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by bmaupin 9y ago
Any plans to support Skype for Business?
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by bmaupin 9y ago
I haven't actually looked at the binary but supposedly it's written in C. > What language is eul written in? > C. There's also some Objective-C for macOS UI. https://eul.im/
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Compute various size metrics for a Git repository(github.com)
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by bmaupin 9y ago
This too (John Entine is the executive director for the GLP): https://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/jon-entine-the-chemical-indu...
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by bmaupin 9y ago
My guess is capitalism is the main driver of most of this "globalized sameness," in which case we could vote with our wallets. But I know from personal experience that's easier said than done.
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by bmaupin 9y ago
Douane[0] is another application firewall for Linux that's still active as far as I can tell. [0] http://douaneapp.com/
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by bmaupin 9y ago
I actually like that Sublime Text keeps its settings in JSON files. That way I can pop em in git alongside the rest of my workstation configuration.
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by bmaupin 9y ago
From what I can tell the hard-coded backdoor vulnerability was remediated, but I see no indication the unrestricted file upload vulnerability has been remediated in any of the firmwares I tested. But I'm not a security expert. I'v
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by bmaupin 9y ago
I haven't had a chance to finish my investigations yet, but at least part of the vulnerabilities were corrected with the latest firmware, so I'd start by updating the firmware. I wrote more here: https://news.ycombinato
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by bmaupin 9y ago
2.11.168 is the latest firmware for My Cloud Mirror gen 1 [1]. 2.30.165 is the latest firmware for My Cloud Mirror gen 2 [2]. Both firmwares were released in Nov 2017, and I suspect the vulnerabilities were fixed at that time as well. At th
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Canada's 'Welcome' to Immigrants Has Some Unintended Consequences(npr.org)
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by bmaupin 9y ago
At one of my jobs we used SharePoint for documentation and I would constantly have issues with it inserting zero width characters, particularly when pasting into a terminal. I finally got tired of it and wrote a small Chrome plugin that cop
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by bmaupin 9y ago
I find the free version of Office 365 is often sufficient for collaborating on Office documents without needing Windows, although they've intentionally left many features out so it isn't a complete replacement.
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by bmaupin 9y ago
Way off topic, but have you actually tried to read them? I was able to get data off some ~25 year old 5.25" C64 diskettes a few months ago, encouraged by success with data recovery from some 3.5" diskettes a few months before that
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by bmaupin 9y ago
I know next to nothing about electric cars, but I've heard they have a drastically smaller amount of moving parts. I'm curious if that would make them any easier to work on.
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by bmaupin 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm a huge fan of the ThinkPad T series. They may not win any awards for design, but I'm impressed with how thin and light mine is considering without any tools I can pop off the bottom cover, exposing ac
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by bmaupin 9y ago
It says "11 months since last commit" for me. Either way it's wrong. Brackets was updated 3 hours ago ( https://github.com/adobe )
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Kotlin doesn’t need an LLVM backend (2016)(blog.plan99.net)
80 points by bmaupin 9y ago|113 comments
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A totally rebuilt Google Sites–now available to everyone(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
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by bmaupin 10y ago
> We can use it in the browser at work just by keeping Gmail open in a tab. There's also https://hangouts.google.com/
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by bmaupin 10y ago
About five years ago I imported a kilo of "Neotame" sweetener from a chem factory in Shanghai... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566
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by bmaupin 10y ago
The version number's in every Wordpress page source: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 4.5.4" />
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Lake Kivu’s Great Gas Gamble(technologyreview.com)
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Learn More about Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and the Windows Subsystem for Linux(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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To kill an open source project (2015)(thinkingopensource.blogspot.com)
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by bmaupin 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497389
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by bmaupin 10y ago
"Those demands from Motorola should more properly be seen as a counter-offensive prompted by Microsoft’s demands for royalties on every Android implementation." http://patentlyo.com/patent/2015/08/a
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by bmaupin 11y ago
RoboVM can also compile to OS X and Linux: Usually this means iOS and the ARM processor type but RoboVM is also capable of generating code for Mac OS X and Linux running on x86 CPUs. [0] There are several forks of the latest open-source v
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My Disastrous Experience with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Thar (2015)(deragon.info)
77 points by bmaupin 11y ago|122 comments
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by bmaupin 11y ago
I use this for editing PDFs: https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ Not great, but gets the job done. I haven't found any good alternatives to Paint either. I mostly use GIMP and have to rely on documentation

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