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by nyan4 10y ago
How about a FLOSS archive that provides peer-reviewed and signed application from a trusted source only? Automated security updates? A security team that can provide fixes independently from the upstream authors? ...because I just described
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by nyan4 10y ago
> It was also funny to see "Windows" as an approved security blessed OS and then Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD rejected Bribes always help.
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by nyan4 10y ago
Project name an URL?
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by nyan4 10y ago
> Why did we go from [...] talking about how all software will some day be free to being afraid to seriously consider the proposition? HN is clearly not attracting much of the FLOSS crowd.
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by nyan4 10y ago
The two are very connected. Yet, even with dynamic linking, the libraries could be always and only bundled with the application, and the application could be designed to work against the bundled versions and not even tested against other
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by nyan4 10y ago
...until the unfortunate end user that needs to run tenths of systems runs in a security issue. Then the admins cannot possibly learn how to fork, patch, rebuild, test, deploy in 20 different languages. And they cannot rely on security upda
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by nyan4 10y ago
> And people wonder why big enterprises are scared of touching open source stuff. some open source stuff. Most enterprises dig distributions, especially with LTS.
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by nyan4 10y ago
> before going into production How about 3 years after a release? 5, 8, 10?
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by nyan4 10y ago
This is a decade old lesson, well understood by few developers that want their code to be around for a while. The HN "web developers" are a different crowd.
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by nyan4 10y ago
This criticism usually comes from people that do not use Nim. I was very surprised as well at first - now after 1 year of using Nim I realize I never run into any trouble because of case/underscore insensitivity. #1: those variables ha
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by nyan4 10y ago
If only people stopped writing this stuff in javascript.
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by nyan4 10y ago
> Debian seems to have no problems with that. Because Debian developers do not package all sort of crap.
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by nyan4 10y ago
A lot of people like to think that software fragmentation comes without any drawback. Having many tiny libraries and/or multiple versions hurts in the long term.
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by nyan4 10y ago
> Recursive dependency resolution is nice and all but isn't this going to create a massive technological debt that needs to be maintained? Spot on. Imagine deploying an application, in 2018, that pulls down 1000 libraries, 300 of wh
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IPv4 Declared Historic – Draft(datatracker.ietf.org)
67 points by nyan4 11y ago|36 comments
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by nyan4 11y ago
> web developers That's the problem.
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by nyan4 11y ago
Nim has a powerful templating system that allows introducing new syntactic elements and semantics, but maybe you are thinking about generating output code in multiple languages (C, C++, JS...)?
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by nyan4 11y ago
This comparison is just silly, the context and the implications of the 4 points are entirely different.
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by nyan4 11y ago
"I have kids to feed" was used to justify many atrocities throughout history.
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by nyan4 11y ago
It's terrible indeed, and it works only if javascript is enabled.
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by nyan4 11y ago
Not illogical at all. Cost makes a huge difference.
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by nyan4 11y ago
Nim is really underrated.
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by nyan4 11y ago
*Tor
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Research suggests software piracy hurts adoption of Linux as a desktop OS(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by nyan4 11y ago|2 comments
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Wikileaks: NSA Intercepts World Leaders for US Geopolitical Interests(wikileaks.org)
13 points by nyan4 11y ago|0 comments
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by nyan4 11y ago
It's spelled Tor, non TOR
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by nyan4 11y ago
What's the threat model here? Is the potential adversary able to do MITM? - The DHT does not anonymize the poster ipaddr, the post contents, posting time and other metadata - same for the reader ipaddr, what was reading, and when
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by nyan4 11y ago
Nim GC is optional; It can be disabled to write system libraries.
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by nyan4 11y ago
> mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine ...for you.
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“Face it: There's no money in open source”(infoworld.com)
5 points by nyan4 11y ago|4 comments

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