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Somasis

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Somasis··on It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974
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Somasis··on Don't write documentation in Markdown
Except that the version most distributions that are ridding themselves of python2 are using is a new python3 ported version. As far as I know the maintainer of that repository isn't touching it anymore, which is why it isn't linked. https://asciidoc3.org/
Somasis··on Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field
I've also had this happen to me- driving from Boone, North Carolina to Charlotte, I usually avoid highways because the interstates are a bit overwhelming to me. I took one different turn as I was trying to avoid downtown in a rural city I was driving through; they were having a block party and the usual route was blocked off. It's routed me through that turn ever since, so saying Google is learning from where people drive even enough to start making routes, that doesn't seem too farfetched for me.
Somasis··on Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using open software
TIGER's great, but if you're going to use it you might as well just use OpenStreetMap in the end; a lot of the data in the US is based on TIGER data and then reviewed, as TIGER has had a lot of issues with things like misnamed roads and misalignments of roads.
Somasis··on The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation
It's awesome to see that even Hacker News isn't immune to transphobia and falling into the lie that being transgender is ignoring biology. What a load of trash.

I looked up the author, and discovered that Libby Emmons is a transphobe (or more accurately a trans-exclusionary radical feminist), at least from reading this one in which she tries to posit that trans women are just in it because we're objectifying misogynistic parodies of women. Great. http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/03/how-the-hypersexual-tran... (check out that weak attempt to reference Kant's thing in itself near the end and how it completely misses the point that it is non-physical- which is exactly what gender is insisted to be by many trans people)

Somasis··on Show HN: Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago
I felt so silly trying to zoom in and see satellite images of my house as it was 240M years ago.
Somasis··on Reddit bans 'deepfakes' AI porn communities
Arm-chair diagnosing someone you don't agree with with psychological issues isn't very helpful to a conversation, you know.
Somasis··on 2016 will be one second longer
Let it end.
Somasis··on Bluetooth 5 Now Available
Will it still kill my laptop's wifi connection speed if I try to use it?
Somasis··on Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool
You know, cgit does come with two example syntax highlighting scripts... :)
Somasis··on When Women Stopped Coding
Don't read the comments!
Somasis··on Twitter suspends 'alt-right' accounts
I think you may be right. :)
Somasis··on Twitter suspends 'alt-right' accounts
I did, and I agree it was neutral. I'm referring to the conversation that always follows these sorts of things. People insisting that free speech means neo-nazis should be allowed to spread their message of hate.
Somasis··on Twitter suspends 'alt-right' accounts
Why do we keep being encouraged to believe that the hate speech of neo-nazis is worth preserving?
Somasis··on You Don't Need
Some of these CSS ones have to be a joke. Using CSS based font creation? Seriously?
Somasis··on Falsehoods programmers believe about networks
This is effectively the problem with all of these "things programmers assume" articles: they give no solutions and effectively just moan about possible problems.
Somasis··on The Atlantic to Ad Blockers: Pay Up or Leave
"The new prompt [to disable ad blocking] will appear on the Atlantic’s site Monday but will not take full effect until the site is finished transitioning from HTTP to HTTPS, [...] once complete, ad-blocking users will no longer be able to read content on the site without disabling their software or buying the new subscription."

I'm just really excited to see how on earth they plan to follow through with that vague threat. I don't believe I've ever seen an ad block plugin get successfully thwarted in a way the plugin couldn't just filter out itself.

Somasis··on Pixel by Google
This is a little underwhelming.
Somasis··on Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta
They still don't have a way to build a release without a network connection. Which basically means any secure (builds in sandbox) source-based distro can't package it.
Somasis··on Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review
You would be better off selling services akin to what GitLab does for sustenance.
Somasis··on Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review
What on earth is that license?
Somasis··on The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
I always thought CEDs looked so cool. What I really want to see is how they're created though, and what they'd sound like on a turntable...
Somasis··on Show HN: Beginning, a work-in-progress init system
OpenRC was actually what I tried before making this, but my experience with it is part of what resulted in the creation of Beginning. It wanted to be a modern replacement for sysvinit and such, but ended up taking a lot of sysvinit's cruft and, in my opinion, ends up being too complex for what I wanted it for.

I'm not sure I agree with the comment about it being Bash-driven, though. I chose bash because it's readily available and had been proven to work fine from what systems I studied (namely OpenBSD and Arch Linux's initscripts). Being a modern replacement is not what I'm looking for, I just want to make something different that doesn't needlessly complicate.

Somasis··on Steve Wozniak On Education, Engineering and Apple
Not sure this comes as a surprise; wasn't he basically just the business and promotion side of it until sometime after those models?
Somasis··on Show HN: Beginning, a work-in-progress init system
Hi HN, I've been working on this for a while and I was looking for some feedback on it. I've been using it on my laptop, servers, etc. without issues for a few months.
Somasis··on No Longer an Inspiration
Not really a big fan of the conflation of womanhood with a vagina.
Somasis··on Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server
They can be used singular. Most people use it without thinking about it in conversation.
Somasis··on Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server
Yeah, true. Most authors seem to like to assume male, though. :(
Somasis··on Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing Linux server
On a slightly unrelated note, I like how the author referred to the attacker with she/her, a small detail I can appreciate since they normally refer to them with he/him.
Somasis··on Manux – A free Linux-compatible OS designed to withstand attacks in userspace
Not what I meant. A large part of Linux's success came from companies contributing their code and using it. Companies really don't like GPLv3 because of it's Tivoization stuff.
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