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deknos··on Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
No, but the economic situation is banning you from getting a job, which is even more powerful than the government, especially when the government does not support a rising economy which will create jobs, people can build wealth with.

so the argument is even stronger than for oracle.

deknos··on Executable Is a SQLite Database
what can this do, what you cannot do with traditional elfs? static linking you also could do beforehand?
deknos··on DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
> Which is only the core problem because dmarc fixed the other core problem of figuring out who the given sender is.

Does it verify the sender or the domain/service which the sender is using?

deknos··on ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
how does encryption work with zerofs?
deknos··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
once i put my on linux on there, will the NICS still operate at maximum speed?
deknos··on Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
I have two questions:

1. Does Radicle also work over TOR? 2. Does Radicle support Git LFS and/or Git Annex?

deknos··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
that depends though, which channel you choose. And their efforts for stage0 and such also increased the possibility for all.

Yay for Free software and Opensource! we all benefit! :)

deknos··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
the idea that debian has a few million dollars to spare creates the assumption, that even if they would have... you would either not know how to fix issues, or not worth it.
deknos··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
you are free to provide patches instead of bitching.
deknos··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
newcomers will always have it much easier. also guix i think also reached this.

also, stagex and others probably profited QUITE A LOT from the debian efforts, because they started to go upstream and talking to developers..

just arch linux profited from debian maintainers a decade before that an debian people asking upstream to improve...

deknos··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
"mimimimi".

Those people do not care about quality in opensource at all. For longliving software this is very important.

Of course, all those javascript and kubernetes packages which are irrelevant in a few years again, might complain, but let them complain.

deknos··on Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
> What will we end up with? Only attested modems / endpoints in the home?

you might laugh/cry, but there was a time in germany, when the telephone at home was owned by the state (the "Post") and you were NOT allowed to tinker with it.

personally, i guess, things like sneakernet, lorawan and hamradio will become a lot more popular over time.

deknos··on An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
You probably pay for tests and that the company has to be audited for medical diagnostics standards
deknos··on UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
so.. where can i get this data? XD
deknos··on A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
> Couldn't NSA have not known about an issue with ML-KEM, and thus wanted to prevent its commercial acceptance, which it did simply by approving the algorithm?

Could, but they did not do that. So, the question is to be stated: Why?

deknos··on Why are we still using Markdown?
i would not use html(5). XHTML? perhaps. but try to find 3 parsers, which parse html in the same way and not segfaulting.

It's not possible. HTML is worse. You need at least something, which on parsing does not segfault.

deknos··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
i never understood why the markdown mime type was not used in emailclients in webclients or desktop programs...

that would eliminate most html usage and enable longer texts than 70-85 characters per line.

deknos··on Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers
I cannot wait until it's in an appstore for android and that it will work with android/iphone together. And i seriously hope you do not abandon it. That being said, i have questions:

1. When i have a higher version, but others have a lowerpaid version, can i still connect to more members, or am i constrained by the lowestpaying customer in the network? 2. Do you have reproducible builds? 3. airdrop sadly only works with iphones, how will this be done with android? 4. would it be a possibility, that after some time you made decent money, you consider a even higher paid stage, where i can fully build the best /most feature version myself? just in case you ever leave the project? 5. https://github.com/RedGridMGRS/RedGridMGRS is a 404 for me? 6. Would it be possible you also use openstreetmap or better to say integrate map loading from there? 7. Would you consider adding something like https://www.fixphrase.com / what3words-alternative into the app, so coordinates could be uses with phrases?

deknos··on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
i would pay if it is in a format, which is not also trying to deceive me like bluray with its fucking DRM in its player.
deknos··on Git's Magic Files
would be nice, if there's a modifier in there, which says showinwebui=(true|false) :D
deknos··on Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
thanks. another question:

Would it be possible, that the storage of pypi/whatever is some s3 bucket, where you have it encrypted (with authentication), and when you deliver it to a client, you get it, decrypt it, test for authentication and deliver it to the client? the encryption is something that artipie is lacking sadly.

deknos··on Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
you know artipie? it is only in java, but does a similar part.

will your stuff be really opensource?

deknos··on Package management is a wicked problem
they lost it, when they hardwared it with systemd.

Nothing against systemd, but hardwaring is not a good idea in that regard.

With guix, you at least install things in a container.

sadly, guix also went the non-conda-route, so you could not use it as a conda replacement only :(

deknos··on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
additionally:

> This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.

Why do i see someone who wants to build an atomic bomb for shit and giggles using this argument, too? As hyperbole as my argument is, the argument given is not good here, as well.

The immutable linux people build tools, without building good tools which actually make it easier for private people at home to adapt a immutable linux to THEIR liking.

deknos··on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
WHAT is the usage and benefit for private users? This is always neglected.

avoiding backdoors as a private person you always can only solve with having the hardware at your place, because hardware ALWAYS can have backdoors, because hardware vendors do not fix their shit.

From my point of view it ONLY gives control and possibilities to large organizations like governments and companies. which in turn use it to control citizens

deknos··on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
> Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?

To be honest, mainly companies need that. personal users do not need that. And additionally companies are NOT restrained by governments not to exploit customers as much as possible.

So... i also see it as enslaving users. And tell me, for many private persons, where does this actually give them for PRIVATE persons, NOT companies a net benefit?

deknos··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
Of course it's not insecure because of NAT.

NAT (in all its forms) is just a very convenient technology for many people and niche situations.

And adoption of IPv6 will be hindered as long as NAT is not a first class citizen.

And of course, mostly NAT should not be used as "firewall replacement". But what many firewall proponents forget here:

NON-IT People at home cannot run and manage a firewall (and proxies). For them, NAT is a convenient and mostly okayish replacements.

Another niche would be IP Packet Handling of VMs.

deknos··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
hm, than i think it's better to use the LORA stuff, no? if i need an external device with my device anyway, i can use one of them.

because the fun thing is cool, but people want some usable...

deknos··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
but for that to work, you need to attach an antenna, no? and where do i get such an FM transmitter? AND android does not support it in the software level, and there's no protocol for the waves?
deknos··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
is there an actual real good comparison of bitchat vs. briar from all sides? protocols, cryptography, supplychain, which software stack, usability and so on?
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