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matheusmoreira
28,283karma·11,399submissions·October 4, 2016
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Brazilian hobbyist programmer. I mostly do my own thing but I've contributed to some free and open source projects.
I created the lone programming language, a lisp for Linux:
https://github.com/lone-lang/lone
The projects I've published are on GitHub:
https://github.com/matheusmoreira/
I can be reached via email:
hn@matheusmoreira.com
I also have my own website:
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/
If you like my work, consider sponsoring me:
https://github.com/sponsors/matheusmoreira
No pressure though. I do this because I enjoy it.
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Why do people have to stop it from spreading? If it's so obviously wrong, then nobody will believe it anyway. Why do people need to be protected from "politically incorrect" viewpoints?…
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>Not that you’d want to be there. The most popular boards on 4chan are typically /pol/, a place for what they say is “politically incorrect” (read: racism, misogyny, homophobia) So this i…
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Why does using V8 or Blink give Google control over your software?
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Why does your server indiscriminately accept connections from everyone in the world if you care so much about people "stealing" page views?
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Oh please . That's about as dishonest and manipulative as calling copyright infringement piracy . The real truth is nobody really cares about how much money these people are losing. We're …
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You don't need anybody's permission to do this. Linux has a language-agnostic system call interface. Everything that happens on the computer is accomplished through that interface, and to …
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It is horribly inefficient and takes way too long. Even if a judge decides something, people may simply appeal to a higher court. This can go on and on until they run out of either courts or money. I&…
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Only the modem is managed? Is it a separate system/firmware? That would make a lot of sense. My ISP gave me a VDSL router and I can configure a lot of things via the web interface, but to get acc…
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So ISPs remotely push updates to their customer premises hardware? This doesn't apply to the customer's own equipment, right?
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Does the iPhone's secure element implement smart card functionality? Does it allow generating and storing PGP keys in secure tamper-resistant memory?
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Of course. You can read the protocol specification and/or study the source code of the existing libraries and clients to figure out how they work. I think a reasonable first step is learning abou…
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This technology is insufficiently advanced and does not substitute dead bodies. In fact, I used these digital bodies when I took anatomy and it wasn't enough. Drawn atlases and physical models ju…
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>I do this because I feel that the project has something of value and can be improved If you don't already feel the project has value, I doubt the availability of documentation would sway you.…
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>implies that the requester's time is less valuable than the project maintainer's It is. In large projects, there are relatively few maintainers responsible for evaluating the requests, r…
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True. People seem to have expectations of open source projects now. They act like customers even if the programmer isn't a professional who is getting paid to work on it. I work on several person…
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So your idea is to enter a technological arms race with the people who physically control the machine your tracking code is going to run on? This approach isn't working very well for the people t…
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Nobody felt the need to justify tracking the personal information of billions of people for their own benefits. Nobody asked if we were OK with it; they just did it. Nobody offered us any compensation…
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The fact of the matter is these referral links are sent to you by the user agent . As the name implies, that program is entirely under the control of the user. Just because the browser makes HTTP req…
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That button is just a CYA measure. The idea seems to prevent users from claiming they didn't know they were being monitored. It solves nothing and gives users absolutely no control over tracking …
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Why? Doesn't the math stand on its own? Not accepting a sound proposal from a "nobody" is just as bad as accepting the NSA's because people think they're an authority on the m…
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>If I turn off my tv during ads on a cable show, am I now stealing? I think this is an excellent analogy. What if broadcasters transmitted control codes that could reconfigure your TV or even disab…
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>Do you not believe that content creators have the right to set the terms upon which their content may be consumed?
>you don't believe that you have the right to say "you may read this…
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Do people get paid for energy injected into the grid? If one consumes X kW/month but generates 1.5X, what happens to the 0.5X difference?
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Is it? https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942 The author of the issue suggests the adoption of a certain Contributor Covenant. Here is the latest version of the text: …
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It should discourage it. I don't want to buy new products and have them turn out to be recycled. Obviously, a used/recycled/refurbished product has unpredictable reliability.
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>for instance the baker who was sued for refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple Anyone can be sued for any reason. What matters is whether the judge found the baker guilty.
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This directly contradicts other CoC enforcement cases: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 >publicly calling trans people out for "not accepting reality&quo…
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What if the entire system is configured to use Tor? Does the use of Tails mitigate this weakness?
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>open to all That's in direct opposition to security. When you grant people you don't even know much less trust access to your system, all bets are off. There's just no way to predic…
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> the groups behind SESTA Which groups are you referring to?