December_Stars

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by December_Stars 3y ago
Also a trans person and I felt obligated to log in for the first time in over a year seeing your comment. I've seen comments here that are a nicely packaged up version of 4chan (non lgbt boards), and I strongly suggest you leave here b
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by December_Stars 5y ago
It's a lot more up to date than IceCat, which rarely has binary packages for distributions and hasn't seen an official binary release from the FSF since version 60.7.0 a few years ago.
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Ask HN: Career paths going to college: cybersec, CS+cybersec, or something else
3 points by December_Stars 5y ago|0 comments
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Mark Shuttleworth(wiki.ubuntu.com)
1 points by December_Stars 5y ago|0 comments
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Hi. I submitted this because I am an AP (American program that allows you to get college credit) CS Principles student that uses code.org for the class. I took the class after being told by the school we'd learn actual Java in the clas
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MY PROBLEM WITH CODE.ORG (2017-2018)(owenthe.dev)
3 points by December_Stars 6y ago|2 comments
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by December_Stars 6y ago
And how will we start the change to more open systems, except by starting in the start of the workforce chain in schools? Imagine if schools starting teaching everyone Blender over Autodesk Maya, for instance. We create a workforce where mo
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Odd how no one has mentioned the addition of client side decorations. Personally it's a huge dealbreaker for me, I really dislike how they look. It's a shame, because the release and Xfce in general otherwise seems really good. Gu
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CentOS team discuss implications of CentOS Stream move with Wikinews(en.m.wikinews.org)
2 points by December_Stars 6y ago|0 comments
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by December_Stars 6y ago
First off, you are right in that Linux has major security issues and isn't perfect in it. However, outside of the comments that have already been posted in defense of linux's security, in the end, Linux's relative obscurity a
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by December_Stars 6y ago
It is missing one crucial truth that dispels the thesis: The fact that a social network does not need to be owned by one entity for everyone on it to be able to interact with each other. See Federation[0], federated social networks like Mas
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by December_Stars 6y ago
> It is not possible to imagine a video game produced by an open community, because it requires the vision of an auteur, not design-by-consensus. A lot of modern videogames use art assets and define gameplay behavior with JSON. Stallman
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by December_Stars 6y ago
There's also LibreWolf, which has a flatpak/AppImage and is more up to date with the latest Firefox - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Pretty sure this was the only available software, iirc it was some Vernier related thing.
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by December_Stars 6y ago
There's a few but those are quite prominent. Most notably I remember when I took Physics 1 we used some very specific software which name I do not remember but it was proprietary and only on Windows. Other than that almost every class
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Speaking as a student whose school primarily uses Google's suite (classroom, meet, etc..) but still has a few older solutions, some of which are free software, I can say that there's a common argument that schools should focus on
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The Problems Debian Is Facing in 2020(phoronix.com)
1 points by December_Stars 6y ago|0 comments
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by December_Stars 6y ago
If our economy damns us if we do have a baby but damns us if we don't maybe the economy is the issue, not us.
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Coming from a household where people took this step count goal religiously, it genuinely has no impact on your health. Obviously more steps is better but 10k is just an arbitrary number thats easy to market.
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by December_Stars 6y ago
Yes, their products do. Run FF through mitmproxy and look at all of Mozilla's privacy policies and tell me they're not collecting far more data than they should be, at least by default cause 90℅ of users aren't gonna disabl