MrBingley

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by MrBingley 9mo ago
I am going to disagree with almost all of the advice about studying abroad or joining a club. Those are well-intended, but they are addressing the symptoms, not the cause. Judging from these descriptions: > I’m socially anxious and keep
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by MrBingley 4y ago
> life-changing generational wealth By that measure, the people who had their life savings in FTX (and Celsius and Luna before that) have certainly succeeded. Investing in total-market index funds is the single best strategy for the aver
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by MrBingley 5y ago
Recently I've been reading Vasily Grossman's A Writer At War , which is a collection of his journals from the Eastern Front, and the depths of Stalin's brutality are staggering. In the Battle of Stalingrad he forbade that an
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by MrBingley 7y ago
I understand and perhaps admire the GNU project's insistence on being blob-free, but that also means Guix won't run out of the box on 99% of all people's computers. The options are buy (old) hardware that doesn't need bl
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by MrBingley 7y ago
Apple only cares about privacy insomuch as it makes them money. In the West privacy is marketable, and in China it's not. It's as simple as that.
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by MrBingley 7y ago
The Turris Omnia and soon-to-be Turris Mox are the only ones that I'm aware of. I know Linksys has a special line of WRT "open source ready" routers that are supposedly OpenWRT compatible, but the Amazon reviews are completel
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by MrBingley 7y ago
> From a public relations standpoint, Apple had always been on the side of privacy advocates and civil libertarians. Oh give me a break. Apple only cares about American user privacy, and only then because it aligns with their business in
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Star LabTop Mk III: Open-Source Edition(kickstarter.com)
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by MrBingley 8y ago
... because doing so will hurt their competitors and not them. I'm glad for Apple's focus on privacy these days, but let's not chalk it up to altruism.
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by MrBingley 8y ago
Even with secure boot disabled you can't install Linux on the internal SSD. Installing Linux on a Mac has already been very flaky for the last few years, but now is impossible. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&#
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by MrBingley 8y ago
I am deeply disturbed by what we are seeing in China. The Great Firewall, massive concentration camps in Xinjiang, a new "social credit" system - I think the dystopia of 1984 is becoming a reality. I am afraid that as a society we
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by MrBingley 8y ago
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
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by MrBingley 8y ago
What liars. Apple has done this before as well, when they said they had "never heard" of PRISM, despite a Snowden leak showing the exact opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/u
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by MrBingley 8y ago
This sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. There is no official definition of "open source", so taking what the words literally mean, "open" and "source", ie the source code is open to view, is an acc
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by MrBingley 8y ago
That is incorrect. There is no trademark on "open source", and the OSI has no monopoly on what it is supposed to mean. https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> However, today’s cloud providers have repeatedly violated this ethos by taking advantage of successful open source projects and repackaging them into competitive, proprietary service offerings. Cloud providers contribute very little (i
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to lifesaving epinephrine should have a lower-cost option, as well as another approved product to help protect against potential drug shortages. I li
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> I’ll predict the inevitable downvotes, which really only proves the point: debating human causes of climate change is akin to debating the existence of Jesus Christ. Which is somewhat ironic, considering that in both cases there is nea
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> The allostatic load hypothesis posits that SIDS is the result of perinatal cumulative painful, stressful, or traumatic exposures that tax neonatal regulatory systems. If true, this would mean that babies can literally be "stressed
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> They excuse this nonsense by saying that it's necessary for encryption, which is blatantly false. I don't see how this is false. Protonmail encrypts all user emails on the server, which can only be unlocked by the user's
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by MrBingley 8y ago
I absolutely agree. Adding an array type to C that knows its own length would solve so many headaches, fix so many bugs, and prevent so many security vulnerabilities it's not even funny. Null terminated strings? Gone! Checked array ind
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by MrBingley 8y ago
The problem with the first example is that `int` and `unsigned` are not the correct types to be using for array indexing. As we saw, they were 32 bits wide on a 64 bit platform, which lead to an additional sign extension and (in the case of
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by MrBingley 8y ago
Good. It's quite clear that WikiLeaks is in cahoots with the Russians after the DNC hack, and their collusion with the Trump campaign to try to show their "impartiality" is despicable. I used to have some respect for WikiLeak
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> effective vim users ^z out of vim and use Unix as their IDE. As someone who used to do this, I can tell you it's not very effective. For example, build systems. I work with a lot of C++ code, and after making changes I used to ctr
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by MrBingley 8y ago
That's a good point. For copyleft licenses, reciprocation does not occur through payment, but by users open-sourcing their code. In that case it's fair not to expect reimbursement. I read your license, and I like the idea. It does
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by MrBingley 8y ago
> My usual answer for this is that if you have to ask how you're going to make money, you're the wrong person to make Open Source. Nowhere in the mission of OSI is any mandate to provide authors with a viable business method. I
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by MrBingley 8y ago
Absolutely. Last year Google was tracking the location of Android devices that used its push messaging service (so basically all of them) even when privacy features were turned on. Installing a Google-free custom rom is the only solution to
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by MrBingley 8y ago
Looking at the comments in this post, I'm resigning myself that there simply is no correct solution for copying or concating strings in C. Null-terminated strings are a fundamentally broken concept. I think the long-term solution is si
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by MrBingley 8y ago
And OpenCL too. This is terrible. I was thinking about adding GPU support to a numerical simulator I am working on, and I was planning to have nice cross-platform support with OpenCL. Whelp, that's no longer the case. My code is in C++
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by MrBingley 8y ago
Petitions don't pay bills; GitHub is bleeding money. The solution is not signatures, but for developers to start paying for all the free hosting GitHub has given them. The open-source community itself is strapped for cash, so this is a

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