MintelIE

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by MintelIE 6y ago
Remember when VLC was in the Vault 7 Wikileaks release? It turned out the CIA could deliver a media file which had a surveillance payload. It wasn't ever made clear if this required a special bugged VLC or if the main VLC was in fact t
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Systemd is flaky and bloated. I guess for certain enterprise applications people unfamiliar with Unix might see the utility in it but there are many init replacements which are much better. Heck daemontools still competes favorably with sys
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Welp, looks like if you decide to edit what people post you become a publisher. Just like it says in Section 230.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Is this going to be like the normal Apple forums where no Apple employees ever appear except to poo-poo widespread issues? That always bothered me.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Anybody watching this should also read As We May Think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Doesn't Snapchat mainly rely upon the iOS or Android platform having some software that prevents screen shots if a 'no screen shots' flag is set? I always thought this was their core defense.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I have to go ahead and disagree with you there on this point. The War On Drugs is intended to hurt violent street gangs, often foreign-based.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
How can they offer E2E while still complying with Chinese laws?
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by MintelIE 6y ago
No thanks! Currently China is using drugs to destabilize and damage the USA. Fentanyl is a weapon.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I mean this is good, right? There are a LOT of illegal aliens involved in the drug trade. These people aren't known for their propensity to have correct ID. The only practical way to ID them is with facial recognition, DNA, and fingerp
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Is this what they call pilpul? Neat.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Many people have rejected the systemd cult of bloat and scripts are easy to read, write, understand, and maintain. Most consist of generic boilerplate anyway. Nobody wants to replace a simple init system with something with 1.5 million line
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by MintelIE 6y ago
What a terrible horrible article. Where do they get the droolers currently labeled journalists anyhow? This is a Shameful.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Microsoft sucks the life out of everything they touch.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
First KNOWN use. Diggers often claim to have found the first or earliest whatever it is, but they omit the qualifier.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
This is really creepy and I have an intense dislike for the people behind it. Nobody alive today was a slave and choosing to become ass hurt at industry standard terms, which aren't even racial in nature (every race has been enslaved),
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Remember folks, masks don't help and there is no possibility of human to human transmission. I personally blame the media, after all they are the ones creating the confusion.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Personally I won't buy another WD or Sandisk product ever again. Companies like this don't ever really come off as being sorry for the scams they pull, so it's best to just cut them off completely. I de-Googled too because of
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Benchmarks of programmable calculators and BASIC handhelds(thimet.de)
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Going woke isn’t a great move for a company. And how many workers? Just the vocal “activists?” In the near future companies will be wary of hiring people with a history of shrill woke activism. Better a quiet Nazi than a vocal Communist.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
It'd be interesting to see what research these spies were stealing or influencing.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Why don't all these people who are out of work just learn to code?
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Objective-C was a very interesting language, in some ways much better than C++ while filling the same type of role. It's a shame that so much effort is being thrown away by Apple. I recommend anybody who has an Objective-C program that
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by MintelIE 6y ago
So did they get bought out by the NSA or something? It's weird how the whole company and everything else just disappeared.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Assuming there will be a vaccine is an act of faith. They have been working on a SARS vaccine for years, with billions invested and several man-centuries, and have failed so far.
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by MintelIE 6y ago
The last two times I flew on a plane I got deathly ill. In fact the second time the sickly mal-air of the cabin was so overwhelming that I remarked to my wife that I was sure to get ill from the flight. And if you look at how cabin air is h
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by MintelIE 6y ago
Rust is way too big for systems programming. We're hitting walls here left and right as well. Fatter languages are not the answer no matter how safe they are. Lessons were learned 60 years ago which were never properly applied across i
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The HP-48 series calculators(en.wikipedia.org)
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by MintelIE 6y ago
I think we are meant to divine Apple’s plan from clues. Much of the Unix side of OS X or whatever it’s called now is getting pretty old, much apparently unchanged from years ago. So my guess is this stuff is going away sooner than later. Th
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by MintelIE 6y ago
The recent arrest of Charles Lieber and other professors shows that academia is a big target for the Chinese.

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