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Most clientside newsreaders simply do not scale, several thousand feeds make them die. Also you want to have your rss catcher always online, so a server is a better choice - but many FOSS serverside readers are also poorly implemented, slow, missing features, bad design.

Also the extremely annoying variability of rss feeds is still not handled by many rss parsers, especially the php world misses on this. python ok with feed parser.

One more thing: waste of energy duplicating rss feeds a zillion times - just to be deleted in most cases.

Seems to be a good usecase for a cool pyramid app on a deduplicating filesystem - what are your plans for the weekend?

Wasted too much time with these kind of reports.

Also every web designer that is not testing stuff on the 10 most used system configurations of the world will have a very bad time in hell and will receive some extra eternities for prolonged torture.

Web designers must develop more interest in making the text readable everywhere. Underlying technical problems are well known to the "community" and should be solved.

I knew these kind of answers would pop up, I had one sentence predicting this in my text, but erased it to let the magic happen.

Are you able to realize that it is, of many options you have, the dumbest possibility to just burp a simple "it works here". Would you answer this on a bugreport?

I assume, it was an ironic answer, in this case I congrat you for holding the mastership of the highest art of subtile trolling, very inspriring.

In fact you are simulating the typical xtreme-dumb answers perfectly, that are received on "bad-font-whining" regularly - this is exactly the reason why we need a major bad-font-campaign, because this is not only a technical problem, but the roots seem to be hidden in a deeper socio-techno-cultural level of our brains - that "systems are getting too complex"-stuff leads in the end to the human brain regressing strongly in certain areas to amoeba-state.

ME TOO! http://snag.gy/Ylpjg.jpg

When a site like kernel.org goes online with a broken font, something must be fundamentally wrong in the world of programmers and people generating content for displays. What would be the situation like, if we were printing millions of books with 20 dpi technology? Would this be ignored by the masses and people who are annoyed by the eye-hurting results would be trolls?

We should see this as a clear (cough) signal, that it is time to start some major broken-font-campaign - more and more web developers seem to be so overloaded with CSS and JS framework learning, they totally forget about the most basic things - IMHO it is still the first and most noble duty of a real webdev to make a site nicely readable on all displays.

This annoying font-disease must be taken very seriously - it is ignoring the most important aspects of life: health. I feel offended if somebody forces me to read a website with such a broken font - it hurts my eyes, and as a computer guy I need my eyes for work, so it is a serious attack.

I was humbly accepting it as a personal disability for years, that I needed WinXP fonts on every Linux distro to have a satisfying font display. But I kept wondering about how the creators of thousands of Linux tutorial screenshots could not realize that they were looking at a broken font and destroying the functionality of their most important input devices.

Luckily in the last years it got much better on Linux, but then came the iFlood, Win7, and finally the ultimate weapon of ophthalmologists for generating an endless income stream: webfonts.

Now I am confronted every single day with websites with broken fonts. This is a serious regression and every web designer and every programmer involved in font rendering code should stop working on anything else until this problem is fixed.

Yes, I know there are many reasons for this problem, it is not only the web developers - anyway, please let us fix it now.

OK, but real life (low budget) scenario is:

1. aptitude update && aptitude upgrade 2. ask yourself, if your system is vulnerable now 3. feel the good hope and go ahead.

If I had the budget / time to research every single CVE I would probably not trust repositories at all...

do YOU trust repositories?

I would like to learn from others: how do you handle security with testing? I like debian testing very much, and occassionally I have the idea of using this in production, too, but I fear the responsibility to take care of many security fixes on my own. here are the high-urgency vulnarable sources for testing:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/t...

but even more surprisingly, this list for stable is even longer:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/s...

Can anybody explain this?

(Yes, I will take the shame on me and ask this on a debian mailing list, however, maybe anybody has a good explanation here...)

Wouldn´t it be much more interesting to spend that precious brainpower into something that actually solves real problems like war, disease, crime, militarism, xenophopia, lack of education, etc. instead of building another greed-engine that will trigger even more poverty, exploitation and repression?

Of course everybody is free to act on his own karma (in a few countries) - but you will have a much better life by doing some more useful work that will benefit all human beeings, not only a few criminals that build weapons of mass murder just for the mentally poor reason of making more and more money.

Programmers haz powers to push human evolution, don´t waste your life on golden lies, that will turn into deadly dust in the end!

FB success was based on tricking their users into giving FB access to their email accounts and spamming all their contacts. I assume this is no good way for an alternative network to find users.

It is great when Diaspora becomes a network of more conscious people that use their brain before giving access to their private data + contacts to some company - one of the best "selling points" is quality, in the long run, not quantity.

FB will be a "dumb-teeny-place" in a few years, decentralized and privacy-protecting networks will win, but grow much slower. No problem with that.

As a developer it is best to enable yourself to collect some relevant facts about technical questions and come to a decision based on that data.

Basing an argument about technical things on "what people say" will not succeed, no matter what your goals are.

Come on, you are all very brainy people - is really anybody here using Facebook? Ok, for making money out of the dumbheads that do not care about their data, but using it yourself??? Crazy idea!

The Indiegogo Project Site gives you a deep insight about the trustworthiness of the producers.

http://www.indiegogo.com/SoftwareWars/

For $1000 Dollar they are offering product placement.

Independent journalism != advertising.

Very disappointing.

