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The parent comment shouldn't have been modded down.

The use of "social justice" as an online weapon of sorts is actually a very serious issue for many of who have considered using GitHub.

There's the whole Open Code of Conduct debacle. On that very page, under the "What companies or communities support or use the Open Code of Conduct?" section, it clearly states "GitHub".

I encourage everyone to read the code of conduct for themselves. It's just absurd how detailed and controlling that code of conduct actually is.

But it's even crazier when it comes to stuff like its "reverse -isms" clause, which basically makes discrimination against certain groups of people mandatory!

You can read some of the comments supporting the code of conduct. It's unbelievable how hypocritical, contradictory and just outright hateful so many of the Open Code of Conduct's supporters are.

Code of conducts like that, and the people who support them, aren't there to foster a friendly, open community. They're there to brutally control others, and to force their views and opinions on others through censorship and harassment, even while claiming that such behavior is wrong!

I want absolutely nothing to do with those people, their twisted ideas, their rampant hypocrisy, and their atrocious codes of conduct. That's why I can't bring myself to use GitHub.

I've set flash-player as click-to-play since the feature was added to firefox, most websites don't mind.
Also if you want to reduce resource usage, replace Adblock Plus with uBlock Origin which is a bit more effiecent and flexible.

Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.

Rifle through the steps at:
https://github.com/dfkt/win10-...
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Deb... ... and you'll gain an intimate familiarity with how to handle many of its unwelcome advances.

Difficulty: How can you be sure you've eliminated all the "telemetry" AKA "Microsoft Genuine Spyware(tm)"?

Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.

Rifle through the steps at:
https://github.com/dfkt/win10-...
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Deb... ... and you'll gain an intimate familiarity with how to handle many of its unwelcome advances.

Difficulty: How can you be sure you've eliminated all the "telemetry" AKA "Microsoft Genuine Spyware(tm)"?

One sentence: Don't use it.

Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.

Rifle through the steps at:
https://github.com/dfkt/win10-...
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Deb... ... and you'll gain an intimate familiarity with how to handle many of its unwelcome advances.

One sentence: Don't use it.

Eh, speaking as someone who cut his teeth on optimizing DOS and Win3.11 for gaming, it's important to know why you shouldn't use it, which will help you appreciate alternatives like Linux and *BSD that much more.

Rifle through the steps at:
https://github.com/dfkt/win10-...
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Deb... ... and you'll gain an intimate familiarity with how to handle many of its unwelcome advances.

I would like to have the same analysis about the state of Andriod. Can it be made secure against such backdoors?

Android software provides APIs for storing encryption keys in secure hardware. However, whether the secure hardware storage your phone uses is actually secure depends on the manufacturer, how they implement the hardware and what kinds of modifications they have made to the software.

Android also provides hooks for external security devices. And you can use the SIM card for storing encryption keys; see this open source project. So, it seems likely that you can create an app on top of Android that secures Android phones against the kind of hack the FBI is proposing.

Vote parent up.

The article the summary references is just a summary of this: http://jcarlosnorte.com/securi...

In which, he notes:
Offset Size Value Description
    0 2 0x1f 0x8b Magic number to idenitfy gzip streams
    2 1 Compression method
    3 1 Flags
    4 4 Compression Date
    8 1 Compression flags
    9 1 Operating system

He references that as coming from: http://www.forensicswiki.org/w...
But that document does not say "Compression Date". It actually says:

4 4 Last modification time. Contains a POSIX timestamp.

Even his proof of concept shows that he's parsing that field as a POSIX timestamp: https://github.com/jcarlosn/gz...

echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A', $rdate);

It appears that either:

a) Something else in his php script is setting the TZ before doing that parse
b) The server is calculating the POSIX timestamp incorrectly, which is a similar issue but quite a different root cause.

Try this bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/joepie... Don't set a precedent by walking away to another website. You have a right to keep your computer secure from unwanted scripts.

Looks like the FreeBSD team disagreed with you, as they modified the if test to bracket in the 2nd statement:

https://github.com/freebsd/fre...

