Oliver Lowe @ otl @lemmy.sdf.org

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It’s that pesky root user, right? There’s loads of their files on my system. I can’t edit any of them. Don’t know why they are so protective.

And sharing changes can be done with just email and regular git! https://git-send-email.io

It isn’t the case for server-to-server communication, but as users we interact with one instance.

This is similar to email. For example, you connect to a mail server (via SMTP) to send email. That server then relays the message onwards through the “fediverse” of mail. A regular mail client does not connect to all possible SMTP servers. Does that make sense?

Not clear on what systems they are switching operating systems. Assuming workstations operated by people? I’m sure there’s a lot of Linux there already on servers. Apparently there’s at least 1.4 million people in the Indian Ministry of Defence so I’m worried this is one of those announcements to get a licensing discount from Microsoft :(

That makes sense. But I guess there’s these questions: at what resolution? For how long? Maybe the status quo is such because it’s simpler code. The project is still relatively young. I wonder where/how we can discuss these things?

Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

For the curious, see issue #404

I got curious so did some quick research. I know very little about file systems and Windows. Found this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS I wonder what Microsoft wanted to improve upon or change?

Thanks :) I think I'll follow that advice, especially on political forums! My clumsy wording aiming to criticise Trump was taken the wrong way and generated negativity. Thanks for your time.

Haha yes I think you're right! I find it difficult. And I'm interested in getting better at it. That's part of the reason why I like discussing stuff on Lemmy. Do you have any tips?

I think my original comment was taken as if I was excusing Trump. That sucks. I wanted to convey the opposite :(

Absolutely agree with you. The point I wanted to make is that there are different ways to summarise, say, in this example, a 50-page memo. The sad thing here is how the official needed to resort to the good versus evil false dichotomy. This oversimplification to have been required because, unfortunately, Trump is stupid.

I guess I'm saying that it's a shame that there are probably a lot of smart people trying to make sense of all the geopolitics, picking things apart, critical thinking... but in the end it was all for nought; they had to appeal to someone - Trump - who never really wanted to, nor was able to, internalise or contextualise it.

Using old.lemmy is really quick on my Thinkpad T480 (approx. 5 years old). I'm running OpenBSD; Javascript performance is pretty bad and makes the fans spin up. I'm in Indonesia at the moment so preventing any excess heat is paramount ;)

Sadly the impression I get, from when I've spoken with Iranians, is that the establishment don't see those things as issues to move past at all.

A very gifted programmer I met from Iran had to do the same. Originally from Iran, he wanted to marry a girl from Myanmar. This was forbidden for some reason so they said "fuck it, let's go to where there is loads of tech jobs". I was working in the Netherlands at the time when I met them. He's now flourishing in the open source software space over there. Brain drain 100%.

the little cherubs

lol

From that article:

the company said it wants to avoid “having invested in network capability and performance that will not ultimately be enjoyed by end users”

Hilarious. What do NBN Co. think the rest of the world does with the higher performance?

54USD (80AUD) per month for 50/20 in Sydney, Australia. From a provider called Aussie Broadband

I’m in Indonesia right now. Stuff can be randomly offline or blocked because they think I’ve already accessed or am spamming something. Even little things like New York Times saying “you’ve reached your free limit for today” but I didn’t even have internet access for a couple of days!