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by zimbatm 3y ago
Also worth looking at gopass[0], the Go re-implementation. It supports OPT out of the box. [0]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
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by zimbatm 3y ago
Try to come on Matrix; you'll be able to get much better traction there. Some community members are also working on a merge-bot[1] with the goal of allowing package maintainers to self-service their PRs. This will allow nixpkgs to scal
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by zimbatm 3y ago
I also made the export diff configurable, motivated by this post: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1233
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by zimbatm 3y ago
He said that it would be backwards-compatible. It's in the name of the project.
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by zimbatm 3y ago
The reason the Swiss value their privacy from the Government is because of a surveillance scandal that happened in 1989. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal Of course, privacy enabled the bankers to
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by zimbatm 3y ago
It's also because the cost of making things reproducible is still too high. We have the tooling, but it still takes a bit of effort from the developer's side to integrate those into their CI pipeline. Eventually we will get to a p
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by zimbatm 3y ago
Stupid question: could this be used underground in volcanic areas like Iceland?
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by zimbatm 3y ago
My cynical version is asking what Bloomberg is getting out of it. Is he heavily invested and 500M is just a good way to increase the electicity costs and generate better return?
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by zimbatm 3y ago
Especially when programming. A lot of key shortcuts are specifically designed for QWERTY. And if you believe that the keyboard should be re-arranged to better fit the language then shouldn't a programming layout have more easily reacha
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by zimbatm 3y ago
A key aspect is that we discovered very late that TU Dresden has their own policies against military association that we weren't aware of. We would have had to fill in ton of paperwork, and potentially lose the place. This is what I tr
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by zimbatm 3y ago
Sure. Come back to us in twelve months. Either the company will have lost control of their spending and be sending 6-7 figure paychecks towards AWS. Or the ops team will have clamped down on the accounts and now you have to go trough the sa
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by zimbatm 3y ago
That's the premise that the RIAA and friends was pushing. There is of course another choice; to stream the movies without DRM. Once Flash was gone, eventually they would have caved in because there is a lot of money to be made by strea
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by zimbatm 3y ago
Remember they already added DRM to browsers once. There was a big outcry at the time, and they still went ahead and implemented it. Now even Firefox supports Widevine. If they believe that it's in their best interest, I'm not real
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by zimbatm 3y ago
I would love to see something similar for systemd!
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by zimbatm 3y ago
What are you talking about. Bitcoins has been working as a digital value exchange system for 10 years, and has a market cap of 539B USD right now.
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by zimbatm 3y ago
That kind of argument can be applied to any value-based systems. s/crypto/ with /banks/, /religion/, /houses/. The real question is how big the risk is relative to inflation, central banks collapses,
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Is there a service like that, but where you can bridge back replies from Mastodon to Twitter? I didn't think about it deeply, but it would be nice to be able to log in with Twitter and basically extend the network.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
How would you feel if a corporation was ignoring local regulation to enforce their own worldview?
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by zimbatm 4y ago
I had a dream, that one day I would be filling captchas in the terminal :-)
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Relax man :) Let's say you want to a small notebook in the browser, JavaScript is nicer there, even with WebAssembly. Or the user is not a scientist, and already knows JS, and it lets them discover ML. It's not taking anything awa
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by zimbatm 4y ago
You could say the same thing to giving to charity. Pick a budget and then stick to it. It's not complicated.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
That's because they have no other choice. LLVM needs to be extended to support their platforms and it's too expensive to maintain a fork. WebKit was forked from a LGPL project (KHTML) so they have to keep publishing the source.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Are there any places where Apple contributes back to the open source ecosystem? Their engineers are prohibited from contributing back to the ecosystem so it's not possible to engage with them in a reasonable manner. They don't ack
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by zimbatm 4y ago
bazel is also pretty good with the number of flags. I didn't count them but there are quite a few of them: https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference is this part of the Google culture?
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by zimbatm 4y ago
It would be interesting to ask users to classify their up/downvotes as opinion vs signal/noise ratio. Maybe that's the next evolution of leaderboard systems like HN/reddit?
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by zimbatm 4y ago
What we're looking for are high signal/noise ration posts to expand the conversation into new areas that are interesting. If the ratio is too low (eg: spam, shallow content, same old tired point), it's not an issue to downvot
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by zimbatm 4y ago
The C-suite probably does it more for power, influence, impact than the money. Of course it's nice to have some more money, but that's not going to meaninfully change your life at that point. Of course if you don't have enoug
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by zimbatm 4y ago
That's just sarcastic talk. Both can be true at the same time.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
Sure, it's still shorter than days that international bank transfers take. Especially over the weekend. It doest't replace day-to-day payment but is pretty good for paying invoices.
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by zimbatm 4y ago
How is that not the same thing? If you can reliably exchange it from one to the other?

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