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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:51PM (#23295166)
Arch does not have a release cycle, sorry.
Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:37PM (#23295037)
I always wonder why people usually choose to neglect privacy issues about Apple.

First, there was Apple scanning photos to check for child abuse[0] (that obviously got no attention on this site), then there was this one - Apple uploading hashes of all unsigned executables you run.

Do people really accept that company's "privacy" selling point?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180019, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008855

Electricity. In some places, electricity is still largely produced in thermal power plants, which do pollute a lot. In France and Norway, I guess most of their electricity is from nuclear and water?
Quoting Linus himself (https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...):

> We didn't go out of our way to deliberately break anything.

> But we do occasionally turn symbols that aren't meant to be used outside the kernel into GPL-only, because they have some internal implementation issues.

Just like YouTube a few weeks ago?
Re:HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3 on Sunday November 11, 2018 @07:08PM (#18429590)
SCTP is a good protocol itself, but there are lots of NAT devices/firewalls/other strange middleboxes that do not play nice with SCTP. These devices only recognize TCP and UDP, and they tend to drop everything they do not know.

This is not something very easy to fix - not as easy as fixing Cisco devices that hijack 1.1.1.1, or upgrade enterprise-grade MITM firewalls that don't know and block TLS 1.3.

Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:59AM (#11180959)
Unlike ConnectBot, Termux is not a terminal, it's a customized linux environment (think of a chroot without really changing root directory), which provides its own linker and libraries (so it's not advised to run android system tools in Termux, thus not a terminal).
Re:Node v4.0.0 on Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:16AM (#10196738)
> One of the big goals of IO was to move to semver

And of course they failed right from the start. From semver.org: Version 1.0.0 defines the public API.

So their jumping to 4.0.0 from 0.x.x means they don't care to have a public API!