Yeah, I've found the Rust community to be very... odd.

I don't mean this in an insulting way, but I suspect that autism and/or Asperger syndrome runs rampant throughout the Rust community, to a degree far more severe than we see even within the wider IT and software community.

For example, they are extremely focused on achieving "correctness". This is something that's highly subjective, yet they try to come up with a one-size-fits-all objective definition. That's a common trait among those suffering from autism and Asperger's. They've ended up creating a language that meets their definition of "correctness", but that's otherwise very inflexible.

Their extensive code of conduct is another example of this. It's like they want to programmatically specify exactly how people should interact socially. Perhaps they're so focused on their CoC because, due to autism or Asperger's, they find normal social interaction difficult or even impossible? Of course, social interaction cannot be as strictly controlled and specified as they seem to want it to be.

It's also quaint how much emphasis they place on diversity, when nearly all of Rust's contributors are young white males. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. It's just that the extreme and unrelenting focus on diversity, despite a total lack of it, is a trait commonly associated with autism and Asperger's.

I've also noticed that they're extremely sensitive to legitimate criticism of Rust. Whenever Rust comes up at, say, Hacker News or Reddit or somewhere else where a lot of Rust's developers and users are, and somebody points out a flaw, the Rust supporters will attack that person. At Hacker News and Reddit this usually means the detractor, or even just somebody asking a legitimate but "wrong" question, will be severely downmodded. Sensitivity to criticism, and uncontrolled lashing out when subjected to criticism, are also signs of autism and Asperger syndrome.

I'd much rather deal with a programming language community that's actually diverse, and made up of relatively normal people, like the C, C++, Java, C#, and Python communities are. This leads to much more balanced languages, a more helpful community, and a better experience overall.

4) The DoD has been allowed to analyze the data in the telemetry and determined that it is just UI usage rates once the Cortana voice-search was disabled.

I wonder what the other 106 domains are for, then.

I too found the article difficult to follow, but I think it was aimed at Rust programmers. There were multiple references to low-level programming, which is allegedly what Rust is supposed to be good for. But I have my doubts about whether or not Rust is good for that kind of work because of the many bugs in its implementation. Rust is implemented in Rust, by the people who should know Rust the best. After all they are the ones who invented the language! But Rust itself is still full of so many thousands of bugs. Some people will say "But GCC has bugs! But Clang has bugs!" yet they forget that both of those compilers systems are a lot more complex than Rust is and implement more than one language! GCC supports C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran, Ada, and other languages! The Rust implementation only supports Rust, yet it still has so many bugs. Rust is supposed to make it harder to create bugs but clearly the best Rust users out there still create a lot of bugs with Rust. If the best Rust users out there can't avoid bugs when using Rust then how are normal programmers supposed to be able to do any better?! After reading the article and looking at Rust's bug tracker I don't think that Rust is all that it's cracked up to be.

Has anyone any idea what's happening with Google End-to-End ?

Second, Google is unwilling to provide such a plugin because it would interfere with the company's ability to scan e-mail and build advertising profiles.

Actually they were working on a PGP plugin for Chrome, though it's moving very slowly, possibly dead.

A true open source project is driven by the community, not by the maintainer alone

Wait, you just make up definitions on the fly, post as AC, and get modded up for it? A true open source project is a project whose code is freely available. That's all.

As for community contribution, firefox looks reasonably healthy to me: https://github.com/mozilla/kit...

Compare that to Pale Moon, which you praise: https://github.com/MoonchildPr... ...

Pale Moon has fewer contributors and a much higher volume of commits coming from a single dev. Not that this is bad -- they're both true open source projects, and different projects have different numbers of contributors.

Maybe instead of whinging, you could learn to code and contribute too?

A true open source project is driven by the community, not by the maintainer alone

Wait, you just make up definitions on the fly, post as AC, and get modded up for it? A true open source project is a project whose code is freely available. That's all.

As for community contribution, firefox looks reasonably healthy to me: https://github.com/mozilla/kit...

Compare that to Pale Moon, which you praise: https://github.com/MoonchildPr... ...

