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  1. the culture of containers on Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' (stapelberg.ch) · · Score: 4, Informative

    > rsync, whose maintainer refused my patches to make the package use debhelper purely out of personal preference

    I see this ridiculous attitude in docker, docker-compose, lxd, et al upstream maintainers as well.

    They're in the container space because they don't understand packaging (or sane library/API design) so they got crushed by dependency hell. Their response? Run every single app in its own VM with its own copy of every single library under the sun. 500MB applications! YAY!

    They refuse to take any packaging related patches.

    Debian devs will drop one by one due to these people.

  2. Re:MAC address is not an identifier on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or he does know that FB and Google can't see your MAC, which is why he said it wasn't legit.

  3. You're insane. A synthetic way to store energy in carbon bonds that uses CO2 is the holy grail of battery technology. There is quite literally no other (useful) storage medium with higher energy density, other than nuclear or antimatter.

  4. The energy density in carbon chains is far higher than water stored on high ground.

  5. The energy density of carbon chains dwarfs all others (except for nuclear).

    The use here is obvious, even if inefficient: it can be used as a carbon neutral way to store, transport, and retrieve usable energy much more cheaply than other means.

  6. One more time: it wasn't a "device" on Electrify America Is Shutting Down All Its 150-350kW Chargers Due To Potential Cable Defects (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Idiots keep calling a few lines of code a "device."

    This is what happens when you let law makers redefine English terms.

  7. Pure Poettering inspired incompetence on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking at the code, all three of these bugs are inexcusable. The systemd devs really are incompetent.

  8. Re: Windows on Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. snap is garbage. It really is because developers are too stupid to design libraries that break on every revision, and bother making usable deb packages.

    That is to say, people who think containers are a great idea too.. a result of technical incompetence.

  9. Re:Smells like a setup... on Paul Whelan, American Accused of Spying, is Said to Be Charged in Russia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean he should have flown to Russia to give them a public key in person.

  10. Just about every broken thing in thunderbird was fixed by extensions. Then they broke the API without bothering to fix ANY of the things those extensions addressed.

    The support board is full of "solved" problems (i.e. fixed by an addon) that are no longer solved. But they're archived, so you can't even re-open them and mark them as open issues.

    Fucking idiots

    The whole thing was managed by morons.

  11. Re:"Bricks cellular data"?!?! WTF?!?! on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Even worse, he'll never correct it.

  12. apt install bind9

    done.

  13. Re:One big lawsuit waiting to happen on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I love that nobody seems to be annoyed that the thieves really have no legal risk, whereas Mr Rober is extremely vulnerable.

    It seems to me with as much reach as he does, he could at least make single statement about that.

  14. Re:Gender on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    12? There a many many more!

    http://genderfluidsupport.tumb...

  15. What, like git?

  16. He's a moron. Then again, all of /.'s editors are worthless; I don't think I've ever seen them correct a single article.

  17. Re:I know what the impersonators want to do on New Gmail Bug Allows Sending Messages Anonymously (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not beating anybody at anything, you're just beating yourself off.

  18. Re: Meanwhile on A Chinese Startup May Have Cracked Solid-State Batteries (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    yea, sorry, unit fail

    13KWh/kg vs 0.4KWh/kg

  19. Re:Meanwhile on A Chinese Startup May Have Cracked Solid-State Batteries (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    35% of 13,000 compared to 95% of 400?

    I'd say less than an order of magnitude of efficiency difference isn't relevant that that level of disparity.

  20. Gasoline is 13,000KW/kg

    We've still a ways to go, sadly.

  21. It's kotlin.

    Taking bets on how long /. will take to fix the typo. My bet is "after the heat death of the universe".

  22. It should also warn if it detects corp MITM with forged root CA and wildcard certs.

  23. waste of time and energy on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I tried to participate. It inevitably turned into a MMORPG, where primary attack/left click was bound to "You are not here to write an encyclopedia".

  24. Re:The Russians don't seem to be learning... on Russia Blames a Bad Sensor For Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this

  25. Re:interesting on Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    "But everything comes with its own little princess attitude, nothing is shared globally, no proper versioning..."

    Exactly this. snap devs are working around the fact that the latest generation of devs are completely and utterly incompetent.