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by ymse 8y ago
Ha, funny you should mention that. I am in fact looking for a job. Luckily the one interview I've had since losing the phone was on-site. If I need to participate in on-call rotation or similar, I expect the employer to issue a phone
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by ymse 8y ago
I lost my phone somewhat recently. It's been great: I read more books, and get a lot less distractions throughout the day. The privacy implication is a huge bonus. The main drawback have been that people rarely label apartment doorbell
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by ymse 8y ago
I'm sorry if the post came across as assuming. I just wanted to spread awareness, not necessarily aimed at you. There are good and trustworthy projects out there IMO. I use GuixSD and OpenBSD for all my computing needs and have 0 reaso
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by ymse 8y ago
> I've worked a few gigs, and shipped some products, where we didn't use any GNU software at all. That's very impressive (assuming you were developing for Linux). I guess no one used Emacs, or GDB, and you were cross-compi
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by ymse 8y ago
> Why is Apple's OSX, which exhibits a lot of the same behavior with spotlight, exempt from this concern? They aren't. Neither is Ubuntu[0]. Luckily there are plenty of other operating systems that take your privacy seriously
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by ymse 8y ago
It's funny and sad how Linux Foundation gets all the attention from these corporations, when GNU/FSF have been just as (or more) enabling for their success (ignoring Android for a moment). Imagine what GNU could do if they had jus
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Briar – Secure P2P messenger that works without internet(briarproject.org)
1 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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by ymse 8y ago
Matrix ( https://matrix.org ) is a good alternative to both Slack and Discord. The most complete client implementation is Riot ( https://riot.im/ ). The protocol itself is federated, so you can communicate with othe
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KVM L1 guest escape – CVE-2018-12904(seclists.org)
1 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage(gnu.org)
15 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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Perl 5.28.0 release notes(metacpan.org)
6 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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njs: JavaScript module for Nginx(nginx.org)
1 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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by ymse 8y ago
> But not doing so is not the inherent submission to evil that using proprietary software is, in their view. No one says using proprietary software is evil. What you do with your computer is none of my business. Distributing software
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by ymse 8y ago
> And unlike many new TLDs, like .io, ... FWIW all two-letter domains are country codes (ccTLD). .io has been around since 1997 :-)
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by ymse 8y ago
Python is the #1 language for Net/Dev Ops. Knowing a little will go a long way once you start managing everything with Salt or Ansible (both written and extended in Python). Here's a good introduction: https://www.learn
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Next – extensible keyboard-oriented web browser(github.com)
41 points by ymse 8y ago|15 comments
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Unicode 11.0.0 Beta(unicode.org)
1 points by ymse 8y ago|0 comments
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by ymse 9y ago
Guix has an overlay facility called $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH[0]. Packages found there will take precedence over distribution packages. As an end user you don't really need to know Scheme. The OS configuration and package definitions are very
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PyPi will stop displaying PGP signatures(github.com)
1 points by ymse 9y ago|0 comments
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by ymse 9y ago
There's an interesting case going on in Norway right now. The head of the Justice Ministry is being impeached because she made a post on Facebook saying that the police should be able to withdraw the passports of suspected terrorists w
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by ymse 9y ago
No, it really was in reference to Intel (the thread was about Intel obtaining and developing a dinosaur-era distributed file system called Lustre).
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by ymse 9y ago
Yes, fetchurl will try it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/733151b7825ee8840f7437... Edit: It was apparently added in 2007: https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.11&#x2F
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by ymse 9y ago
I'm sorry, the mirror is actually for sources, not build artifacts. I've updated my comment to clarify.
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by ymse 9y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but I think the cryptocurrency craze came at the worst possible time. Here we are, amidst an ecological crisis, the poles are melting, and people are using insane amounts of energy on...mining digital "curre
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by ymse 9y ago
I think HN user pinewurst nailed it back in 2016: "[Intel] are basically a PR firm with a good fab in the basement". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11820078 Their handling of recent events has really cemente
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by ymse 9y ago
Regarding disappearing sources: Nix offers a content-addressed mirror for sources downloaded by the Hydra CI system. As a random example, here is the latest Chromium source tarball: http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/3dfa
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by ymse 9y ago
I've been dreaming of a small-scale "cloud" hosting startup, and one of the biggest concerns is actually IPv4 availability. I was hoping that this article would shed some light on the feasibility for a new company to grab a &
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by ymse 9y ago
See also "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... I wish English would adopt a word like "gratis" for things that are free
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by ymse 9y ago
The two parent posters are probably talking about PCI passthrough, in which case it does not really matter. The virtual machine gets the entire GPU and runs the driver. It also needs a dedicated monitor, keyboard and mouse. However Xenserve
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Julian Assange granted Ecuadorian ID required for citizenship(rt.com)
4 points by ymse 9y ago|0 comments

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