g1n016399's comments

I agree with finding a mentor.

Please tell the EFF about that.

> Keep them honest with copyleft licenses to keep users free of this kind of nonsense.

... and support the GPL compliance efforts of organisations like Software Freedom Conservancy:

https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

Looks like "they aren't from the Plan 9 world".

testing is Debian's rolling release.

Ack on the version stuff.

You can install security updates from unstable using the output of debsecan:

apt-get -t unstable install $(debsecan --suite sid --format packages --only-fixed)

Based on what you have said it sounds like you want Ubuntu's rolling release, which is upgraded daily.

Ubuntu Snappy packages are based on the normal Ubuntu packages so they will be at the same versions.

Actually Debian's rolling release is newer than Arch, 5.3.1:

https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/gcc-5

How about being a compiler engineer in the UK?

http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/embecosm-compiler-engineer

Ubuntu is doing it totally differently to Debian.

Debian uses the compile-at-install-time workaround but Ubuntu ships binaries, which is a GPL violation.

Not exceptionally cheap, but:

https://omnia.turris.cz/en/

If anyone wants more companies to comply with the GPL, you might want to consider supporting the compliance efforts of the SFC:

https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

Related:

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dmca-anti-circumvention-co...

Various websites break if you don't send the User-Agent header. So, in the short term, no, in the long term, yes.

Like many ambitious wiki-based projects, this site seems to suffer from lack of focus. Look at these pages:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Dendrochronology

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/TLD_.mobi

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Endianness

How is any of these things a file format? Because the definition of a file format in the FAQ (<http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/FAQ:File_Format>) is so broad that it can be made to encompass basically everything. The manifesto that started this site is a rambling sermon that doesn't clarify anything in this respect: it just repeats "let's solve the problem" without even properly defining what the problem is.

There are also other issues. The classification scheme is often Procrustean and confused. Error messages were until recently mixed up with error detection codes, which conflates two different meanings of "error". Similarly FUSE shares a category with HFS+, even though the former is an API, and the latter a disk format; distinct things which just happen to share the name of "file system". The pages are rather short and consist mostly of lists of links. Given the above-mentioned lack of clearly defined scope, I suspect many pages seem to be created about topics just because they're in the news and/or just to have a place to put a link to a "neat" blog post: see for example <http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Facebook#Links>.

Last but not least, the whole site is rather ugly, and the logo is awfully non-descriptive of what it's supposed to contain; what am I supposed to do with this thumb, stick it up my arse?

It's a shame, really, because documenting file formats is a hard and valuable endeavour. But I don't think these people are going to do a good job of it.

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That's true, but the video and related article doesn't confirm this. All we know is that the guy couldn't scroll down on the page. There's no indication right now that the ad is actually at fault.