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New comment by adamo in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

adamo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:17:15 +0000

Akritai were locals who were to be used as the defenders of the borders instead of deploying regular Army or mercenaries. For this reason they were given land (so as to have skin in the game) and tax breaks. When the tax breaks stopped the Akritai rapidly vanished. These are also mentioned in Wikipedia pages.

So, in terms of a security project an Akritas would be you running an EDR agent on a machine that you own, not some of the signatory companies who basically do not own anything on the edge (end user equipment).

New comment by adamo in "We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together"

adamo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:32:31 +0000

To be fair, the Akritai was the Byzantine Empire's effort to use the local population to defend the land, instead of having to deploy regular Army or mercenaries. It happened to be Muslim states that was the border. It bears no anti-muslim connotations as a word in Greek. In fact the epic of Digenes Akritas, speaks of Basil, an Akritas of a Greek mother and an Arab father (hence the name Digenes, of two descents).

But still, the name is a bad, uninformed choice.

New comment by adamo in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

adamo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:24:56 +0000

This is a very simplified and uninformed view of what the Akritai were. The name choice is so wrong, it cannot even be called out as cultural appropriation, because it is far worse than that. LF just stick with languages you understand.

Twitter revoked cree.py's API keys

adamo — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:43:15 +0000

Article URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7682245/what-is-the-standard-way-to-handle-twitter-api-keys-in-gpld-desktop-applications

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088309

Points: 2

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Mod_rewrite plays tic-tac-toe

adamo — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:20:20 +0000

Article URL: http://material5.tumblr.com/post/3599567441/how-to-configure-apache2-to-play-tic-tac-toe-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285833

Points: 2

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What constitutes a security incident?

adamo — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:39:51 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.postmaster.gr/2011/02/21/what-constitutes-a-security-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247063

Points: 1

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New comment by adamo in "[dead]"

adamo — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:50:41 +0000

Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)

New comment by adamo in "[dead]"

adamo — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:15:26 +0000

I wrote the blog post just to expand a bit on the reply I gave on twitter because of the excerpt from "The Roots of Lisp". I never really expected to see on the HackerNews first page.

The Fatal Choice (Who killed Prolog - part 2)

adamo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:37:21 +0000

Article URL: http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/the-fatal-choice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652146

Points: 7

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New comment by adamo in "Who killed Prolog?"

adamo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:11:12 +0000

Easier link http://wambook.sf.net/

Who killed Prolog?

adamo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:17:30 +0000

Article URL: http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648711

Points: 93

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New comment by adamo in "Stating P=NP Without Turing Machines "

adamo — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:06:40 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_sta...

An amazing line (about music) from a very old SF novel

adamo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:18:16 +0000

Article URL: http://nextbit.blogspot.com/2010/06/amazing-line-from-very-old-sf-novel.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1451278

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Optimization Methods for Logical Inference

adamo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:08:56 +0000

I asked over at OR-Exchange ( http://www.or-exchange.com/questions/433/optimization-methods-for-logical-inference ) and I am asking here, if anybody knows: I was browsing through our library today and stepped on "Optimization Methods for Logical Inference". Since there are no reader reviews at Amazon, maybe someone here has read it and can express an opinion?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432378

Points: 2

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