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by RubyPinch 10y ago
the latest recap from the reddit live thread https://www.reddit.com/live/x99pqdwudg0l/updates/b7a15982-4a... What do we know so far? A white truck have Thursday evening, driven through a police cordon and int
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
"not caring to act" would also be a very wrong thing and as one would expect from any other job, they should be fired for not working.
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
You are taking my comment a bit too literally (especially since the only thing I was trying to convey was: url files != filesystem files). I don't mean defined behavior, I mean what is expected, since that is what you were talking abou
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
You talk of native ads, + bloggers being ruined by ad blockers (with all their near zero operating costs?). Isn't native/sponsorship ads practically the perfect fit for blogs? along with being unblockable?
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
Can you give a couple of examples of how you feel it is arbitrary? And you are not really giving any "benefit of the doubt" by calling them scammers straight out, are ya?
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
eh, the path the url contains isn't a file system path, its a string of characters that a server can treat in a million different ways, so its not exactly practical to rely on that e.g. if the url was along the lines of http:&#x2
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the view is, a) don't want to provide nice tools to windows users because then they'll no longer have the need to switch to a libre system b) do want to provide nice tools to windows users because then th
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
There are some smaller groups that are working on their own engines (slowly but surely) https://gngr.info/ comes to mind
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
> and only Ruby programmers who have used ActiveRecord will know how the first one does. do you really think the first one is /that/ hard to understand?
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
> So, in fact, the W3C is not telling us what algorithms to use at all. [so they'll all pick bottom-of-the-barrel-algos, which] in the hands of amateurs are akin to handling plutonium. It isn't up to the browser to stop people
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/large_files.html
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
> send [...] using FTP, SFTP, Rsync or SCP, and upload and download are both free, operations (archiving/unarchiving?, et al) are not Unless they changed it in the space of 16 minutes, I think you might of wanted to give a closer lo
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
I don't know whether "get it out there" is the right idea here It feels more like a warning to avoid WAFer, as opposed to a good advertisement.
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
Its encryption, you apply a transform before putting it onto the dropbox, and then you apply a transform after you pull it back, and the key it'd be encrypted against would be per user (like most encryption)
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
unless the "corruption" is reversible by the torrent client, which it would be
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
as long as the torrent client knows how to reverse the changes it made to the file (why wouldn't it?) then there won't be any problem. Its just a really really simple form of "encryption", which most torrent clients do s
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
excessively large userbase compared to the amount of people who vote/comment is what I figure + I'd imagine quite a lot of people were expecting this blogpost, probably anyone who put more than $50 towards the DAO, and is currentl
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
> Nope, just a wrapper Nope, its still a fully fledged client, because being a capable client is not /that/ dependant on the UI rendering method, believe it or not. > but it still has all the disadvantages that you incur wh
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
refactoring (select a variable name, select all instances of that name, change), and also 1 time pre-processing data
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
The acquiring company removed that feature the moment they acquired SF
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
GA, popups, FB, et al. all get done in with modern ad blockers, don't they?
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
github also does versioned releases, no? https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/releases as an example
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
> Adblock Plus is not less "vulnerable", so to speak, than the other mentioned add-ons, despite what the article states. It's just that those "researchers" were not competent enough to understand how to "exp
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
On the other hand, that specific thing is the entire reason for the fork existing, its drive and motivation. It could be anything. "We feel own-cloud isn't libre enough", "We don't feel this direction is profitable&
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
they are, but like, they are usually ultra tiny (smaller than a business card), or prohibitively expensive. The best way of getting screens is to hop on ebay, and get a replacement screen, then reverse engineer the connecter they use
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
Nice news, but I doubt this'll be any easier for hobbyists to acquire without harvesting them from devices
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it locks out new browsers because acquiring CDMs can be a pain if you want to roll-your-own https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi... ctrl+f for "What does this mean for downstream users
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
to run one app as root, you load up instructions to root the currently installed OS, and install one of the generic SU* apps to manage it
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
yeah but so? from my read-through, its not literally "save the one and only firefox", its "we need an environment that allows for other browsers to enter the field" which DRM prevents
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by RubyPinch 10y ago
articles written like this (just like, as if a layer of snark was laid on top, and how they NEED to have a bad guy) really bother me and also omg JIRA GOT HACKED! yeah, by who? a guy who wanted feedback on a kickstarter? no there was nothin

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