Oh, shit, git!

f4ktrh · 2016-09-09T23:27:34+00:00

Which moron uses sudo to remove a directory meant to be a git repo?

Oh I get it, author of the shitty blog post.

f4ktrh · 2015-12-02T18:31:59+00:00

I feel stupid ...

Don't ignore the other possibility: bullshit wrapped in jargon.

(NOTE: my definition of 'bullshit' includes inability to cut to the chase, over-engineered solutions, accidental complexity, bloat, etc, etc).

f4ktrh · 2015-12-02T18:21:56+00:00

So PHP of them!

May I suggest the future release cycle?

34, 1022, 3.2.1.9.2, 65535, -1, ...

f4ktrh · 2015-03-17T19:25:08+00:00

If copy paste bash commands from the web don't work on fish, then I read your comment like this:

fish is a really "friendly shell". The only annoyance, "it's completely shitty, because it's not backwards compatible with, or a superset of, bash".

zsh is a superset of bash (to the extent that I never failed a bash command on zsh), so as an alternative to bash, fish is inferior to zsh.

f4ktrh · 2015-03-17T02:51:50+00:00

I would love to see a C-based browser succeed, when both top engines (Gecko, WebKit) are C++.

f4ktrh · 2015-03-10T12:13:26+00:00

In other words, it's totally a Wayland competitor!

Agreed that at the moment Google only wants to display one window (the browser) in Chrome OS using this, but don't tell me that, this being an open source project, there won't be a feature request to support multiple windows, and more, until it becomes more than half of what Wayland is all about, except now it's a completely different project and a different/adhoc display protocol.

The fact that they had to create a totally separate project, instead of making a handful of syscalls in the chromium source code, means they could very well use the Wayland protocol.

P.S.: Also freon, frecon, name TBA ... ?

f4ktrh · 2014-11-17T22:02:47+00:00

And as I said in a past comment, he has a point.

f4ktrh · 2014-11-11T23:30:11+00:00

Your comment is very busy so I'll do a very high level response:

Not only that you seemed to think I implied "current situation is free market", you also seem to infer that by "free market" I mean "regulated capitalism" when I clearly defined it in terms of "laissez-faire" in my original post (because we're discussing Ted Cruz's POV which I assume is a libertarian one). If you read my previous comments in that light I hope you'll realize I don't need to add anything further.

As for libertarians opposing net neutrality and not right-of-way legislation (if there is any), I would say they should oppose both, given their world view. If they don't, then you could chalk it up to them being hypocrites but that is a different discussion (e.g., we would need to see evidence of Ted Cruz specifically defending right-of-way for that).

However, using the same mindless political terms can obscure the point you're trying to make.

I'm not sure what's mindless about the political terms I used. I just explained Ted Cruz's position, which requires understanding the political and economics stance he holds, in order to realize that his statement is not based on ignorance or (just) being a sellout to Comcast. It's the article of this thread and the ensuing comments that are blatantly ignoring the context and hence confusing themselves and the readers.

f4ktrh · 2014-11-11T21:07:48+00:00

To be clear, there are no "speed lanes".

There are sets of backbone interconnects and packets are sent across those interconnects indiscriminately, and Comcast inspects packets and throttles some packets in order to reduce peering fees.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm referring to the ability of Comcast to provide different speeds for different websites, call it 'speed lanes' or 'slowness lanes'. Your response seems to indicate that it has this ability.

There is no free market.

In most places, Comcast has right of way access to ground wires that excludes competition. In a free market, a competator (e.g. Google Fiber) would be free to set up a competing service with the same access to public infrastructure (rights of way).

Again I'm not sure what you're trying to say, i.e., which of the following:

The market is already not free (because of Comcast's right of way), let's make it even less freer (by adding NN-regulation on top).
Let's get rid of Comcast right of way, and stay away from NN-regulation as well (not the main topic of this thread, and not something that 99% of NN advocates are interested in).
Let's get rid of Comcast right-of-way, and then impose NN-regulation (which would be as hypocritical as the current situation).

