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Re:Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:37AM (#49477652)
> The STF is run by politologists with no clue. They fund flashy web apps that they "understand" and packaging.

That is complete nonsense. Where do you get this "information"?

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech lists OpenSSL, rusttls, Junit, pipewire, samba, varnish-cache, curl, Fortran, even friggin GNU coreutils and others. None of those are "flashy web apps".

Re:Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:52AM (#49004690)
They are a non profit, not a company and you can have private repos. You are spreading misinformation.
Re:Googleworkspace/CLI on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:21AM (#47259488)
For the love of god, please google, give us personal access tokens and not this Oauth madness inside GCP. It is impossible to get that in any big enterprise.
I have a little terminal llm thing that has a --bofh switch which make it talk like the BOFH. Very refereshing to interact with it :-)
Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:40AM (#44865424)
The only thing that ever really worked for me is taskwarrior.org. It is super easy to get started and can be made more sophisticated as you. I live in the terminal most of the time anyway so that makes it a natural fit.
Re:Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:10AM (#44581321)
> I never heard of any certificate authority offering that.

DigiCert does. That is where 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 get their valid certificates from

Re:Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:51AM (#44581171)
No, it is not DNS over HTTPS it is DNS over TLS, which is different.
Re:Evolving OpenAI's Structure on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:50PM (#43898762)
Google is one of the most valuable brands ever. Everyone knows it. It is even used for "searching the web" openai is not that strong of a brand
Load on the underlying infrastructure is a concern. The signing keys are all in HSMs and don't scale infinitely.
Re:DeepSeek Drops Distributed DuckDB on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:01PM (#43234427)
The authors are Chinese so they may simply use AI to make it sound right in English
Re:Announcing the data.gov archive on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:30AM (#42971184)
ArchiveTeam is working on everything US-Government and you can help https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/US_Government

Re:Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:13AM (#42934289)
How can I run this as non-root? This is not obvious to me.
Re:Access for Infrastructure: SSH on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:43AM (#41933470)
Zero Trust is a marketing label that executives can seek out and buy a thing for because it is super-hot thing to have these days. That's mostly it.
Re:CouchDB 3.4.1 Released on Friday September 27, 2024 @08:36AM (#41669699)
Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.
I have no idea what any of the google tech has to do with anything here.

Quoting from the original spark paper:

> Spark is built on top of Mesos [16, 15], a “cluster operat- > ing system” that lets multiple parallel applications share > a cluster in a fine-grained manner and provides an API > for applications to launch tasks on a cluster

https://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2010/hotcloud_spar...

Note how Matei Zaharia - the inventor of spark - is also on the mesos paper:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alig/papers/mesos.pdf

Well spark was really a showcase Project for mesos when it was created. Now everyone knows a lot more
Happy user for years here. Keep up the good work!
Re:A curious phenomenon called 'Etak' on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:05AM (#40049841)
When I started working at TeleAtlas Germany (former Robert Bosch Data; forever a part of TomTom now) in 2005 we still had production processes on the MapEngine technology coming from Etak. We had in-house python bindings that allowed for very productive development. It is fun to see this mentioned here today.
Re:Kagi and Wolfram on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:00PM (#39607783)
Mobile Firefox allows it.
Re:Ansel on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:10AM (#38401940)
Re:Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:38AM (#38261070)
One is allowed to rent servers elsewhere
Re:Gnome Receives €1M from German Government on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:45AM (#38229463)
> you never see that kind of salary in germany)

You need to work on your negotiating skills

Re:Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on Gnome (CVE-2023-43641) on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:20AM (#37843102)
> It is also easy to run browser in well protected virtual machine sandbox.

Yeah, so easy that literally nobody does this.

Re:OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:22AM (#37596561)
The same can be said for distros like debian. Seems like a weak argument pro-BSD to me.
Re:OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:19AM (#37596529)
why would the GDPR end that? This is still a legitimate ask and they can do that legally.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook on creating a clean energy future on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:11AM (#37553932)
https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5 <- 5 year warranty, 8 years of software updates, easy to repair, made from recycled parts etc. etc. This all exists today. We do not have to wait for Cupertino.

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