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by burk96 7y ago
First thing I thought of as well. It's a fantastic project and I would hate for Canon's response to this to negatively affect them, whether it becomes hardening the device's firmware upgrade process to the point that the proj
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by burk96 7y ago
"Is this just a case of ‘Nobody ever got fired for choosing Blackboard’?" Sadly I believe it is. My school recently moved off Blackboard for Canvas after at least ten years. While some teachers were relieved to move to a more mode
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by burk96 7y ago
Bleeding edge has never been the point of Debian, it's one of the most stable and well tested distros out there. Things are upgraded only when necessary for the most part.
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by burk96 7y ago
I believe vanity of some sort is an innately human trait, I doubt societal changes will eliminate it. Rather I see a future that the reporter was alluding to, where our bodies are just as customizable as a digital filter like the streamer u
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by burk96 7y ago
Not FOSS, but I can highly recommend Davinci Resolve. I actually have come to prefer it over Premiere and Vegas which have been my favorites for over a decade now. Compared to those two, it just feels like a much more modern, well polished
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by burk96 7y ago
Honestly, unless you absolutely need Windows for critical programs/drivers, I would look into switching to Linux. While there are super hardened distros such as Qubes, even something more user friendly such as Debian and Fedora would b
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by burk96 7y ago
You're correct, it's not a donation. However Purism right now is important in a way Comcast is not. Their work on the software side is making the GNU/Linux phone a reality and it will help both vendors and makers a like in th
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by burk96 7y ago
What Thiel wants investigated and what the general HN user wants are very different things I would imagine. Personally I'm more concerned with what Google is doing with my data, and how much they are sharing with a PRISM like program t
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by burk96 7y ago
Honestly I think this is a ridiculous take. Google's military contracts have been extremely controversial both publicly and inside Google. The thing is, if Google wants to exist in China, they must follow some orders. The US government
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by burk96 7y ago
Repeating repeatable results, works on 68 beta and 67.0.3 here
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by burk96 7y ago
Not only is this nothing new as other commenters have observed, these tags have been used by screen readers and other accessibility services for awhile. While we can talk all we want about Facebook using their all seeing eyes for evil (whic
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by burk96 7y ago
God, it seems like all of the recent times an auto manufacturer deviates from an accepted gearshift design it goes horribly. The Jeep gearshift that killed Anton Yelchin comes to mind, but honestly the one you posted seems even worse from a
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by burk96 7y ago
Any suggestions on microcontrollers? I love my pi but I've been wanting to try my hand at something a little less, desktop-like.
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by burk96 7y ago
Growing up I had a family friend who was a park ranger in a popular hunting area (not California fwiw). The laws protecting wildlife from poachers are really strong and rangers take them very seriously. As a result, catching a poacher can o
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by burk96 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Mint and Ubuntu are both in a better state in that regard since I last used them. Last time I used Mint on my gaming rig, the bundled Mint drivers had something funky with them. I don't remember what it
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by burk96 7y ago
Reddit's /r/datahoarder is full of people archiving all sorts of things that I wouldn't expect to be archived. Recently there was a community effort to archive YouTube's annotations before they were removed. Link he
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by burk96 7y ago
For gaming purposes, I also have to recommend Manjaro purely from how great it handles installing graphics drivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for someone's first Linux install, but once you know the basics in case someth
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by burk96 7y ago
Consider the first citation on that wiki article: https://web.archive.org/web/20121214172708/http://ancientali... It seems much more likely that these assumed acts of God were a misunderstood natural phe
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by burk96 7y ago
> I wouldn't be able to go back to a dynamic language after using Rust for so long, I'd be in constant panic about changing the smallest thing. As someone who has been working mainly in Rust for about a year and is now starting
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by burk96 7y ago
Wikileaks has been criticized for primarily leaking information from NATO aligned governments with a noticeable lack of Russian leaks. On top of that, during the 2016 election he supposedly had access to both the DNC emails and a set of RNC
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by burk96 8y ago
Exactly, a pretty clever move on his part.
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by burk96 8y ago
Thank you! I'll look into finding a copy soon
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by burk96 8y ago
Thank you so much! I'll definitely be looking into courses in these subjects. I can learn a language on my own, but theory is something that I personally need someone to help walk me through.
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by burk96 8y ago
I'm making my way through uni currently. I've taken a few CS classes that have touched briefly on O notation and I am currently in Calc 2. I understand bits and pieces of this but I am lost in most of the paper. What courses shoul
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by burk96 8y ago
8chan is much much worse, but 4chan is certainly infested with that stuff as well
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by burk96 8y ago
There are quite a bit of other very impressive projects under their belt as well. QEMU and FFMPEG to name some I use daily. What a legend.
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by burk96 8y ago
You can mirror your screen to your Chromecast through the Google Home app
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by burk96 8y ago
Meanwhile look at Brazil, sure it isn't the same policy exactly but it is certainly a case of protectionism gone wrong.
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by burk96 8y ago
How likely is it that the Key 2 will receive security patches past two years? That's the main reason I stick with Samsung or would suggest a Pixel (or an iPhone) right now.
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by burk96 8y ago
I know right? ssloy is on fire, one of the few non-organizations I follow on Github. Does anyone else know some similar users that should get some more love?

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