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Re:We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:17AM (#48685287)
Akritai were locals who were to be used as the defenders of the borders instead of deploying regular Army or mercenaries. For this reason they were given land (so as to have skin in the game) and tax breaks. When the tax breaks stopped the Akritai rapidly vanished. These are also mentioned in Wikipedia pages.
So, in terms of a security project an Akritas would be you running an EDR agent on a machine that you own, not some of the signatory companies who basically do not own anything on the edge (end user equipment).
Re:We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:32AM (#48684911)
To be fair, the Akritai was the Byzantine Empire's effort to use the local population to defend the land, instead of having to deploy regular Army or mercenaries. It happened to be Muslim states that was the border. It bears no anti-muslim connotations as a word in Greek. In fact the epic of Digenes Akritas, speaks of Basil, an Akritas of a Greek mother and an Arab father (hence the name Digenes, of two descents).
But still, the name is a bad, uninformed choice.
Re:We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:24AM (#48684843)
This is a very simplified and uninformed view of what the Akritai were. The name choice is so wrong, it cannot even be called out as cultural appropriation, because it is far worse than that. LF just stick with languages you understand.
Mod_rewrite plays tic-tac-toe
What constitutes a security incident?
Re:On lisp and pseudocode « Blogs are like opinions. Everybody has one…
on Saturday November 27, 2010 @04:50PM (#1945968)
Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)
Re:On lisp and pseudocode « Blogs are like opinions. Everybody has one…
on Saturday November 27, 2010 @04:15PM (#1945895)
I wrote the blog post just to expand a bit on the reply I gave on twitter because of the excerpt from "The Roots of Lisp". I never really expected to see on the HackerNews first page.
The Fatal Choice (Who killed Prolog - part 2)
Re:Who killed Prolog?
on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @09:11AM (#1649233)
Easier link http://wambook.sf.net/
Who killed Prolog?
Re:Stating P=NP Without Turing Machines
on Monday June 28, 2010 @02:06AM (#1467231)
An amazing line (about music) from a very old SF novel
Ask HN: Optimization Methods for Logical Inference
I asked over at OR-Exchange ( http://www.or-exchange.com/questions/433/optimization-methods-for-logical-inference ) and I am asking here, if anybody knows: I was browsing through our library today and stepped on "Optimization Methods for Logical Inference". Since there are no reader reviews at Amazon, maybe someone here has read it and can express an opinion?
KHOBE – 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software
Q: What is an incident?
StackExchange to shut down www.or-exchange.com ?
FireWire Reference Tutorial
Am I alone in believing that one should not send subject-less emails?
Re:Bright people fooling themselves ?
on Thursday January 28, 2010 @01:56PM (#1084652)
Although I agree with the arguments, I cannot (yet?) agree with the final outcome.
Bright people fooling themselves ?
When in doubt, just keep going
Re:Would you click on a link that contains Punycode?
on Saturday January 09, 2010 @04:45AM (#1041283)
You would because you are Greek and understand it. But what if it was Cyrillic or Chinese instead?
Would you click on a link that contains Punycode?
Would you click on (or type) a link that contains Punycode? Or even on a link that contains localized characters? Example:http://www.εδετ.gr and http://www.xn--pxabb4d.gr (they are the same site).Or would you consider them phising "faster" than a latin spelled URL?(The example I am giving is a legitimate site)