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That seems a bit inefficient to me, you'd end up with both binary and textual log files.

It's quite an audacious release note. As if millions of users are suddenly going to forget about cat, head, tail, more, less, grep, awk, sed, fmt, etc. etc. that are only still useful if you learn how to journalctl and convert those binary logs back into plain text.

I'd like to install Fedora 20 and use it as my main desktop, but both systemd and journald will somehow have to be avoided and worked around because I don't want to touch those with a ten foot pole.

As far as mainstream Linux distributions go, it's like choosing between 2 evils nowadays:

* Ubuntu: decent base system, lousy desktop

* Fedora: lousy base system, decent desktop

The former is almost fixed by Elementary OS, but the latter I'm still looking for a spin or derivative that fixes it. What attracts me most to these mainstream distributions is the vast amount of available packages and their ease of maintenance.

brokenparseron Thinking about 'meta' torrent file format

Perhaps we could make trackers more intelligent and have them combine peer pools, so they create something like a venn diagram of torrents. In addition to telling you which peers are available, it'll tell you what to request from them. You already have all of the file hashes in the torrent anyway, so any wrongdoing here will get discarded.

brokenparseron CSS animated loading indicators

Nice work, especially "Wave" and "Circle" because they're more likely to be recognised as such. (Similar animations are already seen in the wild.)

brokenparseron Fedora 20 released

Direct link to ISO:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/...

(Might still give a 404 until your mirror is in sync.)

brokenparseron Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts

Do it like how Reddit does it, simply replace instances of $username with [deleted].

brokenparseron Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts

Why is it impossible to delete an HN account?

brokenparseron Millennial women have seriously narrowed the wage gap with men

That makes no sense at all. Generation X/Y/Z, sure (except does it roll over after Z and would that be AA or just A?). But millennial? The name implies turn-of-the-millennium, not before as that would be a premillennial. Back in the day, there were reports of people trying to plan a "millennium baby" to be born in the first week of the year 2000 so it would make sense to call them millennials as they're not exactly babies any more.

brokenparseron XCOM JavaScript port

It's not specified how to create this .data file from the original game. It appears to be an unviewable png file, a format which didn't exist back when the game was released. The original game can be downloaded here:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/x-com-ufo-defense-1pl

brokenparseron Millennial women have seriously narrowed the wage gap with men

Does not compute. Millennial "women" are 12 or 13.

brokenparseron IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers

My only wish for Eclipse is that it doesn't have Eclipse as a build dependency. However weird that may sound.

brokenparseron Migrate your Java Application from Heroku to OpenShift

You're on HN, so I'm going to have to ask you to back up your claims.

brokenparseron Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

By that logic TLS, PGP, etc. should only be available to governments because it can help terrorists to hide their communication in ways that cannot be decrypted or broken into. And let's outlaw pressure cookers, because terrorists have used them as crude bombs so clearly they're a threat to all civilians. Heck, we should all stop wearing clothes and bags because terrorists can use them to conceal weapons.

Governments are to serve the people and we cannot blindly trust them with power regardless of how they're formed. As long as people continue to subscribe to scaremongering for terrorism, the terrorists have already won anyway. The surveillance states of late have powers blown way out of proportion. They ought to save lives in face of threats, not save lives for retrieval by automated data systems. I have no problems with the former, but I do very much have problems with the latter.

brokenparseron Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

In this case, everything should be made public because the government needs to be held accountable. Governments should serve the people, not the other way around. Without proper scrutiny, there's no way to tell if the proper balance is maintained going forward.

brokenparseron Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

What upsets me most is that NRC is withholding information in name of "US national security". Having a crooked government is bad, but when journalists rather side with the man than stand up to him (as they're supposed to in a democratic society), all hope is lost. They don't admit doing this in the English version of this article, which reads:

  A spokesperson for the American government stated that
  the publication of classified information is a threat to
  US national security.

But the Dutch version does:

  De Amerikaanse overheid laat in een reactie weten dat
  publicatie van staatsgeheimen de nationale veiligheid
  schaadt. Om die reden publiceert deze krant belangrijke
  technische details niet.

