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Yes, there seem to be really valid security concerns about the current extension interface. Perhaps Google is making the wrong tradeoffs here. I don't know, it's very complicated, …

Hi Rusty! For a later hack in the same vein, check out https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants

This was the original approach, although later work added an optional "pump mode" in which headers are distributed: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/distcc-pump...

They will work over the internet. You should use SSH or a VPN like Tailscale because the native protocol is not encrypted. Bandwidth and latency effects will have some effect on ho…

Yes, that's correct: reusing developer's computers means you're trusting all of them. At small scale, that may be acceptable because you probably trust them all a lot anyhow, and p…

Hi, distcc's original author here. It's really nice that people are still enjoying and using it 20 years later. I have a new project that is in a somewhat similar space of wrapping…

There are 1780 comments on the bug. And as http://pad.lv/1000000 observes, "For every bug on Launchpad, 67 iPads are sold."

Yes, this: the "will" of the title is unjustified. "Someone would like to have a terminal on the Ubuntu phone" would be more accurate. There are plenty of "official" blueprints tha…

> Ability to link to documents, bookmark, meaningfully use history and save pages to the disk for offline use. Ability of the users to customize standard behaviors without reverse-…

The problem with "what do you know" questions is not (or so much) that they may reject people who know stuff but recall it differently, but that they aren't selective for having th…