maddev

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Cybersecurity as Realpolitik(youtube.com)
2 points by maddev 12y ago|0 comments
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by maddev 12y ago
> If they want Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA they have to honor the request. They shouldn't want safe harbor then.
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by maddev 12y ago
> the slow erosion of privacy expectations, etc. > slow SLOW?????? More like super-sonic.
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by maddev 12y ago
Disappointing that GitHub honored that request.
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by maddev 12y ago
It's not like am speculating. I implemented these things. The hardest part is agreeing on TZ symbols (e.g. Indian Standard Time vs Ihoa Standard Time). E.g. its not very hard to get right.
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by maddev 12y ago
Not acceptable at all. Whoever came up with that scheme is a psychopathic criminal for all I care. But then again, once you start using proprietary software you expect there is a gorilla holding your banana and with him comes the jungle. No
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by maddev 12y ago
Why would you ever need to convert a timestamp? You typically parse a timestamp like "1999-03-29 20:02:04 CEST" and return a number of seconds since a given point in time (e.g. UNIX epoch if it must be). The returned time is obvio
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by maddev 12y ago
ALSA is a piece of CRAP so its easy to compare with. OSSv4 was the last sane thing in the linux audio department. :(
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by maddev 12y ago
> POP, no. My time machine didn't go back that far. ;) Imho this remark comes across as quite unprofessional. Ignoring the fact that POP and IMAP weren't born that far apart in time (wikipedia says 84 and 86 respectively), POP