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Well, the evidence is a Dutch "report" from "this past week". It's right there in the summary.

Seriously, though, there's an analysis of the malware linked in one of the articles. That's as much proof as you're going to get.

Exactly. In fact, both units measure different realities:

Mass -> pound (lb) = 0.45359237 kg.
Force -> pound-force (lbf) = 4.4482216152605 N.

You can find these and many other conversion factors here (part of a unit-parsing library which I have recently developed).

Git is very censorship-enabling and GitHub has a toxic SJW culture. Everyone should move their projects to CVS, or maybe Walgreens.

Interaction with filesystem has always been available out of the box - you get /mnt/c, /mnt/d etc.

It works the other way around, too, since WSL filesystem is just an NTFS folder. However, because WSL uses some custom attributes to describe inode semantics, which Win32 knows nothing about, writing into WSL filesystem from Win32 is not advisable.

Launching Windows executables from command line isn't supported out of the box. You're right, this is one use case where Cygwin is better for now. But there are several ways to make this work with a little effort - for example, you can ssh into Windows prompt, or use a Win32 server process and connect to it through a local socket. Here is the issue tracking this, and various solutions people have come up with so far.

Automated renewal is the intent. In practice, it took several months after Let's Encrypt entered public beta for some web hosting providers to let users even upload their own certificates without having to file a support ticket. (See, for example, a blog post from a month ago.) It got so bad that one passive-aggressive fellow wrote a tool to request a certificate from Let's Encrypt and automatically file a support ticket.

apt-cyg

Is that the place where the SJWs threw a fit over a sign that said "meritocracy"?

Yes, and where SJWs tried to force a "Code of Conduct" onto developers, and where SJWs have appeared in droves pulling stunts like trying to get contributors removed for their personal beliefs that have nothing to do with their project, and throwing victim tantrums because their pull requests weren't accepted. The site and its employees encourage this garbage.

Your link at: https://gist.github.com/gwille... is dead. Please ensure that this is correct.

Thank you.

pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets

"pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself,
as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and
back again."

Actually I'm not fluent in all the differences, but IGNORECASE e.g. is obviously a very good addition.

I basically only teach AWK to people who are indeed working with files. Or simply want to learn something very simple. Which basically means they are Mac or Linux users, anyway.

For me AWK is a kind of basic without line numbers with the plus of superb text processing abilities.

There where two guys giving ill worded comments on my suggestion for AWK, probably Windows guys that consider "Visual Basic" a better beginners language: shudder!

Right now I'm playing with https://github.com/hoijui/Jawk ... trying to get 2 more patterns into it: BOF and EOF similar to BEGIN/END but called at "begin of file" and "end of file" and some filter options like stripping html/xml tags from the input.

It is actually beyond me why no developer ever considered to add BOF/EOF to xAWK as if you google for it, the question how to recognize that AWK switched to reading from a different file is asked thousands of times. And the solution is a pain in the ass ;D

git clone https://github.com/mail-in-a-b...
cd mailinabox
git checkout v0.20
sudo setup/start.sh

happy now?

You might like to update your knowledge of the topic.

I was also disappointed they did not make a strong monospace and even proportional font with distinctions for zero and O, sometimes one and letter I for some fonts and etc. Even for proportional writing it would be helpful.

The two fonts I have used in the past but only good for normal Latin characters are these two (below). Still can't decide what font like better in an editor though.

* Hack -- Open Source Coding Font (Free, Open Source) http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ or https://github.com/chrissimpki...

* Monoid -- Open Source Coding Font, and my current favorite (Free, Open Source)
  http://larsenwork.com/monoid/ or https://github.com/larsenwork/...

I was also disappointed they did not make a strong monospace and even proportional font with distinctions for zero and O, sometimes one and letter I for some fonts and etc. Even for proportional writing it would be helpful.

The two fonts I have used in the past but only good for normal Latin characters are these two (below). Still can't decide what font like better in an editor though.

* Hack -- Open Source Coding Font (Free, Open Source) http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ or https://github.com/chrissimpki...

