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I was about to post roughly this comment, but then I remembered reading https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine a while ago: > many asso⁣ci⁣a⁣tions with harm are con⁣founded by past or pres…

I believe NixOS does not (there's a "nixos-rebuild switch" command that sounds vaguely like it requires a reboot, and NixOS does aim for declarative confgs, but it knows how to res…

The link seems to be down, but this is the speech itself: https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm

This is an excellent point from the comments, from one of the signatories: > If you as a public university had no power against racism beyond the nobility of your intentions, your …

This is not pointlessly-spent energy! It is part of the job of software engineering, in much the same way as fixing compiler errors and debugging is part of the job of software eng…

Yeah, but I think the term "self-host" is a little bit conditioned on the HTTP model itself. If we had some sort of Usenet-style distributed infrastructure, you could imagine two w…

My personal website is a publicly-accessible static site. Blocking people from it is not meaningful. It might be meaningful under the model of direct HTTP, where you could be DoSin…

Honestly, I think if the GDPR had been around before HTTP, we would have seen HTTP as the unreasonable part in this system. You don't have to make a direct TCP/IP connection for tw…

From GDPR article 2: > 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: > (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity My s…

https://github.com/twosigma/libvirtcpuid works around this. (But in practice, we mostly rely on the fact that if you are in Google Cloud and specify a minimum CPU version, Google m…

In general "factual information" is not a defense to a whole bunch of things that society generally recognizes as not protected by free speech (the broad concept, not solely the le…

Then how do you decide what is (or should be) a right and what is not? Suppose someone claims a right to gay marriage, or a right to employ only people of their race, or a right to…

No, but he happened to be wrong for it. The NSPA's goal was never to actually hold a march. They never did hold a march in Skokie, after that defense. Their goal was to harass Jewi…

"Moon" is the name of the person who spoke the thing above that is being discussed in this thread. Advising underage people through a wiki on how to make hormones at home is neithe…

Stars don't represent anything real. You don't star a project when you clone it, when you grab a packaged version from a package repository or the home page, when you use it as a t…

I very much agree with you that the lack of supply is a major problem, but the article is making a case here that what the algorithm is doing is tantamount to price-fixing / collus…

Absolutely agree, but how do you do that in practice? Do you self-host your services on some Linux distro? How many FAANG employees have upload access to that distro or maintain it…

It protects the user's privacy against attackers other than Google. To be fair, this is an entirely reasonable threat model for a lot of people. For instance, if you're a reporter …

Not that I disagree with you about whether the average person realizes it, but it's not just a risk because Google has JavaScript trackers on your porn site. Google could just make…

For Slack in particular, the deal is that new signins return a token that starts with "xoxc", not a token that starts with "xoxs", and that token requires corresponding cookies in …

One might hope, but they didn't. How do you tell in Java if stderr is a TTY, and if so, what its width is? How do you do an NSS passwd lookup (as in getpwnam("pjmlp") in C etc.)? (…

Well, kind of. Docker is a product, with official support for Linux containers on Mac (and Windows containers on Windows!). Docker for Mac comes with a Linux VM as a feature of the…

2016, and https://langui.sh/2015/07/24/osx-clang-include-lib-search-pa... (linked from the GitHub thread) seems to explain it better - if I understand right: - Apple, in 2015, depr…

" individuals from diverse backgrounds and groups historically underrepresented in the research community " according to https://science.osti.gov/grants/Applicant-and-Awardee-Resou…

I'm not sure I see how that's connected to the article or the linked DOE policy - can you expand on what gets you that feeling? It seems to be saying the precise opposite of that, …