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pexaizixon Google .dev domain early access

To me potato.app is as sketchy and shitty as getpotato.com. They simply say "I wanted to buy potato.com but I couldn't"

pexaizixon Google .dev domain early access

Yeah, well. That's got nothing to do with .dev. All the new TLDs are fucking dumb. Just a cash grab for the ICANN. Might as well get rid of TLDs altogether.

pexaizixon Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?

It would be creepy if they did that in a private conversation. In a public, easily searchable medium like Twitter, no.

pexaizixon Spoofing Google Search Results

https://www.wietzebeukema.nl/assets/2019-01-07-knowledge-gra...

Define "fake results".

pexaizixon Aether for Redditors

Downloaded it. Whooping 150 MB that took over two minutes to download. Then data took like 10 minutes to show up, with no clear sign that the app was bootstrapping and not merely non-functional.

The app keeps using 100% of my IO for 20 minutes now, writing to files like "KVStore.kv" and "searchindex/store". If I had an SSD I would close it, afraid of it frying the disk.

pexaizixon Serial art thief arrested again

It works fine. Just because some people can't stop themselves from committing crimes, that doesn't mean the general public doesn't respect deterrents.

There are so many things I wouldn't do because I know I'd get in trouble.

pexaizixon Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes

Or the Talos god from Elder Scrolls lore.

pexaizixon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

Nickserv identify can be encrypted from your client to the services server if the network supports it. (SSL between you and all servers)

No channel history, no threads, and no images are features.

There's formatting: bold/italic/underline and colours.

pexaizixon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

I disagree. People who care about not hitting 8.8.8.8 simply do not own a Chromecast.

pexaizixon Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

How is it legal for them both to do it at the same time?

pexaizixon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

It doesn't bother me because it's a Chromecast, an appliance I don't want or need. If I needed something similar, I could get it from other manufacturers.

pexaizixon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Yes I know. I've had it happen to me with a Huawei HG556a. You could disable it with admin access... which the ISP would not give you. Fun times.

A good way of bypassing this would be to simply have Google run their DNS server in a port other than 53. But I don't believe you can set a different port in /etc/resolv.conf

pexaizixon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

>My Chromecast went through massive amount of trouble to use Google's DNS servers

No it didn't, it just queried 8.8.8.8 instead of whatever DNS server your DHCP configuration told it to use.

Putting "nameserver 8.8.8.8" in /etc/resolv.conf and marking it read-only would have the same effect. Doesn't look like much trouble does it?

pexaizixon The complicated business of funding open source software development

You were blown away by companies not wanting to enter a support contract with every little library they use?

And remember you are talking there about software, not infra. Software companies have tons of developers in-house. They probably don't need your support when they can figure out stuff themselves.

Maybe it was simply a bad business decision to open source a regex library and expect to get paid for giving "support".

pexaizixon Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (2004)

KCalc with the KDE libs, Qt, X, libc, and all of their dependencies would become far bigger than 10 MB.

pexaizixon Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page

Reading the comments on this post and all seems to be envy.

While Chrome does useful stuff like this, Firefox progress in the web space is... eh... adding ads to the home page?

Maybe Firefox should've went with a proposal on how to add ads into the browser, or on how to send all of your URL history to a third party. :^)

pexaizixon Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

>I would definitely not want the government to be able to control what ideas/speech is allowed on these platforms and what isn't.

I definitely want the US, with their strong ideas of free speech, to be the ones controlling those platforms. Because, as they are now, they are severely restricted.

pexaizixon [dead]

That is cool actually, it's nice to see he intends to do as he promised. People voted for him because of this. I thought he might give up. (Not American.)

pexaizixon No, you can't take open source code back

Communities have existed since the dawn of man and CoCs weren't necessary to keep idiots away. When someone is an idiot, you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out. If you 1) can't identify idiots or 2) can't kick out idiots, then you have a dysfunctional community or no teeth. CoCs can't fix a community or make you grow teeth.

pexaizixon No, you can't take open source code back

If you need a code of conduct to keep someone like him away, your project was dysfunctional to begin with.

pexaizixon No, you can't take open source code back

To tell you the truth, I have always assumed that publishing code under a licence meant that that particular version of the code was under that licence and that it could never be revoked (unless the user violated it, of course). I didn't know there was a discussion around that fact.

pexaizixon No, you can't take open source code back

>No, the real issue is trolls arguing that codes of conduct are wrong [...] Codes of conducts are here to stay.

Calling people who don't want codes of conduct "trolls", i.e. pushing your agenda in the middle of a news article, is the reason journalism is the laughing stock of the world.

(Having said that, I agree that you can't just take back source code, no matter the reason)

pexaizixon You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3

It is benign but a bit annoying because it overlays all windows.

You can just use a "rogue" KMS server to activate Windows with no risks for you. For example, as an admin: slmgr /skms kms.digiboy.ir

pexaizixon Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum

That's not an emoji.

pexaizixon Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum

Grown men using emojis... Now that's something I will never understand.

pexaizixon The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.

pexaizixon You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3

1 GHz on x86 != 1 GHz on ARM

pexaizixon This person does not exist

This would be so much cooler and useful if you could generate several pictures of the same person in different angles/lighting.