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by andor 13y ago
As a TeX user, I find this extremely useful. The Fedora packages map 1:1 to Texlive packages. There is no need to research if a LaTeX package is available and in which Fedora package it is hidden, you can just install "tex-packagename&
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by andor 13y ago
They're a pioneer in key pinning, which bakes the identity of their key into the Chrome browser binary, meaning that when your Chrome browser talks to Google's mail service, it's unlikely to trust any otherwise- valid- looki
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by andor 13y ago
This is my Raspberry Pi-powered espresso machine dashboard: http://zentrale1.com/~an/coffee/ I use this with an iPad standing next to the machine to check that the temperature is okay before pulling a shot. The te
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by andor 13y ago
"Our tools have been getting more precarious, thanks to bugs introduced by the browser vendors" Bugs introduced by the browser vendors? What? What?? Wait just second there, you think the global economy and power structure of the
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by andor 13y ago
Technology is relevant in the discussion, because it is what makes surveillance possible at today's scale. Some technology promotes freedom by enabling free and uncensored communication: neutral networks, encryption, self-hosted server
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by andor 13y ago
It's a technology for exchanging information in a decentralized fashion, in contrast to corporate services like Facebook or Twitter. By centralizing most online communication, these corporations gain control over information flow, whic
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by andor 13y ago
What difference to the NSA intercept program does it make if the data comes from Google Apps or your own open-source platform? Encryption
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by andor 13y ago
He's also wearing a Casio F-91W on that picture ;-)
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by andor 13y ago
In fact, they opened a DC in Canada and not the U.S. and one can guess why. Because it's culturally closer, I'd guess. OVH is a French company, and their Canadian data center is just outside of Montreal.
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by andor 13y ago
I guess the bandwidth savings would be completely offset by the increased latency from the larger number of required RPC calls.
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by andor 13y ago
I do not think that a life on basic income would have been appealing to the author Basic income isn't supposed to be your only source of income. Rather, it's income you can take for granted and that therefore gives you some financial secu
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by andor 13y ago
Given the amount of web sites he blogs about each day, I can't imagine he still uses this email workflow. On May 31st he made more than 30 posts: http://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-mar-jun.html
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by andor 13y ago
Your page shows no content when Javascript is disabled (CSS is display: none). Why don't you do the Markdown to HTML conversion statically, or on the server?
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by andor 13y ago
If you need calendar and contacts synchronization, a hosted Exchange account might fit your needs. For example, Microsoft sells accounts with 25GB storage for $4 per user and month. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/msproducts/exchange/com
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by andor 13y ago
It covers the removable battery. I don't like the sandwich look, it's a design trick to make the phone appear thinner. The front half by itself isn't bad, with clean lines and no silly "design elements" that don't add to usability.
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by andor 13y ago
It seems to be a known bug in PCManFM 1.1.0. Ubuntu 12.10 ships with version 1.0.1, which is unaffected. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3583229&...
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by andor 13y ago
As Nautilus has been horribly slow for a long time, I switched to PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE. It integrates well with GNOME, and is pretty much full-featured. There's also a status bar ;-) The only weird thing is that in the "detaile
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by andor 13y ago
It's definitely not the lack of features, since XMPP is extendable. I've heard that the protocol is quite chatty and would cause power drain on phones. That could probably be solved with a binary serialization alternative to XML, though.
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by andor 13y ago
That depends on the use case. The subscription model will be significantly more expensive for people who don't need the newest features. At about $50 per month the $1200 for CS Design Standard are payed off after 2 years. Whereas I'm still
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by andor 14y ago
Original discussion of the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395009
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by andor 14y ago
I can't scroll on qz.com unless I enable Javascript. Please fix the CSS!
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by andor 14y ago
1) BNF [0] is a notation [1] for formally defining languages [2], e.g. the syntax [3] of programming languages like C [4] or Java [5], or in this case, the IRC protocol. Every BNF definition is a bunch of strings. BNF is not a data model [6
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by andor 14y ago
The author seems to lack the technical background to write about the topic. All IRC messages are simple strings in the augmented BNF representation. He does not know what a formal language is. The difference between a command and a messa
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by andor 14y ago
RTFM ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key
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by andor 14y ago
From the interview linked at the bottom of the article [0]: I was sent back to North Korea three times and finally I escaped to South Korea. I was lucky because I got a scholarship from a organization, so I was able to come to the US to st
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by andor 14y ago
Completely true. I recently installed Windows 7 on a new Lenovo T430 and it certainly didn't "just work". Windows Update (or whatever the repository is called) couldn't find drivers for the Intel Ethernet controller, Intel Wifi adapter, Ivy
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by andor 14y ago
UI and kernel development is likely done by different people with different skill sets. I don't see a reason why they shouldn't work in parallel.
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by andor 14y ago
I guess that just as with the native email client, there's not much development happening on the native SIP dialer. Instead of improving the core Android apps, which would benefit other phone manufacturers as well, Google is mostly working
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by andor 14y ago
Unfortunately, the past few days many EFnet servers (and more are following) have had to ban an entire ISP, which has not happened in over a decade, if not longer. Naturally, something extreme must happen for this to be even considered. [
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by andor 14y ago
This is about living under a constitution guaranteed by law. Syria and china are oppressed because people obey orders. Regimes have only ever changed because people stop obeying orders or get invaded. People obey orders because they don't

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