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Still, it's strange to me that the GPL is considered OpenSource while the SSPL is not. When the GPL was first released, its requirement that all linked modules be GPL-licensed wasn…

The linked article says something different: 'We first estimate the supply-side value by calculating the cost to recreate the most widely used OSS once. We then calculate the deman…

True, but I suppose this is at least partially compensated by the cost of such a 0-day. For sure, a 0-day on Chrome is a lot more expensive than one on Firefox

Well, unions tend to average the outcome. But IT positions, being on the top side of the employee distribution, can typically obtain more. I can give you a real-world example. Our …

> Why someone work with full time writing articles should give the work for free OpenSource developers did that ;)

If you need something text based, cgdb is nice: http://cgdb.github.io/

You're mixing up two different things. It's true that YouTube now places ads to small channels that have not reached the monetization requirements. But after the channel satisfy su…

From what is written, they plan to reduce the control of where ads are placed, but still allow enabling or disabling them. Anyway, at present it's possible to disable them if you h…

I'm also a heavy user of ad blockers, but there is something to be said in defense of YouTube. Creators have the final decision on the ads shown. I have a YouTube channel, and I al…

> I will tell my computer to blank the screen and mute the audio when an ad is playing. Indeed, but you'll still have to wait for the ad to play. YouTube can definitively win this …

The Clang static analyzer is integrated into the build pipeline. Any warnings will cause the build to fail. Additionally, build with the flags -Wall and -Werror. When testing, run …

You made me remember the scene from A Clockwork Orange where the main character is forced to watch television screens.

Is fixed-point the right term ? As far as I know fixed point numbers have a fixed fractional part in bits, but this is different from using integers with a multiplicative factor, l…

The Internet Archive has all the ROMs you may ever need.

That would make AES-XGCM an immediate replacement of AES-GCM that already supports an arbitrary long nonce.

When you die, that notebook will be thrown away. archive.org will still be there.

Cool. If I can propose a little improvement, it would be nice to allow an arbitrary long nonce. Like, feeding the first 96 bits of the nonce into GCM, and the rest in CBC-MAC.

Looking at the implementation, the longer nonce is hashed to 128 bits, with the last 32 used as a starting counter. So, if you don't use the whole 32 bits space of the counter, you…

> Why would anybody pick the commercial one? The OpenSource license is typically GPLv3 that imposes that your whole application has to be GPLv3. This is enough for corporations to …

2 hours and half of sweating in MTB. No ads. No talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSsn1x_mmY

Take care that select() is not good for a webserver. From manpage: WARNING: select() can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than FD_SETSIZE (1024)—an unreasonably …

I say the same thing to software architects who no longer write code. After some time, you start to lose your skills.

Kirk cheated in the Kobayashi Maru ;)

Same here. Started with Slackware 3.0 in 1995, the first one distributed in CDROM. Still on Slackware.

Terence Tao doing a data entry job ? The Peter Principle strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle