boq

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by boq 8mo ago
> IIRC, ICC judges lost access to their O365 work email accounts. Worst the US can do to me is turn off my Steam, and Gmail but I can easily live without those. They lost access to everything american, including Visa and Mastercard. It&#
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by boq 2y ago
> Lend-Lease. Who do you think they leased from and what do you think they leased? Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
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by boq 3y ago
Qualcomm is apparently the main difficulty : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits... Fairphone do manage to keep up tho. The Fairphone 3 was updated to android 13 a few month ago. htt
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by boq 3y ago
I think monospaced fonts are still popular in the plan9/golang crowd using the acme text editor. googling "dennis ritchie acme" leads to this : https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from
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by boq 4y ago
Well, there exists "libertaire" in French (and other languages as well I guess) as a synonym, but nowadays people would hear "libertarian".
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by boq 6y ago
And people aren't always on the lookout, specially in casual conversations.
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by boq 14y ago
> Why should they be honoring the header now? The idea was that, given a significant enough amount of people turning it on, advertisers would take notice of it and react accordingly. If it's on by default it is meaningless. It's a tool
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by boq 14y ago
I don't get it. There is no point at all to let DNT be on by default anyway. What is all the noise about? What did I miss?
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by boq 14y ago
There is no local monopoly France. (for ADSL, not speaking about fiber here). All of the "last-kilometer" connectivity is owned by the historical telephony operator France Telecom (also known as Orange after its privatization), which has th
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by boq 14y ago
Free, as well as all major ISPs in France, rents you a router when you subscribe. This is where the filtering is done, using lying DNSs it seems.