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by xorcist 3mo ago
Case in point. There is no chance tobacco would be declared legal if it was invented today. Don't you agree?
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Not a good counterexample either. The link to Russian intelligence services may not be proven, but nobody seems to dispute that there were paid influencers? Also that this was not declared anywhere and the money was at best grey in origin?
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> it excels at is firewall busting Some would consider that an anti-feature. Firewalls are not to be busted. Nothing good lies at the extreme end of working around overly strict policies. Change the policy instead.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Keep in mind that Oracle can be deliberately nebulous about what their cloud offering is (pun intended). Any hosted service can be bent into the shape of a cloud. Large parts of Oracle Cloud balance sheet is probably just hosted PeopleSoft
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> if you squash the commits when merging the PR? You tidy up and rebase before making a PR. Anything else is really disrespectful of your reviewer's time. That is also how all the larger open source projects operate. > you only
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by xorcist 3mo ago
There was also Tizen, FirefoxOS and a whole slew of others. It was a remarkable time. But it is true that the app-based future, that didn't exist yet, probably came with market dynamics that limits the number of platforms to two or thr
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> The EU's goal is the strategic defeat of Russia This does not even make sense as a conspiracy theory. Had "EU" wanted to hurt Russia there were was a thousand ways to do that. But they didn't. Instead they traded an
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by xorcist 3mo ago
That's not it. If you have an internal network, where every host is provisioned by you, you already control identity. In that case there's no need to validate anything as names, dns records, certificates and anything else should a
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> Introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, the term denoted one of three purported major races of humans: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid Sounds totally legit.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
This is crazy. If you have a home network with a few internal services, or some sort of network where you don't control the endpoints, just use DNS validation. That's why it exists. But on hosts you control, you should absolutely
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> engineers and designers and PMs doing the work were all morally correct people, No. I'm sorry. You are not allowed to say this. Our society is post-truth enough as it is. This is a company founded on a singular idea: Lock up as mu
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Why do people say that? I am not bored by my Braun alarm clock, neither by my Singer sewing machine or my De Buyer cookware. Why would I be bored by well executed digital desktop designs such as BeOS, AmigaOS or even Windows 2000?
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by xorcist 4mo ago
So, you live in a part of the world that still accepts cash. Good for you. That part is shrinking however, so you need a plan to cope with that situation sooner or later. Not doing business with others and growing your own food does not suf
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Perhaps "maintainability" is a more suitable term?
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Not very likely. It doesn't work that way. Linus usually don't respond to individual patches and hasn't for over 20 years. A subsystem maintainer will pick up your patch if it is good, and they will deal with Linus for you. M
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by xorcist 4mo ago
I think the question is why bother with an LLM if randomness is decisive? Just roll the dice. I mean, it's not the worse you can do to narrow a subset.
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Without a purpose for why you should use a public resolver it is an impossible choice to make. If it is this hard to choose a resolver, imagine how hard it is to choose a web browser, which is a choice that actually matters. The nearest res
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> Terrorism, empirically, doesn’t work In the context of 9/11, that seems like a strong statement to make. The terrorists (let us agree on this label a priori) got everything they could ever wish for and then some. Regular Americans
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by xorcist 4mo ago
How can someone say that with a straight face, when the last two decades has been a constant demonstration of the opposite? Since the Rohingya genocide we can no longer pretend that Big Tech is apolitical. Private interest now owns not only
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> thought it knew better than upstream, and didn't check their changes with them That is not fair. Debian generally works close with upstream, since most Debian Developers are free software enthusiasts in some way. The patch in ques
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by xorcist 4mo ago
No further explanations should be necessary.
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by xorcist 4mo ago
They get to scan people's faces? Ad companies are data collection companies.
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> if the "mistakes" it makes [...] aren't in fact desired by some people in the system This process goes both ways. The people in the system align to the process. So maybe the "mistake" wasn't desired to beg
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Fascism is a way overused term. Personally I tend to avoid it unless we're seeing paramilitary forces shooting civilians in the face. Other people may have lower thresholds.
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by xorcist 4mo ago
That is a lot of words just to say "fabricating evidence".
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Just download a third party binary? That is the Windows experience. It may work today, but who knows in a few years. If you buy hardware for personal use, buy what has upstream support instead. If it works out of the box in a Linux desktop
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> the biggest goal was to be useful Please excuse me for being unnecessarily harsh for a moment, but web servers are a dime a dozen. Quite literally. The reason nginx is successful is because it is maintained . Unless you plan on mainta
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by xorcist 4mo ago
It is also rather ungrateful. The only reason we have Linux desktops today, and the only reason companies like Red Hat and Canonical has a billion dollar business model is the GPL. The BSDs had a head start, and were superior in almost
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by xorcist 4mo ago
It also mostly doesn't work, and even if it does work it's terribly expensive and time consuming enough to scare people off. Go on, make a derivative of Mickey Mouse and sell it. See how it goes. Similar enough to be "compati
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> the hope is that if everyone breaks the law enough, it'll just be fine Ever since the early 2010s when companies were started with the business idea "unlicensed hotels" and "unlicensed taxis" and made the owner

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