renzev

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[–] renzev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

go read the man pages you fucking noob

And when you actually go and read the man page, it says some shit like "Some of these options are not fully documented. For an accurate description of their functionality, consult the source code"

[–] renzev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Login credentials don’t even need to be encrypted if you say no fraud before you log in, and cross your fingers

Don't forget to unset the evil bit as well!

[–] renzev 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh my god I just realized that it's showing the change in sales/use. Why on earth would you do that!? What point are they trying to make!?

[–] renzev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Try 0.1 * 3 for a real surprise

[–] renzev 90 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Interesting how these types of people seem to have a set of phrases with their own fixed meanings that don't necessarily correspond to the literal meanings of the words that make them up. "Can't trust the government" in this context really means "can't trust liberals/progressives". You can see that in her response if you watch the video. She's not stumped when the reporter points out the apparent contradiction. She expect everyone to make the same mental substitution, under which there is no contradiction.

Another good example is a 5 minute youtube video about homelessness from a fake university with an orange logo. They cite an example of a bridge between Los Angeles and Culver City that has a major homeless encampment on one side, but not the other, due to different laws in the two cities. To quote directly:

the Los Angeles side is full of tents and the Culver City side is empty. Why? Because the two cities have different public policies. Los Angeles has effectively decriminalized public camping and drug consumption while Culver City enforces the law.

If Los Angeles has no law against homelessness, then what law is it supposedly failing to enforce? This seems like a contradiction, until you realize that "Culver City enforces the law" has nothing to do with actual laws, but with the "law" of the moral framework that the authors are trying to propagandize.

[–] renzev 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That doesn't sound too strange. Sometimes I want to use "f****t" as an insult, but I don't, because that would be homophobic and I'm not homophobic

[–] renzev 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck musk, of course, but I really dislike this new pop psych trend of labeling everyone you don't like a "sociopath" (or "narcissist" or whatever). Deliberately or not, it's pushing a narrative that there are these horrible monsters lurking among us who are evil and manipulative just for the sake of being evil and manipulative and distracts us from thinking in terms of systems and incentives. The last thing we need right now is yet another bogeyman to blame for society's woes.

[–] renzev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm embarassed to admit that before reading your comment I was not aware that encyclopedia britannica was available in hardcopy

[–] renzev 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] renzev 3 points 3 weeks ago

export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 is one of those magical make-everything-better incantations that really makes you wonder why the fuck it isn't the default behavior

[–] renzev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The status bar example holds for xorg as well... What wm doesn't ship its own bar nowadays? The only one I can think of is bspwm. But nothing stops you from disabling the native bar and using your own

 

Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do they even need busybox if the base install already comes with full gnu coreutils? I remember Debian as the distro that Just Wroks(TM), when did it all go so wrong? Is anyone else here having similar issues, or am I doing something wrong?

 

Context:

Permissive licenses (commonly referred to as "cuck licenses") like the MIT license allow others to modify your software and release it under an unfree license. Copyleft licenses (like the Gnu General Public License) mandate that all derivative works remain free.

Andrew Tanenbaum developed MINIX, a modular operating system kernel. Intel went ahead and used it to build Management Engine, arguably one of the most widespread and invasive pieces of malware in the world, without even as much as telling him. There's nothing Tanenbaum could do, since the MIT license allows this.

Erik Andersen is one of the developers of Busybox, a minimal implementation of that's suited for embedded systems. Many companies tried to steal his code and distribute it with their unfree products, but since it's protected under the GPL, Busybox developers were able to sue them and gain some money in the process.

Interestingly enough, Tanenbaum doesn't seem to mind what intel did. But there are some examples out there of people regretting releasing their work under a permissive license.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by renzev to c/[email protected]
 

Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python's native datatypes, which means you now have two different bool types and two different sets of True and False. Lovely.

Mypy is a type checker for python (python supports static typing, but doesn't actually enforce it). Mypy treats numpy's bool_ and python's native bool as incompatible types, leading to the asinine error message above. Mypy is "technically" correct, since they are two completely different classes. But in practice, there is little functional difference between bool and bool_. So you have to do dumb workarounds like declaring every bool values as bool | np.bool_ or casting bool_ down to bool. Ugh. Both numpy and mypy declared this issue a WONTFIX. Lovely.

 

Credit for the answer used in the right panel: https://serverfault.com/a/841150

 
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submitted 11 months ago by renzev to c/[email protected]
 
 

Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages

 

Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

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submitted 1 year ago by renzev to c/sbubby
 
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