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   by slrz 10y ago

   Years ago, Ian Hickson wrote a perfect analysis of why we have DRM. It's as relevant as ever, and anyone should read it. https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2
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   by slrz 10y ago

   Eh. Supported Operating System Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows 7 So to view these propriatary document formats I'd first have to buy a
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   by slrz 10y ago

   I think a (machine-readable) reference to the unobfuscated version is all that's needed.
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   by slrz 10y ago

   So what you want to do is fooling clients into believing there is transport encryption while actually there is none and the communication with the origin server happens in the clear?
5. 365.▲
   by slrz 10y ago

   Or simply disable the freakin' web interface if people just can't get it secure? You should still apply security fixes for (relevant) kernel and sshd issues, of course.
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   by slrz 11y ago

   There are definitely backwards-incompatible changes in the things that were added since C++98. For one, there's a whole set of new keywords that's going to break any code that used them as identifiers. Then there's a keyword
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   by slrz 11y ago

   > Why not drop to a "did you want the playlist, or just this video?" prompt? Introducing breaking changes like this are no longer an option once your program has more than 5 users. In addition, well-behaved command line program
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   by slrz 11y ago

   Probably by emitting control sequences from the input files unfiltered to your terminal. Just guessing, but it's the one big thing that occurs to me when thinking of an unsafe pager.
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   by slrz 11y ago

   There is: Resurrect Pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages
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    by slrz 11y ago

    > However StartSSL support is often actively hostile, treating customers as idiots or worse. Maybe that's because 90 % of them actually are? Oh, and they allow you to authenticate for their web interface using client certificates in
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Oh, a spammer's manual. Disgusting.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    > Microsoft’s new license fee formula and the demands from the computer vendors have forced DRAM manufacturers to make plans to restart production of 2GB modules, which were originally destined to be phased out. This is ridiculous.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Well, I've never encountered an ecosystem before where it is so totally painful to install and maintain programs coming from there. It's not necessarily the language but the community mindset that doesn't seem to care one t
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Go get is a thin wrapper around git/hg/cvs/whatever. It's supposed to be used by developers, not end users. Note that your link is titled "How to write Go code". For distribution to end users just do whatever
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Unusable is a bit extreme a description but I also experience the comparatively slow scrolling. It's worse at the top of the page. It's not a Mac thing like other commenters suspect---I'm on Linux, using Firefox.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    The book "Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" (also known informally as 9.intro) by Francisco Ballesteros has some well-written content that should be suitable even for beginners. Find it he
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    by slrz 11y ago

    They are.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Nah. I think that for many programs the GNU extensions to C provide a better tradeoff in terms of expressiveness vs. added complexity than the truckload of arbitrary features that is C++.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    One of the points of something like pdf.js is that in most cases you don't need all that extra fluff. You just want to look at some PDF. So doing less is exactly what allows pdf.js to be (more) secure.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    > What I want is adblock/ublock/ghostery for my phone. Doesn't Firefox on Android give you exactly that? I never used the Android version but at least with its Maemo predecessor the ability to use Adblock Plus et al. was a
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    by slrz 11y ago

    Go also has a precise garbage collector, by the way.
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    by slrz 11y ago

    If you don't even know the name of the function you want to call, how likely is it that you're aware of its constraints and failure modes? But then, that's probably why those IDEs ship with sophisticated debuggers, right? ☺