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by xav0989 6y ago
But the init system was Upstart. Upstart, like SystemD, can start daemons from SysV scripts. At the time, the majority of distros still used SysV or SysV-like init systems. As long as the newer systems had backwards compatibility with the S
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by xav0989 6y ago
Wasn't it Canonical creates Upstart, switches Ubuntu to it, RH switches to it; a few years later, RH creates SystemD, RH switches to it, Ubuntu switches to it?
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by xav0989 6y ago
Ken Thompson wrote a paper about trust that was published in ACM in '84 entitled "Reflections on Trusting Trust". He makes the case for a trojan that could be built in such a way that it would infect a compiler, self-replicat
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by xav0989 6y ago
Pushing from gitlab to another git host is free and in the community edition[1]. Pulling on the other hand is a paid feature. [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/13.2/ee/user/project/repository/repo...
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by xav0989 6y ago
Samba is also an Active Directory Domain Controller[0]. While its not a perfect implementation of the system, it's sufficient for many usecases. [0]: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Acti...
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by xav0989 6y ago
As far as I can tell, snapcraft[0], the tool that allows the creation of snaps is open-source and on github. However the hosting server-side code is closed source. [0]: https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft
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by xav0989 6y ago
That is, as long as the package publisher distributes the source. While it's the case for the some standard repositories, packages in "restricted" (some of "multiverse" too) and third-party apt repository can be pub
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by xav0989 7y ago
> But how do union dues work? It depends, some unions have it as a percentage of salary, others have a set rate per position (all juniors pay X, all mids pay Y, etc.), and yet other have a single fixed amount for all members.
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by xav0989 7y ago
They definitely missed on having their truck/trailers branded "Truck" in that same black on yellow look.
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by xav0989 7y ago
In combination with Encrypted SNI in TLS 1.3 ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/ ), they won't be able to see that.
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by xav0989 7y ago
It doesn't need to be monopolized, oligopolized works too. And it's not impossible for a monopoly to care and focus on these things, it's just highly unlikely.
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by xav0989 7y ago
From what I've been told, you cannot treat contractors/temps the same way that you treat your employees, otherwise they can claim that they were in fact employees the whole time (which usually comes with an expensive lawsuit and a
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by xav0989 8y ago
IIRC, it's 15 weeks at 55% for maternal benefits (only for the birth mother), and either 35 weeks of parental benefits at 55% or 61 weeks of parental benefits at 33% (can be shared between parents of biological or adopted child). And I
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by xav0989 9y ago
ASUS has ASUSWRT, but it's based on tomato, not openwrt.
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by xav0989 9y ago
That's how public student loan applications in Ontario work. They send you a document with a unique barcode, you go to the post office and prove your identity there. They scan the document and that sends a message to the loan centre th
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Show HN: Coyote, an acme-tiny inspired ACME (Let's Encrypt) client(github.com)
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Show HN: Coyote, an acme-tiny inspired ACME client(github.com)
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by xav0989 13y ago
I personally setup Llama to turn the wifi when I'm not connected to a tower that I previously defined as "wifi available". It's nifty because I never have to explicitly turn wifi off then back on during my travels. To ad
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by xav0989 13y ago
With very little, very clearly defined exceptions, every time money exchanges hands to pay for a service or a good, tax is applied. We also tip. The country has a set of two minimum wages. One for jobs that do not make tips, and another one
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by xav0989 13y ago
A simpler approach would be to set up a lower tax rate on both sales and services.
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by xav0989 13y ago
> If, however, I build a plugin to integrate Wordpress with your in-house SSO system - that's taxable. Couldn't you argue that Wordpress is a framework for which you are building custom software?