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by nagvx 9y ago
The section on http://www.libressl.org/ that starts with: "LibreSSL releases contain several parts" lists said parts, with links to manpages for those parts. For example: https://man.openbsd.org/op
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by nagvx 9y ago
I think you are deliberately missing the point of the last line. Of course free access to a wide variety of education is a good thing - no one is doubting that. But gatekeeping recognition for that education behind a paywall ensures that we
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by nagvx 9y ago
Do you have a link to said program?
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by nagvx 9y ago
But would they provide resistance? As nice as the idea of a fully-free distro is, I have the impression that free distros have a minuscule userbase compared to their non-free counterparts. For an already niche distro, this sounds like a sig
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by nagvx 9y ago
What you describe sounds like search result spam, which is neither irrelevant or a good thing for the consumer.
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by nagvx 9y ago
Downvotes are appropriate. HN isn't the place for in-jokes or pop culture references.
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by nagvx 9y ago
>don't yearn for a boss to tell which is which. This is not what is being said - I will quote the parent commenter: "Here it seems that an influence / behaviour change campaign could be waged relatively cheaply against a r
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by nagvx 9y ago
It may be worth mentioning, if you want to avoid systemd, that Guix has a Scheme-based init system called Shepherd: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
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by nagvx 9y ago
You don't need to fork the entire OS, though - just provide the relevant non-free packages on top of the regular OS. Guix devs themselves have hinted that "adding impurity to a free OS is much easier than removing impurity from a
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by nagvx 9y ago
If we're plugging functional package management, we may as well mention the other significant project in this space - Guix: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ Essentially, all the benefits toute
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by nagvx 9y ago
Why was the title changed? The old title was not great, but at least informed us that a) the article was about PaX/Grsec, and b) was trying to present another side to the story. HN has replaced this with the title of an obscure Linux p
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by nagvx 9y ago
While your point isn't invalid, having to contact my bank and work through the process of setting this up is another layer of hassle that I don't have to deal with on another, more flexible provider.
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by nagvx 9y ago
The issue isn't with the currency, but the lack of pre-paid plans and how that interacts with flat conversion fees. It's also easy to overlook the euro issue when the majority of popular hosting providers charge in dollars - and I
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by nagvx 9y ago
Note that Scaleway bills in euros, not dollars, pounds, etc. They also have no pre-paid policy, so you cannot pay a lump sum upfront to get many months usage. This means that you could be hit by significant monthly fees if you are paying vi
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by nagvx 9y ago
Has there been any update to the status of GuileEmacs? I have read that it aims to be "the future of Emacs", but I rarely see mention of Guile from the Emacs community.
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by nagvx 9y ago
>so blatantly self-serving without being upfront about it Is advertising actually self-serving if it isn't upfront about what it being advertised? This statue is not like a traditional billboard emblazoned with a brand name - the on
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by nagvx 9y ago
This is a comment that seems to pop up quite a lot in discussions of the capitalist status-quo. (Often in a more confrontational manner, unfortunately.) I want to point out that having a solution is not a prerequisite to talking about the p
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by nagvx 9y ago
>They can't keep counterfeits off (I just recently got a 'samsung' battery that would only charge to 80%), Are you sure that it is counterfeit? 80% is a common charging cutoff point for Li-ion batteries to minimise wear-an
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by nagvx 10y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but couldn't a cell that had exceeded its write limit be cycled out for a spare, thus permanently storing a portion of your data in a way unaccessible to any further writes, random-filled or not?
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by nagvx 10y ago
Why no proper mention of ATA Secure Erase? It's not an Apple feature, it's a low level SSD feature designed for this.
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by nagvx 10y ago
However, LSoE is not the same as Goldsmiths, which is the college mentioned here. London colleges are generally good but there is quite a lot of variance - between "great" and "the very best".
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by nagvx 10y ago
Could you offer some specific, searchable product names?
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by nagvx 10y ago
This is not true. VT-d and ECC were thought to be removed, but these features were simply unlisted, not removed. Intel Ark now shows them as available, e.g: http://ark.intel.com/products/97143/Intel-Pentium-Process
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by nagvx 10y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong - isn't this a terrible business decision? It took a small team a year to make a product that is apparently taking the market by storm. Their secret sauce is apparently not some special algorithm, bu
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by nagvx 10y ago
>represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change,[4] and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[5] http
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by nagvx 10y ago
I wasn't assuming you were talking about "eradicating racism from planet earth" - that's a bit of a strawman. "Stopping blatant racism" is moving the goalposts, because "blatant" wasn't part of t
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by nagvx 10y ago
I generally agree with your idea that "don't be an asshole" is an incredibly subjective and unhelpful rule of thumb. However your comment that "being racist is pretty easy to nip in the bud" is just absurdly oversim
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by nagvx 10y ago
It's - '' - 'U+0003 : <control-0003> (END OF TEXT [ETX])', which is (apparently) invisible on some browser setups.
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by nagvx 10y ago
You're always going to get collisions, the serious ones are with other technical topics/brands/etc. No one is going to mix up a programming language and an airline.
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by nagvx 10y ago
When you feed them unambiguous queries like that, yes. "stdlib" is a very unique word specific to the domain of programming. Things get trickier with terms that have more overlap, and irrelevant results tend to creep further up th

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