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kancer

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kancer··on My Struggles with Rust
You may be interested in something like https://github.com/tailhook/quick-error. It lets you easily implement From traits for errors so that you can convert between error types.
kancer··on PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
Its real name is nautilus
kancer··on Ask HN: How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?
Homomorphic encryption is the solution when you want the server to process the data, if it every becomes efficient.
kancer··on Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent
An interesting point here is that Wikipedia actually works in China, only some articles are censored. I tried to bypass this by typing https://www.wikipedia.org into the browser, but it loaded the http version regardless.
kancer··on CrunchBang Linux: The end
I've been running Crunchbang for two years. It is the only distro that had working media buttons, multi touch trackpad, close lid -> sleep working out of the box on my T420. Not sure if any of this changed but all the other distros I tried required me to write config files and bash scripts. Sad to see it go.
kancer··on Gmail blocked in China
Using VPNs are becoming increasingly difficult too. All the large VPN services are blocked here; OpenVPN doesn't work; the only option left is to use unknown services which are not guaranteed to be genuine.
kancer··on IPv6 Adoption Statistics
I'm curious about the peaks and troughs in the graph. It seems the graph reaches a peak every week, does anyone know a reason for this?
kancer··on Please remove mitsuhiko/*
I don't know if this happens often but I would like to take a moment and point out that after hearing a strong negative reaponse, It's nice to see that the developer is willing to work through the problems with the community to change his/her project to a better state.