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by roblabla 9y ago
Not the op, but until recently I felt like while Apple's apps were going downhill, its OS stayed very good, both in terms of user friendliness and stability. With High Sierra, any trust I had was utterly shattered.
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by roblabla 9y ago
They do have it. It's called `posix_spawn`[0]. Most systems implement it using clone/execve I assume. [0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pos...
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by roblabla 9y ago
Flash could do that, and yet I've never heard of it as a problem.
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by roblabla 9y ago
That's actually a huge annoyance of mine. There's no stable, cross-platform web API to get raw sockets, and I'm not sure why.
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Blizzard's Battle.net Updater Installs Root Certificate(reddit.com)
198 points by roblabla 9y ago|75 comments
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by roblabla 9y ago
This is wrong, on so, so, so many levels. Yes, I get that the best way to maintain relationships is in meatspace, but this isn't really possible anymore. People move, meet online, etc... This doesn't mean they stop being friends.
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by roblabla 9y ago
Pfft. I'm a switch owner, and while I do agree the dual nature of the Switch looked gimmicky, it turned out to be surprisingly useful, more than I expected. But that's besides the point. The thing about "performance" is
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by roblabla 9y ago
I have no idea where you get all that. I've done a few reports on bugzilla, bugs in firefox on ArchLinux (so linux, and not a standardized setup). They've all been answered, and most have been fixed. Sometimes, I've been told
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Mercurial Oxidation Plan – Using Rust in Mercurial(mercurial-scm.org)
15 points by roblabla 9y ago|0 comments
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by roblabla 9y ago
"Backward compatibility" is holding back creativity a fair bit, I would think. You can build two completely different cathedrals, both surviving the ages. But straying from the fork/exec pattern would make you completely inco
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by roblabla 9y ago
On one part, I agree. On another, Average DevJoe on the Apple dev forums knew about it two weeks ago. It's scary to think about how many bad actors have known about it, and might have weaponized it given it is wormable, during that tim
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by roblabla 9y ago
The fact they learned this only yesterday is amazingly stupid to start with. People were talking about this weeks ago on the Apple Forums, as a "neat trick" : https://twitter.com/fristle/status/93567047
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by roblabla 9y ago
And as a result, they've been safer sooner than other people.
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by roblabla 9y ago
They already said they wouldn't open source it (after suggesting they might). I doubt they'll ever think about removing it. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803373
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by roblabla 9y ago
Wow, that's awesome ! You have no idea how happy this makes me ! Thanks for your hard work, I'll definitely be using this and suggesting it to the people around me :D EDIT: Just tried to sign up, and I triggered an internal error
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by roblabla 9y ago
The status page was down during the outage.
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by roblabla 9y ago
OVH is a giant hosting company in Europe, providing dedicated servers to quite a lot of companies. Half the internet here was borked. A translation service, a few developer tools, etc... Sure, it's less dramatic than AWS going down,
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by roblabla 9y ago
I just learned about faircode[0] and I've got to say, I like the idea. I like that right on the frontpage, it shows that I have the choice to keep using the current license, and have it work like a Patreon, or use their own Faircode Li
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by roblabla 9y ago
You don't need babel to get HMR.
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by roblabla 9y ago
For a side-project of mine, I decided to not use babel (or typescript or any transpilation at all), and I've got to say, post-babel life is awesome. Sure, you're limited in browser support. But it makes life so much easier, iterat
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by roblabla 9y ago
This tantrum is fairly warrented TBH. Nvidia has been hostile to the linux world for as long as they existed. That they've been in a monopoly situation means that the community had no choice but to take the pain in. Sway is a WM, and w
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by roblabla 9y ago
Tor is a network, and yet you have to install a program to connect to it. You can think of the cjdns program like a driver that allows you to connect to a cjdns network. To answer your question on what it does : cjdns is a routing protocol
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by roblabla 9y ago
Don't worry, monsanto already has vertically integrated your life as if it was a mere product: They're planning to merge with Bayer, a pharmaceutical group[0]. So while Monsanto is actively trying to kill you, Bayer is actively tr
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by roblabla 9y ago
I never claimed windows hasn't been getting better in other departments. And I'll agree that a default Windows install is probably more battery efficient than a default Linux install. But that wasn't the point. To respond to
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by roblabla 9y ago
Yes. USB-C can transport multiple protocols (such as HDMI and USB) at the same time. Some eGPU have USB-C support (though not all).
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by roblabla 9y ago
I guess I should have said "Mac or Linux", but I'll answer your points because they tick me off. First some context : I'm both a Windows, Mac and Linux user, and my favorite is probably Mac. But I've converted a fai
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by roblabla 9y ago
My phone (Android/LineageOS) blocks native ads too. There's adaway that does this nicely. Client-side protection exists.
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by roblabla 9y ago
Because video-games is still the one place where Mac and Linux are lagging behind, and they have DirectX to thank a lot for that.
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by roblabla 9y ago
> some rando's This is a GNU-approved fork > weakly motivated Has lots of strong motivation, like a stricter stance on non-free software, the usage of a "real", more expressive language (Guile) instead of a niche, poorl
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by roblabla 9y ago
I use gpg-agent's ssh support and a yubikey to store my SSH private key. It's a pretty nice experience, being able to switch between computers having my SSH key always with me.

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