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by u801e 6y ago
> Making kernel development and maintaining more accesible to younger people would increase the pool of potential maintainers. Is there an established open source project out there that originally used a mailing list or some other review
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by u801e 6y ago
> With the usual caveats applied to embedding and extracting patches from emails. Which are? The settings in git format-patch and git send-email will handle embedding and sending. Also, as long as your email client can save emails to d
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by u801e 6y ago
> It took me half an hour to read the KDE documentation on how to contribute, then set-up my workflow, learn how to use arcanist; to only then, submit the pull request. Couldn't the same argument be made for having to learn a langua
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by u801e 6y ago
> Sharing code requires the git server and open network ports on your development computer. Not really. It can be done via email using standard git commands like git format-patch, git send-email, and git am.
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by u801e 6y ago
> I want to browse it real quick and look over it, before I pull it What's wrong with fetching it, checking it out in a local branch, and browsing it using your editor? It probably is much easier to browse the code, see it in conte
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by u801e 6y ago
> webhooks and such make it really easy to connect different tools to your repo (i.e. analysis, linters, CI/build or even deployment scripts. What advantage does that have over the standard hooks[1] that git itself comes with? [1]
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by u801e 6y ago
It's still used in binary groups to this day. It's too bad that it never really was used in email and most email clients didn't support it. IIRC, NNTP, SMTP, and I believe IMAP servers do not treat any character as significa
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by u801e 6y ago
It really depends on how you define the term pull request/merge request/request pull. The end action is to merge the code in the set of commits into a local branch, which is what all three allow you to do. The ability to discuss
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by u801e 6y ago
> Pull requests are the thing they offer that is closest to Git itself but not available in the base Git They are available in base git. The command is called request-pull[1]. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request
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by u801e 6y ago
> India is democratic and hold values closer to our own. Especially in terms of mixing religion and politics and right-wing based supremacy views.
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by u801e 6y ago
IMAP has many more verbs compared to HTTP, so wouldn't it be a better application layer protocol compared to HTTP for a REST API?
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by u801e 6y ago
Dejanews did that many years ago. You can still access usenet via Google groups.
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by u801e 6y ago
There are still a few servers that allow one to access usenet to access text based groups without a monthly fee. Barring that, you can access usenet newsgroups via Google Groups (groups.google.com), but only via HTTP.
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm surprised not a single comment discussing Reddit alternatives mentioned Usenet (especially in terms of federation).
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by u801e 6y ago
With volume per distance, you just need to divide the fuel tank capacity by the volume and then multiply it by the distance to get that. With distance per volume, you have to multiply the distance by the total volume of the fuel tank. The
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by u801e 6y ago
The title should be updated to mention that this was written in 2016.
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by u801e 6y ago
> People like you don't need any of that. On the contrary, people like me do need it. The status-quo right now is that companies are forcing us to use security theater measures to further secure our accounts. But since those measu
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by u801e 6y ago
> while there are built-in functions users cannot write their own in the same way. It's been a while since I've used Excel, but I thought you could write custom methods using VBA that could be called in a given cell.
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by u801e 6y ago
> nowadays lot of people feedback that they do not understand my way of replying. Some clients, like Outlook, will actually collapse the original email and only show the top-posted reply. An inline reply would appears as an empty email
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by u801e 6y ago
The way I see it, people who are careless with security have put people who are technically able to deal with things like client-side TLS certificates in a compromised position where they have to deal with SMS or email based MFA for importa
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by u801e 6y ago
After creating the account, you should be able to get more client certificates associated with your account (while logged in on the first device) by sending more CSRs generated from other devices and then add them to the respective device&#
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by u801e 6y ago
> What we need is a single way to do login, MFA and security across every single site. The way to do that is to use a client-side certificate in combination with a username/password for authentication. When I create an account on a
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by u801e 6y ago
> I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules: > [...] > - The reader has to retype the original communication themselves before they can respond.... In em
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by u801e 6y ago
> One observation is that I'm really enjoying only using email for that communication. If it were up to me, I would use a self-hosted NNTP server as an internal forum for communication and reserve email for one-on-one private commun
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by u801e 6y ago
git diff has a --diff-algorithm parameter that has several options to choose from. I don't know whether Github supports that via url parameters though.
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by u801e 6y ago
Some features take more than a single logical commit to implement. Looking at the git mailing list, I see patch series containing anywhere from 1 to 10 commits (with some as many as 15 commits). Also, having a single commit touching many p
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by u801e 6y ago
The issue is that Github actually discourages reviewing by commit because it makes it difficult to do so. Though there are those who are only interested in the overall diff, there are others who want to be able to maintain a clean and info
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by u801e 6y ago
Not really. You cannot comment on the commit message itself. And, if I'm not mistaken, changes made in one commit that are undone in a subsequent commit won't show up even if the files view if filtered by commit. Also, it's d
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by u801e 6y ago
I had a desktop with Win2k installed on it from 2002 through 2010. My account was a regular user account and I only logged into the Administrator account if I needed to install or upgrade. I actually lost the installation due to a lightnin
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by u801e 6y ago
> Normal cookies required for the functioning of the website If I happen to click a link on a news aggregator website like this one, then why would the website I visit (possibly for the first time) require my browser to accept cookies?

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