But careful, Mr. Mindful Programmer - if you are becoming more and more mindful and still do bad karma work e.g. for banksters, military or the big brother police state, you will suffer from shizophrenia and become seriously ill very young - you must decide, if you want to do some ill work or have a healthy brain + body.

What is the best web player supporting maximum MKV features, like switching subtitles or audio tracks or playing / showing multiple of them at once? Thanks!

From the website:

  What we removed in 4.0: 
  SQLite support (I like it but this database got locked
  when several users use gitlab at once)

This is a pitty! I am sure there are many small teams where sqlite is totally sufficient.

Have you been able to measure and determine the problems with sqlite more precisely? It would be interesting to see at which point (number of concurrent users) the problems occur. Also it just reads like some data accessing backend is not properly closing connection / file access, so blocking might be just a bug, not a sqlite limitation.

Did you read http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html ?

I personally do like having such important infrastructure like bugtrackers as simple as possible, beeing able to setup anytime anywhere with sqlite backend is really a plus in changing environments.

Does a good stripe-like service exist for Europe today?

Cool! What are your concepts for implementing SSO, I18N, L10N, RBAC and maybe any kind of (automated) workflow management? It´s enterprise, isn´t it?

Unfortunately there is still no reliable unattended upgrade process inluding rollback (aka migration) for wordpress. I looked into this a little bit, but there does not seem to be a reliable way to check if plugins have been executed successfully and with expected results or not, so you never know after an upgrade if your site is broken.

There are still many other issues with the code, but having a clearly defined error-handling / -signaling for plugins would be the one single change that would help in many problem areas of wordpress development - making rules and knowledge about successful plugin execution and error handling obligatory for plugin devs could be the one single change that could also help to reduce that annoying flood of unbelievable bad code to be found in WP plugins repo.

Unfortunately there is no support for BPMN 2. If you are working in "Business IT" and do not know about BPMN 2, please wake up, thanks.

To trigger some activism against these annoying pdf hijacking sites I just pinned down a FREEDOM-FOR-PDFs-TEMPLATE-TEXT side-project :) - you might use this as a starting point for your own emails, certainly this can be extended:

http://pastebin.com/GhKkAnVP

YES! I too hate these annoying PDF-download-pseudo-services that collect your email-address and your interests (extremely valuable virtual goods) in exchange for a PDF, that the author offers for free (extremely cheap) - this is an unbalanced exchange of information.

These kind of information hijacking must be marked as am abusive business modell that is not acceptable in a free world. We have to think longterm here and defend freedom of information on a very basic level, to be prepared for the larger battles that will come when chinese investors will be the only sources of money.

Please write the authors to remove their PDFs from these services and just put them on a webserver into a PDF folder. Or to use any free file hosting service, anything, but please do not support these ancient flash-fetish-stoneagers and information-suppressors, THANKS!

YES!!! Add "print this page" or "print this very long page" that many "webdevelopers" still don´t know how to handle and see how unbelievably br0ken or at least unfinished the whole concept still is.

Barners-Lee is a god now and untouchable, but I would nominate him for the "most-unfinished-idea"-oscar, if it existed.

Another part of the global anti-cybermoney-publicity-campagne that we can see right now starting is a study of the European Central Bank on "Virtual Currency Schemes", Oct. 2012.

Read it: http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes20121...

Edit: BTW, if you are interested in international monetary policy you can find many important publications on the ECB site:

http://www.ecb.int/pub/html/index.en.html

Why do I have to laugh when I read the new feature list?

Why are people still using this?

One negative aspect of open source is that it prevents failed technologies from disappearing.

Thank you very much for the direct pdf link, I hate does sites that try to simulate ell established office tools like a pdf viewer in a browser, fail with this and still want to collect your data like email address to give you the real thing. Unfortunately too many people out there are using this crap sites.

It is so annoying that all the other browsers STILL have not implemented this little but very effective idea - please speak more loud about this, as it seems even most developers here did not even notice this feature...

The most important thing would be a really good extension system - the wordpress plugin system is so massively broken and there are so many bad plugins - this crap must be sorted out - but it is a good place to study how to produce bad code.

Extensibility is the key factor for any modern web framework / language / system.

Also Wordpress is last-century with deployment options - there are no (built in) options for deployment and a smooth upgrade process including backups and optional rollbacks. The "automatic updates" claim by WP is btw. a good example for the limiting view of marketing jargon and how technical terms can be abused and this way educating millions of flies to eat tthe wrong food. Upgrade without rollback of course does not make sense and is no way "automatic".

Please, if you build a new system, study modern web frameworks before and please do NOT use PHP.

Programmers should just obey! Do not think about the orders you get! Are you a good patriot or are you against us?!? Do not criticize your leaders! OBEY!

Build a startup, try to get rich, and never ever talk about anything serious!

what is the Java situation here?

Thanks for the contribution. It would be great to have all flags, especially the small ones, in ONE file to avoid x requests on sites with many flags. Here is one idea: offer a service for people who need multiple country flags on their site to generate the one big flag picture set they need for their specific set of flags - one big country-selector that spits out a big flags.png after submit would be a great promo! Thanks!

BS! Crypto software has to be open source to be taken seriously - all the other things you write about are additional factors that count in and are not related to this one argument, so you are trying to wishiwashi the discussion - it only shows that you think your readers are not able to think clearly and in a well-structured way or you are not able to do it.

Without sourcecode no crypto routines can be trusted - period. Anything else might work in the fake industries, where producing marketing lies is part of a standardized way to make money, but not in the real crypto world.