Pale Moon has fewer contributors and a much higher volume of commits coming from a single dev. Not that this is bad -- they're both true open source projects, and different projects have different numbers of contributors.

Maybe instead of whinging, you could learn to code and contribute too?

I'm pretty sure if you recorded to connections from your MAC or Linux desktop, and didn't filter out normal expected traffic, you'd be APPALLED at the tracking taking place. connections do not equal tracking.

Since my OS is open source, I can see exactly what information is being sent out. However, Microsoft does not disclose what information is being sent to 107 of the domains that Win10 contacts, nor do they explain why all of those domains are contacted even when you manually configure Win10 not to.

You can't even listen to music on OS X or iPhone without the software contacting Apple.

I'm quite tired of this nonsense rebuttal. When you use an Apple application, it contacts Apple's servers to see if there are updates available--you can turn that off as well. In contrast, when do you even the most mundane things in Win10 (with the telemetry turned off, mind you), the OS contacts over 100 different domains: https://github.com/WindowsLies...

Why the fuck does Win10 contact telemetry.appex.bing.net, ad.doubleclick.net, and watson.live.com whenever you open the fucking Notepad?

I don't know if you can still catch up with github when it comes to collaboration workflow, but as a plain web hosting service for dynamic content you're still OK. I guess that if you can use the small window of opportunity that docker gives you, you might be able to regain your place.

I wish you well.

Emanuele

http://jbit.sourceforge.net
http://github.com/efornara/jbit

P.S.: I've read a hint about your https plans. That's great, but please make it optional! I would hate to leave you, as you still allow me to setup custom mime types and serve WML Pages to old feature phones.

This is sadly one of the drawbacks to adblock. With it on you can't tell the shitty sites from the good ones. And it's too risy to turn it off and have a look without it.

Try uBlock Origin on Firefox and Chrome. It gives you a detailed log of what is being blocked and why. Just now on wired.com it was only blocking 2o7.net and scorecardresearch.com; all wired.com content came through fine. No ads though! :-)

Not true. I have been blocking html5 animations in Chrome for about 2 months now.

This hypocritical attitude is getting to be a problem all over the place. It's not just Twitter.

For example, just look at the Rust programming language project. They have a very bureaucratic and tyrannical code of conduct. Beyond that, they even have a moderation team that will go after anyone deemed to have "violated" the code of conduct!

What I think we're seeing in cases like this are autists of one degree or another trying to "script" social interaction.

What I mean by that is that they're people who are used to working with software, and not so used to dealing with people. They wrongly expect that it's possible to control social interaction as strictly as one controls a computer.

It's like their codes of conduct are meant to be computer programs that a person executes whenever they want to participate in any sort of a community discussion. The codes of conduct try to take away the human aspect of communication, and replace it with something much more automated in nature.

Of course, social interaction is far too nuanced to be something that can be automated away like they seem to want to do.

I think the hypocrisy arises because they're unable to realize how inherently contradictory, and thus impossible, their goals are. You can't have free expression when people have to follow a script in order to communicate. You can't have a free exchange of ideas if anyone who deviates even slightly from the prescribed method of discussion is eliminated (by banning or moderation).

What makes it even stranger is that the Rust contributors are overwhelmingly white males. For all their talk about how important diversity is, they have one of the most uniform communities around!

I think that their extensive code of conduct has only served to make the Rust community less diverse. I think it may have helped drive away anyone who is different from the Rust norm, leading to the monoculture we see today.

OpenBSD is dead. Get a properly GNU licensed kernel instead.

Linux is dead too, it just had much more corporate-driven momentum so it will take a bit to finally fizzle out :)

OpenBSD is dead. Get a properly GNU licensed kernel instead.

yes... most sites use something like FuckAdBlock to detect AdBlock... so someone made a browser extension FuckFuckAdBlock that modifies the FuckAdBlock javascript to always return false.

I prefer Policeman over RequestPolicy. It has better ruleset creation and can be temporarily disabled on a per-tab basis: https://github.com/futpib/poli...

