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by rlpb 1y ago
I imagine that certain people of a particular temperament might deliberately leave such a thing be, perhaps for their own amusement, or maybe because they consider it to say more about the company than it says about them. Is this individual
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by rlpb 1y ago
Your understanding is just outright wrong. The `apt` command has an unstable interface so that it can improve the CLI without worrying about breaking scripts. The `apt-get` command is the stable interface for scripts. `apt` was created afte
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by rlpb 1y ago
> I saw an Ubuntu user's system restart their snap programs in the middle of delivering a conference presentation without warning. It's been years since they added warnings for upcoming snap updates. There's also "ref
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> A better default behaviour would be to alert the user and allow them to choose to indefinitely defer by "accepting the risk". That would be terrible UX and is exactly contrary to Ubuntu's philosophy, which is to do the r
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> Man, but have you personally tried to disable it? Sure. It's just a one line change in the configuration file (/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades). Or, if you're doing a mass deployment, just don&#x
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> Ubuntu continuously updates itself without permission... It does default to installing security updates automatically. However, this is completely configurable. It isn't reasonable to have different default behaviour - otherwise t
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> My team's current favorite is the upgrade process itself suddenly having new interactive prompts breaking our scripts. This is how dpkg and apt have worked in Debian and Ubuntu pretty much since their inception. Look into debconf,
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> You trademark your software’s name and use the law to force distributions to not package unless concessions are granted. It isn't clear if this behaviour is legally enforceable. Distributions typically try to avoid the conflict. B
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> The distribution also will not be persuaded, because it’s the “stable” branch for the next 3 years. This is exactly what users want, though. Eg. if they want to receive updates more frequently on Ubuntu then they can use the six monthl
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by rlpb 1y ago
AIUI, as EV fleets age, we're learning that it's the depth of charge and discharge that degrades batteries, not the total power throughput. Staying within 20% and 80% makes most of the difference to longevity. Additionally, they s
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by rlpb 1y ago
> Don’t let the leopards eat your face because you were too attached to your ideology. You're conflating ideologies. User-focused ideology doesn't care about business models. Leopards aren't eating their faces. They'r
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by rlpb 1y ago
> My company has hundreds of apps (hurray microservices). That's where "hundreds of hours" seems pretty reasonable to me. Sounds like a huge disadvantage in your company’s choice of software architecture to me.
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Take a look at Debian’s philosophy: https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines This predates the OSI definition. The philosophy is about what empowers the user. Business models (or their challenges) have nothing to d
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by rlpb 1y ago
I can't comment on what they're doing or not doing. But if they're getting chat content directly from the phones, say for example by having arranged with the app to cooperate with that exfiltration, then that is, by definitio
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by rlpb 1y ago
Of course businesses charge the maximum the market will tolerate. That’s how it’s supposed to work. No need to treat this as surprising, nefarious or unexpected.
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Signing an unsigned apt repository is about three gpg commands though. I don't see how this kind of thing requires a whole separate product.
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> If you replaced every worker with someone else of equal skill of course manufacturing company would continue to operate. No it wouldn't, because a senior worker wouldn't be around to say things like "oh yes we use a jig
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If it takes x gallons for your hot water to run through, and your dishwasher only consumes <x gallons before stopping long enough for your hot water line to cool again, then connecting your dishwasher to your hot water line would both wa
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> On contacting their support, I learned that they refused to use any other process. I suspect this won't help you, but I think it's worth noting that the GDPR gives people the right to contest any automated decision-making tha
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> Transferring your age and a way to verify it to any third party is by definition a privacy violation. No it's not. Unless... > Doing so in a safe way is literally impossible since I don't want to share that information in
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Staff who’ve been around a while, understand how a company operates and can seed that understanding into new staff are more valuable to companies. For example: if every worker were replaced with an equally skilled worker tomorrow a company
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That’s sounds like a functioning free market. Either they find the quality of labor they require at that rate, or they don’t. Either you take such a job at that rate because you have the required skills and knowledge and that’s your best of
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by rlpb 2y ago
How is that supposed to work for an IoT device that wants to work out of the box using one of these HTTPS-only browser APIs?
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by rlpb 2y ago
Indeed they are compatible. However HTTPS is often unnecessary, particularly in a smaller organisation, but browsers mandate significant unnecessary complexity there. In that sense, brwosers are not suited to this use in those scenarios.
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Browsers don't design for internal use though. They insist on HTTPS for various things that are intranet only, such as some browser APIs, PWAs, etc
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by rlpb 2y ago
> LLVM is sort of the defacto standard now... Distributions, and therefore virtually all the software used by a distribution user, still generally use gcc. LLVM is only the de facto standard when doing something new, and for JIT.
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> studies claiming that parents who prioritize validation over correction This implies that the two are mutually exclusive. I don't think that's true though. One can validate and correct at the same time.
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> The presence of fast trains between two cities, on the scale of <600km, is transformative, as it becomes more convenient to take a train than to fly I haven't found this to be true for London to Brussels. Eurostar terminals see
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> In my (albeit limited) experience, there's slack in the workweek, and that slack can provide the required time to do random stuff. How do you incentivise developers to put that slack to good use? In my experience, without an incen
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by rlpb 2y ago
The .d directories are important on Debian and Ubuntu where packaging needs to provide different snippets based on the set of installed packages, the VM environment, other configuration inputs like through cloud-init and so forth, and updat

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