justabystander

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by justabystander 9y ago
Plenty of people claim that they're scared to contribute because Linus might yell at them. That's unfounded for a lot of reasons. TL;DR: Test your code before you submit it. Don't accept or acknowledge patches from others tha
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by justabystander 9y ago
> It's not a regression unless something was broken first, then fixed, then the SAME ISSUE comes back in a later code change. No, it's when a change results in unintentional behavior that breaks previously supported scenarios.
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by justabystander 9y ago
It might not be about commercializing so much as including it in some of the *BSDs which don't allow for GPL code in the core. Otherwise, they'll probably have to write a new implementation. But yes, there is that risk.
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by justabystander 9y ago
> The OpenVPN Windows kernel TUN/TAP driver is really super scary. I believe you. Everything about OpenVPN code scares me. Not sure if it helps, but I checked out an article by Dmitri Varsanofiev on using the TUN/TAP driver ( h
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by justabystander 9y ago
First of all, love the project. Thanks for tackling it and sticking to it. I know that talking about a windows client is really early at this point, but is your team considering implementing it in a way that actually uses the UWP VPN provid
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by justabystander 9y ago
> fork the project and remove the offending code Yeah, it's possible. And it will probably happen at some point or another, now that it's open source. But that won't stop the momentum of the core product. > Also histori
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by justabystander 9y ago
> There's also a warning the first time you use it If you'd actually read the issue before commenting, you'd realize that this behavior was added after people complained about the telemetry not being obvious. It's t
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by justabystander 9y ago
If crimes were easily trackable and prosecutable , we probably wouldn't have such a hard time keeping criminals in jail. We still have crimes committed in jail that don't get properly solved, much less sentenced. Also, this isn&#
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by justabystander 9y ago
> academics provide such an incredible amount to the world we live in. This is true, but it's not terribly efficient about doing so. Much of it provides little to no useful return, and some of it actively harms the world we live in.
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by justabystander 9y ago
There's also Google's terrible reputation of poor and unreachable support, as well as the unappealable terminations of service. And they're not limited to consumers - some companies have had service terminated leaving them wi
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by justabystander 9y ago
There's kind of a lot of issues. Especially with psychology and sociology and the areas they intersect. 1. Replicability of social psychology results are estimated at 25%. (Cited in article, from http://www.nature.com/n
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by justabystander 9y ago
I've got something that listens to other devices (ACPI buttons, etc), but nothing that touches the touchpad. It's also a driver that's specific to the model (the main driver won't handle 3 button devices), so it's
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by justabystander 9y ago
> UDF supported by all three OSes natively and openly Wasn't there a major problem in that all the operating systems supported different versions of the UDF standard? And most of them treat it as an optical disk format, so I wouldn&
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by justabystander 9y ago
Synaptics drivers are horrendous. In addition to the terrible performance, mine has given me 10+ bluescreens on Win10. I'd love to remove them, but they're needed for some of the basic functionality. And they also seem to randomly
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by justabystander 9y ago
I don't think he's advocating that he should be setting the rules or self-evaluating. He just wants the rules to be sensible and sensibly enforced. He has justification to complain if the modifications they requested violated safe
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by justabystander 9y ago
Yes. Updates to those files didn't seem to be reflected in bash until I'd closed and reopened the terminal.
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by justabystander 9y ago
> If your app is a database server, probably yes. They explicitly don't support that. From the article: > Linux distro's [sic] running atop WSL are for interactive user scenarios, NOT for running production workloads on Apac
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by justabystander 9y ago
IBM has a huge problem with misrepresentation. It goes all the way to the top, with a CEO that promises major growth without a clear plan forward. The employees themselves seem to doubt whether they'll have a job in the near future, gi
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by justabystander 9y ago
> This feeds directly into the popular narrative that the working poor somehow lack moral fortitude. Not really. Not every bad job is held by an oppressed proletariat. Many times they're held by mischievous PFYs who still think they
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by justabystander 9y ago
Well, Paypal's been getting away with pretending to not be a bank for over a decade now...
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by justabystander 9y ago
The VPN changes your network route. This can get you around geographic locks (services that only work in certain areas). It can also get you around traffic issues, if your ISP has technical/political routing issues. Like with Comcast&#
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by justabystander 9y ago
> but I don't see Musk referred to as "Elon" much on HN. Nearly every time the people I interface with introduce him into a discussion, he's referred to by full name. His first name sounds a bit weird to me out of con
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by justabystander 9y ago
> but dudes never get called "first name", only "last name". Mayer is a really common name. The only way to distinguish her from the 15 Mayers I know is by full name. But in a conversation about her, I'll use w
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by justabystander 9y ago
Chrome has had them for a while. Supposedly they just hid them behind a flag because they weren't satisfied with some perceived deficiencies in the spec. (Check out https://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/es6-e
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by justabystander 9y ago
Protests usually follow some egregious government policy or action. Yes, there are protests that aren't very well organized, or lack a core concept to them. But those quickly fall apart with limited or no intervention. When they don&#x
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by justabystander 9y ago
They didn't. Google predates Baidu by two years. It's possible they could be talking about a specific technology, but not likely. Google had a Chinese subsidiary at one point in time, but stopped bothering as the government got in
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by justabystander 9y ago
> only affects people that enabled a remote management feature. The AMT can't be completely disabled, so people might not have to explicitly enable it to be vulnerable to AMT exploits. > It's not like every Intel system is s
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by justabystander 9y ago
Questions this brings up: 1. What's the estimated bandwidth impact of this data collection? Many users have very limited data use, and chatty messages on play/pause/volume change wouldn't be appreciated. 2. HTTP or HTTPS
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by justabystander 9y ago
> They could even pitch it as helping to keep prices "low". Considering that code has creation and maintenance costs, I doubt this would ever actually reduce the price. They would just inflate the final price to cover the cost.
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by justabystander 9y ago
For those that missed it, a representative from one of the other companies named in the suit helpfully dropped in to provide additional context on their company's part in this. It even had a super positive "happy to answer ... que

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