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  1. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    There is no self-hosting for Slack.

    Aside from learning, when was the last time you setup an IRC server?

  2. Re:So I keep hearing about Slack on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone here have actual evidence - even a specific anecdote - that using Slack or another chat program helps them work better?

    FOSS projects like FreeBSD seem to get developed through mailing lists and IRC.

  3. Re:Snap? on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Linux equivalent of a OS X .app.

  4. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    But... Emojis.

    Aside from some bug fixes and new useless features we've been reinventing IRC and Usenet since them.

  5. Re:About time on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they just need a better algorithm to rank players. I don't care if I'm playing a bot or a human as long as we are near the same skill level.

    Come up with a better ranking system and just group players by how well they play. Hell I'd watch a 'bot only' league

  6. IT is VocTech. on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is on par for the course with electricians and plumbers. The problem is in the 90-00s "VocTech" became a dirty word and *everyone* had to go to college.

    This left a massive gap of people to fill that portion of industry which has been backfilled by H1Bs.

  7. Re: I wish they were still trying on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Dell and HP enterprise lines are really well built.

    I'm typing this on a Dell M6700 that is built like a tank. My new work laptop is a HP ZBook G3.

    However neither of them are anywhere near the 'cheap' side of the spectrum.

  8. NIH Framework on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've been in multiple software industries for ~10 years. The NIH framework has been universally accepted everywhere.

    • Does everything the other frameworks don't.
    • Does everything you need.
  9. "policy on autonomous weapons" on 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As we all know, the enemy always follows the rules. Right on back to some dirty farmers hiding in the woods not following the British 'rules of war'.

    The technology to build these things is not difficult. In the US a gun is easiest part of the puzzle. Toss in some OpenCV, webcam, a solenoid and you can have your own private sentry.

  10. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Interviewing the Interviewer (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you like to post a link to an interview that you felt was extremely biased one way or the other? NPR has everything up on their website.

  11. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Paper ballot with scanners.

    Rather than a mono-culture require that no 2 bordering counties may use the same brand scanner.

    After the early election results are in share ballots with 2 neighboring counties to use on their machines.

    If the machines report different numbers you hand count them.

    Bonus companies for how accurate they are. Those that are more than 1% off get no payment for the machines and the company is not allowed to make machines for the next election cycle.

  12. The features most new cars have is better than most humans. I *wish* a good portion of the old people around here had auto stop. Florida would rejoice that a good portion of their population wasn't behind the wheel.

    ISO26262 is no small certification. There's a reason my RTOS and compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars.

    It's the same stuff Aviation / Defense has been using for a while: https://www.ghs.com/AerospaceD...

  13. Re:Right it is -4F and on Americans Still Deeply Skeptical About Driverless Cars, Says Poll (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the human makes it better than the car? Humans can't see the IR spectrum, Ice would stick out far ahead of the car actually getting there

  14. I did. And sometimes when I went home I wanted to continue to talk to them. We had AIM for chat.

    We also used it to discover people to talk to. They had a function where you could enter your class schedule and it would bring up everyone else who had that class, so you could reach out and make study groups ahead of time.

    Smart phones didn't exist as such, so we weren't buried in facebook at the bars or everywhere else.

  15. Re:News from Facebook? on Facebook Overhauls News Feed in Favor of 'Meaningful Social Interactions' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You may not, I may not, but people do. Sadly.

    Facebook 2004 was awesome. It was about meeting people around me in college. I'm trying to remember if we had pictures other than our profile photo.

    These days it's a cesspool agglomeration of the Eternal September, forwards from grandma and AOL chat.

  16. Re:It's just a website on Circuit City Is Coming Back (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to Menards (local hardware store like Lowes/Home Depot). They had some cheap as dirt lowend chinese tablets by: Polaroid and Packard Bell.

  17. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    Hash: SHA512

    Bring it on.
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    Version: GnuPG v1

    [Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.]
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

    Well, I tried.

  18. Messages that anyone put there in 2014 are still there today and still exist in every Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and other fork's blockchain.

    Short of sha256 breaking they're going to exist there.

  19. Tulip bulbs couldn't be used as a proof of existence or even a message board.

    Dumping messages into OP_RETURN is really fascinating since it's as immutable as you can get.

    As a currency, eh. But there aren't many places where you can write a message and have it backed by several billion dollars of continuing to exist in the future.

  20. Re:Freedom demands Open Hardware also on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    is that it didn't use the performance enhancing features other high-end processors did.

    RISC-V and most of PPC's books haven't changed in a while. The I use in new product isn't that different than the Power PC G4 I had growing up.

    If the e200 cores aren't affected it means that your infotainment system can't spy on something else in your car's ECM.

    RTCA/DO-254, Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware isn't a small certification / classification. If the PPC e200 cores were affected the US military would take notice.

    Then they can use "So safe the US military trusts us for your protection". And if the JSF can use an e200 core the military is going to demand something unaffected for their internal cloud.

  21. "store of wealth"

    It can be.

    Say I invent some fancy new technology or have a data file that proves aliens are with us. Without showing you the data, how can I prove to you in 20 years that I have the data now?

    Store the checksum in Bitcoin as proof of existence. In 20 years you can sha256 the file yourself and see that I did in fact have that data right now.

    Parts of CableGate were put up there. I wouldn't be surprised if the next WikiLeaks document isn't already up there just waiting for someone with the right key.

  22. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Replace My Netbook? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm looking at the Chuwi Apollo Lake tablets built around the N3450.

    They dual boot Windows 10 / Android. People have gotten Ubuntu installed on them as well.

  23. Re:Freedom demands Open Hardware also on OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug (itwire.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not sure about others but some are available for purchase.

    "SiFive has declared that 2018 will be the year of RISC V Linux processors" - Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor, Slashdot.

    To answer AC's question a few moths later: "What's the big advantage with RISC over ARM or x86?"

    Meltdown, Spetre.

  24. 1. Add stickers to images.
    2. Retrain network
    3. Stickers useless.

  25. Your TV. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    I've run XBMC since the original XBox. Then had a home built HTPC with Nvidia GPU acceleration to do 1080p smoothly back in 2010. Now have a Kodi on an Amazon fire.

    The 'player' I use most is the DLNA one built into my TV. With minidlna running in a jail on my FreeNAS machine.

    It's "free". Comes built in. Has been able to handle every codec my TV supports (which happens to be what all my stuff encoded in).