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by vfclists 6y ago
How did you find SELinux was doing its job and how long did it take? I gave up on SELinux about 20 years ago when it was a source of endless frustration, or was that 15?
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by vfclists 6y ago
Didn't the programmers' grandfathers warn them that "GOTO is considered harmful"? To paraphrase Macbeth - "Is this a GOTO I see before me? Come, let me hold you. I don’t have you but I can still see you. Fateful app
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by vfclists 6y ago
You are expecting competence from an administration which dole out management positions to their cronies. Why not call in Crapita or one of the leading consultancy firms to handle it? That will get you even better (worse you mean?) results
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by vfclists 6y ago
You are expecting competence from an administrations which dole out management positions to their cronies. Why not call in Crapita or one of the leading consultancy firms to handle it? That will get you even better results at wildly inflate
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by vfclists 6y ago
When you use the customize interface you sacrifice proper version control. Bad idea.
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by vfclists 6y ago
This sounds like mainstream media vs James Damore
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by vfclists 6y ago
If you computer is using a VPN will your private address be visible?
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by vfclists 6y ago
Which part of the GPL being focused on end users don't you understand? The GPL was not created to help businesses, it was created to help end users , which for the most part means people with the know-how to understand software and
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by vfclists 7y ago
The moral hazard overlooked here is the fact US govt policy being dictated by congressmen, hedge fund managers and "investment" bankers who see it terms how they can profit from a long bull run, and profits to made from shares in
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by vfclists 7y ago
They are doing a Paypal. How long have they been doing this? Louis Rossmann won't be happy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1WPDVjXDj0
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by vfclists 7y ago
>> For example, you can prove that you don’t have an out of bounds write, but not that a hardware bug doesn’t exist. > Also, a bug in the compiler could introduce such a bug. > To my knowledge, the major Ada compilers have a ver
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by vfclists 7y ago
Why then aren't they able to do the same with LUKS, dm-crypt, cryfs, bitlocker etc? Does that mean they are only available because the 3 letter agencies can hack them?
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by vfclists 7y ago
concerning the +5000 open issues on github, when are you going to pick a few and see what you can do to fix them?
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by vfclists 7y ago
Where does the part about corruption come into it?
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by vfclists 7y ago
How about the bronzes of Sanxingdui?
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by vfclists 7y ago
Reasonable expectation does not equate to entitlement. So what is the person who finds the flaw supposed to do: 1. announce to all the other users of the library to download his branch with just the single fix 2. report it to the maintainer
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by vfclists 7y ago
When they say Git, isn't Github and Gitlab they actually mean?
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by vfclists 7y ago
Are you going to make the source available? Very few developers are willing depend on a library whose source is not available. If the code is good you should be able to charge for the source under one of the various licenses available. Pira
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by vfclists 7y ago
As many drivers are also closed they are equivalent to malware library. IOS and Windows are both malware libraries which continuously upload stuff you don't know about to their servers.
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by vfclists 7y ago
Actually this is the kind of article that makes people suspicious of science, when journalists make dubious accusations in support or against the status quo or whatever. Take vaccines example. Some researchers at the CDC withheld informatio
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by vfclists 7y ago
Where is the Guardian's report on this - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7588337/Google-ge... As a UK based paper Guardian could at least focus on British issues
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by vfclists 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRN_LkCa_o 1:26, 1:30, 1:32, 2:18, 2:25, 2:28 Is it ethical to target young people so blatantly in this manner? Does the fact that they are habit forming mean nothing to industry and advert
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by vfclists 7y ago
I think the issue here is not whether a CS degree is important, but whether the people doing the hiring consider having a degree relevant. In many accounting related areas, having a degree is not important. The accountants, finance and mana
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by vfclists 7y ago
The legal naivete and indifference of otherwise technological savvy people is mind boggling. It is not the task of mail providers to block or hide email considered to be spam. It is the job of the end users, ie the email providers cusstomer
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by vfclists 7y ago
When I posted this comment just 52 minutes ago. This article was no 3 on hackernews. It is disappeared so fast I can't believe it. I have scrolled to page 10 and it still nowhere to be found. amazing
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by vfclists 7y ago
Whenever grassroots level organizations (genuine and pseudo), become successful, corporate organisations get their agents to work their way in to take it over eventually. Others get involved with the intention of taking over and selling ou
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by vfclists 7y ago
It looks like it was tactically timed to coincide when the British parliament and media are tied up with Brexit debates Typical.
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by vfclists 7y ago
I think Andy Wingo issues with GNU should be more focused on his RMS management style and not his political or social views. But it is clear that a number of people involved in the GNU projects have had issues with the management style and
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by vfclists 7y ago
Is it just me or do are there a lot of developers who don't believe in the saying "One picture is worth a 1000 words"? Is it a Linux thing, something peculiar to developers in the Github era? If you go to a forum such a the L
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by vfclists 7y ago
Isn't that what Haiku OS is doing?

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