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by tedks 12y ago
Well, if they do they're never distributed, so a better term would be private, not proprietary. I suppose in the corporate sense, these two things are indistinguishable, so I should specify that I meant non-free, in the free-as-in-free
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by tedks 12y ago
By this logic a dictatorship is the freest form of government. No restrictions!
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by tedks 12y ago
Yes, in some circumstances that's true. For example, recently I think it was a GNU codec library that was released under a permissive license, because there are plenty of proprietary video codec libraries and for a free format to win,
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by tedks 12y ago
Not completely. Proprietary modules and forks of both exist, so in the broadest sense they are not (in the sense of, if I'm ever handed a copy of something calling itself LLVM, I do not know that it is libre software). But worse than t
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by tedks 12y ago
It's been a good run, but we're finally seeing the end of free compilers. Over time, using Clang effectively will require proprietary modules from Google, Apple, et all and the GCC project, long dead, will haunt us from the grave.
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by tedks 12y ago
Those things might have been reasonable in the past, but we live in 2014. We live in a country that has an ethnic minority president, the first nation anywhere in the world to be progressive enough to do so. We have abolished racism, sexism
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by tedks 12y ago
>Upsides: Much more secure than Tor, (since it doesn't try to be a low-latency mixing router) not funded by USG. Most academic computer science is funded by the American government. Does that mean that all academic computer science
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by tedks 12y ago
They need to be able to access netflow data at the entry point. To put it another way, let's say someone is posting bomb threats over Tor on Google Plus. Google cooperates with the FBI and deterministically perturbs all traffic going i
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by tedks 12y ago
The article adds nothing on top of the paper besides a few remarks about other attacks. HN should uphold a higher standard than that. Link to the source.
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by tedks 12y ago
This is an easier version of a traffic analysis attack, an attack that Tor expressly does not attempt to provide a strong defense against. It relies on a malicious server and entry node. The contribution of this paper is that if you have th
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by tedks 12y ago
This link is blogspam and should be redirected to the source: https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=...
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by tedks 12y ago
Is this one of the ones that has an always-on microphone for "voice control"?
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by tedks 12y ago
Well, presumably if NASA is good because it produces things that can be spun off, you could just put the money into directly producing the spinoffs (somehow) and be more efficient. >The entirety of humanity has been involved with explori
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by tedks 12y ago
You know what I literally never had to do when learning SVN, bazaar, or mercurial? Learn a bunch of bullshit like "refs" or "objects" or "heads" or whatever the fuck. It is genuinely insulting to assume me to h
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by tedks 12y ago
Hijacking the top comment in this subthread to make a meta-complaint: The comment-parents viewpoint is perfectly valid, but has been censored because of disagreement within the broader HN community. For all the talk about "free speech&
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by tedks 12y ago
A change set is a set of changes. An object is totally unspecified. I know what a repository is when I work with version control. I've been using version control for years and I never was confused about what the repository was. What th
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by tedks 12y ago
"Coffee critic Maureen Dowd overdoses at 62 after caffeine-induced heart attack"
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by tedks 12y ago
Yes, things are generally only existent if they are either popular or good (or very new). There's git, and there's mercurial in the world of DVCS. Which is popular? Which is good?
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by tedks 12y ago
And yet, this is the help page for git push: Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects necessary to complete the given refs. That's helpful! Thanks Git!
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by tedks 12y ago
When did they stop hosting .torrent files? Hosting only magnet links means they have nearly nil bandwidth costs (just some sparse HTML pages, by far the biggest piece of content on a tpb results page are the ads) and require very little inf
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by tedks 12y ago
If you're a man (I'll bet $20 right now that you are) your opinion isn't relevant.
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by tedks 12y ago
I can imagine a very easy parallel to the tech community: "I taught my daughters their nerd cred would protect them." It's irritating how the author has to buttress his statements on privilege with "of course, the existe
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by tedks 12y ago
Look up the Milgram experiments and tell me I'm being hyperbolic.
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by tedks 12y ago
This is the sort of sentimentality that has no place in modern capitalism. Why would you need to cook dinner or water a garden (who even has a garden) or even have children in the first place? People have been doing that for thousands of ye
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by tedks 12y ago
This is a very hasty conclusion. I think it's several orders of magnitude more probable that several greedy and half-intelligent people (intelligent enough to execute a darknet market and unintelligent enough that they aren't alre
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by tedks 12y ago
>This in itself is not sufficient: there are thousand of Tor bridges, relays and exit points. All of them carry lots of traffic and all of them could be hosting hidden services as well. The total traffic in itself doesn't necessaril
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by tedks 12y ago
This is a nice way to punt, but you've (in the plural sense, not you specifically) have still admitted to removing them from the frontpage.
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by tedks 12y ago
How would you lose portability by moving to a high-level language? Further, why would timing attacks necessarily be more or less of an issue in a higher-level language than C? This is a genuine question. I feel like in any case, there are s
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by tedks 12y ago
I severely doubt that if it were a drug investigation, or a cop-killer ala Chris Dorner, the cell company would wait a billing cycle to provide location data. Notice also that nobody needs to file a subpoena. The cell companies can just h
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by tedks 12y ago
This makes perfect sense, since as a user-generated content community, a large portion (not a majority, but a large part) is in very shady shit. /r/jailbait, /r/thefappening, etc.. But for everything shut down, there are

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