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the_rectifier

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    Comment #28506574

    Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.

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    Comment #28506565

    No an immutable OS does not help, also flatpak is necessary and selinux not powerful enough. You just need sandboxing.

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    Comment #28497847

    The cynicism in the other answers is appalling. Treating people like investments...

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    Comment #28497820

    american society.

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    Comment #28427503

    It's not groundbreaking: it happened again and again.

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    Comment #28427355

    Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.

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    Comment #28415154

    > Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault No, it did not. That's why you find courts always charged offenders for multiple …

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    Comment #28103233

    I wouldn't call the images depressing, but certainly soul crushing.

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    Comment #28054850

    How about no.

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    Comment #28054738

    False. In many teams half of the engineers are randomly put on pip and cannot switch team.

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    Comment #28029515

    This is exactly how manipulation is done and the reason for companies to do the funding.

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    Comment #27941006

    You can trust a Linux distribution to provide reasonably secure software out of the box, like Debian / Freedombox

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    Comment #27940959

    Quite the opposite.

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    Comment #27940945

    Dumping VM memory contents is pretty trivial.

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    Comment #27820152

    Not at all. Did you read the article?

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    Comment #27801414

    More nuance is the opposite of a problem.

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    Comment #27801361

    EE here. In electronics there are hardly liabilities but still the design work is way more based on evidence and understanding rather than fads, hype and opinions.

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    Comment #27801283

    ...and my axe! Sorry.

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    Comment #27776078

    In most countries Uber has been a disaster for drivers, to the point of outllawing it.

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    Comment #27711557

    You have the same issue with MIT because it requires attribution

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    Comment #27222560

    On various occasions I've been asked by native speakers to use shorter sentences and simpler words. Sigh.

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    Comment #26815069

    Spot on. Most bounties are tiny and, as a FOSS developer myself, look discouraging or even a little bit insulting.

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    Comment #26812022

    A death threat against a whole ethnicity is illegal and in no way considered protected speech, and same goes for libel and threats to individuals. And this is by design.