on Linux), but I seem to be in the minority. It allows one side of your artificial divide to specify dependencies on the
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by rlpb 3y ago
You could probably grab the next version that was published to Debian (3.04-14), throw it into a PPA to build against 20.04 and it would probably work. People have also published this kind of thing as an update in the official repositories
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by rlpb 3y ago
> because i usually use xpdf for pdf files and ubuntu dropped it FWIW, Ubuntu only didn't ship xpdf in 20.04. It's back in 22.04. Looking at the history of the package in Debian, it looks like it was on "life support"
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by rlpb 3y ago
> I must be missing something, but TBH I’m finding it hard to remember any major technical contributions from Canonical. Parallelized service start on desktop boot and other similar desktop boot optimizations come to mind. But yeah, most
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by rlpb 3y ago
That's not relevant to the point, since it's analogous to them choosing not to do business with someone because they redistributed the software. The motivation is not a point that's in question.
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by rlpb 3y ago
Having said that, there are a pile of issues at https://github.com/cyphar/incus/issues that all look like high level project-type decisions that are filed by stgraber.
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by rlpb 3y ago
It looks like it was actually forked by someone on GitHub with the username cyphar, and stgraber merely has a clone on his GitHub account, which of course is common for anyone who contributes to any project. For example, the README.md links
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by rlpb 3y ago
I am optimistic that a social graph can help with this, using transitive trust and making it easy to transitively "cut off" bad parts of the graph with a blocklist. The problem is that commercial graphs do become useless, as you s
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by rlpb 3y ago
I wish there were a way for users to share the websites that do this and other dark patterns so that I can avoid them. Effectively a reputation system. Search engines used to do this, but apparently not any more. We need a replacement.
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by rlpb 3y ago
> It's the kind of thing where an active government would step in and manage hiring and/or dictate pay. That's where things start to go wrong - because it may be that some industry is in decline because it's being ecl
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by rlpb 3y ago
There is https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ which suggests that in the future this kind of behaviour will be default. I'm not sure of the specifics but I have seen lots of conversation about it in Debian circles.
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by rlpb 3y ago
Debian ships packages with a coherent dependency structure that crosses language boundaries. You don't need to care what language something is written in to be able to "apt install" it. The expectation is that if it "apt
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by rlpb 3y ago
You don't own your username on someone else's service. They don't owe you anything.
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by rlpb 3y ago
The EU's GDPR only requires explicit consent for data collection for the purposes of the processing of data that is personally identifiable and there are exemptions such as for operational reasons. For example if you make an HTTPS requ
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Bottle fed babies are often fed using plastic bottles that are steam sterilised in the microwave.
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by rlpb 3y ago
Arguably it's not the voluntary downloading of an app that's the problem; it's the mandatory government imposition of privacy interference across all apps.
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by rlpb 3y ago
> Clearly, those companies must price for their home (and much larger) market. I don't think that's true. They can be expected to price to maximise revenue and that can mean pricing differently in different markets. With softwa
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by rlpb 3y ago
How are you measuring efficiency? Why is base 3 more efficient than base 2? Why is e the most efficient?
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by rlpb 3y ago
The article claims that since security fixes land in latest releases first but must be individually backported to older releases, therefore staying on an older release is less secure. However I think this is in itself a false premise. The o
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by rlpb 3y ago
I was wondering how access to class D airspace would work for an unlicensed ultralight pilot. Can they get a radio? Would they need a [radio] license both for themselves and for the aircraft? Is that practical to acquire without a PPL? Or,
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by rlpb 3y ago
The article doesn't really cover it but being able to fly without a license probably isn't the same as flying near a controlled (ie. towered) airport. If want to commute and aren't in the middle of nowhere you might find that
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by rlpb 3y ago
Indeed. I think it's also worth noting that if this is properly enforced across the board then the lower conversion rates of such non-tracking ads should be perfectly fine from a competitive perspective.
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by rlpb 3y ago
When past data collection is confirmed to be illegal, this should apply retrospectively. That is: it means that they don't have consent to lawfully process the data they currently hold despite any coerced "I consent" clicks
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by rlpb 3y ago
> for most folks it's always been about whether a positive test requires them to restrict their movement or activities Sure but that problem is once removed from the real problem. The underlying reason for restrictions is infectious
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by rlpb 3y ago
What I think really matters for most people is not to find out whether they have covid or not, but whether they are infectious or not. I'd really like to see research (any at all!) into how effective different test methods are at predi
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by rlpb 3y ago
Ah, so "I am not an expert in English" must be sufficient to get out of contracts!
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In my reply I focused on why we need a bundled, sandboxed packaging format in the first place, since many people are sceptical just about that. So you're right in that I didn't go into any of the differences. Snaps solve a bunch o

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