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by yarrel 7y ago
How do I remove this buggy attack surface from that workflow and why should I have to?
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by yarrel 7y ago
I don't hate it, but it has wasted more of my time as a sysadmin than anything else over the last few years.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Change is good. Let's change away from systemd.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Keybase is now a wire transmitter. Just without KYC/AML. Yet.
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by yarrel 7y ago
I'm an art student. Prefix notation is a non-issue. If people want an infix Lisp, Dylan is awesome and doesn't add yet another flow-breaking set of different parantheses to the syntax.
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by yarrel 7y ago
It's unlikely to need an optimized C backend :-) - http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pd...
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by yarrel 7y ago
Spiked Online is a successor to Living Marxism magazine. It's left contrarianism of the horseshoe theory kind.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Compromise sounds nice but when the "compromise" is a one-sided capitulation it's not really compromise.
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by yarrel 7y ago
You'd be wrong.
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by yarrel 7y ago
No, they need to make clear that VC funding isn't entitled to returns on bad business models. That is the real problem.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Let's write a code of executive ethics instead. All this ressentiment at tech workers needs to be channeled into something actually productive.
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by yarrel 7y ago
Top Of The Pops?
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by yarrel 7y ago
The BSDs are operating systems. SystemD hasn't yet admitted that it is.
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by yarrel 7y ago
It's locking people in by eating the OS and making it difficult to move away from its tightly coupled and increasingly tightly integrated components (that, we must never forget, are not a single binary).
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by yarrel 7y ago
I'm reading "Memories That Shaped an Industry" at the moment. It's less charitable towards Von Neumann.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I doubt it.
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by yarrel 8y ago
It was meant to be a better PGP web-of-trust replacement.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Free Software is a specific application of general ethics. This is an instantiation, not a replacement. Free Software cares about the freedom of all software users, who are humans that just so happen to be using software. The belief that th
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by yarrel 8y ago
"Teaching kids about open source? Don't forget to teach them ethics as well." Just teach them about Free Software. That way they won't think that ethics is just an additional cost that you can discard while still being &
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by yarrel 8y ago
Yes that was a mistake. It did get the person who had the original lunch with Pocket off the hook though.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Seeking perfect wholes is more religious than identifying specific areas where practical interventions can be made. Free Software works to protect the freedom of individuals to use software that they own. It doesn't work as a magic way
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by yarrel 8y ago
If it's NC or ND-style it won't be a free software license.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Read "Inventing The Future" by Srnicek & Williams. Please.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Yes we can make an argument incoherent by swapping words in and out. In this case the argument is not that a is evidence of b, it is that a ameliorates b. And that the risk of b is therefore priced differently where a is also present. So wh
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by yarrel 8y ago
Enbugging. ;-)
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by yarrel 8y ago
It might be, but using the benefits of a very different thing to launder the reputation of something that people have very legitimate concerns about isn't nuance - it's dishonesty.
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by yarrel 8y ago
That's barely a promo listicle.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Quite aside from that, the historical lesson is that large numbers of unemployed soldiers is not a stablizing force on a society.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Microsoft is responsible to its shareholders, not your country. A mass exodus of employees would harm their bottom line. Preventing that is in their best interests. If you want to subject corporate interests to the military on the basis of
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by yarrel 8y ago
Unsurprisingly, catalogues raisonnes are a hotbed of legal activity and controversy. Many scholars will now not offer opinions on the authenticity of a work for fear of getting sued: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06&#x2F

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