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by zajio1am 6y ago
Strongly disagree. Environment variables are, IMHO, best tool for some simple configuration in unix. They match perfectly with behavior of the ecosystem and other tools in it (like unix shell). Yes, if your OS is some unversal JS machine,
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> 5) It's a tragedy that many of our best and brightest STEM minds pursue an education that leads them to jobs optimizing ad-tech or hustling for an exit plan to get rich. Many smart people choose ICT because of freedom it offers. A
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Individuals wielding massive amounts of power still add diversity in their philantropy approaches, compared to government position.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> For example, the Dutch government is slowly pushing everyone to either use their authentication app (for DigiD, the national digital government authentication service), Could not you use identity service from different EU country (base
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by zajio1am 6y ago
mDNS uses link-local multicast so it does not work if your local network is more than one (l2) network segment (e.g. separate segment for wired and wireless).
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> The EU can control AZ exports to guarantee they are fulfilling their contractual obligations, which AZ has been literally joking in the face of the EU Using such executive powers for handling contract dispute is authoritarian move. The
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Would Stallman work on implementing a DRM? It is a big difference working on A with people i disagree about B, and actively working against one's values. I can work with non-vegetarians on software, but i would not work in slaught
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Basic compartmentalization. If i have ideological goals A, B, C, then i can work on goal A with people who are indifferent or against B, C, and also work on goal B with people who are indifferent or against A, C, instead of trying to find p
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Hot take: Per-application sandboxing is (in general) fundamentally flawed idea, as applications are just tools to manipulate data, while data needs to be protected from unintended manipulations, but such protection should not encumber inten
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Without guns, all other methods I know of are painful and non-instant: Suffocation with inert gas (e.g. N_2) using mask with exhalation valve is safe, painless and leads to very fast loss of consciousness. Distress associated with suff
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Which means the 95% efficacy for phizer/moderna is not actually correct. It is correct, it just efficacy against covid-19 disease, not against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infection and disease are two distinct concepts.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Reminder: SMS 2FA adds only a negligible amount of security I would disagree. Obviously, there are better approaches, but consider basic password auth on desktop, that is easily exploitable en masse by botnets. if you add 2FA via SMS,
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> The EU commission has framed AZ as not trustworthy from the moment the first delivery targets could not be met. AZ was considered less trustworthy than Pfizer or Moderna vaccines several months before that due to irregularities in phas
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> So you are fine with X server takes care of most of the stuff, but not fine with wl_roots do the same thing? There is big difference in responsibility w.r.t. users in Xserver vs wl_roots case. In the X11 case, relations are: wm - user
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by zajio1am 6y ago
My main issue with existing electric kettles is that a cup of tea is 250 ml, while required minimal amount of water in kettle is 500 ml.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Are these really the same? Seems to me that thumbs.db is just thumbnail cache, which is just redundant data and can be lost when copied, while .DS_Store stores user data associated with folder (like icon positions), so they should be kept w
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Trying to encourage people to enter into an endless game of Whac-A-Mole fixing and re-fixing browser extensions to work with sites as they update isn't a solution. In cases like youtube-dl or gallery-dl this solution works.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Nuclear is not used for any of those either. Sometimes, nuclear is used directly for heating by distributing heat to district heating systems.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> All three Signal apps (at the time of writing this comment) use E2EE with minimal metadata leakage. Three most important metadata of a message is sender, receiver, time. AFAIK all three are available to Signal server (while sender, rec
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> I mean without it, all the noise about Wayland being more secure than X11 is just noise, because Wayland doesn't do remote display, so you have to allow that evil app you're scared of to run on the same machine as the composi
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> Really? Give it a try for a month. Sounds like an interesting experiment. Perhaps i will try that after covid season.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incur. I also have never weared skirt, but reasons are entirely personal - have n
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by zajio1am 6y ago
That sounds great! D-bus always seemed to me like a byzantine overcomplicated design, and i was pleasantly surprised when i saw Wayland protocol with its simple design.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
Why physical copies? You can keep DRM-less digital copies on your storage, and you are as safe as with physical copies.
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by zajio1am 6y ago
There is no alternative to building models of the world. There are only badly built models (based on individual experience, without opposition or falsification attempts) or better built models (like from scientific process). You can avoid h
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by zajio1am 6y ago
This just illustrates issues with 'one-size-fits-all' approach to code distribution. Compare that with traditional C/Unix way - everyone can push code on their web, but there is no implicit trust associated with such code. Th
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> other than tracking when and for how long I run which Steam game Well, this sounds like spyware (unless it is opt-in).
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by zajio1am 6y ago
If every package in RHEL is named rhel-$project, and every package in Debian is named deb-$project, then these prefixes do not add any relevant information, just inconvenience. It is already generally understood that packages from distribut
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by zajio1am 6y ago
> NAT became a poor-man's firewall and effectively blocked peer-to-peer connections making it difficult to host a server at home. Most ISPs (with the exception of very small ones) until recently assign one public IP address per cust
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by zajio1am 6y ago
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