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> We need a way to embed project metadata into .git itself, so source code commits don't mess up with wikis and issues. Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) embeds issues, wiki etc. i…

Vulnerabilities such as spectre are only relevant if you run untrusted non-free software. Also these vulnerabilities show that sandboxing is not effective on current CPUs, and spec…

They can't distribute firmware blobs simply because FSF and GNU do not in principle participate in distribution of any non-free programs. Also consider that if a manufacturer can d…

As a Russian I'd rather call it the Putin's war.

From my own experience, JPEG quality and compression efficiency can differ a lot depending on the encoder implementation. It would make more sense to compare specific encoders rath…

Of course, no one will be making cars intentionally unsafe, but the law is also a risk factor, the risks of getting fined, jail time or licence revocation count too, and these risk…

Advertising does not simply suggest you something that you might need, it often tries to manipulate you into needing something, and with the amounts of personal data being collecte…

Telling computers and humans apart is a wrong goal. Every request comes from a computer that is commanded by some human. And why shouldn't users be allowed to use automated user ag…

There is also Simutrans-Extended ( https://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/ ) — a fork that adds even more detail and realism to the simulation and tries to achieve better game balance.

> Human-sized computing: a reasonable level of complexity for a computing system is that it can be entirely understood by a single person (from the low-level hardware details to th…

Can a vendor be held responsible for anything an unauthorized pirated copy of their software does?

You don't. That's a way to punish all users of pirated software.

Software vendors can deliberately leak "pirated" copies of their programs to Russian torrent sites with backdoors and other malicious code added. That could be an effective counter…

Using git is no big deal, but storing the repo on Github means sharing the information with a third party (Microsoft) even if the repo is kept "private".

Disruption of the Internet service will be very damaging to Russian anti-war protests.

Our perception of time is very subjective: it is affected by our age, by what we are doing, and it is known that it can be significantly altered by consuming certain substances. We…

> Crazy how evil Google is. And the even worse evil are the website owners who betray their own users by placing third-party trackers on their own sites.

This is not enough if we don't stop DRM (which Firefox also supports). DRM essentially means: only allow access with a program that implements certain required measures to restrict…

I'd go further and say that computers are supposed to be used by programming them.

> I think that Google using data to personalize ads and recommend videos is ethically ok. Advertising does not simply make people aware about some goods and services, it often work…