rando3826

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by rando3826 10y ago
> I'm talking about the car's ethical choices in crashes, not the ethics of the programmers. There is no practical difference. Computers do what we tell them to do, whether what I tell it to do has a conditional in code (the co
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by rando3826 10y ago
> I think the ethical question is greatly overblown. Not at all. One programmer is going to make choices that affect ~ a billion vehicles one day, so something that doesn't happen 99.9999% per hour will happen 100 times per hour. An
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by rando3826 10y ago
Why use an ANKY in the title? Using an ANKY(Acronym no one knows yet) is bad writing, makes readers feel dumb, etc. Google JUST NOW invented that acronym, sticking it in the title like just another word we should understand is absolutely ri
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by rando3826 10y ago
Are they accepted upstream? If not, I'd like to see a link to the lkml thread for these.
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by rando3826 11y ago
Nope nope nope. Gpl is a binary decision whether you are in compliance and can distribute or not. So, in this case, it would be negative, not allowed to distribute. Unless the law requires someone to distribute gpl software, which it doesn&
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by rando3826 11y ago
Nope nope nope. My license can say "cannot distribute in places where law x exists." My license can say "no one can distribute. period."
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by rando3826 11y ago
I don't think they are tractable. They break the requirements.
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by rando3826 11y ago
Feedback. I can't get much from your screenshots since I can't expand them and they are too small to read anything. I don't know what a "simulated phishing campaign" is, what results I might get out of it, I just do
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by rando3826 11y ago
Because canonical wants to be the os of light weight vm images and docker images. You can't do that if the first step in distribution is always "boot into a separate filesystem, compile a kernel module, then reboot", and then
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by rando3826 11y ago
In linux, there is the immutable file attribute which won't let root rm the file without first changing it with chattr.
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by rando3826 11y ago
Is Apache reporting back to the apache foundation about how you are using your apache software? Maybe your expectations about user tracking are the problem.
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by rando3826 11y ago
> not be based on anything technical, but on how an API is used in practice Since it's an api, the "in practice" is some other piece of code, so I would still call it a technical issue.
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by rando3826 11y ago
No, no, no. "library" is completely different than "mere aggregation." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL : "If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does tha
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by rando3826 11y ago
Perfectly reasonable to assume they already have gotten NSLs.
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by rando3826 11y ago
Are you kidding? It's not in the first 10 pages of bing or yahoo. Being the #1 result is obviously done artificially.
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Ask HN: Why is Google #1 result for “alphabet” abc.xyz?
1 points by rando3826 11y ago|2 comments
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by rando3826 11y ago
There is adoption & attraction of development because software has freedom. There is adoption & attraction of development because software does not have freedom. They are not mutually exclusive. gnu, debian, etc are fundamentally dr
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by rando3826 11y ago
Among functional languages, I wouldn't call nix anywhere close to haskell. As for the free software, sounds like a typical baseless meme I've heard many times.
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by rando3826 11y ago
And MS made it hard to change operating systems. On linux, you get live oses, and easy multi-os with a boot menu. With msft making it hard/impossible to change oses with secureboot, it's just not possible to suspend disbelief that
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by rando3826 11y ago
I don't think so. I just read the tivoization section (section 6), and skimmed the rest. The only thing allowed to prevent modifications is if it is physically not designed to do so.
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by rando3826 11y ago
And of course vendors still need to update the software, so people will just hack that method. Of course you will be violating the DMCA anti-circumvention statue, so it will be a felony. Not to mention this sounds like effectively mandating
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by rando3826 11y ago
Rule by mandating locked down buggy horrible proprietary software? Absolutely ridiculous. And of course people will just hack the proprietary channel of updates, because of course it will still be flashable. The obvious answer is, make it i
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by rando3826 11y ago
> arbitrary code breaks all possible chain-of-trust models No. The code I get on my router from the store is an arbitrary closed source buggy crap. The code I load from debian, openwrt, etc. is far more trusted.
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by rando3826 11y ago
aka bitrot
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by rando3826 11y ago
Emacs C code is far better! And it's only ~22% c code instead of vim's ~66% reference: https://www.openhub.net/p/vim https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs
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by rando3826 11y ago
re. microsoft: they are, just bundled into a small area. Look closely.
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by rando3826 11y ago
Yes, the whole thing stunk like gamergate imo. I honestly don't care about whatever minor offense pao did, I wanted her to stay just so that the vitriol and misogyny on the front page attacking her would not "win".
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by rando3826 11y ago
Amen. I do fairly decent on a whiteboard given some practice, but I still feel stupid compared to sitting and coding on my own without massive time pressure.
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by rando3826 11y ago
> 1. We are all adults. Stopped there. We aren't. I've been amazed at finding that code came from a 15 year old.
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by rando3826 11y ago
And it repros.

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