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Linux is getting a new Skype version: https://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-linux-alpha-and...

The politics really get in the way here. I prefer having the "cold", practical protocol logo instead of the "welcoming" burst that's just some ugly moire.

Seems like everyone just wants to push their activism on me these days.

As for alternatives, Pale Moon maybe? But they're very opinionated as well.

What prevents you from using vim inefficiently in the same manner?

Given the title and the length of the post I was expecting a lot more detail.

> Over the last year we’ve developed our new load balancer, called GLB (GitHub Load Balancer). Today, and over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the design and releasing its components as open source software.

Is it common practice to do this? Most recent software/framework/service announcements I've read were just a single, longer post with all the details and (where applicable) source code. The only exception I can think of is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which was discussed over multiple posts.

Here is the package on RSC's github page: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt

Some additional background - Why the FSF gets copyright assignments from contributors: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

The previous HN discussion for some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044

Why? Nothing indicates that this is illegal?

Here's a reminder why backdooring or otherwise weakening encryption is a bad idea (PDF): https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...

From [1]:

> "Who is mom meant for?

Mom (“my own macros”, “my other macros”, “maximum overdrive macros”...) is a macro set for groff, designed to format documents in Portable Document Format (.pdf) and PostScript (.ps). She’s aimed at three kinds of users:

Typesetters who suspect groff might be “the right tool for the job” but who are frustrated, intimidated, or puzzled by groff’s terse, not-always-typographically-intuitive primitives; Non-technical writers who need to format their work easily, with a minimum of clutter; Newcomers to groff, typesetting, or document processing who need a well-documented macro set to get them started.

Mom is actually two macro packages in one: a very complete set of typesetting macros, and an equally thorough set of document formatting macros. The typesetting macros afford fine-grained control over all visible aspects of page layout and design (margins, fonts, sizes, kerning, etc), while the document formatting macros focus on the logical structure of a document (titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc) and call on groff to render logical structure into pleasing type. "

[1]: http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/intro.html

Their "analysis" isn't particularly insightful, but I wanted to submit it anyway, given that such a large number of accounts were affected.

The database also isn't included at [1] at the time of submission.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/

IIRC that is not something that VirtualBox can fix; I read somewhere that Hyper-V requires exclusive use of the virtualisation features of the hardware.

Note that this only applies to 64-bit virtualisation, you can still run Hyper-V and 32-bit VirtualBox virtual machines simultaneously.

Don't conferences already use a blind process to determine speakers?

People here are saying that this page is trying to create awareness that there are enough females in technology to ensure greater numbers of female speakers at conferences, and that conferences should try harder to achieve that.

Why is that the responsibility of the conference? As far as I'm aware most conferences call for proposals to be submitted. Whether or not anyone of a particular group applies to speak at that conference is not necessarily a fault of the conference organisers? Are there conferences that actively seek out the majority of their speakers?

I am in favour of a wide variety of speakers at a conference (the more viewpoints the better), but this seems unnecessary. I would have liked for this to be a real conference though, the topics are great.

How about vi for a quick edit? I haven't come across a distro without it so far (iirc it's part of the posix spec).

Avoid the blogspam: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619

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I think it's too late to get rid of it anyway.

Blender honestly has one of the best and most streamlined interfaces I have ever used.

Afaik NeoVim attempts to stay compatible with existing vim addons.

This is the first thing that came to mind when I read this, having clarification from them would be reassuring.

Why not run vimdiff directly?

The Web UI is still accessible for me, just extremely slow.

It's up for me.

Newer versions of tar do automatically use the correct procedure based on the extension, just type tar xvf.

For some reason this article received a fair amount of negative feedback here. I quite enjoyed it.

It's good to remind developers that they should ensure that their products degrade gracefully, and to give a few examples of what could go wrong. Mentioning the (somewhat basic, but still generally effective) fault-tolerance of HTML/CSS vs JS along with the user's basic viewpoint also helps to get his point across further.

Maybe I'm just used to reading longer form content, but I didn't feel that this brief blog post was a waste of time.

It's a fun way to deal with a minor border dispute, not a "fight".

It is definitely available in South Africa now. They just haven't updated the map.

The ecosystem has grown so large that it is nearly impossible for anyone to have any meaningful experience with all of it. Not that it's a bad thing though, choice is always good.