(Disclosure: IBMer working in Power Systems, opinions my own)

For the BMC, it appears that they're looking to use OpenBMC, a project started by Facebook and now being continued by IBM.

They're also going to use the OpenPOWER firmware stack - Hostboot for system initialisation, Skiboot for runtime firmware/BIOS and the OCC firmware for on-chip thermal and power management. All of this is Apache-licensed.

POWER8 processors do require an external CPU to boot them - either an IBM Flexible Service Processor or a third-party BMC. This is the case with all current Power Architecture server chips, though not with Power embedded (Book 3E) chips. Booting a POWER8 chip is a bit more complex than comparable Intel CPUs in this regard, but as far as I'm aware it's primarily a design choice to put the initialisation complexity in firmware rather than hardware.

Can't comment about the other components of the system - I imagine it'd be fairly challenging to find a hard drive with open source firmware, but I wish them luck... FSF will still certify them as Respects Your Freedom nonetheless, I imagine. I'm still quite excited by this machine, as POWER8 is definitely the best choice for a high-performance libre system.

(Disclosure: IBMer working in Power Systems, opinions my own)

For the BMC, it appears that they're looking to use OpenBMC, a project started by Facebook and now being continued by IBM.

They're also going to use the OpenPOWER firmware stack - Hostboot for system initialisation, Skiboot for runtime firmware/BIOS and the OCC firmware for on-chip thermal and power management. All of this is Apache-licensed.

POWER8 processors do require an external CPU to boot them - either an IBM Flexible Service Processor or a third-party BMC. This is the case with all current Power Architecture server chips, though not with Power embedded (Book 3E) chips. Booting a POWER8 chip is a bit more complex than comparable Intel CPUs in this regard, but as far as I'm aware it's primarily a design choice to put the initialisation complexity in firmware rather than hardware.

Can't comment about the other components of the system - I imagine it'd be fairly challenging to find a hard drive with open source firmware, but I wish them luck... FSF will still certify them as Respects Your Freedom nonetheless, I imagine. I'm still quite excited by this machine, as POWER8 is definitely the best choice for a high-performance libre system.

(Disclosure: IBMer working in Power Systems, opinions my own)

For the BMC, it appears that they're looking to use OpenBMC, a project started by Facebook and now being continued by IBM.

They're also going to use the OpenPOWER firmware stack - Hostboot for system initialisation, Skiboot for runtime firmware/BIOS and the OCC firmware for on-chip thermal and power management. All of this is Apache-licensed.

POWER8 processors do require an external CPU to boot them - either an IBM Flexible Service Processor or a third-party BMC. This is the case with all current Power Architecture server chips, though not with Power embedded (Book 3E) chips. Booting a POWER8 chip is a bit more complex than comparable Intel CPUs in this regard, but as far as I'm aware it's primarily a design choice to put the initialisation complexity in firmware rather than hardware.

Can't comment about the other components of the system - I imagine it'd be fairly challenging to find a hard drive with open source firmware, but I wish them luck... FSF will still certify them as Respects Your Freedom nonetheless, I imagine. I'm still quite excited by this machine, as POWER8 is definitely the best choice for a high-performance libre system.

(Disclosure: IBMer working in Power Systems, opinions my own)

For the BMC, it appears that they're looking to use OpenBMC, a project started by Facebook and now being continued by IBM.

They're also going to use the OpenPOWER firmware stack - Hostboot for system initialisation, Skiboot for runtime firmware/BIOS and the OCC firmware for on-chip thermal and power management. All of this is Apache-licensed.

POWER8 processors do require an external CPU to boot them - either an IBM Flexible Service Processor or a third-party BMC. This is the case with all current Power Architecture server chips, though not with Power embedded (Book 3E) chips. Booting a POWER8 chip is a bit more complex than comparable Intel CPUs in this regard, but as far as I'm aware it's primarily a design choice to put the initialisation complexity in firmware rather than hardware.

