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diegoperini··on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
> I see a lot of value in not pointlessly reinventing the wheel. GPL encourages/enforces people who fix things to give those changes back to upstream where they may benefit everyone.

One can argue GPL encourages reinventing the wheel by not being permissive enough.

diegoperini··on Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
Future is already here and we call it consensus. Trusting your peers, believing they are honest and proficient in their respective fields is a natural human response to the unknown phenomena.
diegoperini··on Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account
Check out Krita, maybe its feature set will be enough for your use case.
diegoperini··on Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account
> what can be done, at this point?

* VPN for network encryption

* Black hole filters for telemetry

* OS-like special purpose software running as admin to escape from default OS tooling (i.e browsers, game launchers)

* Throwaway accounts for all online services

* VMs for everything else

* A strong stomach to endure this burden

diegoperini··on Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”
One important distinction is that now Google is able to inject code to apps without notice since they are the ones who sign the final APKs.
diegoperini··on Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers
2. One macro effect would be (assuming the observer is at a safe distance) unexpected tidal waves in the oceans seeming to appear from nowhere right after the merger.
diegoperini··on What if an AI wins the Nobel Prize for medicine?
We should ask the AI if it wants the prize.

The AI should share the prize with its teacher/breeder as a good faith gesture if it accepts the prize.

We should also ask other AIs about how they feel for their peer's achievement.

To remove pro-human bias, we should also include other AIs in the pool of judges.

diegoperini··on Why did we ever think a student's first programming language didn't matter?
Which language you start is not as important as whether that language is used by your teacher on a daily basis. One thing you don't want is a teacher with outdated notes.
diegoperini··on OpenSSH switches to using gender-neutral language
I totally understand and kind of sympathize with that.

I just feel (citation needed) that there are more non-native English speakers than native ones and natives' opinions is no longer enough.

diegoperini··on OpenSSH switches to using gender-neutral language
Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker.

Why "they requires access" isn't fine?

It looks grammatically incorrect but the ambiguity is removed thanks to the "s" particle.

English already has similar irregularities in other contexts which seem to bother nobody.

i.e the sentence "If I were you, I'd do X and Y". The word "were" looks weird there but it solves a problem. Can't we treat "they" as singular in a similar manner?

diegoperini··on HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
I disagree, it's definitely useful. It's useless only if it feels/is dishonest. One way to avoid sounding dishonest is letting the dev team write the small apology piece.
diegoperini··on How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?
The solution triggers me a little. I like pretty names.
diegoperini··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
Dear open source software maintainers,

Don't use only PayPal to accept donations. There are countries out there (i.e Turkey) that don't allow PayPal payments.

P.S: I'm not specifically addressing to Pedro Nauck.

diegoperini··on Safari tries to fill username
Automatic field detection is fine and good UX for password managers. What is bad is auto-fill without user action.
diegoperini··on How inevitable is the concept of numbers?
At t0, you say zero.

At t1, you say one.

...

At t7, you say seven.

Positive seven is what you say while your clock says t7. Negative seven is what you plan and "will" say at t7 while your clock still says t0.

diegoperini··on A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
Instead of adding a punishment, maybe we should remove the reward. How, that I don't know.
diegoperini··on Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
Amount of injuries Tony Hawk had to take to become this good is horrifying. That is enough for me make me choose John.
diegoperini··on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
Neither. Consistency among team members is the correct way.
diegoperini··on Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
I agree with this but I also want to see someone try and fail and help us learn from it. This is really one of those untouched territories and there is reward in pursuing that regardless of the end result.
diegoperini··on A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)
Harry Potter.
diegoperini··on Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
He is Type 2 and he got the Sinovac one.

Edit: I think I must share his medical history too:

He is 65.

2007: diabetes

2018: multiple myeloma

2019: 6 months of kemo

2020: bone marrow transplant

2021: cancer is currently dormant, 2 shots of Sinovac in 30 days

diegoperini··on Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
My diabetic dad responded to the vaccine in a similar manner. We spent one scary day in the hospital. After changing his pills to insulin shots (temporarily for a month), he started getting well again.
diegoperini··on Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal
Thanks for letting us witness your research.
diegoperini··on mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
Thanks for accurately summarizing my thoughts better than I did above.
diegoperini··on mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
I'm not reducing it to entirely faith, but faith takes part in it.
diegoperini··on mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
For someone who doesn't work in the field, deciding to take the vaccine is an act of faith.
diegoperini··on Players will be able to continue to purchase games on PS3 and PS Vita
Second hand cheap discs are not available in every country.
diegoperini··on Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
I wonder if there is a scripting environment where I describe a chord progression in one thread, a lead voice in another and run them simultaneously, written entirely in code as a single file (or 2 files for parts + 1 for importing those).
diegoperini··on Smartphones can detect solar storms
I'm okay with giving up my privacy to produce public domain data for science.
diegoperini··on The war against money-laundering is being lost
In Turkey, in the last 10 years, the major money laundering ops revealed were done on gold, oil, water and food.
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