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silly-silly··on Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution
Pretty sure that this is putting the cart before the horse. Sex workers has been legal in Australia for some time and I'd be interested (and surprised) to see if "human trafficking" to Australia is higher.
silly-silly··on The Hotdog web browser and browser engine
Most of these were developed and created when "Red Hat" had no ownership by IBM.
silly-silly··on Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
Not everyone has 5ghz laptops.
silly-silly··on Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
I've had similar problems in my neighbourhood, I can't honestly find out who it is.. i kinda know the direction, and have tried talking to each of the units and everyone denies it is them.
silly-silly··on What is the hardest language in the world to lip-read? (2020)
Sign language, obviously.
silly-silly··on Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
You're bringing logic into this, please stop. The propaganda narrative is to just bash Red Hat for any work done. Of course the company that employs many opensource people across the world is going to have some effect on the ecosystem.

The really funny part is that people think there is some metaphorical gun to developers heads to use this technology. There is a choice, there always has been.

silly-silly··on Condition: A 64KB WebGL Intro
Here's a nickel kid, get a real browser </dilbert> :)

See:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6a/09/f4/6a09f4c78c82187da893...

silly-silly··on Systemd 248
Ah, I'm missing the MD step. that might be the cause.
silly-silly··on Ask HN: How have you cured your RSI?
Can i strongly recommend the 'massive' trackballs rather than the smaller ones, they seem to be easier to pick up and be accurate with quickly.
silly-silly··on AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
Just to add to the story, there are areas in Australia that also can not even get DSL.

Daintree in FNQ for example, quite a lot of inner australia. Don't get me wrong... I do understand the complexities of delivery, but it isn't perfect either.

silly-silly··on AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
You might be young and not know, but this is a solved problem. Everyone and their mum ran napster.
silly-silly··on Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
The other party. You can't fix broken people.
silly-silly··on The world needs a software bill of materials
Now imagine doing that for every package and container a linux distro provides. Welcome to hell enjoy your stay.
silly-silly··on The world needs a software bill of materials
> signing build artifacts can be harder.

Is this like signing an RPM package?

silly-silly··on The world needs a software bill of materials
> I know there is research at some universitys into formally verified OS's, but it's a long way off IMO.

I believe seL4 is verified and used in production ( https://sel4.systems/ )

silly-silly··on The world needs a software bill of materials
At my employer we do the same thing for pretty much all software shipped to customers. (X thousand packages, across 5 arches, across 5 releases)

There is an ongoing effort and it becomes more complex with vendored packages, embedded jars and 'containers'.

I'm assuming that the indexing is done at compile time, how far back into your dep tree do you go ?

silly-silly··on Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
7 days longer than you should own an idevice.
silly-silly··on GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Mining Restrictions Have Been Broken
If you wanted to really limit it to gamers, why not partner with steam/origin/etc and have them pass out tokens to buyers for use with vendors based on previous gameplay history.

This of course requires vendors to also play with this scheme, which I'm not sure NVIDIA has the clout to ensure that point-of-sale people can enforce this.

silly-silly··on Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com
I'd love to see an in-print flame war.
silly-silly··on Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
Thanks for this comment, I was thinking along the lines of the parent to your post. You put that in perspective.
silly-silly··on Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
Understanding is a thought process, not a genetic or environmental one.
silly-silly··on I want a computer that I own
> What does this system do,

It can be used for 'out of band' management of your system, including firmware/bios rollouts and updates. Allows remote hijacking of attached hardware devices. Basically can puppeteer your entire system.

> why can't we do anything about it?

Because there is no ability to update or modify this code. It is only updatable by the hardware vendor as it is encrypted, signed and checked during update.

silly-silly··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
Thats only for managers.
silly-silly··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
Its really quite funny, as outlook used to be the 'killer feature' for an operating system, now it just makes people want to be a killer.
silly-silly··on Schnorr confirms paper is his, claims it “destroys RSA cryptosystem”
This only works for alice and bob.
silly-silly··on PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
I can't switch without SELinux support.
silly-silly··on Spectre exploits in the "wild"
s/attack/protect/
silly-silly··on The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia
I can't speak for non Queensland parts of that map.In the 1900's there was more than a week of walking between even the most basic of civilization (Between mackay and townsville, the A1/Bruce started construction in 1930)
silly-silly··on The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia
I'm not convinced that you'd need a blanket in those areas ;) 40C (104F)+ regularly in summer.
silly-silly··on Who are the culture heroes of today?
Different attributes of people can be considered heroic. I personally don't think he's heroic either.
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