* Monoid -- Open Source Coding Font, and my current favorite (Free, Open Source)
  http://larsenwork.com/monoid/ or https://github.com/larsenwork/...

This font is intended as the fallback font. When the currently selected font doesn't have a glyph for the desired codepoint, your font engine will provide a substitute. It will start with similar styles (e.g. sans serif, monospace) and if that fails it will fall back to a generic font that has large coverage. That's the point of this font. If you're using it for most of the glyphs you're rendering, then you're doing it wrong.

If you want a good font for programming, Adobe released Source Code Pro a couple of years ago under the SIL Open Font License, and it's the nicest that I've found so far.

Mod Parent +1 Informative !

I've running into my own problems of Unicode's shortsightedness.

2 common glyph are:

* mouse pointer (See fa-mouse-pointer [])
* cardinal 4 direction arrows (such as used on Windows, Move) (See fa-arrows [])

Yet are nowhere to be found in Unicode.

You're definitely right - the Unicode Consortium is more interested in fluff crap like emoji then practical stuff.

If the Unicode Consortium didn't have their head's up their asses we wouldn't even need fonts like Font Awesome

The funny thing is that it is open source on GitHub:
* https://github.com/FortAwesome...

Hey, 1.0 and 2.0 come with X386, you insensitive CLI clod!
https://github.com/386bsd/386b...

From Wikipedia:

In cryptography, a nonce is an arbitrary number that may only be used once

You're given multiple nonces for solving one CAPTCHA.

They mean that the browser will be able to generate one time codes for each web site, not use the same code multiple times.

https://github.com/cloudflare/...

"In this document we detail a protocol that enables a user to complete
      a single edge-served challenge page in return for a finite number of
      signed tokens. These tokens can then be used to bypass future
      challenge pages that are served by participating edge-providers. The
      tokens are generated in such a way that signed tokens cannot be
      linked to future redeemed tokens for bypassing."

To be specific, let me quote the spec:

The current Cloudflare CAPTCHA simply places a cookie allowing you to access the website. Since Cloudflare controls the origins, it could currently correlate user sessions across multiple circuits using these cookies. This is a gap in the Tor Browser threat model- the design explicitly ignores linking within a session by malicious first parties, but Cloudflare has effectively first-party control over a large proportion of the web.

Our design is an improvement over this state of affairs. Since the CAPTCHA service only sees blinded nonces, Cloudflare cannot link a CAPTCHA solution session to a given redemption request. Since each token is used only once, in contrast to a cookie, the tokens themselves cannot be used to link requests.

Really? The current version of Tinfoil crashes when opening the messages link in Facebook. Some guy launched a workaround to avoid crashes. In its latest 2.0 version it is a fork of Tinfoil, but it is not in F-Droid.

Windows doesn't have stable "real" syscalls -- you're supposed to use a shared lib interface that is rock stable (ABI-compatible down to 3.11+win32s, mostly API-compatible all the way back to Windows 1). The real syscalls are undocumented and change in incompatible ways even between minor updates of the OS.

Thus, win32/win64 on NT is no more or less "native" than Wine.

On the other hand, WSL implements compatibility at syscall level.

Exactly this. You could probably paste a working and viable init.c into a Slashdot post and not cause it to emit the "Click to read more" link.

On the other hand, you can do this:

foo [ ~/src ]$ git clone https://github.com/systemd/sys...
foo [ ~/src ]$ cd systemd
foo [ ~/src/systemd ]$ wc -l `find . -name "*.c"` | tail -1
    374209 total

That's a bit more code than a traditional Unix init system...

Yes, but sometimes it's quite ridiculous. See Enterprise Fizz Buzz.

Here's the README: https://github.com/tensorflow/...

I see Slashdot is too busy bitching about SJWs and global warming to read actual tech news anymore.

In answer to both Bruce Perens and destinyland, Google has open-sourced the TensorFlow library and created a public API to access their pre-trained instance of the library. Both of these announcements were made to a wider audience in March at Google's NEXT cloud conference, but it was publicly known since at least November 2015, when it appeared on Slashdot with a link to the source on GitHub.

