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by rlpb 5y ago
I think part of the problem is that third party apt repositories have become normalised as if they're a reasonable way to "add on" to your existing system. In reality they're a hack on a packaging system that was never d
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by rlpb 5y ago
> I’ve learned that ubuntu upgrades only if you update to the next version as soon as it is released. I have a 14.04 server that I cannot upgrade anymore and it sucks. Actually you can upgrade from old releases. You do need to move from
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by rlpb 5y ago
I'm not sure it's a main reason, but it is indeed a key property of having full control over your own system that you are welcome to do this. But this level of control also comes with a curse: if you break your system, then you ge
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Ubuntu should have taken a page from CoreOS, NixOS and even Arch. CoreOS with their immutable system partitions (and two of them so it can revert to a good one if the current can't boot). NixOS with the immutable packages (and the
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by rlpb 5y ago
You described third party repositories and mismatching Python versions. That is a hacked up system, by definition.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Anyway, the biggest one is that what was previously an app is now a separate environment that is sometimes hard to control. If I wanted to run an app in a sandbox, I would have run it in a sandbox. I see sandboxing as a major upside. U
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by rlpb 5y ago
> The downsides are that the packages end up larger because they ship with all of the necessary bundled libraries (which can also increase memory usage of the application because it can't share the libraries loaded in RAM by the nat
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by rlpb 5y ago
> I wonder why Ubuntu/Canonical can never get their upgrade game to work properly. Ubuntu developer here. Sounds like you have a really hacked up system there, and that it's your existing system that has issues. Under these cir
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think this is a regulatory failure. Banks should be stopped, by regulation, from doing things that harm public expectations in this way.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> ...the point of using the more precise GPS-based ADS-B positional reporting is for controllers to be able to pack airplanes closer together It's not. Edit: at least, not in the places where there is adequate radar coverage - ie. i
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by rlpb 5y ago
The trouble with *@domain.tld is that you get that many times as much spam. Unless your spam filter is 100% accurate, that increases the amount of spam that gets through.
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by rlpb 5y ago
> He doesn't let me cancel... This is the part that baffles me. There's no "let me cancel". You are giving notice of cancellation by telephone as required. Clearly the agent understands why you are calling. Therefore
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by rlpb 5y ago
The test is whether that information can later be used to link to an individual. You might not have the information, but you might later be able to correlate it against someone who does, and that makes it personally identifiable and under t
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Apart from one-off costs for building the line... That's where the majority of the cost is. It may appear to be a one-off cost, but it's a capital expenditure that's huge, and such capex is financially equivalent to an o
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by rlpb 5y ago
> A Schaeffler representative explained to Electrek that the Free Drive is approximately 5% less efficient than chain drives. Isn't this just describing battery to motor-on-wheel efficiency vs. battery to motor to chain to wheel eff
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by rlpb 5y ago
> If I was dealing with tens of thousands, I would not have been so foolish to try and transfer the bitcoin without expert help. How do you identify expert help that you can trust, if you're not qualified to assess expertise?
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by rlpb 5y ago
> In a society without governments... But haven't you just described governments? Your "protection service" is our "sovereign state". Your agreements between protection services are our international treaties (in
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by rlpb 5y ago
I think maybe they mean anonymous _hosted_ wallets where the hoster is inside the EU.
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by rlpb 5y ago
Ultimately it's the court system that backs up identity. Ideally you never end up there, but its existence is what holds society together. That's where identity matters: where you're held to account for previous actions, such
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by rlpb 5y ago
Right, and what in there suggests to you that Apple can view an image after a sufficient number of images match? I see the opposite: "Apple can’t access metadata or visual derivatives for matched CSAM images until a threshold of match
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by rlpb 5y ago
> to whom apple would refer hash matching images that pass human verification I am under the impression that Apple's scheme allows them only to verify the output of the matching algorithm (the "safety vouchers"), and not t
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Upon visual inspection, your 'legal porn' is going to have to at least look passably like image 105 of the dataset to get anywhere. Define "get anywhere". Why won't you get raided by the police and have all you
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by rlpb 5y ago
> It genuinely could threaten the ability of banks to continue operating retail banking services if it continues to almost exponentially grow. Preventing this kind of fraud is a solved problem. The reason it still happens is that banks a
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by rlpb 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
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by rlpb 5y ago
> Files are no where near where you'd expect them to be. > I am pleasantly surprised by how cleanly Snaps uninstall though. These two things are connected :)
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by rlpb 5y ago
The BBC article on this ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58165478 ) says: """ None of the documents had any marking to suggest that they were confidential, nor were they protected by a password, he
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by rlpb 5y ago
I'd like to think so, on the basis of negligence both from the police and from the accuser. The accuser, because they were negligent in 1) securing their files; and 2) making allegations against the victim without appropriate confirmat
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by rlpb 5y ago
> that can be thousands of kilometers long "Most qanats in Iran run less than 5 km (3.1 mi), while some have been measured at ≈70 km (43 mi) in length near Kerman" -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
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by rlpb 5y ago
> So aside from being responsible for the bad actors they choose not to exclude, they should also be responsible for the actors they unfairly or disproportionately exclude. I entirely agree. I think that this could be made quite general:
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by rlpb 5y ago
> since we're now also dependent on it for enforcement This, I think, is the root of the problem. In the case that Amazon takes control of the situation (you don't really have a relationship with the third party seller; you hav

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