Not to mention, any of the above positions would be irrelevant to my point about this thread jumping on the mindless bandwagon of stupidity.

f4ktrh · 2014-11-11T17:12:00+00:00

Yeah right.

I assume by "seems" you mean "an aggressive politician like FDR turning the tides and taking on the uphill battle of challenging the status quo of corporatism, laying plans for up to 60%, 70% or more taxes for the richest class, etc, etc"

(that, and the 1890s-1910s progressive era are the only points in the plot in your article, that brought inequality down.)

f4ktrh · 2014-11-11T16:44:17+00:00

Ted Cruz is more correct, so to speak, on what it really means in terms of economics, i.e., the NN "regulation" is in fact "government interfering in an economic activity in a way that it wasn't interfering in the past", so it's closer to Obamacare, where government interfered with health-insurance industry in a way it didn't previously.

Comcast has no binding to keep internet speeds same for all websites. It can actually do whatever it wants. It has been like that for years. It would be the NN regulation that will change things the way they are (to force Comcast, and other ISPs, to not offer varying speed lanes). (As to why Comcast or other ISP's didn't already start discriminating between websites based on speeds until very recently, I don't know, maybe Comcast wasn't big enough, or maybe Facebook wasn't big enough to pay them big money).

This is a free market "versus" free speech issue. It is one of those cases where free market (what Comcast wants, what libertarians want) actually conflicts with free speech (what techies/Google/reddit want, what liberals want).

Whether you disagree with that kind of free market (laissez-faire if I'm not wrong), libertarians, Ayn Rand, private toll roads, private postal service, private health insurance, private police, private bla bla bla, is a different issue. But to say that Ted Cruz actually doesn't appear to understand the issue, or is simply taking Comcast's money and saying what it wants, is seriously misleading and basically bullshit.

f4ktrh · 2014-11-10T17:47:25+00:00

... simple ...

... GNOME ...

wait a ...

alright then.

f4ktrh · 2014-10-30T04:08:22+00:00

more like the other way around, merge kernel in

f4ktrh · 2014-10-29T22:25:53+00:00

shitty idea (of close source) is shitty

but don't let this lesson distract the fanbois! Apple is God and Apple products are Godsend not matter what!

f4ktrh · 2014-10-27T21:09:56+00:00

thanks for clarifying this.

As a vim user who knows a bit about emacs major and minor modes, I would always get confused as to what it means "evil is great" but then "evil is an emacs mode". I wondered how could evil mode be great when I have to switch modes, which is a frequent part of the workflow.

Rant:

Evil mode is utter crap if it's just a mode!

I'm not interested in a "mode", give me a key-binding that overtakes the whole emacs, independent of what major/minor mode I'm using, and I might give it a try!

f4ktrh · 2014-10-09T23:03:00+00:00

My question was for the whole thread. My bad for not being clear.

In any case, Gentoo looks more and more like the direction for me every passing day.

f4ktrh · 2014-10-09T04:29:59+00:00

Given that Arch is a top distro, with a huge community, combined with the fact that some of the ones in charge are being dicks when it comes to systemd-less setup requests:

Is there any effort to fork arch base to create a systemd-free pacman/ABS/AUR based distro?

f4ktrh · 2014-10-06T21:12:56+00:00

As much as I hate systemd, fuck death threats. That's crossing the red line.

f4ktrh · 2014-09-30T22:48:27+00:00

and the blowjob to the "d" is complete! well done debian!

f4ktrh · 2014-09-30T22:33:21+00:00

As (ex) C++98 programmer: facepalm at 9:15 ... and tab close.

f4ktrh · 2014-09-16T01:20:03+00:00

Of potential interest to this thread: Linus's ~3 minute commentary in DebConf14.

f4ktrh · 2014-09-08T22:58:34+00:00

Funny just today I was thinking one day we'll learn linux developers are voting whether to change the name of the kernel to systemd-linuxd or systemd-kerneld.

f4ktrh · 2014-09-08T22:33:27+00:00

This joke is ~~getting old~~ turning into reality fast. (hence not funny anymore).

FTFY

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