Translation:

  A spokesperson for the American government stated that
  the publication of classified information is a threat to
  US national security. For this reason, the paper won't
  publish important technical details.

The Dutch government is conducting illegal activities and its citizens deserve to know exactly how their government is screwing them.

brokenparseron The rise of context-aware computing

If there only was some way of reading one's mind. You could create a device that holds your hand and hums your favourite tune as you cross the street, tell you when it's time to go pee-pee and tells you a cute story when you go to bed.

I hate the future where you can't drive a car because the cars drive themselves, you can't create a campfire (or even bbq) because the drones put it out and call the cops, can't flip the bird at anyone because the picture of that is instantly posted to your profile for your employer and clients to see, can't watch the games on the couch with a crate of beer because the tv watches you and forwards the data to your doctor, etc.

Wait a minute, we're nearly there already. Better book a trip to Bouvet...

brokenparseron Cmder: portable console emulator for windows

I'm always confused when "portable" and "for $OS" appear together in a title.

brokenparseron Web GL Ocean Simulation

Error on line 36: An ”body” start tag seen but an element of the same type was already open.

brokenparseron Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

Please just say use

brokenparseron Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden

Poll requires Facebook

0/10 would not vote again

brokenparseron Kern Type, The Kerning Game

It does allow for a certain margin of error, though:

http://i.imgur.com/lXBEZqX.png

brokenparseron One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

your raisin rolling expert?

you reside nt roll in gex per t?

This doesn't make sense, in what other language besides English would this be parsable?

brokenparseron Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)

It's mostly crap. What you get with universe and multiverse packages is essentially a snapshot of Debian development at the time U+1 was forked from Debian testing or unstable. There are packages which are also in the stable branch of Debian or may later become packages in that branch, but often more changes are made before it goes into the next Debian stable release.

Secondly, a package in Debian stable mustn't have any applicable release critical bugs at the time the release is made. If after release a package (in Debian, Ubuntu or any other derivative) is discovered to allow for remote code execution in its default configuration for instance, there's no hiding behind what it says on the tin. The bug doesn't care how it's labeled and you should act on it.

Thirdly, packages in universe and multiverse only get community support, as opposed to support from Canonical for the duration of the support cycle. The entire point of having a repository system (like apt or yum) is that you can mix and match them to your liking and choose which packages may come from which source. So if you can get better support elsewhere, there should be no stopping you from subscribing to that support channel.

Personal package archives I'd generally not recommend because they may not be vetted as well as the more official repositories and the support commitment (when it exists) might not be at the same level. Could be better or worse, but you'll have to evaluate that on a case-by-case basis.

brokenparseron Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)

Thing is, there might be some other bug somewhere that would allow an attacker to create just such a directory (e.g. getting access to the same dir through samba or by exploiting a cgi script). Now you're vulnerable to a lot more trouble, so don't assume safety just because one particular bug appears to be more or less innocent.

brokenparseron Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547)

Given:

* nginx sits in universe rather than main

* There is no mention of a patch for this CVE in the changelogs

* No bug exists in either the Debian bug tracking system nor Launchpad for this particular bug

I'd recommend you download the source (easy: apt-get source nginx), add the patch to quilt and then build it (preferably using pbuilder if you're building a binary package locally).

EDIT: Or use the nginx repository from http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html

brokenparseron Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python's __slots__

They wanted an OS that's good at wasting RAM.

brokenparseron Frosted glass effect with CSS and SVG

That's one heck of a cute cat!

brokenparseron Samsung, Nokia say they don’t know how to track a powered-down phone

The only proper way to turn off a phone is to remove the battery, in lieu of nuking it from orbit (just to be sure).

brokenparseron Page not found

The link to his page is right there in the menu, second item.

brokenparseron Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography At Olympics In Russia

Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography In Russia

Journalists Reportedly Banned From Russia

Journalists Banned From Russia

Banned From Russia

Russia

'nuf said.