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Feels amazing to get a code review within minutes after putting up a PR. The signal to noise ratio has been great as well, most of the review comments are actionable and relevant.

Actually it is really really fast relative to speeds we are familiar with in our lives. Space is just so big that it makes the speed of light (c) feel slow.

Ah but there is a reason for my watch to have the same seconds value as yours, and that is if our watches are kept synchronized to an accurate time source, for ex. via NTP. By assu…

In addition to this there is also a quantum effect called quantum tunneling [1] which allows for a very tiny probability for particles with insufficient energy to fuse upon collisi…

The main challenge in working with these high temperature plasmas is confinement. In order to achieve nuclear fusion matter needs to be heated to immense temperature, so that the k…

CoreOS is built using Gentoo. Gentoo is a meta-distribution whose main contribution is the portage tree which is a collective of ebuilds that describe how to build each individual …

The chain of trust doesn't quite stop at compiling the source, in order to be really sure that nothing unintended is going on you have to compile the compiler yourself. At the end …

Indeed - for all folks disillusioned by systemd, Gentoo is a source based rolling release distro whose fundamental tenet is choice - so it shouldn't be a surprise that it is possib…

In case you use an Android device, I wrote an app to use encfs on Dropbox/GoogleDrive: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mrpdaemon....

Well it's a solution to the same underlying problem - that by running binaries compiled by a 3rd party you trust that they aren't adding in code to compromise your privacy (volunta…

Or use Gentoo, that's what I do. You can verify hashes/signatures on the Firefox source archive and audit the source code if necessary before compiling. That was only half serious …

Leaking the file size (Issue 2.2) is due to the way EncFS is architected to work at a file granularity. Adding some random bytes or rounding up to the next block size are small imp…

Or he wants to create public demand for this service to use as leverage for getting the regulations through.

AI: What is the point of my existence? Creator: I'm testing a new algorithm for the learning subsystem. AI: ...

Nice metrics, I especially liked the device breakdown: 66% desktop 25% mobile and 9% tablet. Welcome to the post-PC era (!)

What about isolation? With heavy use of virtualization one can make the air gapped machine even more secure: - Only open documents in a virtual machine - Only interface with the do…

GNOME 3.8 has been available on Gentoo in various forms since April - first in the gnome overlay, then hardmasked in the portage tree, then unmasked into unstable/testing ie. ~arch…

If you had a functioning time machine you could travel back in time and file the patent before any prior art was created.

It does take some tinkering to get things setup right, but on my Asus Zenbook UX32VD I do get ~5 hours of battery life for simple usage, which is the same as the advertised battery…

Long time Gentoo user (almost 10 years) here. I'll admit that it is NOT a distribution for everyone, tailored more towards power users and tinkerers in general, but for me it is th…