Can't comment about the other components of the system - I imagine it'd be fairly challenging to find a hard drive with open source firmware, but I wish them luck... FSF will still certify them as Respects Your Freedom nonetheless, I imagine. I'm still quite excited by this machine, as POWER8 is definitely the best choice for a high-performance libre system.

He probably meant uBlock Origin, not the crappy hijacked uBlock with donation links.

Homepage

Firefox addon

Chrome addon

UBLOCK ORIGIN

PS: accept no sobstitutes!

So it's a discussion about what to do if men show up at a private meeting for female programmers and start being disruptive.

No, it isn't about disruptive men. From the link over here:
The presence of men at meetups will likely make some of our attendees not want to come back. Even if they aren't displaying any outright problematic behaviors.

I always build my daemon from the latest github.

If you always build your daemon from the latest master, you must have failed to update for the last 6 months at least.

Does BBR really need 4GB RAM to run? Wow!
People report the monero daemon using less than 100MB nowadays, and I myself have it running between 100 and 300MB on http://moneroblocks.info. (which currently is the only blockexplorer that shows the participating inputs in the ring-sig ;) )

Also, sync time with an SSD and decent network connection gets done in a couple of hours.

Don't take my word on it, people! Go try it out: https://getmonero.org/downloads/

Anyway, this isn't the only issue making it slow/heavy/conservative when compared to something like Boolberry.

Do you want to enlighten us?

Or maybe you think that active development makes things go "slow/heavy/conservative"?

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/graphs/contributors

I always build my daemon from the latest github.

If you always build your daemon from the latest master, you must have failed to update for the last 6 months at least.

Does BBR really need 4GB RAM to run? Wow!
People report the monero daemon using less than 100MB nowadays, and I myself have it running between 100 and 300MB on http://moneroblocks.info. (which currently is the only blockexplorer that shows the participating inputs in the ring-sig ;) )

Also, sync time with an SSD and decent network connection gets done in a couple of hours.

Don't take my word on it, people! Go try it out: https://getmonero.org/downloads/

Anyway, this isn't the only issue making it slow/heavy/conservative when compared to something like Boolberry.

Do you want to enlighten us?

Or maybe you think that active development makes things go "slow/heavy/conservative"?

https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/graphs/contributors

I'm not sure if you are trying to argue, or agree and expand. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume you're simply expanding on my points. I'll also clarify, for the benefit of those reading along.

It is absolutely false that GitHug benefits in any way from encouraging people to use them as a central repository; in fact, as evident by the discussion happening here, people using their service (incorrectly) as a central repository has a direct negative impact on GitHub every time the service goes down and those users start bitching that they can't get any work done due to the outage. That said, I do agree that they don't emphasize the correct way to use their service, as an additional home for your repo, which brings a number of additional features. This is something they can, and should, certainly work on.

I also never said, or even implied, that GitHub should get a pass on the stability of their service, let alone on account of features Git natively brings to the table. I merely pointed out that they built a fair bit upon those features, adding many of their own; if you only view GitHub as a place to host Git repos, you're missing the bigger picture by a mile. Additionally, it is worth noting that GitHub Releases, which some projects use to host builds, are being used incorrectly by those projects. All a Release is supposed to be is a tag, pointing to a specific revision of the source, that GitHub lists on the Releases page.

The problem is that people are using GitHub incorrectly, the complaining when the service goes down, not because they lose access to the additional features GitHub offers, but because they lose access to things that should live elsewhere in the first place. If I was hearing complaints about the temporary loss of GitHub's additional features, I'd consider those complaints valid. But complaining about bad things happening when you misuse a service? Come on.

Give them valid criticisms where they are deserved, there's plenty to talk about there; likewise, when it is pointed out that you are misusing your tools, accept that criticism yourself and become a better developer for it. There is no need, not benefit to anyone (yourself included), to blame GitHub for your misuse and misunderstanding of their service.

Business Insider didn't just become an authoritative source of news just because it is saying what Slashdot wants to hear.

