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by wvh 10y ago
The title makes it sound as if this is the default, a unconditional redirect, which appears not to be the case; it seems to offer an optional redirect, which sounds like a better idea. I don't think unconditionally redirecting users wo
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by wvh 10y ago
My mother-in-law is a dentist. When she heard I always brush my teeth but rarely floss, she told me flossing is more important than brushing your teeth. For once I didn't get into the science of things, but still I accept that getting
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by wvh 10y ago
Well they might count on a great deal of open-source development and related good-will, not to mention they are probably already using a lot of standard libraries and applications to provide expected functionality. I wouldn't mind not
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by wvh 10y ago
I guess setting the locale requires all applications using it to restart to pick up the changes in their environment, just like on regular Linux/Unix systems – processes inherit the environment from their parent. I don't know how
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by wvh 10y ago
The way I feel about it after all these years is that you can have two different approaches, or types of bosses. One type is highly respected for their technical knowledge – let's pick Linus Torvalds as an example – and get respect tha
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by wvh 10y ago
Are you talking about high-performance high-reliability server applications, or more about end-user front-end applications? There's a bit of a difference when it comes to running servers with thousands of users where you want to squeez
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by wvh 10y ago
I did this a few times in the late '90s when I was a script kiddie eager to learn. I was naive enough to believe that I couldn't get in trouble that way. (I actually once got a job offer as a result.) From a security point of view
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by wvh 10y ago
You push for true individuality, where people are own agents and don't feel the need to associate (as in mix ones identity instead of subjective taste) with religion, politics, brands or other points of contention. Problem is that thos
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by wvh 10y ago
rsync+ssh: Still more reliable than other sync software or exotic filesystems. Inkscape: When you have to do graphics and diagrams for slides and posters, you don't have all that much choice on Linux, so I'm happy a quality vector
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by wvh 11y ago
I totally agree that the lack of diversity and geek monoculture are a problem. It's not easy to feel at home when people huddle around a rather limit set of topics, humour, music and whatnot, and you find yourself outside of that littl
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by wvh 11y ago
[...] they now have complete unmonitored autonomy in how they use it [...] It really seems like the law doesn't know what to do about that category of things, generally. You can use a hammer to construct something, or to bash someone&#
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by wvh 11y ago
I've got a Jolla phone running Sailfish, which is reasonably open. I'm happy with it because as an advanced user I can enable developer mode and modify or fix things. It's a stable and usable system. But Jolla doesn't se
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by wvh 11y ago
English is a lot closer to Dutch though. We learn Dutch, French, English, German and even Latin in school, so we are culturally habituated to the importance of languages. I coincidentally also speak Finnish and Swedish (which feels almost l
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by wvh 11y ago
I feel it's not about sexism or men versus women. IT simply attracts too many people of one kind and interest, and it's detrimental to the industry's output. For instance, we can't attract or keep people with creative de
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by wvh 11y ago
I like the way they have written the story without sounding overly accusing. I'm a hardcore coder and security guy, but beyond technical skills I don't really fit into typical IT environments and often plan to leave the business a
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by wvh 11y ago
I'm not sure you can guarantee a great user experience on a free, open web with user privacy and choice on a device you don't have rights to because it's completely locked down beyond your control by the vendor. There should
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by wvh 11y ago
This is not a marketing video. It mostly shows how Qt apps work with little or no modification, and that it is possible to use existing software with minimal adaptation. I think it is interesting because if a few people can make a usable pr
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by wvh 11y ago
I see where you're coming from but being able to leverage open-source software written in (at least) Qt as well as existing and upcoming Linux security features should alleviate some of those concerns. An Apple app store approach surel
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by wvh 11y ago
Exciting stuff. I think it's important there is a solid open-source stack on mobile, even if most people won't leave iOS or Android behind. Is there any cooperation with the Jolla or Ubuntu folks, perhaps through the Mer project o
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by wvh 11y ago
May be so, but if someone shows more interest in you rather than in your product or idea, you've kind of gotten your answer. It might be hard for men to ignore any sexual aspect in interaction, which in many situations (like pitching a
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by wvh 12y ago
But how can you (be happy to) come home without having been away? Maybe a lot of people need to have been out to try and experience things, only to return home a bit wiser and calmer. Ideally you'd try many things in life when young an
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by wvh 12y ago
Idealistic moral philosophy and real life are quite different. My own experiences tell me repeatedly turning the other cheek will rarely improve your situation in reality. I think the utopia of religions and "wisdom traditions" ru
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by wvh 12y ago
While I'm not anxious around others, I don't relate to others easily, and I also feel that her actions and the effects on and reactions of others describe pretty well those times when I am a bit down or depressed myself. What&#x27
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by wvh 12y ago
Linus has a sense of humour that is often misunderstood, especially by the PC crowd. Abrasiveness is an innate Finnish quality. Just think you're in a Monty Python sketch.
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by wvh 12y ago
We use at this moment GitHub for "consumption-ready" projects and GitLab internally for young projects. Reasons for hosting your own: - Billing is complex as it has to pass through multiple departments; - Most code never makes it
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by wvh 12y ago
I work for a company that is very much like the bullet points described in the post, and nothing gets done. Sure there are lots of endless meetings and brainstorming sessions, but nobody bangs on the table and nobody steps up. Nobody's
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by wvh 12y ago
As someone who genuinely doesn't always know what to say out loud and what not, this story never fails to make me emotional and on a personal level – beyond any gender/political correctness/professionalism debate – I don&#x27
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by wvh 12y ago
I agree wholeheartedly on the old-timer issue (ca 17 years). Too much work, children and other responsibilities to justify hacking hours on the OS itself. I think the current state of Linux – especially on the desktop – is in a state of flu
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by wvh 12y ago
I don't have time. In the nineties I had endless time to customise and fix the system, but these days I have so much work to do beyond the OS that I really can't spend much time at all on making the OS work. I actually like a simp
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by wvh 12y ago
I don't like me-too complaining, but I'm in pretty much the exact same situation: I've been running Linux since the nineties, and the last months I've been having problems with Debian that make my systems unusable and th

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