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Re:Ask HN: Should Qt be considered in the place of electron?
on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:21AM (#18930916)
Phasing out is the same as sunsetting, i.e., terminating: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/sunsetting
From the first post, I assumed the commenter meant something like, "in Qt 6 QWidgets will stop working", which is insane.
Re:Ask HN: Should Qt be considered in the place of electron?
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:07PM (#18926479)
QWidgets are being phased out? What???
Re:MongoDB should not be part of a stable release
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:02PM (#18925900)
Discussion about the SSPL and the DFSG: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537
>Firstly, it’s not change for the sake of change.
Actually yes, it is.
Re:FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:07PM (#18924525)
Why not just use Tor?
Re:Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:58PM (#18923133)
On an unrelated note, as a non-American, it's stunning to see how wide those roads are, how big those parkings are, and the amount of SUVs and pickup trucks. I mean, that's kind of the American stereotype, but it calls my attention to see that it's actually true. (Speaking about the last link in particular.)
Re:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:16AM (#18920987)
Yeah, no. No matter how much romanticism you want to throw at it, this kind of defensiveness is simple tribalism.
Re:MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#18920324)
If the new MongoDB licence is non-free, the chances that Debian will include that software in their repos are nil.
Re:MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:30AM (#18920220)
>Going with the maintainer's repo means that you trust the maintainer with providing security updates for the version you have installed or you trust them with providing a useable upgrade path.
Why should that be a problem if you use the official repo, handled by MongoDB themselves?