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by xte 8y ago
DeX open the (back)door to (a big cucumber, sorry for being vulgar) port free software to proprietary jail and let users think they are free. A jail's a jail, no matter how big, decorated and comfortable seems to be.
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by xte 8y ago
Honestly I do not see real FOSS-usable mobile radio devices, nor GSM, 3G, 4G, 5G or anything else. No OEM (and perhaps states also) want real free communication devices...
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by xte 8y ago
DeX, WSL, Crostini, all experiments for a simple purpose: steal users freedom and offer FOSS code in a proprietary jail to avoid direct competition against FOSS. IOW be prepared to find in the next 5/8 years PCs with Windows kernel and
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by xte 8y ago
Oh yeah, so voting it will be no more anonymous and only the company holding the service know really who vote who... Corporatocracy is coming, someone watched "Continuum" TV series and think it's a nice idea...
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by xte 8y ago
? Pollice verso is a latin expression for disapprove, used normally by Roman's emperor to refuse right to live of a gladiator... How this phrase can go "either way"? Ps English is not my motherlanguage so I may made many mist
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by xte 8y ago
Ahem, I read my mails from my maildir, sync-ed with mbsync or muchsync depending on what systems I'm using... So, if I want to read my mails at ANY interval of time I simply change my cronjob and imap-idle wrapper script to trigger a s
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by xte 8y ago
Well. Even files can be attached to pdfs, in few case normally as a "pdf source" in reproducible research... But well... We have pdftk and other simple utilities to manage pdfs metainformation... Also it's common to embed oth
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by xte 8y ago
Take a look at some "sophisticated" retinal scan, they are in the end cameras, a special kind one. Fingerprint readers? Another kind of scanner. It doesn't matter that today's only few simpler model can be cracked with a
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by xte 8y ago
Why I like passwords (and various key locked/unlocked with passwords? Simply because I can change them, I control them. Biometrics is unsafe by design because our body can change outside our control and our body is public enough and un
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by xte 8y ago
Personally I've ditched Google services (like GMail and contacts) from a little while, however I do not find any viable alternatives to Android not as a phone, not as a limited mobile MUA but as a personal navigation devices. I tried b
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by xte 8y ago
IMVHO it's modern management problem: today instead of delegate responsibility there is a super-concentration at top of the hierarchy hoping that tech and "modern management model" can make that possible. As a result companie
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by xte 8y ago
Hem it's not a GMail specific feature but a common one (sub-addressing/plus addressing, RFC 5233) that skip inbox and drop messages in the +$name/tag dir/label... The GMail specific feature is adding dots as you want in
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by xte 8y ago
Relatively new NixOS user here: I consider Nix{,OS} and Guix{,SD} the future approach to build a GNU/Linux distro and in general the way to manage a modern OS. Simple as that. My main pain point with NixOS is it's obscure DSL, ins
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by xte 8y ago
This is a problem common to ANY "personal interested data", it's the very same for videos, mails, messages, discussions, ... The trend is lock even better people pushing them to offload their personal stuff and this trend unf
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by xte 8y ago
While I'm not a developer nor I like lua I'm curious about a thing: what's the difference between for instance Guile scheme? Because they seems closely similar to me and Guile is far more clear and effective, at least for
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by xte 8y ago
Talking about procrastination I see a big problem for us user of FOSS desktop: RH need to be on GNU/Linux desktop just to play a SUN-like role. IBM have no need for that. So after Ubuntu ditch desktop and actual "Gnome disaster&qu
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by xte 8y ago
Thanks :-)
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by xte 8y ago
Thanks :-)
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by xte 8y ago
Maybe adding Greenspun's tenth rule (ref. Wikipedia) or adding the recent "A Programmable Programming Language" [1] or even "Why Lisp" [2]... Saying "gasoline car sucks" IMO automatically imply that any ca
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by xte 8y ago
Ok, but try to use it for anything else today...
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by xte 8y ago
IMVHO anyone must know the tools of their trade (I do not know if this make sense in English, hope so, maybe also expressed as "the tools used for doing their job"). If today statistic is done with computers good computers tools m
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by xte 8y ago
We have had few point&click text-based systems in the past, notably Plan9 and Xerox Alto and only the letter have a complete "user friendly graphic programming environment"... I think a simpler approach like org-mode/org-
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by xte 8y ago
Did you ever tried org-mode with org-babel? If not only see few video about org-mode reproducible research / emacs on YT&c :-) in terms of reproducibility Nix{,OS} and Guix{,SD} offer really nice tools to achieve full-stack reprodu
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by xte 8y ago
Today's "notebook UI" seems to be popular (think about Jupyter, Mathematica, SaGe, ...) and in the end they are graphic-sugar and a bit limited org-mode implementation... On "graphic programming" LOGO was a toy, Sma
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by xte 8y ago
On python "hy" (programming language) is a lispy-python so can be used with any cython-compatible module, it's not as clear as classic CL/scheme but IMVHO good enough.
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by xte 8y ago
I'm curious to understand why is born in the first place since we already have many lisp/scheme then... R itself seem a reinvention of the wheel...
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by xte 8y ago
Also unix haters ML condensed in The UNIX-HATERS Handbook contain many interesting point of view.
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by xte 8y ago
In philosophical terms UNIX, IMVHO, have few wrong concept: LispMachines demonstrate how well work a fully integrated system, unix on contrary choose to be a "platform" of independent component communicating via simple IPCs. At fi
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by xte 8y ago
Just as a reminder https://panicz.github.io/pamphlet/ about how R is not such an innovative solution for statistic...
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by xte 8y ago
IMVHO things changes, hopefully for good, so give time and advise far before etc is a needed and good practice but evolution must happen so if someone have problem keeping up with reasonable time it means someone do have a problem, not a th

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