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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cosarara; my proof: https://keybase.io/cosarara/sigs/5PezR_jQ4kqPXvgozQ_N-QmA7DcbywxvcDBMWUDgCqw ]
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cosarara97··on Pharo MOOC
This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)
cosarara97··on Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple
Gamers use steam, not the windows store.
cosarara97··on TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client
How do they compare to the telegram desktop client? Are they electron apps?
cosarara97··on Five myths about Bitcoin’s energy use
Bitcoin's energy use will tend to raise to match the mining profits. As long as both BTC's price and transaction fees keep raising, the energy miners spend will continue to raise. BTC's price is going up due to speculation, and transaction fees due to blocks being full.
cosarara97··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions
In my experience, a misbehaving linux system that's out of RAM and has swap to spare will be unusably slow. The process of switching to a tty, logging in, and killing whatever the offending process is can easily take a good 15 minutes. Xorg will just freeze. Oh, and hopefully you know what process it is, else good luck running `top`.

Until this is fixed, I'll just keep running my systems with very small amounts of swap (say, 512MB in a system with 16GB of RAM). I'd rather the OOM killer kick in than have to REISUB or hold down the power button.

Some benchmarks with regards to the performance claims would be nice.

cosarara97··on A letter about Google AMP
AMP, that thing you have never seen in the wild if you run firefox on your phone.
cosarara97··on What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018
IANAL, but I think you can't infringe copyright if you are not distributing anything. OCR is not distribution.
cosarara97··on Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel
If signal users can be counted on one hand, people using gpg can be counted on a finger.
cosarara97··on Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game
SHENZHEN I/O is the actual name: http://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/
cosarara97··on Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine
Isn't sdl2 a lot smaller than qt5?
cosarara97··on /bin/false is not security (2005)
Shouldn't apache have been running under the "apache" user instead of root?
cosarara97··on WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
There is the issue of the account. Whatsapp and Telegram are free (signal too?) and require 0 setup. With Conversations, you either have to pay for a conversations.im account, or open your browser and register on another server. I certainly can't imagine my grandmother doing that.
cosarara97··on Moving from Disqus to Schnack
The author can't read the comments if people only make them on other platforms.
cosarara97··on Linux Performance: Why You Should Almost Always Add Swap Space
Can ulimit help here?
cosarara97··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
And doctrine DBAL vs doctrine ORM
cosarara97··on Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
> Will coinbase honor the price when order is placed ie if it shows $19700 then will it let me buy 0.1 BTC at this price?

No, neither the price at which they actually allow you to buy or sell BTC matches the price they display. They set the price for you, which is different in both operations (and on top they charge a fee). GDAX on the other hand (same company as coinbase, different service) is an actual market where you can place orders at whatever price you want, and somebody will take them if your price matches theirs.

cosarara97··on A RAM Edition of Dirty Coding Tricks
I bought a nintendo switch with zelda, and the cartridge wasn't detected the first time I put it in. Took it out, blew a bit on it, back in, working perfectly! Some things never change.
cosarara97··on The importance of Devuan
You can run a traditional init in debian. Systemd is just the default.
cosarara97··on A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
I wonder what was the reasoning behind adding those spaces for everybody.
cosarara97··on Board games are back, thanks to lessons designers learned from computer games
Even without house rules, it depends on the way people play. In my family, monopoly is played in a very anti-social way, where the main goal seems to be preventing other's victory or advantage.

The strategy everybody follows is basically "buy everything you can, and decline all bad trades". Buy everything, of course, to prevent others from making full property groups. Since there is no such thing as an equal trade, no trades are made.

As you can imagine, since nobody has full property groups, the game takes forever, it's terribly boring, and pretty much boils down to luck.

cosarara97··on Mono's New .NET Interpreter
> Which everyone will tell you not to do.

Why?

cosarara97··on WTF? Chromium (2016)
I thought Palemoon was basically firefox?
cosarara97··on Pas a Pas: Using animation to teach abstract concepts to children
If anyone wonders, "pas a pas" means "step by step" in Catalan.
cosarara97··on Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
There is no death penalty in Spain.
cosarara97··on Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant
Vagrant gives you a full VM with a traditional init system. Docker is usually used without an init (or a very dumb init), so you'll have different containers for each service. It's a very different way of working, and I'd argue vagrant's is simpler and easier to understand, but less scalable.
cosarara97··on Parents are exhausting their children. An eighth-grade boy explains how
The boy really spends all day studying, so in the end he got good at writing.
cosarara97··on PS4: Homebrew and backups running on firmware 4.55, technical details coming soon
Current PS3 versions can't be hacked, at least without hardware mods. I wonder if that's because they are actually flawless, or just there is nobody trying (or people who do try don't publish what they find). It nevertheless sounds funny to me that the PS4 can be hacked while the PS3 can't.
cosarara97··on Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
SMS are expensive in some countries, even without roaming. I'd pay 0.10€ for every message, if I ever sent any.
cosarara97··on Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots
OpenAI was playing 1v1
cosarara97··on How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
I'm not an expert, but I think it goes like this: ipfs, similarly to torrent, is p2p. Given an address (that's a hash for the file), your client will look for other peers that have the file, and get it from them. Unless they find all the peers holding the file or start blocking ipfs traffic, there's little they can do to prevent access.
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