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This will just force them to build in some sort of revenue extraction model. Pass! Git and copyleft are fine as is.

Microsoft Azure has always been a clown show. I've found so many obvious bugs. The quality is not there and never will be. No serious companies rely on it. Use virtually any other vendor or host it yourself.

The PRC didn't fail, they haven't finished succeeding yet.

What's the chance this will even work on Linux with GNOME?


The thing I don't understand is why it isn't a felony for the police the disable the surveillance cameras! That alone should be a crime. I get that you need search warrants and protections, but you shouldn't be able to suppress the evidence of your work, since it's common for police to steal, plant evidence, or destroy property.


It is a crime, obviously. Things don't magically become crimes depending on the employer of the perpetrator - that's the whole point of "a nation of laws and not of men."

It's legal for you to arrest someone if you see them commit a felony. It's legal for you to arrest someone under a warrant if you are deputized by a Sheriff of the court (almost never happens, but legal). It's not legal for you, whether you are employed at a police agency or not, to vandalize someone's camera.


Heathrow is still a bullshit airport:

1) Bodyscanners: body scanners are a scam 2) They took away my 100ml contain that clearly had less than 1 cm of liquid in it because it wasn't clearly labelled as "100ml". Any idiot could know it was like 10ml full. 3) They used to do actual xray basically on people. 4) You have to re-security to transfer on connections! You already could have blown up the incoming plane, why does this even matter?

I don't go there anymore. Waste of time and all security theatre without common sense.


A trick I use to bypass the liquid restriction is to intentionally pack a sacrificial bottle in addition to whatever valuable bottle I care about. In most cases when the luggage comes for manual inspection they toss the first (sacrificial one) they see and leave the actual valuable bottle alone.


> Heathrow is still a bullshit airport:

Heathrow has the best Guinness+ in the world - those pumps just don't stop.

* if you don't like Guinness, DON'T try it if you've already had a different beer/ ale (whatever). Try it before anything else or it's worse than the very devil spitting on your buds (!).


The Technical Blog of James: https://purpleidea.com/ aka https://purpleidea.com/blog/


How is the technical block done? Just a bot closing issues or is there some github setting for this?


I was surprised too, that I had to check the docs, so I assume the user was misinformed.


Perhaps I misremembered or things changed? For instance, the os/user results in a dynamicly linked executable: https://play.golang.com/p/7QsmcjJI4H5

There are multiple standard library functions that do it.. I recall some in "net" and some in "os".


os.UserHomeDir is specified to read the HOME environment variable, so it doesn’t require CGo. os/user does, but only to support NSS and LDAP, which are provided by libc. That’s also why net requires CGo- for getaddrinfo using resolv.conf


Have a look at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and tell me what you think. We don't have enough docs though. Tough being an open source thing that you want to keep open.


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