the_rectifier

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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
No an immutable OS does not help, also flatpak is necessary and selinux not powerful enough. You just need sandboxing.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
The cynicism in the other answers is appalling. Treating people like investments...
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
american society.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
It's not groundbreaking: it happened again and again.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
> Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault No, it did not. That's why you find courts always charged offenders for multiple different crimes when they are carried out together:
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
I wouldn't call the images depressing, but certainly soul crushing.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
How about no.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
False. In many teams half of the engineers are randomly put on pip and cannot switch team.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
This is exactly how manipulation is done and the reason for companies to do the funding.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
You can trust a Linux distribution to provide reasonably secure software out of the box, like Debian / Freedombox
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Quite the opposite.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Dumping VM memory contents is pretty trivial.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Not at all. Did you read the article?
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
More nuance is the opposite of a problem.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
EE here. In electronics there are hardly liabilities but still the design work is way more based on evidence and understanding rather than fads, hype and opinions.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
...and my axe! Sorry.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
In most countries Uber has been a disaster for drivers, to the point of outllawing it.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
You have the same issue with MIT because it requires attribution
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
On various occasions I've been asked by native speakers to use shorter sentences and simpler words. Sigh.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
Spot on. Most bounties are tiny and, as a FOSS developer myself, look discouraging or even a little bit insulting.
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by the_rectifier 5y ago
A death threat against a whole ethnicity is illegal and in no way considered protected speech, and same goes for libel and threats to individuals. And this is by design.