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by tedks 14y ago
Presumably, it would be as hard as breaking the DRM scheme that they're using to prevent people from doing that to play illicitly shared copies in offline-only mode.
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by tedks 14y ago
Eh, Bazaar has cheap local branching as far as I care about. And yes, I don't have to deal with git checkout. Window management can be funny -- I think there's a bug in compiz where a display will "reject" windows if they're too large (when
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by tedks 14y ago
Exactly. Apparently, happy people let others walk over them, have no sense of perspective, are complacent and don't try to improve, don't plan for the future, ignore their failures, define themselves by the people they spend time with, and
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by tedks 14y ago
The "every free software developer dying tomorrow" is a hypothetical statement that has nothing at all to do with Apple. It was in my comment because it's a great way to illustrate that even if things aren't explicitly subtracted from the F
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by tedks 14y ago
> Also, the idea of "all free software developers dying tomorrow' is just hyperbole, since the chances of that happening are essentially nil. That is exactly my point. You proposed a metric for the health of the free software culture: "
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by tedks 14y ago
So would you say that Apple is definitely only funding LLVM so they can drop their dependency on GCC?
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by tedks 14y ago
This is a shallow view of the situation. Your metric is essentially "no knowledge is lost from the Free world." However, this means that all free software developers could die tomorrow and your metric would be satisfied. A better metric is
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by tedks 14y ago
It should be pretty easy to figure out my email address, email me and I can send you the pdfs if you want. In a nutshell, internalized objectification is a cognitive process (like everything else), and it consumes mental resources. When the
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by tedks 14y ago
Here's my power user setup for dual monitors with Unity: 1. Plug in dual monitor to HDMI port. 2. Use Unity. What did your colleague have trouble with? (Four might have been slight hyperbole, but git is a usability nightmare. I forget what
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by tedks 14y ago
It's sort of obvious? I can't see any other reason Apple would have for it, other than making compilers researchers have slightly easier lives. It'd certainly make sense after they were forced to open source the frontend for Objective-C.
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by tedks 14y ago
Since I discovered that this existed, I've slowly stopped going anywhere else on Facebook. I care about new music from the bands I like on facebook far more than the mundane crap going on in my friends lives.
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by tedks 14y ago
Didn't Apple buy CUPS specifically so that they could keep parts of it proprietary? They're definitely only funneling money into LLVM so they can drop their dependencies on GCC, which will probably have a net harmful effect on the free soft
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by tedks 14y ago
Have the Debian defaults (by some definition) had an opportunity to update since upstart was packaged for Debian?
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by tedks 14y ago
Can you elaborate on what you dislike about bazaar and Unity? Or how Canonical is able to "force" a vcs on its userbase? I've used Unity since it was released, never had any issues, and generally think it's the best GNU/Linux window shell a
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by tedks 14y ago
A sybill attack on Tor is probably the least efficient attack. It'd be far easier to perform a correlation attack if you know the probable endpoints, or compromise the target's computer (if you only know the source). I'm sure government age
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by tedks 14y ago
What government entity cares this much about bittorrent vpns?
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by tedks 14y ago
From the Ada Initiative response[1]: "Simply put, even the world’s most pro-woman, sex-positive, pro-consent talk about sex is likely to have negative effects on women at a technical conference." This seems like an incredibly accurate, well
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Keeping it on-topic: the problem with discussing sex at technical conferences(adainitiative.org)
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by tedks 14y ago
If you aren't dead by 30, you're grossly abnormal in comparison to most humans throughout history. The "abnormal" aspects of modernity are the most valuable parts of it. If you feel dehumanized by technology, maybe you need to reconsider wh
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by tedks 14y ago
I've lived my entire sentient life with a cable or faster Internet connection. I spend virtually all of my time that is not spent going out with friends, eating lunch with colleagues, or having alone time with my partner on my laptop, Xbox,
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by tedks 14y ago
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004....
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by tedks 14y ago
Gender should be irrelevant, but it is not currently irrelevant. It is highly relevant, and to ignore this is to ignore obvious reality, roughly equivalent to jumping off a cliff because reality is subjective and you believe that you ca
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by tedks 14y ago
If you actually read the article, you can see how some of the statements might apply to nursing (there might be short lines for the men's room at nursing conferences), but many clearly don't. Some examples: * Male nurses will not be told "g
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by tedks 14y ago
What do you expect from shroomery.org's phpbb installation? It's optimistic, I think, to assume that you can even "put the hours in" to become an interesting and clever person. It seems more likely that, like many things in humans, being an
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by tedks 14y ago
Of course there's potential for abuse -- that's a feature, not a bug. By taking the patriarchal power dynamic and turning it on its head, systems like these create radically better environments for collaboration and collective empowerment.
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by tedks 14y ago
(Proper link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation ) And from that same page, "better for whom?" It takes great care to attempt to apply knowledge from one domain to another domain. Humans are great at seeing pattern
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by tedks 14y ago
In activist circles, getting called out for racist or sexist behavior means you're kicked out, immediately, no questions asked. Based on my understanding of it, the red/yellow card system is largely an effort in self-policing, in that they'
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by tedks 14y ago
Probably nothing. There would maybe be a few blog posts about it. Their comments would be filled with men defending his actions and suggesting that anyone calling him out was lying, that the real problem is "women that get offended too easi
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by tedks 14y ago
In general, you can fit the motivations for evil into one of four categories: there's evil for instrumental reasons, evil for ideological reasons, evil as a result of threatened egotism, and evil as a result of pure sadism. There are some g
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by tedks 14y ago
Greenbelt probably has inflated housing prices, being so close to UMD College Park.

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