silpol

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by silpol 1y ago
No, it's not 'hostile'. Behavior "give me now 50K and then monthly 200K" is called Racketeering. wikipedia > In the United States of America, racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators se
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by silpol 2y ago
While his leaks expose surveillance, he was useful idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot in hands of Assange club. And it might be event of his saving was trigger for Putin to start war. So no, I'd bett
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by silpol 3y ago
you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?
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by silpol 3y ago
there is reason why John Woods wrote in 1991 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability. https://stackoverflow.com/a/878436&#x
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by silpol 3y ago
actually Bruce Byfield explains it in Linux Magazine: Pass is available in the repositories of most major distributions. As usual, you can also compile from scratch, but, if you do, take note of the dependencies, especially GnuPG (GPG) [6],
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by silpol 5y ago
for item 4, one has to have limited responsibilities towards society.
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by silpol 5y ago
for some folks systemd is also 5th wheel in the cart
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by silpol 8y ago
there is one small nuisance here - if we start to treat all governments equally skeptic, we should also "fry live" all large corporations too.
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Twilio warns about Uber’s waning usage of its platform(venturebeat.com)
1 points by silpol 9y ago|0 comments
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by silpol 10y ago
(quote) "People in dictatorial regimes didn't get there by being quiet. They never were. Even today in places like Venezuela and Russia people take to the streets. They got there by losing a channel of communication to their fello
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by silpol 10y ago
CA regulation did not stop VolksWagen to do what they did. And they did it for many years.
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by silpol 10y ago
that's exactly how it is going on now. and it doesn't work anymore - different scale.
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by silpol 10y ago
the sad thing is that you're probably on lawyer's mentality and hence deliver mantra "if that does not work on country level, lets push it up". Only that international law is not law-as-we-know-it. It is countries in int
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by silpol 18y ago
uptime was much better, and reaction was much quicker and to the point. with recent switchover to Google infra they are almost non-stop -- only Google is not that stupid to pay for your messaging ;)