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by lfam 10mo ago
Citation?
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by lfam 2y ago
4K doesn't really say anything about image quality, just the resolution of the picture, which tells you the theoretical maximum level of visual detail. Focusing on resolution is like asking "how strong is one meter of rope" w
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by lfam 2y ago
Ever heard of Sourceforge?
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by lfam 5y ago
I agree, it could be seen as a self-inflicted wound. I'm a Guix developer but I still use Guix on Debian for important deployments, mainly because of systemd / journald. But, we could also think of it as an opportunity. Well, I ho
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by lfam 5y ago
Hey, we're glad to hear you're interested in Guix :) I just wanted to say that Guix doesn't hate systemd, or think of itself as an anti-systemd project or anything like that. Systemd was not chosen because GNU already had a (
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by lfam 5y ago
I concur: Wingo's opinion is widely shared within GNU, and I wrote about it a few months ago, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193674
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by lfam 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I think you missed the actual message where LLVM was offered to the FSF: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/
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by lfam 6y ago
Can you send a message to <guix-security@gnu.org>? https://guix.gnu.org/en/security/
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by lfam 6y ago
It's possible to maintain software quality (or quality of any endeavour) without being rude or making people feel bad. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be any correlation between rude behaviour and high levels of technical
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by lfam 6y ago
Right, Debian Testing is not supported as an "operating system" in any way. It's just a place for Debian developers to test their changes. I see this misunderstanding all over the net — people think that Debian Testing is mor
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by lfam 6y ago
It's true that RMS founded GNU and was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot. To many, RMS and GNU are the same. One cannot overstate his impact on the ideals and values of GNU. I disagree with the suggestion that the
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by lfam 7y ago
It's not weird that this article, which translates the technical firefighting and structural aspects of the fire for laypeople, does not mention a xenophobic conspiracy theory that has been rejected by the French authorities.
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by lfam 7y ago
Debian, Ubuntu, UNIX, Linux — none of these have an obvious pronunciation to a native English speaker from USA. Why take such a defeatist attitude? I'm sure you can get the pronunciation right with a little effort.
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by lfam 7y ago
That service was worse than anything else because it failed to provide the crucial "availability" property. And in the end he gave the keys to the government anyways. So he failed on every count.
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by lfam 7y ago
Do you think it's different in other countries? Everywhere, the email service will have to give your emails to the police when they come knocking...
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by lfam 7y ago
It's not supposed to rhyme with Nix. Rather, it's a portmanteau of Guile and Nix. The pronunciation is indeed like the English word 'geeks'.
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by lfam 7y ago
Installing Guix in a VM has its own section of the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Instal...
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by lfam 7y ago
I don't know anything about this case but innocent people plead guilty all the time in the USA. It's a much safer choice than going to trial where the sentence may be much much longer.
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by lfam 8y ago
In the beginning, when Gmail was only accessible by invitation, the killer feature was the relatively huge amount of free storage it offered. 1 gigabyte vs 20 or 100 megabytes at other providers.
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by lfam 8y ago
Are there any falling sand games where it does work?
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by lfam 8y ago
No, none of that music sounds like acid house.
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by lfam 8y ago
Do you have any links to bug reports or other documentation about this?
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by lfam 8y ago
Can you give any more detail about this? Or a reference to a bug report or mailing list thread?
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by lfam 8y ago
Why won't we ever have cross-platform and usre friendly signing software that also has bulletproof security? We already have many programs that are cross-platform and user-friendly while also addressing way more complicated use cases t
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by lfam 8y ago
This is a port of OpenBSD's code: https://github.com/aperezdc/signify/
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by lfam 8y ago
Manhattan's population is only ~1.6 million, whereas Switzerland's population is ~8.5 million. During weekdays, Manhattan's population increases to ~4 million. It would be more correct to compare Switzerland to all of New Yor
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by lfam 8y ago
The problem is your second sentence which is structured like this: "Obviously death threats are unacceptable [...] but [...]".
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by lfam 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. My impression as a Debian user was that it had been mostly curtailed. It doesn't matter too much... you either trust your contributors or you don't. But it's still a bit icky.
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by lfam 8y ago
> Do Debian contributors just upload a binary blob to the Debian servers and that's it? The practice has either been eliminated or curtailed but, yes, this was done for a long time.
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by lfam 8y ago
In many places, the trains are always late, but never early. So you get to the station at the appointed time and just wait. You couldn't tell someone to get off the train at "1:11" in the US.

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