symbogra

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by symbogra 11mo ago
My stickers are totally awesome but I could probably be deanonymized by sharing them (since they are so unique and special) so you all will not be graced by their beauty and artistry.
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by symbogra 11mo ago
The UK has a clear path to overcome the failure of democracy when people vote along purely tribal lines; the King should retake power and rule benevolently for the good of the UK.
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by symbogra 1y ago
> It's the same as if we sent the navy to board those boats, put a gun to people's heads and execute them in cold blood. That would work too but why risk american soldiers? This is much more efficient and the footage makes for
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by symbogra 1y ago
I wrote a bunch of stuff with XSLT back in the day that I thought was pretty cool but I can't for the life of me remember what it was...
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by symbogra 1y ago
Once you've lived in a few countries you start to see how silly their little rules are. Once you are asking cross jurisdictional questions there is nobody who can give you a correct answer, its all guesswork.
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by symbogra 1y ago
It wasn't him although he did give some good talks. It was another guy who headed up the formal verification group. The used it for finding bugs in caches and whatnot
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by symbogra 1y ago
Low pressure hang of 10-20 people. Reminds me of an acquaintance who told me he was an introvert; he said after 20 hours of being around people he'd need a couple hours to recharge.
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by symbogra 1y ago
Hah, I went to a few of his talks
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by symbogra 1y ago
This comment nails it. There was an an article about how the FSF got funding for exactly one dude to work on free phone software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339 That's great and all but it's just a d
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by symbogra 1y ago
Too bad browsers also support device attestation.
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by symbogra 1y ago
This is good advice for non brain damaged engineers too (or maybe I am?)
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by symbogra 1y ago
It goes back to the old arguments about free software vs open source. Maybe by restricting devs in certain ways the users are actually more free. But then maybe the system to lock the users in gets built with wholly proprietary software and
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by symbogra 1y ago
Maybe he's paying for a higher tier than his colleague.
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by symbogra 1y ago
Is the issue that they support secure boot type features?
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by symbogra 1y ago
This is a bizarre comment for an open source init system
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by symbogra 1y ago
Agreed. Back when I first came across git in 2009 I had to re-read the porcelain manual 3 times before I really got it, but then the conceptual understanding has been useful ever since. I have often the guy explaining git to newbies on my t
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by symbogra 1y ago
I implemented port knocking couple decades ago as a teenager and it was stupid then too.
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by symbogra 1y ago
The way I read this is that the FSF has gotten funding for one guy to work on this project. Great but as soon as you're doing anything hardware related you need to expend a lot of development effort just keeping up with new releases fr
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by symbogra 1y ago
They're really pushing it hard in the media here
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by symbogra 1y ago
There is a hiker emoji, I used it