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by xorcist 3y ago
It gets really weird when 1. Someone adds obvious nonsense to wikipedia 2. A mainstream publication republishes this because wikipedia is generally trustworthy 3. Someone else at wikipedia notices nonsense and removes article 4. Article get
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by xorcist 3y ago
Sure, why not? In this age who can tell what work even is anymore, and even less so games. Given how much time and money is invested in things like Euro Truck and Farming Simulator, I have been silently awaiting the era where people pilot (
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by xorcist 3y ago
> without breaking everything Except all exiting use of sudo ... It's such an entrenched tool that I'm sure there a compatible replacement could be useful. Personally I would appreciate someone to take on the mess that is PAM.
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by xorcist 3y ago
Totally agree on the "cute" naming (and the cute strings too, turning them off on new installations is probably what most people do). If you can look past that, it is a well integrated and modern tool. Or was. Don't understan
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by xorcist 3y ago
This. Free hosting has mass market appeal. It is a so much bigger market the product itself isn't terribly important. Not until the later pivot to a paid product. That's how Sourceforge rose to become so dominant it appeared unsto
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by xorcist 3y ago
Phabricator is so much nicer to use for code review than Github. The ticket system is also much more powerful. I understand why people can dislike Bugzilla, it is not really meant for modern workflows and looks a bit dated. But Phrabricator
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by xorcist 3y ago
It used to be that all scripting engines were off limits, because you could easily write a commercial app that didn't give Apple 30% of all revenue. And Firefox is pretty obviously a big scripting platform which you can do anything wit
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by xorcist 3y ago
Well, yes and no. The above is true for a subset of banks in a subset of countries. But it is also not an argument that banking is somehow a bad business idea in general. Banking is one of the oldest business models, and there are many bank
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by xorcist 3y ago
Unless you take part in a share emission, then no, investment in the form of buying stocks does not become capital. There's a seller for every buyer, and the company does not care about it any more than having happy owners is good. Inv
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by xorcist 3y ago
Not really. It's in the manpage: commit -a Tell the command to automatically stage files that have been modified and deleted, but new files you have not told Git about are not affected. add -A Update the index[...] This
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by xorcist 3y ago
When you do 'git fetch'. The 'pull' is just an alias for fetch + merge (or rebase, depending on local settings).
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by xorcist 3y ago
Debian testing strikes a good balance between integration tested and up to date software, and is a really good general purpose desktop. The main downside is that security updates is on a best-effort basis. The security team's focus is
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by xorcist 3y ago
> lease long and rent out short Why does everyone keep repeating that as if it was the worst idea ever? I mean, there are lots of businesses doing exactly that. Banks, insurance companies, other real estate etc. It's just a matter o
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by xorcist 3y ago
Be careful, just like disk images, you probably don't want to place swapfiles on a CoW filesystem.
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by xorcist 3y ago
Maybe a better example would be if you donned that ritual gear and started a tourism company that taught traditional ceremonies to rich tourists. And having no idea what the actual ceremonies are you just copied it off a Hollywood movie. Ye
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by xorcist 3y ago
In what country do you need to register and give up personal identifying information in order to read a newspaper or listen to the radio? If the idea to centrally register every reader before they were allowed to read news articles had been
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by xorcist 3y ago
A working website that every citizen can use would be the least of my expectations in a democratic society.
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by xorcist 3y ago
> none of what you just mentioned has anything to do with Docker [...] > there are some Docker-specific things you sometimes have to debug Not sure what to make of this. Networking was specifically called out as an example. But there
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by xorcist 3y ago
Well, which is it? Either we should accept software with hidden misfeatures without complaining, in which case the user must receive compensation for their time, or we should complain and inform others of the misfeature. Uninstalling the so
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by xorcist 3y ago
There are other ways to burn resources. We could, for example, release a lot of carbon dioxide and then capture it again.
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by xorcist 3y ago
The comparison with SELinux is a bit off, because SELinux is very different from RSBAC and other ACL-type mechanisms for limiting the attack surface of software. SELinux is much more complex because it takes policy decisions like "this
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by xorcist 3y ago
A user with that expectation would make sure to turn off javascript. Which probably should have been the default in web browsers, but that particular ship sailed long ago.
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by xorcist 3y ago
I totally agree with this sentiment. Could I also bill the creator for my time invested in learning the software and adjusting my workflows for it, all the hours invested before the hidden anti-features showed the true intention of the soft
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by xorcist 3y ago
Too much reductionism can be a dangerous thing. This is pretty much the Sophist argument and it is not enough to build a scientific foundation on. No, you don't need to personally verify all facts. But you need to be able to observe
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by xorcist 3y ago
That was well put. Imagine that. Still we train our product managers to follow checklists, write endless documents about personas, have discussions about methodology and such things only loosely connected to the work that goes into making t
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by xorcist 3y ago
It used to be completely free hosting, that's one thing that was great about it. Same thing made Sourceforge so completely dominant that it took many years for projects to move off it even after more suitable alternatives were made ava
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by xorcist 3y ago
There are several issues here which tends to get mixed up a lot. Yes, a dpkg is built for a distribution, and not only that but a specific version of a distribution. So they tend to get re-built a lot. But this is something buildhosts do. W
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by xorcist 3y ago
That's the spirit!
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by xorcist 3y ago
Let's not overstate things here. It may well look like "docker pull", deploy, nothing, ok, how do I configure this thing, oh goodie here's the uncommented yaml, deploy again, strange error, headscratch, oh it's depe
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by xorcist 3y ago
Maybe cheaper than smashing the phone and buying a new one but isn't the outcome the same? Isn't all your data gone?

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