That Slashdot posting got 37 comments. You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

The first sentence of that wikipedia page you linked says that it's free and open source (with those words hyperlinked to their definitions). It's developed on github like any other open source project.

The license is Apache 2.0:
https://github.com/Microsoft/T...

I don't agree with your statements. I do fully agree with your underlying "causality may not be broken", but you are assuming many things which don't involve causality (just some old theoretical ideas. Only these old theories would break in case of finding faster-than-light anything; in fact, they are pretty fragile and can be broken in many different ways). Despite having a quite strong opinion on this specific front, I don't want to discuss about any of this. I am not trying to be rude or to assume anything about your particular behaviour, it is just not seeing the point in continuing (some past experiences together with the reality of "I don't really care/need to convince anyone").

By the way, I am perfectly aware about the speed of light value, as you can see in https://github.com/varocarbas/... (it is C#, but anyone should be able to understand this part of the code regardless of his programming background).

I used Angular 1 for two years, the glimpses I had of A2 were scary! Then I read that Rob had left to start a new framework, and he made it to 1.0 before A2 did I love it, I've used it for 3 projects now and it's so sweet! Clean as can be and ES6 thru and thru. They even give you app skeletons that work with webpack so that your production builds are done without you having to do more than switch from: npm start to: npm run build:prod https://github.com/aurelia/ske... They also hook up babel for you, so that you can write ES6 and run as ES5 -- and they support Typescript as a first class citizen if you're into that There's a site here: http://builtwithaurelia.com/ that can let you look at source code for different things pretty quickly Anyway, I can't say enough good things about it - try it, you'll like it !!

https://github.com/mandatorypr...

For anyone that is writing Swift 3 modules (that other people will use in their projects):

You may be interested in this template and recipe that explains how exactly to set up your project and Xcode settings properly.

It is at: https://github.com/fulldecent/... /selfpromo

Hopefully Swift 4 and other updates will not require every developer to redo everything each time.

iPhone already emits enough thermal noise to be picked up from an AM receiver. You can even use it as a music transmitter.

> https://github.com/fulldecent/...

The iPhone 7 works even better than the previous models.

They don't make any money off of Angular... it's completely open-source.

They don't make any money off of Angular... it's completely open-source.

You mean attempting to materialize a secure, distributed, open source social network isn't enough? https://github.com/codr4life/a... Damn, I thought I had my bases covered with that one :) Joking aside, this world is not very forgiving against people who try to do the right thing; we tend to nail them to crosses and spit at them to feel better about being spineless cowards ourselves.

And what is https://github.com/android-x86...?

AIMSICD has been working well for me in this regard.

https://github.com/CellularPri...

Posting anonymously after using some mod points on this page already, but NSA has their own github page too... :-) https://github.com/NationalSec...

If you want an accurate measure of the number of open source contributors, don't limit yourself to github.

But that isnt what they are doing nor what they are claiming to do, it couldn't be much clearer and is written right there in the article title.

So basically BS click bait article.

You just failed to read the title: Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google. Which is the same title as the article which references Github metrics here.

"Sorry Github you can't post your metrics because somebody might report on it and despite them posting an accurate headline there are incompetent people out there like 'slacka' that lack basic reading comprehension and might inadvertantly read your article and infer something else then complain about that inferrence"

Do yourself a favor and read the title, then if it doesn't interest you stop reading and do something else.

Give XPrivacy a try.
Or you could just trust Google....

My favorite new tech book is Rationality from AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky:
https://intelligence.org/ratio...
(or as a usable but not always perfect TeX document: https://github.com/jrincayc/ra... )

For you maybe. Totally unusable in my case.

What an uninformative way to completely dismiss anything, equally applicable to whatever it is you use. Firstly "totally unusable" is likely hyperbole and given that it is multiplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux - with deb and rpm packages) open source and also has an interface for extensions I'm wondering what exactly the problem is here. What is your use case in which it is "totally unusable"? Or is it just because it's made by Microsoft?

