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by rlpb 1y ago
> closing out anonymous (but good) software I don’t think we should be framing their new rules like this. They are closing out F-Droid, which is not anonymous, due to a technicality of their implementation. At best, they are collateral d
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by rlpb 1y ago
> It's not fun to have to trace through 5 or 6 different functions to try to figure out what type is being passed in or returned from something. My position is that what is intended must be made clear between type hints and the docs
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by rlpb 1y ago
I think Matrix is a good upcoming contender. The available clients are not really mature yet though. Element is excessively heavyweight and bloated, being Electron based. Other clients all seem to miss some essential feature or other. And t
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by rlpb 1y ago
A million people adding 12MB each would be 12TB in increased storage sales. Is that really significant in increased profit if you set it off against the cost of providing the storage, the computational cost of generating 12TB of images, plu
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by rlpb 1y ago
> From a network point of view, BitTorrent is horrendous. It has no way of knowing network topology which frequently means traffic flows from eyeball network to eyeball network for which there is no "cheap" path available... As
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by rlpb 1y ago
> ...not to mention the absurd amount of energy wasted in braking and then re-accelerating that 3 mile freight monster. > Fixing this would be possible - either by limiting the maximum length of a train... It can't be both. Split
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by rlpb 1y ago
Sway can more or less do it, and I've switched from XMonad to Sway but configured similar to XMonad's default method of operation. I haven't managed to get it quite right though. For example Sway doesn't seem to be willi
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Even if they choose AGPLv3, the creator still maintains full freedom since they own the copyrights. Only if they either refuse all contributions, require contributions to be made under an MIT license or similar (and then immediately re
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by rlpb 1y ago
This looks good! Unfortunately it looks like it also suffers from exactly the same software supply chain problem that we need to avoid in the first place: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master&#x2F
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by rlpb 1y ago
There is another related growing problem in my recent observation. As a Debian Developer, when I try to audit upstream changes before pulling them in to Debian, I find a huge amount of noise from tooling, mostly pointless. This makes it ver
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by rlpb 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of these blog posts for what is, at best, a simple bug in Debian. When I encounter something like this, I find steps to reproduce and file a bug. That's it. If someone wants to get indignant a
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by rlpb 1y ago
So…CARS?
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by rlpb 1y ago
> As she was taking it I told her if it got broken while it was out of my hands that was her responsibility, it cost a thousand dollars. If that's the claim, I think an appropriate response would be to send the kid out of class (wit
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by rlpb 1y ago
> The expensive professional stoves however... …have people whose job it is to clean everything every day anyway.
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Your TZ doesn't change between summer and winter. What changes is the shift My TZ is GMT in winter and BST in summer. I am not in GMT in summer. GMT continues to exist in summer, doesn't shift but my clock doesn't follow
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by rlpb 1y ago
> ...I have the option to select..."(UTC+0) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" This is factually wrong already. In summer, London is not UTC+0. They mean "UTC+0 ignoring DST", but that is not useful. If they're
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by rlpb 1y ago
The timezone names are defined by the Olson database, not Debian. It is the only sensible system in our ecosystem. It certainly beats Outlook which still wrongly insists that my timezone is GMT just because I live in the UK and still conf
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by rlpb 1y ago
> In this case, the core issue is still not the privatization intrinsically, but the mechanisms of corruption and competing interests with some other areas. Ironically, this is also the argument for privatization in the first place - tha
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by rlpb 1y ago
Debian is both an operating system and a distribution of single applications. Its (excellent) dependency management applies to both. It doesn't have a software supply chain problem because it takes dependency management seriously.
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by rlpb 1y ago
It's not a problem that Docker Compose can be used and a configuration is provided. What's an indicator of a dependency problem is when it's the only way to deploy the software. If, instead, they could say "all require
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by rlpb 1y ago
OK, more maybe, but that is nothing next to Debian, where a huge Debian userbase settles on a single set of versions for all dependencies for a year (usually more) at a time.
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by rlpb 1y ago
That never happens because the appointed regulator has no incentive to efficiently and effectively regulate, either.
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by rlpb 1y ago
I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac..
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by rlpb 1y ago
How should users send valuable information then, if they require E2E encryption?
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by rlpb 1y ago
> What is ground in such a line, it will differ by 1000s of Volts between continents. Does that translate to free energy for the repeaters?
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by rlpb 1y ago
> so it makes it really easy for companies to stiff the open source contributors I don't think there's any stiffing going on, since the open source contributors knowingly contributed with a license that specifically says that p
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by rlpb 1y ago
They may also try to use the warranty registration as an opportunity to sell insurance products, such as "protection" for other white goods. I had this with a new boiler (American English: "furnace"). They took the regis
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by rlpb 1y ago
> people generally don't SSH into hosts they're not somehow affiliated with git remote add ... git+ssh://user@github.com/... comes to mind as a counterexample, although I admit there aren't many of these exa
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by rlpb 1y ago
OpenSSH supports DNSSEC-published host key fingerprints.
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by rlpb 1y ago
This process only works when you're hiring for an entry-level role and also don't care about differentiating for anything that isn't on your exam. I don't think it's possible to create such an exam for senior or lea

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