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posted by on Sunday February 26 2017, @07:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the spooks-needed dept.

The US Department of Defense wants you to contribute unclassified code to software projects developed in support of national security. Toward that end, it has launched Code.mil, which points to a Github repository intended to offer public access to code financed by public money. But at the moment, the DoD's repo lacks any actual code.

Open source and free software represent industry best practices, the DoD said in a statement, even as it acknowledged the agency has yet to widely adopt it. Code.mil represents an attempt to change that dynamic. On the project website, the DoD goes so far as to suggest that anything other than open source software puts lives at risk.

"US military members and their families make significant sacrifices to protect our country," the agency explains in its FAQs. "Their lives should not be negatively impacted by outdated tools and software development practices that lag far behind private sector standards." And in case that isn't clear enough, the agency states, "Modern software is open sourced software."

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 1) by charon on Sunday February 26 2017, @08:48PM (5 children)

    by charon (5660) on Sunday February 26 2017, @08:48PM (#471999) Journal
    As an AC, you may not be able to. As a logged in user, go to the Preferences [soylentnews.org] page (linked in the left sidebar), click the tab marked "Comments" at the top, look for a checkbox marked "Highlight New Comments" and uncheck it. Don't forget to save.
  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 26 2017, @09:21PM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 26 2017, @09:21PM (#472012) Journal

    Can I please have a way in which the comments I read are NOT dimmed when I enter the page after some time?
    It bleeps my eyes big time.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2, Informative) by charon on Sunday February 26 2017, @11:36PM (1 child)

      by charon (5660) on Sunday February 26 2017, @11:36PM (#472036) Journal
      That would be the checkbox directly below the one I described in my GP post. The one that says "Dim Read Comments".
      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 27 2017, @04:37AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 27 2017, @04:37AM (#472098) Journal

        Ah... thanks in heaps, much better now.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday February 27 2017, @07:56AM (1 child)

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday February 27 2017, @07:56AM (#472157) Homepage Journal

      The new commenting code is still in flux. What we have right now isn't the final set, and we're running daily articles about it. Next one goes live in several hours.

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      Still always moving
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @09:32AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @09:32AM (#472188)

        The new commenting code is still in flux.

        This is why we use flux capacitors as a core part of our unit testing. You never know where you'll end up without one.