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satbyyon Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia

Yes, the root is from Sanskrit (भाषा), got called over to SE Asia during the spread of Buddhism from India.

satbyyon Xcode 10 is now integrated with GitLab

Yes

Conversely, Python's PEP394 explicitly discourages `/usr/bin/env python`, so there's that. (I know why the PEP says so, just pointing out that it differs from Nix style)

satbyyon A Crude Personal Package Manager

I've been using GNU Stow as a pseudo "package manager." Let's me install multiple versions of a software. And I simply delete the directory when I don't need it anymore.

satbyyon KDE Plasma Voted Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards

The name you're looking for is MATE desktop. I've been using it for many years because I never liked Gnome 3 (constant churn, breaking plugins, themes etc). I'm using it on Debian but there's also Ubuntu MATE and Fedora & Opensuse spins

satbyyon An introduction to RISC-V

Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?

satbyyon “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”

There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

satbyyon Welp, there go my Git signatures

Could you plz provide an example ?

satbyyon Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be the identity card. I don't want to carry big passport book, etc. wherever I go.

satbyyon Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let go of secondary benefits like LPG subssidy etc). Such an option doesn't exist as of today. I, as an individual, will exercise my right to privacy by deciding whether to give my biometrics or not. Govt should not decide on my behalf.

satbyyon Still locked out of my AWS account

> You're just renting them.

It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is not true of ebooks because 'X' persons can "rent" at the same time.

You're just licensing them. You're just paying for a license which can be revoked at Amazon's whim.

satbyyon Base-4 fractions in Telugu

And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel

satbyyon SDF – Public Access Unix System

There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers.

I've been using this for IRC and it works satisfactorily.

satbyyon What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't

Thanks for the catch!

satbyyon What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't

Just hit 'Run' here: http://rextester.com/BDGO47890

You can see the program crash

satbyyon Rust vs. Go

Given how demanding ESR is with regards to 10+ years stability, Nim hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. I love Nim and your contribution to the Nim ecosystem, but yeah, convincing ESR with 0.16.0 isn't happening.

satbyyon Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

Correct link: https://github.com/uclmr/emoji2vec

satbyyon Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

I'm not associated with it, but yeah, it was posted in /r/india few days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5mj3vz/setting_up_ne...

Domain is from Gandi (France) and IP address (hosting?) seems to be from Netherlands

satbyyon Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

ZWJ and ZWNJ are also common in Indic scripts. It's basically used to control the appearance of glyphs, for example half-forms and consonant clusters (क्‍ष vs क्ष, both are kṣa). As usual, wikipedia has good examples. The Unicode Standard also contains details about these.

ZW[N]J as a standalone character or at the beginning of a word is very unusual on a day-to-day basis, so it's understandable that Twitter fails to recognize this pattern.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWJ

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWNJ

satbyyon Galileo navigation satellite system goes live

Indeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-s...

satbyyon 4G LTE protocols used by smartphones can be hacked, researchers found

The actual research presentation is here (by Nokia Bell Labs researchers Silke Holtmanns, Bhanu Kotte and Siddharth Rao):

[pdf]: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-Holtmann...

satbyyon Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets

I've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

satbyyon Astronauts enter China's space station [video]

And Vyomanaut = Indian

satbyyon DNS-over-HTTPS

Not just HTTP but you can TCP-over-DNS:

    apt-get install dns2tcp

Pretty easy to use too (though development seems to have stopped)

satbyyon Rural Indian Girls Chase Big-City Dreams

Sure, the concept of washing feet is a form of reverence in Indian culture. But it was ages ago. To generalize and imply that it is common today is just stereotyping.

satbyyon FemtoEmacs: Tiny Emacs clone with configuration in FemtoLisp

Not denying that. Lua by itself is easy. The thing is, to compile Zile, you need to first x-compile Lua, then x-compile luarocks, install the necessary Lua packages, then continue with x-compiling zile.

Comparatively, I've found that x-compiling vanilla emacs `--without-x` is often more easier and faster.

X-compiling Mg is more or less "gcc *.c" which is very straight-forward.

satbyyon FemtoEmacs: Tiny Emacs clone with configuration in FemtoLisp

My favourite Emacs clone is mg [1] from OpenBSD, but packages exist for Linux as well. I've cross-compiled it to many ARM embedded systems. Earlier, I used to use Zile, but they moved to Lua which made cross-compiling harder (so gcc / binutils are no longer enough).

[1]: http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/

satbyyon Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs

As mentioned in debian-devel lists, add this to your ~/.gpg.conf:

    keyid-format long

as a stop gap measure, it will show long IDs (64-bit). Obviously comparing full key (`--with-fingerprint`) is the best.

satbyyon Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs

This bug report makes GPG to default to full fingerprint

https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2379

satbyyon Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

I'm happy with Zoho Mail [1]. Even their free tier comes with a custom domain and 5 GB mailbox.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html