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federico3··on AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
This might be a good example:

http://www.enricozini.org/2015/free-as-in-facebook/

federico3··on The Death of the Party
And here comes the good old "it's just a joke". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustJokingJustifi...
federico3··on Security concerns with minified JavaScript code
...and that's why the Debian community is driving reproducible builds: https://reproducible.debian.net/reproducible.html
federico3··on BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade
This statistic does not account future deaths.

If we were to stop using hydro or wind the number of related deaths would quickly drop. With a lifetime of 100.000 years, today's nuclear waste has a potential to kill tenths millions.

federico3··on Linux workstation security checklist
Shameless plug: a software "checklist" for desktop users - https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/desktop-security-assistan...
federico3··on When hardware Kickstarters ship
Indeed.
federico3··on Show HN: AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers
And that's why there are Linux distributions with security teams doing that work for everybody.

How is this service different?

federico3··on The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware
Freedom and security on mobile devices is arguably more important than workstations, given the amount of information they manage. I'm amazed there aren't large organizations interested in funding a Debian-on-free-hardware phone.
federico3··on Despite improvements, driving in America remains extraordinarily dangerous
>...in huge parts of the country, it's effectively a necessity to be able to drive...

In many European countries sprawls are illegal. Roads, buildings and public transportation are planned to avoid large low-density cities.

federico3··on Ask HN: How big does an open-source project need to be for a lifestyle business?
> for some people the ideal of open source trumps all.

You said it as if its a bad thing.

federico3··on Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently
How so?
federico3··on Death to C
That's why I'm looking at Nim http://nim-lang.org/ - it generates C code and compiles through GCC
federico3··on Nim Programming Language 0.11.0 released
As much as I love it, Python is far from "good enough" for writing a system library.
federico3··on Nim Programming Language 0.11.0 released
...actually we didn't.
federico3··on Nim Programming Language 0.11.0 released
This is not different than having foo_bar and foo_Bar as two different variables.
federico3··on Nim Programming Language 0.11.0 released
Safety! Having "my_cat" and "myCat" as different variables in the same space sometimes ends up with using the wrong variable, especially when using tab completion.

The feature is not meant to encourage developers to use "my_cat" and "myCat" randomly within the same file.

federico3··on The days are long but the decades are short
Age is not an excuse for being ineffective at your job.
federico3··on Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients
14 governments banning GMs (while not banning vaccines and other scares) suggests that dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable.
federico3··on Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients
> It's not "the industry" doing the labeling, scientific consensus isn't so easily bought - if it were oil companies (who have far more money than Monsanto et al) would have made sure the science on climate change was on their side.

You are confusing the complexity and difficulty of bending the truth around climate change VS GM.

federico3··on Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients
Because breeding is thousands of times slower at producing mutations and it gives researchers (and society in general) enough time to assess the health effects of a crop. In 2015 we are still learning about crops that has been around for centuries.
federico3··on UProxy – route connections to the Internet through friend's computers
*Tor
federico3··on Today is Debian 8 release day
Not at all, devuan is not considered trustworthy by the majority (to put it mildly).
federico3··on Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structure library written in C
It's very unfortunate that many geeks refuse to learn how licensing work (just like many users refuse to understand software).

Some licenses, like GPL/AGPL/LGPL, has been written by teams of lawyers to ensure protection for developers and users against lawsuits and patents. Other licenses has been written by people with no legal background.

federico3··on Existential crisis at Railsconf
Minus the security issues.
federico3··on We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
Wait, are you saying that we should have the right to inspect the software running on our cars? Given that our life depends on it? Given that innocent people has been jailed because of undisclosed bugs?

This would prevent car companies from denying their responsibilities. Think of the chil^W shareholders!

federico3··on The Effect of Physical Exercise on the Concentration of Individuals with ADHD
Citation needed.
federico3··on Making Python 3 more attractive
>I'm using the worst of both worlds

To me this is the main pain point and I'm surprised that people are not talking about this.

2to3 and 3to2 are too kludgy and writing native py2-and-py3 compatible code is quite painful and requires a number of workarounds (e.g. unicode/str/bytes type, different methods on dictionaries...)

federico3··on Docker Raises $95M Series D Round for Its Container Platform
>How secure has Docker proven to be in general?

Very little compared to hardware-assisted virtualization like KVM. Unfortunately LXC containers are not designed with security in mind and, together with the rest of the kernel, provide a big attack surface.

federico3··on Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
Blaming the victim.
federico3··on Side-by-side Nim and Go
Regardless of the website, I'm amazed to see Nim once again on HN. The language looks really underrated to me.
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