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Open source and large dependency trees are orthogonal. You can depend on closed modules in compiled languages, many people do. You can write open source software and only depend on…

I don't run nigtly browser builds because that's too much to keep up with. I have actually read quite a bit of the code for the browser I use. I read almost everything I deploy bec…

If empathy isn't your thing then consider the secondary consequences of this. Many of those people the "pendulum" is swinging away from already feel pretty excluded by society and …

I never interact with cookie banners at all as some sites interpret that as consent (despite what the law says.) If it's in the way I delete it with the web inspector.

Mobile OS dev makes Windows look nice. At least windows has some cross platform toolkits (TCL/TK, Wx etc.)

One nice thing about recent versions of SSH is that they include support for signing arbitrary messages with your ssh key. I know you're not supposed to re-use keys but there have …

>6th most dense city in America Then both in terms of any arbitrary area in the US or any arbitrary city in the US, it's unusually dense (much more dense than the mean density.) >P…

In reality X (who are actually citizens, part of the issue with statistics is that people have been playing games with the border and 1/10 X are not from here now which actually do…

I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.

If they had simply removed the default password entirely without removing the default user both groups would be satisfied. It's not clear to me why they removed both.

There's a very simple argument for hygiene and convention: The halting problem should make code unreadable, it doesn't largely because of hygiene and the shared knowledge formed by…

Comcast in the US does (if you use your own router and configure it correctly.) There's this goofy band of people that know just enough to bring their own router but don't understa…

Windows 9x couldn't even run on ~2007 era Intel Macbooks because of the A20 gate.

I'm not convinced the physical size is the problem.

Without that kind of protection usually some group gains power and becomes the only protected group. Neo-Nazis are an indication that even the most socially unacceptable groups sti…

I'm anti censorship and post ideas controversial enough to get banned from here pretty often but personal attacks are just stupid. There's no reason for that.

Did they quit drawing the massive client side decorations and go back to a file/edit menu with GTK4+Libadwaita? That was a massive regression.

TCL/TK is still both easier than electron and will produce nicer apps. I think the Electron thing is the result of the popularity of web development more than native API failures (…

Don't TLS certs have domains they're valid for in the cert? (I admit it's been a while since I looked at this.) That would make them hard to phish.

When you're spending twice the time traveling it cuts into time that was otherwise productive. You can't spend all your time relaxing.

> regular people working there that just want to do their jobs and not be subjected to radical politics. There's a place where that doesn't happen?

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IIRC they can remove downloaded books. Better advice is "no non-free software in the house" and "mind your external dependencies" but that's a bit too extreme for most people.

If there's no password login doesn't prompt for one (you immediately get a shell after entering the user name) and ssh won't let you login. Removing the password is the correct def…