- "Out with flat org structure based purely on meritocracy" Garbage. That's stuff of fantasies, no large commercial software company has a structure like that. Slashdot makes 'merit based hiring' sound like some kind of panacea - there is no such thing. Maybe GitHub are going the wrong way but this sort of description sounds like it came from someone with an axe to grind. No start up retains that cosy 'smart people you love to work with' feel.

- For the people saying just use a different hosting service, almost every worthwhile open source project is hosted on Github and tracks issues and releases on Github. ALL major companies use Github when they decide to go open source with a project. Guess where Apple put Swift? Microsoft when they wanted to develop an OpenSSH port publicly? Netflix? Yelp? Google's Tensor Flow?

- Alternatives - let's not even mention SourceForge. Bitbucket? Look at how terribly cluttered their UI is compared to Github: https://bitbucket.org/atlassia... And Github has massive first mover advantage here. I can't believe how awful Github's notification system is - I can't set up notifications to just keep track of new releases in a project for example.

- What some here hate is that GitHub is no longer focused on the traditional open source developer audience (if it ever was). 'Enterprise focused company' means what it says on the label. Yes they will have a massive sales force. Yes they are exploiting the brand name to sell an enterprise product that is way more expensive per user than their competitors (Bitbucket and Gitlab). But you know what - better than bundling fucking adware with downloads from their website.

- On the same point, they don't care much for the 'Git isn't server based, why do you need Github to host stuff' audience, or the 'you can take my eMacs from my cold dead hands'. They've put significant effort into their app, available on all platforms (yes an app - for 'developers' don't know how to run git clone or configure SSH keys. Snigger). You know what - they don't care. I heard from a friend recently how working in a major bank, their data science and modelling teams write code and don't use any source control. That's their target audience and that's where their sales people will make them money. I have lost count of the number of perfectly intelligent people I have dealt with who can't get their heads around Git or cannot be bothered to.

- Github doing what's best for Github, and when they do their sales pitch, a couple of slides of how Google hosts their projects on Github rather than the crappy code.google.com does not hurt. And I don't terribly care, compared to the products I have seen sales people sell successfully, Github is like vaccines - it's a good thing despite how it gets sold. A collaboration tool is a pretty damn good pitch.

- On the eMacs thing, Github released an Open Source plugin friendly editor called Atom. And I like it, I like it a lot. Github Page is pretty neat. Git LFS is awesome and works seamlessly for versioning large files and keeping them in the same repo - much better than the half baked git-annex option some projects used. It definitely does not look like they are out of ideas, despite apparently carrying a massive baggage of diversity based incompetent hires if Slashdot is to be believed.

- Look at this blog entry about a doctor who likes to code: https://github.com/blog/2103-m.... In commercial terms, you can't fault their choice of going for the much bigger market rather than sticking to trying to sell to 'pure' software / IT firms.

- Look at their blog, the huge list of integrations. They're not asleep at the wheel.

- Another one about their services team:

I plan to post the source to Github by the end of the month (Feb 2016). Gotta do some more commenting. A computer science prof who dinged a lot of students for poor commenting practices has to proceed carefully on that matter. I could put a precompiled exe there as well, but that would require a few changes to the UI. Some of the parameters you'd need to set for your camera and view of the street are currently constants in the code. Not too many.

and

Folks: Progress is good. I'm expecting a public github posting of the source, a characterization of all of the strings you can pull via various in-code constants and input parameters, and a combined VST overview and simple user manual soon now. Keep an eye on https://github.com/pfr/VideoSp.... I'll be making it public as soon as I can. And thanks to help from my Github son, there will be Mac and Linux compilable versions available in addition to my Wintel version.

They have a training program (for training other corporate teams), a store, a lot of integrations, and of course, a huge sales team. Most of their current open positions are on the sales team FWIW.

We should never forget about the Open Code of Conduct debacle. GitHub is listed under the "What companies or communities support or use the Open Code of Conduct?" section on that page.

Read the comments at https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/84. It's unbelievable how hypocritical some of the people are. The stuff about "reverse -isms" is particularly fucked up.

We should never forget about the Open Code of Conduct debacle. GitHub is listed under the "What companies or communities support or use the Open Code of Conduct?" section on that page.