If I'm doing quick edits I most often use vi (was never an emacs fan) but I've found for more extensive editing VSCode is great, maybe you prefer something like Notepad++ (which is also open source) but it seems more a matter of preference than capability.

For you maybe. Totally unusable in my case.

What an uninformative way to completely dismiss anything, equally applicable to whatever it is you use. Firstly "totally unusable" is likely hyperbole and given that it is multiplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux - with deb and rpm packages) open source and also has an interface for extensions I'm wondering what exactly the problem is here. What is your use case in which it is "totally unusable"? Or is it just because it's made by Microsoft?

If I'm doing quick edits I most often use vi (was never an emacs fan) but I've found for more extensive editing VSCode is great, maybe you prefer something like Notepad++ (which is also open source) but it seems more a matter of preference than capability.

Freudian slip on Line #71 ?

And what does this all mean for my precious fagsubs?

Shouldn't that be: fan subs ? :-)

I didn't know about this, so researched and found this page that explains "10-Bit H.264".

I offer it here so that someone can complain that I am karma whoring.

It's been done.

I discovered vimwiki a year or so back and today I really don't know how I ever managed to live without it.

I keep everything from notes on books (ahem) to system administration and programming notes to a to-do list for my electrician that I will print out and give him the next time he's here.

Better version of ABP? https://github.com/gorhill/uBl... ;)

Ditch rsync, switch to borg backup.

- Much faster then rsync

- You can snapshot a few hundred gigabytes in 5-15 minutes

- Does variable block deduplication (smaller backups)

- Does compression

- Has client-side encryption

- Doesn't create a million files on the target system

In fact, Dropbox wrote and open-sourced a very nice password complexity tool, specifically encouraging smarter password complexity. No banned characters, no stupid requirements, just a relatively intelligent entropy estimator.

We really don't want systemd to do its "dependency logic" for mounts. Case in point: have a btrfs RAID, physically remove one of its disks and mount with -o degraded. A basic operation that doesn't involve an init daemon and is impossible to get wrong, right? Not on systemd. If your RAID happens to be in fstab (ie, any real case other than when running from rescue media), systemd will helpfully instantly unmount it again. There's no known workaround for this bug other than commenting out the mount in fstab (or upgrading to sysvinit...).

If you insist on calling this a bug, unfortunately for you, that means it is a kernel bug, and more specifically a btrfs bug. And there are three workarounds :
- managing the mount manually, which is the most sensible thing to do as all your braindead operation was manual anyway;
- fixing btrfs so that it reports degraded fs as degraded, and not as dead;
- making a user space daemon that manages btrfs, like for LVM;
The most stupid thing to do is to shoot the messenger systemd, and of course, that's what most system illiterate people like you do.
And they advertise their lack of knowledge on forums to really show people how stupid they are, instead of educating themselves.

I don't get how one could possibly screw this up. So systemd runs a daemon statting all your mountpoints just so it can unmount them if it believes some dependency isn't met?!?

Like most systemd opponents, you don't know what you're talking about and it's instantly showing.

Where rsyslog goes to great lengths to ensure logs survive a system crash, sometimes even in annoying ways (like disk spinup on laptops) and uses append-only plain text logs that are readable even when heavily corrupted, systemd not only makes corruption and total data loss nearly guaranteed, but even goes out of its way to disable data consistency features (checksums, protection from torn writes, transactions) because "performance" and spams you with warnings if you manually turn them back.

It shows that you're not understanding *anything* technical, when the link you gave contradicts what you said in the same sentence. The systemd journal is doing append-only plain text logs that are readable even when heavily corrupted. One difference with other logging tools, is that systemd actually informs you when your logs are corrupted. If you even understand logs and know their history, they were always designed to not advertedly affect the OS, so that performance was always the primary goal before reliability, thus why syslogd with UDP and the like. The log system should not put your system to a halt like it did on btrfs because btrfs, well, is just not production ready yet. They actually did that because a systemd user did a bug report. A true sysadmin with a true problem, not an ignorant whiner on a forum with no understanding of Linux.