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GPL only requires providing build scripts for GPL software. In this case it means they can't strip kernel makefiles from the kernel source to make it harder to build independently.…

First time I hear of RFC7710, all I see is HTTP hijacking. Does anybody support it, in particular OS vendors? I suppose some new UI or a new API for browsers would be required.

A few years ago some Ford cars had been found to amplify their engine noise through the speakers. At least they kept it to the driver.

> much more diverse tech industry and a much more functional one. As a Darwinist of sorts, I'm afraid that if this actually were true, we would be seeing some serious disruption of…

They all are equal shitshows. This one even seems to have lower proportion of grey comments than the one I linked.

> flagged How is this not an abuse? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873001

> In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to…

> He really talks in extremes. I see all his points but it doesn't make these things pure garbage. Why, from his point of view - if GH lacks functionality he needs and git proper d…

Can't speak for the OP, but as a (maybe possibly somewhat arrogant) man, the most I have ever mustered towards unwanted people bothering me was cold, superficial politeness, just b…

Therefore there is suspicion that spooks may have been using that for years and revealed it once they've had enough for some reason. I'm not familiar with any proven case of such s…

Everybody knows it and I wouldn't be bringing attention to myself like that if I used flags often enough to care, I come here in part to read about all sorts of weird stuff people …

I think they are common on Intel systems, my old laptop with ICH7-M chipset has one.

Observation: the length of the censored "XXX hardware bug" text on the slides matches neither Intel, AMD nor Transmeta. Unlikely to be VIA too. Either it's deception or perhaps som…

This looks funny, it seems that RDI is never modified by the loop (?) so lines 18-24 always load the same data, presumably from L1. It's mysterious why of all those instructions, 2…

People working on OpenZFS are unlikely to switch licenses, but somebody (presumably a company) could possibly develop an "improved" fork to make money on it and refuse to contribut…

FDE isn't really "full disk" because it still leaves the kernel image unencrypted so that it is accessible to the bootloader. This image can then be maliciously edited by an "evil …

Do I need to repeat? I flagged it because such stories are dime in a dozen and this one brings zero new information¹, solves nothing² and mainly just perpetuates hostility³. 1. See…

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you ha…

> "Micro aggressions", rape, lives being "destroyed", "emoji-induced tears", and violence undermine the point of the article. Tragically comedic hyperbole. They aren't hyperbole. W…

There are no female coworkers on an all-male team, you just rejected such jokes on principle. And no, I'm not from SV. I think many developers from all over the world, particularly…

Nearly every how-to and blog post I've found on "Chromebooks for developers" essentially starts with either: "Boot into Developer Mode" or "Install Debian/Ubuntu as the main OS". I…

> Oracle could release a new version of CDDL that explicitly made the ZoL project GPL compatible. By allowing ZFS-derived works to be licensed under GPL, I suppose. I wonder if the…

Why not? Without links this post is useless to everybody besides people who know about this case. Both of them. So let's count: the OP is one and I'm another. It follows that nobod…