Read the comments at https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/84. It's unbelievable how hypocritical some of the people are. The stuff about "reverse -isms" is particularly fucked up.

Any time you have that kind of growth, you are going to have culture change, and it's going to make people upset if they liked the old culture.

The problem with Github is their "culture change" is comprised of hyper-SJWs, the type of people who feel that every open source programming project must have a code of conduct, every project no matter how small must have women and minorities and transgender xe/be/ge/be's involved. These are the people who, if you reject a pull request from someone who's black, will accuse you of being a racist white supremacist, even when you aren't white. These individuals are far less concerned about what the Github business does - you know, being a version control repository - than they are about being some kind of white knights on an ivory tower making a political statement.

You think I'm joking, or you want to blow me off, have a look at what happened to the Opal project. That lady isn't a troll, people like her are out there, and they truly believe in what they're doing. They honestly think that someone who makes a politically incorrect tweet, entirely on his own time and not representing anyone but himself, should be banned from contributing to a project that he's devoted thousands of hours to. Just because he made one statement they don't agree with. And when the project leaders dare to say "get outta here, what have you contributed?" they round up hundreds of their closest Tumblr white knight friends to chime in.

These people will look up who you work for and send complaints to your job, trying to get you fired. They'll harass your friends and family over whatever social media they can find. They'll recruit their merry band of social warriors to do the same. You make one offhanded comment on Twitter or Facebook that hurts one person's feelings, and suddenly hundreds of angry cunts (men *and* women can be cunts) are bombarding everyone you know with hatred. The irony is completely lost upon these idiots.

The Code of Conduct pushing, nobody's-feelings-can-be-hurt style, immature and unprofessional (and outright illegal, if they're doxxing) crowd has taken over Github. This applies to their employees just as much as the users they're fostering. The users are being encouraged by the platform, after all.

Stay away from Github. You will not be pleased with the outcome when one day, your innocent little project with 5 users gets brigaded by hundreds of feminists and white knights, slandering your name to kingdom come, just because you rejected a pull request from a unicorn-kin.

Git itself is fine. It's like subversion. It's just a tool. You can host your own repos, entirely independent of any third part. But Github is toxic.

Or an Illumos Zone.. Illumos being a fork of OpenSolaris.
Even better, you can run Linux inside an Zone on SmartOS, an Illumos distribution, via system call translation..
And Smartdatacenter+ sdc-docker = SmartOS based IaaS solution with docker support..
Smartdatacenter and SmartOS are made by Joyent, everything is opensource.
That's what they use to power their public cloud..
Truly an hidden gem, as other Joyent opensource stuff like manta..

Or an Illumos Zone.. Illumos being a fork of OpenSolaris.
Even better, you can run Linux inside an Zone on SmartOS, an Illumos distribution, via system call translation..
And Smartdatacenter+ sdc-docker = SmartOS based IaaS solution with docker support..
Smartdatacenter and SmartOS are made by Joyent, everything is opensource.
That's what they use to power their public cloud..
Truly an hidden gem, as other Joyent opensource stuff like manta..

Or an Illumos Zone.. Illumos being a fork of OpenSolaris.
Even better, you can run Linux inside an Zone on SmartOS, an Illumos distribution, via system call translation..
And Smartdatacenter+ sdc-docker = SmartOS based IaaS solution with docker support..
Smartdatacenter and SmartOS are made by Joyent, everything is opensource.
That's what they use to power their public cloud..
Truly an hidden gem, as other Joyent opensource stuff like manta..

Looks like it's set to /var/log/mediatomb by default. I guess the admin would know if she/he had changed that.
https://github.com/marcin1j/me...

If Microsoft really wanted to kill XP, they'd allow XP users to upgrade to 10 for free. Same goes for Vista. Of course that would require Aero-capable hardware. I had a bitch of a time getting 7 to run on a Compaq nc6220. No way it's going to run 10, the 915G chipset just isn't up to the task. So the portion of the market sticking with XP because they have pre-Aero-worthy video will not be helped by free Windows 10, but everyone else could be.

