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by rollcat 3y ago
I don't like explaining this, because it should be obvious, but pretending this to be obvious would be hypocrisy. Yes, in an ideal world, you wouldn't care. But we are incredibly far away from that ideal, and we must put special
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by rollcat 3y ago
Great point. I think this brings up the question of ethics in advertising - how far are you willing to mislead your audience in order to support your claim? It's likely that Tuta didn't even mean to intentionally mislead (10 is a
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by rollcat 3y ago
The article is bollocks. Recommending Pale Moon in 2023 is plain irresponsible. No process isolation/sandboxing for tabs/websites/addons, playing constant catch-up with Firefox on implementing security fixes/mitigations
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by rollcat 3y ago
I loved the article, and when I love an article the first thing I do is look for the website's news feed. From < https://www.10stripe.com/10blog/ >: > The blog has been discontinued due to Wordpress securit
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by rollcat 3y ago
Software is perfect not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing to take away. Patches are easy to reject; try to refuse implementing a feature someone offers you money for. Notice how the most consistent design
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by rollcat 3y ago
> As should be every other modern western comfort and privilege. Seems to me like gambling, speculation, and proof of waste all perfectly fit the definition of "comfort and privilege". > Maybe after the world is done taking
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by rollcat 3y ago
> [...] it didn't even amount to 1% of global energy consumption. When you put it in these terms, we should also just de-regulate fuel, plumbing, and electronics, because the combined lead poisoning won't kill as much as 1% of
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by rollcat 3y ago
> This is determined by code in ways everyone can see and understand. That's just a slightly more wordy way of saying "technocracy". An overwhelming majority of people in the world (including cryptocurrency enthusiasts) ar
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by rollcat 3y ago
Do you see any features in modern, high-level programming languages (such as Python, Go, C#) that could guide the next evolutionary step for C, without sacrificing that low-level control? Knowing KT worked on Go, I'd guess he'd sa
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by rollcat 3y ago
> They should stop just short of regulating the underlying cryptocurrencies themselves. The problem with not regulating a currency at all, is that it implies a permission for someone to print it at will. Cryptocurrency is no exception to
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by rollcat 3y ago
If we're discussing viability of Minecraft on lower-end hardware, jumping from the voxel sandbox genre into the RTS genre (especially as you point out higher hardware requirements) is quite a stretch. Minetest is as much of an alternat
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by rollcat 3y ago
Minecraft is horribly under-optimized, but unfortunately a lot of the deeply architectural things might be impossible to touch without breaking something for the more technical players. (Check out Docm77 or TangoTek, they're really pus
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by rollcat 3y ago
If you're on a low end system, I can recommend Minetest. It's a similar but different experience - you still mine blocks and craft items but all of the details are quite different. I enjoy both games; while I prefer Minecraft due
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by rollcat 3y ago
Oh, Purism. The guys who included a separate chip to deny the user the ability to upgrade the firmware, so that they could meet FSF's completely arbitrary requirements for a honorary badge of freedom (see the hypocrisy?), but neglected
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by rollcat 3y ago
Came here to say this exactly. My toy OS has the most spartan shell imaginable (no pipes, no redirection, no variables, no flow control, just run a list of commands). It's enough to mount filesystems, configure network interfaces, spaw
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by rollcat 3y ago
Does anything at all run without JS these days? I swear all I wanted was to read a blog post, and it loaded more megabytes of JS than the text and pictures combined.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I think most privacy-conscious people have a pretty good idea about how to maintain proper private key hygiene (key should never leave the device, use FDE + a passphrase or a hardware token, etc). But we've been leaking metadata (such
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by rollcat 3y ago
Sorry for nitpicking on your grammar, but you are supposed to use the prophetic perfect for stating future events as if they were past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophetic_perfect_tense
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by rollcat 3y ago
Yep, both gokrazy and u-root serve as inspirations/references (there's a lot of tricky stuff like configuring the network or the framebuffer). Using a kernel from Debian while figuring out my options - glad there seem to be so man
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by rollcat 3y ago
How's Linux 2.6 going?
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by rollcat 3y ago
Ooooh this is very cute. I'm toying with building a little OS using the Linux kernel and an all-Go userspace, and one of the goals is to make the entire system as easy to cross-compile (both host OS and host/guest CPU arch) as p
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by rollcat 3y ago
The concern is not about free labor, the concern is that the product I'm building might get killed by vendor deciding to just fuck me over. Whether the software is free (as in beer or freedom) or not is a secondary concern - I'm m
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by rollcat 3y ago
I wonder if there's anything like a "rug-pull-proof" licensing/development model. Even AGPL is not a guarantee, if a single entity owns the copyright to the entire project (through CLAs), and decides to switch to BSL, an
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by rollcat 3y ago
It seems this is a server-to-server protocol? Subscriber is required to accept HTTP requests, which makes it mostly useless for most contexts where RSS is used.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Never said it isn't; like every strategy it boils down to good execution and working to avoid getting countered. I just personally hate to play against turtles ;)
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by rollcat 3y ago
Because there are applications that could benefit from it?
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by rollcat 3y ago
Agreed a thousandfold. Meanwhile nothing stops us from pursuing both concurrently.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I find your take quite odd, considering your background. Biodiversity is not a hit points bar that knocks out your player character when it falls below a certain level. You remove a single keystone species and the whole local ecosystem coll
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Anything that has updates and doesn't need to be an instant notification. I wonder if there's an easy/obvious way to enhance RSS with instant (or near-instant) notification capability. Perhaps HTTP long polling/Webs
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Not sure why you would expect that turtling (porc(upine)ing) would work in a competitive game with 2 teams, the opponnents will just take the rest of the map and then crush you using these extra resources. That's exactly the issue

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