brillenfux

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1. 31.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Man pages are really already TLDR pages. They suck for introductory documentation (most times) but are really useful if you just can't quite remember the switch or its parameters. I don't know what niche this is supposed to fill?
2. 32.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Well, Hitler himself said: "You will not get one true word out of me". I don't think there's much more to see than a useful (for some) narcissist.
3. 33.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   They'll all break eventually ;-) — We know that, that's why encryption progresses. The question is only: How fast do we have to progress in the future?
4. 34.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Of course, thanks :)
5. 35.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Is there a way to set this permanently? I couldn't find anything.
6. 36.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   So Windows users are calling everything a "shell"? The 'terminal-emulator', the execution environment, the userland, the programming language? What's next? The graphical user interface? ... Wait ... Oh Lord ;-)
7. 37.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Predators are usually not that good for keeping animal populations in check. They often kill more than they can eat and leave the rest alone[1]. If you introduce predators for population control you would have to introduce scavengers as wel
8. 38.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   Did they pull the scaling out of their hair? I'd like to read about the rationale.
9. 39.▲
   by brillenfux 11y ago

   I really mean the network (that's why I call it balkanization). And oh yeah, they are stringent but the problem for me was how they're deal with it. The whole process was completely opaque (and for several things you don't ev
10. 40.▲
    Ask HN: How can you use Stack Exchange without throwing up?

    1 points by brillenfux 11y ago|2 comments
11. 41.▲
    Penny Arcade – Linguamancy(penny-arcade.com)

    1 points by brillenfux 11y ago|0 comments
12. 42.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    I think signed firmware would probably solve most problems. Hobbyists would have to run their system in an insecure mode, though and it's a whole new story if a certificate-based system would actually work in a market as volatile as US
13. 43.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    So will this USB firmware situation eventually be solved in some newer version or are we all just silently ignoring this? Because this makes USB an absolute NO in some environments (and for quite a while now). It would be nice if we could u
14. 44.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    I had people tell me that this would have problems with entropy. I didn't fully understand that, though.
15. 45.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    You are the kind of person I'm patiently waiting for to be able to downvote.
16. 46.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    I will never forget how the handled the Oracle Java license change debacle. No matter what they are saying now that was a terrible show of ignorance. They might be a solid choice in the future but as of yet I haven't seen ANY reason to
17. 47.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    In the context of a Chinese hacker fearing prison this is awfully cynical hyperbole.
18. 48.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    At this point, would it make sense to fork Firefox?
19. 49.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    > a very polluted interpersonal atmosphere Or in other words: Politics.
20. 50.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    sshhh! We want to feel morally superior!
21. 51.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    Honest-to-god question: Why all those web chat servers? I feel something very similar to the shift from Usenet to web forums is happening. Is IRC really so hard to use?
22. 52.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    So everything looks neat, but he's twisting his back to look at the monitor? Of course it's a Mac ;-)
23. 53.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    I think you mean safety. Nobody is going to compromise those things any time soon.
24. 54.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    In the world of ANSI escape codes and terminal emulators things are never that easy. Works for OS X apparently.
25. 55.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    And what? Eat bad food with a bad view for the rest of your life?
26. 56.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    Maybe if ads weren't such a malware cesspool people would have less reason to block them. The people providing ads do a dirt-poor job curating them, so blocking ads isn't about convenience but about security.
27. 57.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    TIL Reuters is getting money from the established car industry.
28. 58.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    Another example of why email addresses cannot serve as "identities" like so many people, somehow magically, assume. If you know it, everything about email and its protocols would make you assume the exact opposite. Now PGP signatu
29. 59.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    Seriously, couldn't they have gone a lot further with the Pure* rebranding? I have: PurePlayer, PureTerminal, PureNotepad, PureMenu, PurePurePure, PureShit and so on and so forth ... Or, of course, they could have been honest with the
30. 60.▲
    by brillenfux 11y ago

    I'll leave this here http://kevinboone.net/kbox3.html . I'm using it for years now, together with Android Terminal Emulator.