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by swiley 5y ago
IMO: the underlying architecture is mostly relevant to kernel/compiler authors and people doing aggressive optimization. For most application devs it's about as irrelevant as you can get (unless your language has a very hard to po
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by swiley 5y ago
Commenting on articles early in their life weights them down significantly, if you want something on the front page you should absolutely not comment on it until it gets there.
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by swiley 5y ago
If we're going to get into specialized software why not compare OpenSSH to RDP?
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by swiley 5y ago
He's pretty awesome. Here's his website: https://chomsky.info/ I heard about him in college via the "mathematical linguistics" stuff which was a pretty creative idea. Like anyone else he also has defects
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by swiley 5y ago
Even if they do, you're now sending all of your DNS queries to some external service. That's a pretty serious privacy violation, even worse than 8.8.8.8.
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by swiley 5y ago
Why does everyone point out GIMP as having bad UX? You apt-get install it, you double click on your photo, you use a pretty standard WIMP interface to edit it. Compared to modern Adobe software that's fucking amazing.
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by swiley 5y ago
Just for reference, the hackernews source is public.
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by swiley 5y ago
Yup. Unfortunately we're training children and college students to accept this. OS vendors are now effectively pseudo governments due to this kind of thing.
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by swiley 5y ago
Intelligence != capable of socializing. You need both in order to be paid well. I think the belife that criminals are uninteligent is due to 1) Intelligent people recognizing that crime rarely has a positive expected profit 2) There might
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by swiley 5y ago
I'd completely disagree. Software engineers tend to be very pragmatic. Perhaps it's really due to the involvement of the community but you look at open source software that has no "UX person" and it tends to be miles ahe
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by swiley 5y ago
The won't block my specific list of websites (reddit.com for example.)
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by swiley 5y ago
My personal website (the top level index) is effectively a brochure with nothing that could be used for authenticating (there's a very broken javascript crypto app on it but that's just a toy and is clearly marked as such.) I alwa
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by swiley 5y ago
Not really. If you use an OS built by someone else with no publicly available code then they own you. Always. That's hardly news.
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by swiley 5y ago
Pressing that "fork" button might be illegal. It's certainly illegal to push after pressing it in many cases.
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by swiley 5y ago
I've had similar emotional reactions to hearing about Europeans censoring/surveilling their citizens (openly, unlike in the US where it still happens but it's "secret" and illegal.)
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by swiley 5y ago
It's the same story with PDAs, apps, and the web, just way shorter.
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by swiley 5y ago
You have to trust the local OS config. No amount of clever application programming will ever let you get around that.
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by swiley 5y ago
It would be nice if it would check the resolver config files (like the hosts file) with it enabled though. That was a really easy way to block harmful stuff or name things without requiring DNS. Having to choose between encryption and easy
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by swiley 5y ago
Yes they are but you'd have to run your own DoH server or follow the instructions to disable DoH like an ISP would (the possibility of which makes one wonder what the whole point is.)
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by swiley 5y ago
There's nothing to stop the employees from distributing it at that point and even with copyright it gets distributed anyway, it's just not allowed to be used for anything serious.
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by swiley 5y ago
Some of this software is pretty terrible. I don't remember what for but the new CRM software at my apartment required that I fill some form that I couldn't find so I went down stairs to the office and the person working for the l
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by swiley 5y ago
Has Microsoft just killed source code copyright? That would definitely be a win.
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by swiley 5y ago
Fucking duh. It's not quite as bad as it looks, I've only accidentally opened man pages and siri a couple of times but I've also never once used it and thought "wow this is so much better than having a row of function ke
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by swiley 5y ago
I'd liken some of the smaller z80 machines and "trainers" to the raspberry pi. But the reality is nothing quite like the pi existed back then. Computing was significantly more expensive than it is now.
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by swiley 5y ago
Most of the southern US had laws like this.
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by swiley 5y ago
1) Electronics manufacturing tends to consolidate which results in no market. We went almost 10 years without a single company producing a phone with a GPU that had open source drivers for example 2) They're only asking that companies
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by swiley 5y ago
Someone who was involved with the early founding of that company has posted here before. It's as rotten as the cigarette companies. They're on a level bellow even consumer electronics OS vendors.
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by swiley 5y ago
I hope they don't go away. Before 2020 it was actually a crime (I can't remember what degree) to wear a mask here without a doctors note that included an expiration date.
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by swiley 5y ago
From the outside China doesn't appear to be short on space.
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by swiley 5y ago
Measuring the damage and attaching a price to it is probably the easiest way to ensure everything balances out. That includes a price for Co2 removal.

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