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by xte 8y ago
At first yes, Stalin was a thief that give money to bolsheviks, after Lenin death however was founded by British crown to avoid the "new regime" became more "socialist" instead of more dictatorial. Basically no "wes
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by xte 8y ago
Do not forget a thing: Stalin at start receive big money from British crown, not much differently than Lenin from Germany before.
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by xte 8y ago
My personal password manager: GNUPG-encrypted text file (org-mode). No extra fuss. Reason? I have too much code to look/trust to add more and I do not keep log-in anywhere during my day, I do my best to avoid web-(cr)app as much as I c
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by xte 8y ago
I trust more my ISP, witch is in my country, under my country laws that remote DNS under unknown laws, operate by super-big corps or by unknown guys... It's the same for VPNs: today to many people ask to "VPNs" without consid
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by xte 8y ago
There is NO midlife crisis, only we have two things together: - for first we do not have decent universities anymore, they substantially evolve from the center of our collective knowledge to companies or servant of companies aiming to deliv
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, I have to refresh my historic knowledge then... Perhaps I have mixed ITS and Multics...
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by xte 8y ago
As far as I know Multics was an answer to Unix, not an ancestor... Multics was named after Unix to be the opposite and is evolved in Plan9.
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, Solaris in the past have offered something similar together with TrustedExtensions... The final result was a big bureaucratic and unusable mess...
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by xte 8y ago
Hem... To make a website faster... Make a website! Not a webcrap with tons of "framework", tons of stuff loaded from third parties etc you'll get a skyrocketing high speed.
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by xte 8y ago
> The interests of Microsoft’s shareholders may well be served by giving up on the freedom and choice that the internet once offered us. No, when you give power without backup (FOSS licenses for instance) you'll be hurt, even sooner
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by xte 8y ago
Generally speaking anyone can create malicious software disguised in various way, so FOSS project included. However instead of creating a "antivirus" vs "virus" classic scenario, that we all know it doesn't work my
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by xte 8y ago
Not everywhere since Plan9 is really mouse-centric :-) However I think anyone have used both keyboard centric environment, at any level, and "modern mouse usage" can say that mouse sometimes is needed (like for image editing) but
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by xte 8y ago
My English perhaps led me to express concept in an a bit convoluted, misleading or less effective way... What I intend is simply that Vim is a powerful editor, Emacs is a sort of OS. How can you compare them outside the editor part? An exam
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by xte 8y ago
Oh, I do not intend to say that Vim is "inferior" or "bad", no intention to create religious flame, only that Vim was born and evolve as an editor, and do it's job pretty well. Emacs on contrary was born as a human-
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by xte 8y ago
See above: it's true, but at least FOSS born and evolved projects may be known by "early" devs that see project evolution during it's time, on contrary when a company release million SLOC no one really know anything... A
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by xte 8y ago
That's true, but at least Firefox born as FOSS so there is a community that potentially see the code growing by the time so while they may have lost something as individuals as a community there is a certain knowledge of the code. We
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by xte 8y ago
Well, on a mobile device I can take photos or videos, but they are not my creation: even if I construct a scene I only create the scene, not the video/shoot. The phone have done it, outside my real controls. More important recorded bit
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by xte 8y ago
Only a sidenote: did you think any human being can have properly reviewed webkit source code before using it? If not, how can be anything based on webkit considered to be safe, privacy oriented etc?
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by xte 8y ago
IMO the actual state of web browsers is: "there is NO browsers.", we have labeled as browsers awful monsters that are a sort of OS-cancer that try to reduce OS itself as a mere kernel and basic userland needed to run that monster.
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by xte 8y ago
Well, for me a computer (desktop) is only marginally an entertainment device so I normally sit, with my "comfort" chair (Varier Balans) and my keyboard ready to operate... I have a smartphone, so I casually use touch input but mos
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by xte 8y ago
It's slower normally, even if we ever arrive at a substantial zero response time and 100% correct computer understatement it remain slower than act by hand with a powerful editor.
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by xte 8y ago
Ex-hardcore vimmer for more than a decade here :-) there is no comparison... Vim is a powerful and lightweight editor, Emacs is an operating systems people who do not know call it an editor. My demos are not about coding but MUA, slides (li
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by xte 8y ago
Oh, I will steal (and credit of course) your "pointing & grunting" comparison :D thanks! On power I often leave some new colleagues astonished when they see how quick I am with Emacs vs with their "modern" solutions
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by xte 8y ago
I consider ITIL, Kanban and all other managerial erotic bureaucracy harmful. If I need to document something said by voice I have only to push a button on my deskphone and an mp3 of the conversation with reasonably good audio quality will b
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by xte 8y ago
I do not know how Australian's law say, but fortunately in France all I need is taking a small screenshot or video, publish somewhere and phone (at least for now ANY public administration have human-operated public phone services) sign
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by xte 8y ago
IMO "digital" world is a good mirror of society: we lost diversity, freedom, experimentation abilities in our society and IT reflect, maybe anticipate, that really well. So a nice analogy far more "dark & real" can b
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by xte 8y ago
Sometimes new IT users do not comprehend why many things exists to navigate through text since they are born in mouse/X graphics era. Many of that trick does not have a purpose anymore but many still have, and not only for terminal usa
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by xte 8y ago
I still have to find something LESS productive than "chat while doing different things", perhaps even less than having an opposite (same, depending on personal orientation) sex beauty, naked, dancing winking at you... Many have th
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by xte 8y ago
Try looking at how missionary shape south America and Africa... I bet they are not "western" countries, also in Europe "church" power vary from country to country, for instance in France it have both little presence and
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by xte 8y ago
A small sidenote: chats are shitty concept in general. They have had a reason in a past era when voice coms are expensive and limited, they have a reason in terminals to broadcast few messages, no more. For real communication we have lett

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