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More concretely, Microsoft's license [0] gives you at most one of the four essential freedoms: 0. Freedom to run for any purpose? No. 1. Freedom to modify the program? Maybe; Micro…

Does Codeberg support Windows runners at all? Forgejo only seems to have unofficial third-party builds of the Forgejo Actions runner for Windows.

Are there any other CI providers that offer free cloud-hosted Windows runners? Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to co…

Or maybe they didn't train it that way to be manipulative (although it's certainly a plausible explanation) but simply as an accidental artifact of trying to make it give honest an…

This does make some sense if it's considered a valid fix to document that you have verified that Bluetooth is disabled on the servers and therefore not vulnerable. But that assumes…

Wow, their Java code example [0] makes COBOL look elegant and terse by comparison. [0] https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/gregory-cerne...

What do you mean? Their package manager allows you to add additional repositories, if that's what you want.

Doesn't GitHub do this already? If I force push the PR branch, the PR shows a message about this with a link to diff it against the previous version.

This is the guy, if I'm not mistaken, who was fired for telling different groups people different and contradictory lies depending on what he needed them to believe. And now he's t…

Well, yes. That LLMs are unable to distinguish instructions from data is a well-known and unsolved problem with LLMs in general. This is one of the reasons it would be completely i…

Calculon: And you say you can guarantee me the Oscar? Bender: I can guarantee anything you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGZ10kZ4lmE

Python lets you bundle all the modules in a zip file and run that (no third-party tools needed): https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html

This convenience sounds a little dangerous. Would this allow the user to specify e.g. joins or SQL procedure calls using the query parameter?

How is this different from any other language? Python can also make apps for all those platforms, either with native UIs or cross-platform UIs. There are many options. Are you talk…

.NET also comes with "telemetry" built-in that sends your data to Microsoft without asking for your consent: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145 I wouldn't want to run softwa…

Exactly. This is like proposing to solve memory safety by asking programmers to simply not make any mistakes. Simply specify that "the contributor should verify" that the code has …

That was my first reaction as well. The author seems very confused about it. He starts off defining it as something that is unknown or secret, and more specifically, he goes on to …

That would make sense if they hadn't first taken away the user's ability to control their own device directly. Some people were OK with that because users could still use this hack…

Shouldn't the core provided by this JEP be a streaming API then, so that you can build whatever you need on top of it? But they specifically exclude that from the goals.

This is not new, and it's weird that this blog post doesn't acknowledge that. A a snapshot from 2017 [0] of their docs show the UI for this very feature. A snapshot from 2023 of th…

It made perfect sense to me, FWIW. Paintings, sculptures, blog posts, HN comments, etc. are all examples of different things that can be reductively viewed as "content" by those wh…

Right, that's the sort of thing I meant. As you read it, you would naturally try to understand why the author used such profound-sounding prose in that particular part of the text.…