ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
You're 'huh' is misplaced. Some stuff having some BSD code in it is entirely beside the point.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Then they are wasting taxpayer dollars and should switch to Linux.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I don't see how diversity of platforms/OS could be anything but a good thing. I didn't say it wasn't a good thing, I said I don't think it giving €686k to FreeBSD is the best use of that money, even if diversit
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I don't use a Slack Client but the Web one, and i don't use Spotify. The comment you were replying to was talking in general terms so I thought you were as well. > And to be clear a LinuxJail is actually NOT using the Linu
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Slack and Spotify if needed in a Linux Jail, yes Ha, just after you last said: > That's funny because i don't even know a reason to use Linux these days. Well, there's one reason to use Linux, lol - to run all the app
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Obviously the likes of Juniper, NetApp, Sony, Netflix, &c., know something you don't. Or there was no advantage and it was just the preference of the person designing the architecture.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
This seems like a strange use of money, surely? Nothing against FreeBSD, but Linux is where most of the focus already is. People using FreeBSD are doing so due to preference or legitimate need due to their software somehow specifically bein
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Worse, they ruled cops have no responsibility to endanger themselves and try to rescue people.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Bathroom usage is fine. No, it still isn't. A lot is still being captured. And almost everyone takes personal calls at work.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Observation as in observed and tested, or observation as in a speculation?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I don't see obscuring DNS queries as that useful when you just go ahead and connect to the server you wanted the address of directly anyway.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Except in this case people love being eaten and keep volunteering to be eaten by the cannibals.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> a non-US-citizen wouldn’t even have standing to sue wrt their personal data Sure they would, I think? They would just have to foot the bill to travel and file in a US court. And whatever user agreements they 'agreed' to might
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> An O(log n) tool will probably work fine on a large repo, an O(n^n) tool will probably have an unusable run time on anything but tiny repos. Wouldn't all repositories in use today offer O(log n) speeds though? I would think it&#x2
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Kate is the only even remotely close alternative to Notepad++ for me. Close enough that I maintain a personal fork stripping out all the stuff I don't use and modifying a few small things to my preferences (e.g. load/save sessions
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I don't think his Linux bit is backwards. I think he is just saying switching to FOSS software because a company is taking a freedom isn't a real solution, and we should fight to make it so companies can't do certain things,
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> you can do an O(log n) binary search I don't understand, and maybe you can explain if you are willing, why people use this to indicate speed? It gives no practical reference of how fast or slow that search would be without knowing
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Maybe the Japanese community didn't have any such initial influencing factors, and maybe developed more diverse, less toxic community overall. I think this would be more to do with individuality being so taboo.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It wasn't an attack, but a genuine question, for which I provided two possible interpretations. I was (am) interested in what you were saying. No worries at all! I wasn't taking it as an attack and apologies if my response se
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I do create and publish content, I just haven't drunk the kool-aid that makes me think I'm entitled to a set amount of money for every copy consumed. If people want to pay for it they will, and if they don't they won't.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I'm not sure what is meant by "protect against the case where there is a remote root hole". I don't understand how this is ambiguous. I mean limit the damage that an attacker can do if they get root - this is someth
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Someone concerned about piracy could just keep their phone in a faraday cage case and take it out only when needed, no?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I would think it isn't needed. Australia is a leading country for R&D and they have the money to fund their own designs.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Fox News is an Australian product lol, no it isn't. Don't try and pass the buck. Murdoch is a US citizen and has been since the 80s. Fox news is purely and always has been an AMERICAN product, regardless of the birth citizens
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> As an Aussie observer, I'm seeing more US influence in our region. Look at Sky News Australia, literally all they talk about is US politics. My theory is that as US focus shifts to East Asia, Australia is being groomed as a proxy
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's pirating when these scrapers are ignoring terms of user and whatever the AI equivalent to robots.txt is as has been widely reported as happening.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's not theft in any sense of the word. Please stop reporting this misinformation ASAP. If movie productions were so concerned about profit, maybe they should stop all the Hollywood accounting nonsense. The industry has just made seve
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> the harm done in the first case. There is no harm done in the first case. You say you would have bought House if you couldn't have streamed it, but I say that's nonsense. If you didn't want to pay for it you would have b
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I think there is business "harm" to piracy, but it's (mostly) vastly overstated. If I illegally download a song/movie I wouldn't have otherwise bought, did anybody lose out? More than two decades of studies sho
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Maybe you get flagged as being gay when you aren't, or as holding certain religious or political views that you don't. Very true! Great examples and reply, thank you!

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