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811.
by xorcist 3y ago
Signal absolutely knows who you correspond with. How could they otherwise route your chat messages? They promise to throw this information away, which is nice but not possible to verify. They also employ a roundabout way of encrypting this
812.
by xorcist 3y ago
What you describe is basically how persistent http works, is it not? Even a persistent connection terminates at some point. Which web server does not work like that? I guess you could send the connection header on draining, but anything l
813.
by xorcist 3y ago
It doesn't drop it, it's just not persistent on reload, isn't that what you mean? Actually dropping a connection mid-request is something I haven't seen nginx (or indeed Apache) do for many years despite doing some wei
814.
by xorcist 3y ago
What does "doing" a commit mean? Crafting the change? Applying the commit? The former is where we should strive for heterogeneousity. The latter is a janitorial duty that should be guarded and centralized. Do not underestimate the
815.
by xorcist 3y ago
How could it be in correct? rsh was clearly modelled after rlogin, and ssh was clearly modelled after rsh. The command line options were almost identical for an easy switch. ssh even respected the .rhosts file! Last time I checked, that
816.
by xorcist 3y ago
That's a very limited terminal in terms of capabilities. Then there's things like x11-style copy-paste.
817.
by xorcist 3y ago
That is still clearly intellectual property after 15 years. There could be trade secrets in there. And the slightest suspicion of which is a good reason to sue you, should anyone every need a reason to. It could be an personal conflict spun
818.
by xorcist 3y ago
Those semi-managerial roles are the biggest problem with that model, in my opinion. Sure, it works as long as everything is peachy. But as soon as there are any real conflicts of interest, it will show who is the real manager. And it&#x27
819.
by xorcist 3y ago
Still, it's a tool made for another era. It would be sufficient to let it return one search result at a time, or complete specified group aliases, in order to work for groupware clients. Applications mostly needs to authenticate a spec
820.
by xorcist 3y ago
So when you've earned your f-u money you stop showing up for work? That's not what we see in practice. Most people with a sudden windfall (stocks, lottery winnings etc.) keeps showing up for work. Because how else would you stay s
821.
by xorcist 3y ago
As anyone with a boat knows, salt water is insanely corrosive and gets into everything . Even large container ships have to be regularly serviced. I can only what hot molten salt does to industrial processes.
822.
by xorcist 3y ago
That's terrible statistics. Let children drive and the self-driving cars would be, on average, even more safe! Comparisons should be made 1) with the median, not the average, and 2) under the same conditions.
823.
by xorcist 3y ago
I have never once heard self-driving cars sold with the argument "they're great for sleep deprived and alcoholics". Maybe they should be.
824.
by xorcist 3y ago
Well, it should at least settle any claim that OKRs are useful in themselves. They need to be useful to be useful. "Useful things are useful" would make for a very short management book though. We're also getting very close t
825.
by xorcist 3y ago
The same can be said cynically: Companies are inherently not agile, any push towards fast and iterative decision making will generate a counter-force towards quarterly plans under a new name. SAFe is one form this counter-force can take, ch
826.
by xorcist 3y ago
Dresden should suffice?
827.
by xorcist 3y ago
They let untrusted people in on the trusted network, basically. Telcos are no longer considered national security. Privatization has given us a cheaper and better communication, but security hasn't always kept up. The authencation abov
828.
by xorcist 3y ago
That not using nuclear weapons is a rational choice, but somehow using conventional is, is far from clear. That we are alive now is a fact. But that we have nuclear weapons to thank for it, is not. It is a common argument that the cold war
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by xorcist 3y ago
There is an authentication between your phone and your telco, but there is no authentication between your telco and others. Any telco in the world (and there are many) or someone who has bribed (or hacked) someone who works there can say &q
830.
by xorcist 3y ago
> that can be said of any software that can be said of any proprietary software with call-home functionality
831.
by xorcist 3y ago
What happened to generating config from templates? Like puppet/chef/ansible? Then it doesn't much matter what configuration format is used, as it is all generated from a common template. Systems like pkl and skylark live on t
832.
by xorcist 3y ago
If there's anything to learn from history, it's that desensitizing people isn't a good thing. Much like heroin wasn't a great way to get people off morphine.
833.
by xorcist 3y ago
> misuse of any mundane service or desktop app That's way, way over-trivializing the issue. Self-driving cars absolutely will kill someone. The driver may be at fault for being distracted, but as long as the system allows for dist
834.
by xorcist 3y ago
The link to mental health and suicide rates is far from shown, and could have any number of confounding factors. Perhaps a better example would be the situation in Myanmar. It has been shown beyond doubt that it was in fact a genocide in th
835.
by xorcist 3y ago
With traditional Linux distributions like Red Hat, you can sometimes take a package from a newer release (or something like Fedora) in source form and rebuild it for your release. When it works, it's literally just one command, which
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by xorcist 3y ago
This is not grounded in reality. Look at popcon or something like it. It is a nearly perfect "long tail" distribution. Most software is niche, and it's packaged anyway. It's helped by the fact that the vast majority of s
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by xorcist 3y ago
There's also rsync which works perfectly with local paths and can resume from interruptions (by default), with or without crc checking the material ("-c"). That can be useful for removable storage which can sometimes be a bit
838.
by xorcist 3y ago
> Are you SURE you want to completely destroy those commits? (Y/n) While there is a lot of user interfaces that could be improved, I believe the above have empirically been shown to be inferior to the alternative "re-run this c
839.
by xorcist 3y ago
The person, who apparently googled some command sequence and happily entered them only to find out it overwrote the team's data, could just as easily have used those google skills to search for how to undo last git operation. Obviously
840.
by xorcist 3y ago
It may be prudent to note that git by default is rather kind in that way that it will not change your data unless you explicitly force it to with --force or --hard. I think git, as hard to learn as it can be, sometimes have a bit of an unfa

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