.diff or .patch?
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Silly question: when you use diff(1) to produce a file to be applied with patch(1), do you call the result a
diff or a patch? Do you name it foo.diff
or foo.patch
?
Et voilà, c'est arrivé
(un auteur critique le concept de bibliothèque de prêts)
Il y a six mois, j'écrivais un court article présentant deux questions simples comme piste de réflexion sur l'intérêt de la clique des majors et des sociétés de gestion de droit d'auteur dans le contexte actuel de guerre entre le public et l'industrie du divertissement de masse :
- Les bibliothèques de prêt sont-elles bonnes pour la culture ?
- Si elles n'existaient pas et qu'ont proposait de les créer, comment la clique du droit d'auteur réagirait-elle ?
Eh bien, c'est finalement arrivé : l'auteur Terry Deary vient de critiquer ouvertement le concept de bibliothèques de prêts, qu'il accuse de « trancher la gorge [des auteurs] et de les détrousser », et qu'il rend responsable de la fermeture de librairies.
Using the UDF as a successor of FAT for USB sticks
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FAT
USB sticks are traditionally formatted with FAT 32, because this file system is implemented by almost every operating system and device. Unfortunately, it sucks, as it cannot use more than 2 TiB, store files larger than 2 GiB or store symbolic links for instance. In a word, it is an obsolete and deficient file system.
exFAT
Good news: someone addressed that problem. Bad new: that someone is Microsoft. So as you could expect, exFAT, the extended FAT, is a stinking proprietary, secret and patented file system. There are free implementations of that shit, but it is safer to stay away from it.
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Do not reCAPTCHA!
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You probably know reCAPTCHA already: for the webmasters and the end user, it is an antispam system which asks you to read distorted words in order to prove that you are a human and not a spamming bot. This service has another end: instead of generating its distorted texts, it takes them from printed books to help digitalizing them.
The drawback with tiling window managers…
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