Comment He works for Microsoft since a while already (Score 1) 148
How curious no-one dares to say? I wonder if this is his personal choice or the company policy.
Funny enough, this was also a prediction of the Veteran UNIX Admins at the origin of the Debian fork (Devuan).
Funny enough, this was also a prediction of the Veteran UNIX Admins at the origin of the Debian fork (Devuan).
Comment Re:man page (Score 1) 147
It is accessed by browsers, Chromium for instance.
Submission + - The file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id matters for your privacy (and Devuan fixed it)
jaromil writes: A few days ago Devuan ASCII 2.1 was announced and one update has been overlooked by most media outlets: our dbus patch to re-generate machine-id at every boot. This patch matters for everyone's privacy and I hope more distributions will follow our example, let alone Debian. We are dealing with important privacy implications: non-consensual user tracking is illegal in many countries and is not even mentioned in the machine-id documentation so far.
Comment Re:hear the EU bell (Score 1) 173
There is a big difference between a book and a facebook post. But I'm not susprised you don't know it.
Comment hear the EU bell (Score 1) 173
EU has made GDPR to put an end on data extractivism and commodification of data by profit driven agendas.
Slashdot mates: this Internet thing cannot be just a business and many of us know it here.
Now with this ruling we are giving subjects the sovereignty on their digital self. I believe there are masses of young people hooked to instagramming their idiocy who need this sort of defense. Its also called "the right to be forgotten" and right in the USA there is a fantastic foundation fighting for it for years EPIC.org
disclaimer: I work as a EU commission researcher on the DECODE project that was acqui-hired by FB (see Wired article)
ciao
Slashdot mates: this Internet thing cannot be just a business and many of us know it here.
Now with this ruling we are giving subjects the sovereignty on their digital self. I believe there are masses of young people hooked to instagramming their idiocy who need this sort of defense. Its also called "the right to be forgotten" and right in the USA there is a fantastic foundation fighting for it for years EPIC.org
disclaimer: I work as a EU commission researcher on the DECODE project that was acqui-hired by FB (see Wired article)
ciao
Comment At Devuan, we knew this was going down (Score 1) 306
As stated in 2016 at FSCONS in the Q&A
https://youtu.be/wMvyOGawNwo?t...
Comment Re: Has anyone got SystemD usable? (Score 1) 313
I maybe up for a promotion using Redhat/CentOS in a few months and will be judged on uptime and ability to recover from reboots. I am nervous after reading all the hate here.
RH/COS is serving a lot of farms with OpenStack.
but then...
Google is pressing kubernetes at huge trade fairs. M$ is catching up with open source culture.
Ubuntu is enforcing snap and the other everywhere...
who knows what will happen???
I'm sorry it makes you feel nervous. I mostly feel excited
Comment Re: The Coveted Bruce Perens endosement :-) (Score 1) 313
For the *nix seasoning Big Up to Museum.Freaknet.org ... and the ipv7 retro decnet community and the suckless tribes :^)
Comment Re: No one cares (Score 3, Interesting) 313
We hope the inclusion of OpenRC in ASCII's installer (expert mode) can be a concrete answer to your question. OpenRC is also what good BSD folks are adopting.
Comment Re:The Coveted Bruce Perens endosement :-) (Score 4, Interesting) 313
Many thanks Bruce. Your endorsement means a lot to me and other Devuan developers.
Comment sorry for spam (Score 1) 1
I'm sorry to have caused any trouble to /. editors, understand this was classified as SPAM, but its really unintentional.
I follow and post on slashdot since almost 20 years now and clearly remember there was always a tradition of april fools so I thought this submission would be welcome. FWIW I recommend keeping up the april fool tradition next year, its dear to many hackers.
thanks and all the best.
Submission + - Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate announced (devuan.org)
jaromil writes: Devuan 1.0.0-RC is announced, following its beta 2 release last year. The Debian fork that spawned over systemd controversy is reaching stability and plans long term support. Devuan deploys an innovative continuous integration setup: with fallback on Debian packages, it overlays its own modifications and then uses the merged source repository to ship images for 11 ARM targets, a desktop and a minimal live, vagrant and qemu virtual machines and the classic installer isos. The release announcements contains several links to project that have already adopted this distribution as a base OS.
Submission + - Devuan releases beta of systemd-free "debianfork" base system (devuan.org) 1
jaromil writes: Devuan beta is released today, following up the debianfork declaration and progress made during the past 2 years. Devuan now provides an alternative upgrade path to Debian, switching is easy both from Wheezy and Jessie.
Submission + - Apple settles a $347M fine with Italian authorities for tax evasion
jaromil writes: Apple Italy, a subsidiary of Apple Sales International based in Ireland, has managed for years the company's sales on the Italian Peninsula. As Italian tax authorities noticed the company did not file any income tax declarations between 2008 and 2013, they opened a court case for an estimated debt of €880M. Apple Italy has now settled for a fine of €318M, while three managers involved in the tax fraud still need to face court.
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