I use DisableWinTracking on my Windows 10 systems, along with Classic Shell (although the current interface isn't *awful*, I just prefer it to look/feel like 7), killing the Cortana entry field, turning off the Favorites and Recent functions of Explorer (I don't want to have to be that vigilant about hiding "compromising" files viewed), and using a registry tweak to make OneDrive disappear from Explorer. (It's already set up not to run, so it doesn't work anyhow. Why show it?)

Other features of Windows 10 are actually really nice. The extended info for file transfers is one of them. The graph gives a pretty good idea what's going on, and when things might have slowed down or recovered from slowing down. Text scaling and anti-aliasing being handled separately for each monitor is also really nice, especially if you have a large but low-PPI television next to a normal monitor. If you're wondering what it does when a window spans monitors with different text settings, it scales the whole window for whichever monitor has the largest piece. It also has multiple desktops that are easy to swap between (yeah, I know Linux has had this since forever), though I don't use that all that much with four monitors.

I have had *zero* problems with applications that ran under Windows 7 not wanting to run under Windows 10. Getting 10 to run correctly on my dual video card setup was a bit of a pain, but it was a bit of a pain under Windows 7 as well, and the trick is exactly the same. (Remove one card, get everything working right, then put the second card back in.)

Been running PF-Kernel for a few years, which has a bunch of patches, including BFQ, ck patch set with BFS, Tux in ice, UKSM, and grayskys gcc kernel patch. I normally just use the PF Github repo

Love it. With BFQ, you no longer get system pauses on your desktop. I can listen to music or play a video, run a few vms, while a compiler runs in the background, and x-windows doesn't pause, typing doesn't pause, its how a system should act. Your system seems more fluid with no pausing.

PF-Kernel seems to be for Arch/Gentoo/Rpm based, but I've used it on Ubuntu systems. Pf-Kernel isn't the only one, there are other kernels out there that include more performance patches, Xanmod and Liquorix

Sorry guys for the not so informative story up there. Well, Scrapy is an open source framework to build web crawlers in Python. The lack of Python 3 support was a huge blocker for people who wanted to use Scrapy, but didn't want to use Python 2.7 anymore. This is why this release is a milestone for Scrapy users. It's very popular between python developers working with web crawling/web scraping. You can check the project page at GitHub here: https://github.com/scrapy/scra...

While the iron.io folks do manage to squeeze the size down, they do so through the use of Alpine Linux which uses musl libs rather than glibc and friends. There is a post on hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/i... that has a discussion about the pros and cons of using an alpine based image.

There is also the deviation from upstream. The official images are a curated set of images and can be maintained by anyone willing to put in the time. For the official images that are not maintained by the upstream project (many of them are), they try to stay as close to upstream recommended build as possible. In fact, the official image gatekeepers recommend talking with upstream before trying to make your own submission to official images so that they can be as involved as they want to be. What this means is that if upstream maintains their own apt repo, that is how it is built into the image, but if upstream does not even release binaries (ie only the source tar) then building from source is they way it is packaged making sure to slim out build dependencies.

There is also some recent focus by Docker Inc to add Alpine based variants to the official images as an option for those that want a slimmer environment (see https://github.com/docker-libr... and other PRs by ncopa). There is even a description on the Docker Hub when an official image has an alpine variant (see https://hub.docker.com/_/ruby/ and https://github.com/docker-libr... which is the source of the Docker Hub version).

Note on the large size of most of the language images from the official images: "It, by design, has a large number of extremely common Debian packages. This reduces the number of packages that images that derive from it need to install, thus reducing the overall size of all images on your system." They are usually built from the "buildpack-deps" image: " It includes a large number of "development header" packages needed by various things like Ruby Gems, PyPI modules, etc." (https://hub.docker.com/_/buildpack-deps/).

(yes, I am one of the gatekeepers for official images, https://github.com/docker-libr...)

For more information:
  - https://docs.docker.com/docker...
  - https://github.com/docker-libr...
  - https://github.com/docker-libr...