shp0ngle

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by shp0ngle 2y ago
> If you had actually read the thread you'd know that it's Wikipedia policy not to include links to sites containg content illegal in the US because that can actually get visitors in trouble. Not really though. They have WP:ELN
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_... https://foundation.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Controver... If there is some official policy which links are allowed and which a
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
your friend should stop seeing "girlfriends".
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Yeah for example 8chan and kiwifarms are usually censored. I'm not that mad about it, some censorship is always necessary (you don't want links to child porn), but it's weird that Wikipedia pretends there is no censorship. An
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Everyone steals in Vietnam. Every time the communists change positions in the politburo, the new communist in charge arrests the previous one for corruption. And so it goes. (Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the one who was hailed for zero covid previousl
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
On one hand it's Vietnam where everyone bribes everyone. (Literally. Stealing country funds is a fact of life.) On the other hand it's 21 billion. Still rough.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Note that she got a death sentence for fraud. It's... rough. (In my opinion.)
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
The actual maintainers of the repo seem to take the position that all "Jia Tan" commits are backdoor-free unless proven otherwise, so most of his commits still stay (as they* did a LOT of actual, real work on the repo). I am curio
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
I'll ping Jigar
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Well they do solve problem for me - I want a small phone, flip is. I like my iPhone Mini but apparently most people didn't.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
AirTags/Find My is THE reason why me and my whole family is on iOS. This is great. I wanted my next phone to be Z Flip since Apple stopped making small iPhones (and no foldables in sight), but reliance on Find My stopped me. This is gr
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Every time someone explains to me autotools, the individual pieces sort of make sense, yet the result is always this inscrutable unreadable mess. I don't know why.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Did the Jia Tan character actually committed something of value? Looking at the history, he had (there was some stuff with multithreaded compression/decompression); as he kept it in the original license, could it be used going forward?
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
as I wrote in a different thread, some projects don't have any source control. From the big ones - 7z, ncurses are both tarballs only.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
yes there is, it's called git clone. :)
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Interesting. Well, xpdf I knew :) but yeah xpdf can be nuked, ncurses cannot.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
There are still nowadays projects without a proper source control. For example, xpdfreader, source of xpdf, is distributed just as source tarballs. The maintainer just publishes them every time there is a new version. https://www
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Does Nix/Guix solve this? I have been skeptical of "rewrite everything into rust", but... maybe we should at least rewrite everything into Nix?
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
As other poster said, Chinese has diacritics that got usually removed when put into English websites
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
There are many real Jia Tans on LinkedIn
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
CIA didn't put anyone new into gitmo for years. The 30 remaining gitmo prisoners are all W Bush holdovers that all subsequent administrations forgot.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
I didn't realize it was a Microsoft engineer that works on Azure Postgres that found the issue. Thanks, Microsoft, I like Azure now.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
let's add passport (and visa) checks to github
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
There are not that many suspicious acts tbh. Randos complaining about unmaintained repos and unclosed issues is a constant in FOSS world. Sometimes it's even true, some projects really die and stop actually addressing real issues. But
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
Stop making software open source, start making it closed source and charge for licenses. That works! Unfortunately it's bad for open source.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
xz has its own git mirror where you can see all the commits
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
this hits one important point- git is very bad with large files, and all the "solutions", like git-lfs, are weird cludges
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
we should take this diagram and change "random person in nebraska" to "possibly a state-level attacker" https://xkcd.com/2347/ nice
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
It was the same in here. I needed to accept a job with over 1 hour commute; but hey it's a job.
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by shp0ngle 2y ago
It's even forbidden by HN rules... somewhere.

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