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Aaaaaand now it's a good demonstration of why specifications are not as easy as they seem.

Actually, sorting a list is an example of something really easy to specify: for each pair of two elements, the one that comes first is less than or equal to the one that comes seco…

Right. The RFC is attempting to clarify the IETF's official position. The IETF is not the internet police, and can't make other actors obey. We can make our own internet though - w…

Cloudflare just started blocking Googlebot, so maybe we'll see an exodus away from Cloudflare by people who want their sites indexed? Hopefully?

I've been to the store personally. Seemed alright. I can't prove their stuff isn't tampered with, but it's an ordinary store run by a bit of a privacy/self-defense nut.

I believe LWN comments are chronological, so the top one will remain the top one.

The Player of Games is a book about the stock market.

Then I suggest sending an angrily worded letter to Visa, or Mastercard. They are in charge of how cards work, and they say you can use a real card, or a pile of proprietary Google …

The transaction isn't between you and your banking app. It's between your bank and a load of proprietary Google shitware that Google cajoled Visa and MasterCard into accepting as a…

Threat modelling, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, etc. What are you defending, and from who? You have to consider that. For real though just bring your actual card …

https://proxysto.re/en/ sells GrapheneOS phones, with worldwide shipping I believe. They do donate a portion of every sale to GrapheneOS. However, you're recommended to install Gra…

You don't want tap-to-pay to work because tap-to-pay requires a bunch of proprietary shitware in order for banks to trust it. It's basically like saying Netflix won't work because …

Right. There are a few projects that can be generally trusted with internet exposure - like OpenSSH, Wireguard, nginx/Apache. Most other stuff should be kept behind some kind of fi…

They also did felony copyright infringement many times over. Seems we're all rediscovering the iron law of politics: the only rule is that the most powerful people make the rules.

White-hat hackers go to prison for running a scanner on a website and reporting the found vulnerabilities to the website owner without exploiting them. I don't see why this should …

Now you get to sell copies of your system for slightly less than the other proprietary system, thus creating a competitive market.

In other words, to attack Codeberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Final_Warning

How well is this military doing against Iran right now? I think a few months ago a civilization was destroyed one night, right?

Yes that's correct. They don't want you, they say good riddance. They want to support free software.

Why would you mask AI code and place it on Codeberg instead of some other place where it won't be deleted on sight? The only reason you would do that is to attack Codeberg.

Article summary: Censorship is when you choose not to host some things on your platform. The author, although not caring about LLMs or cryptocurrency, can't bear to use a platform …

Which park?

All physical artifacts older than 5 years should be destroyed and their memories wiped from all human brains. Comrade.

It does. But it's nothing special. This isn't "software engineering applied to a physical system". This is just software (and some hardware) engineering. This is just engineering. …