xorcist

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by xorcist 3d ago
Right. Among bicycle advocacy groups it's been well known for long time that cars do not run over people, drivers do. The fact that we talk about a car running someone over, and this is the same in many different languages and coun
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by xorcist 3d ago
Sooner or later we will hear about an AI that broke out and phished people into sending money. I just hope that we won't extend the same leniency to those operators as we have done now. "I did my best to stop it, sir, but it kept
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by xorcist 6d ago
"Tiny" speed improvement? According to the benchmarks, it's almost 10x the speed of rsync! Really serious benchmarks never contain any information about network characteristics, options used or buffer sizes, and these are ind
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by xorcist 9d ago
> GrapheneOS cannot include GPL code if they want to remain permissive It's hard to take this seriously when the entire kernel is GPL.
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by xorcist 10d ago
> A LAMP at this time meant a lot of manual setup, IaC wasn't a thing, I'm sorry but this is just nonsense. LAMP is called that because it was a very standardized thing. Pop in a Debian CD and select a ready made profile for it
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by xorcist 10d ago
> It would have been trivial for them to lock out other operating systems entirely. It is trivial for them to lock out other operating systems entirely.
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by xorcist 10d ago
Some things in life are binary. You either allow people to build new products and businesses on your work or you don't. Would you allow me to extend the product with new features? "It depends" is a form of "no". It
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by xorcist 11d ago
> it makes me happy if people can make a business using a bit of my work It's an idea as old as any: The freedom to restrict the freedom of others, is it really a freedom? It is a tiresome debate. People can argue about it until the
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by xorcist 11d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License : Debian FSG compatible No FSF approved No OSI approved No GPL compatible No Copyleft No
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by xorcist 11d ago
Once you decide on a non-free license, in the FSF sense, in the DFSG sense, and in the open source sense, does the details of the license matter much? You want as many people to pay as possible, and you do not wish for others to compete wit
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by xorcist 11d ago
... or just use Google even.
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by xorcist 11d ago
Things such as WASM and WebGL should really be click-to-play, just like media files are. I am decidedly uninterested in those features for most web pages I visit. Should they be able to spin up my CPU fan just for that I would consider it
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by xorcist 12d ago
Similarities between extremely conservative Christianism and extremely conservative Islamism? I am shocked! Seriously, has anyone ever argued that evangelicals and islamists would disagree about conservative ideas such as the role of sexual
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by xorcist 12d ago
> many philosophically worthy ideas, Would you mind spelling them out? Because all I find hovers between old fashioned reactionism and bat shit craziness. What is the philosophical value in that?
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by xorcist 12d ago
> cycling culture is built on aggression, If it is, that's only because you scared away all the others, leaving behind only the ones that aren't scared of anything. Look at cycling culture in Copenhagen or Amsterdam sometime. T
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by xorcist 12d ago
Probably because the intelligence community is also at the other side of this equation. The strategic advantage of a smartphone duopoly completely inside US jurisdiction is immeasurable.
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by xorcist 12d ago
When the map disagrees with reality, keep following the map? Government tightening policy has always lead to spending being moved around, and combined with tax cuts that makes for larger deficits. Every single time. What needs to be more ef
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by xorcist 12d ago
Honest question, what would be different from doing the same with Debian packages? Building packages from source is trivial in Debian. It is literally one command, not much different from installing binary packages. Hosting internal reposit
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by xorcist 19d ago
Not having a constant remote root open for the mothership and whoever works there? Doing crazy things like taking a backup of the phone which you paid full price for?
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by xorcist 19d ago
State is always the entire point.
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by xorcist 22d ago
But of course you have a store. That's the whole point and that's what you analogy missed. The point was to be able to sell services outside the Apple store, in another store .
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by xorcist 22d ago
What Linux distro ships with remote logging out of the box at all? Hopefully none, because that would be be absurd. To whom would those logs be sent? That documentation link probably isn't as telling as is suggested, because the next e
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by xorcist 23d ago
Thirty years ago and more that might have been a valid objection, but at that time the alternatives weren't great either. No one has suggested running syslog over unreliable transport after that. In fact, the queue management and at le
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by xorcist 23d ago
That recommendation is hard to understand. Unless you have some completely trivial environment you will have syslog in it. It is not something you choose. What you can do is have syslog ingestion for your Loki/Elastic/Splunk&#
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by xorcist 24d ago
Outside the gym bro bubble I would be surprised if people had a clue.
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by xorcist 24d ago
The argument that private transactions are only for people with something to hide is one that we should be very careful with. The same could be said about projects like Tor, which we know for certain is used for all sorts of illegal activit
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by xorcist 25d ago
But it's not really a trade barrier if it applies equally for everyone, including domestic products, is it? Then it's just a safety regulation barrier, which also the US has plenty of. It's something else entirely to point
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by xorcist 25d ago
The name.
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by xorcist 28d ago
On the contrary. They are free to charge whatever they want.
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by xorcist 28d ago
Perfectly normal, just like your TV manufacturer taking a cut of every movie you rent. No, wait...

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