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   by corv 11y ago

   How is being at peace not enough? Achievements are transient.
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   by corv 11y ago

   Can anyone that has tried a Ubuntu Phone give a review? Is this Android under the hood as was the case with Firefox OS?
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   Tidalscale, a hypervisor that allows a single OS to run across multiple servers(tidalscale.com)

   63 points by corv 11y ago|25 comments
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   by corv 11y ago

   Some routes are more congested than others. Routes can be faster even though they use more hops, IPv4/6 can also make a difference.
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   by corv 11y ago

   This is good, one could add Certificate Patrol to combat MITM attacks.
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   by corv 11y ago

   uBlock Origin's advanced mode does pretty much the same thing as uMatrix.
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   by corv 11y ago

   I'd say FF Developer Edition has the best UI out of all of them. Nothing fits better next to a terminal window or a code editor.
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   by corv 11y ago

   Exactly whilst the chaotic bazaar is still available when you're in the mood for JS fatigue.
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   by corv 11y ago

   Meteor isn't just another yeoman. It's better to understand it as the cathedral to npm's bazaar. Everything down to the third-party packages is cohesive and never needs any wiring up or glue-code. That's where the produc
10. 280.▲
    by corv 11y ago

    There are many more people capable of programming their devices nowadays but I'd wager there's less programmers to each user now.
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    by corv 11y ago

    Built in testing suite is coming with the next release - 1.3.
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    by corv 11y ago

    Unfortunately no major distributions ship those patches by default.
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    by corv 11y ago

    No, the article is about how marketshare isn't everything when you've got high value customers.
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    by corv 11y ago

    From the link: "Thus, I predict that software freedom that we once had, for our MTAs and MUAs, will eventually evaporate for everyone except those tiny few who invest the time to understand these complexities and fight the for-profit c
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    by corv 11y ago

    China actually has problems with terrorism. In particular within Xinjiang province. Wikipedia: Recent incidents include the 1992 Urumqi bombings,[9] the 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings,[7] the 2010 Aksu bombing,[10] the 2011 Hotan attack,[11] 2011
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    by corv 11y ago

    Great news for night owls. Please tell your friend it needs to be possible for users or developers to change the screens color temperature so people don't have to jailbreak just to get Flux.
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    by corv 11y ago

    The new site does communicate more clearly: we're the Adobe of the IDE world. Pay annually? No thanks.
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    by corv 11y ago

    I'd prefer it to be open sauce self hosted web app
19. 289.▲
    by corv 11y ago

    The new service looks really useful but I'm bummed out it's only available as a chat bot?!
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    by corv 11y ago

    "Almost all of today’s technology juggernauts formed before about 2008 required smallish amounts of capital. Google, for example, consumed only $8m before turning profitable. Maybe this means that sooner or later a new class of company
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    by corv 11y ago

    It's not particularly surprising considering they are owned by Facebook.
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    by corv 11y ago

    Or even a viable alternative to Lightroom...
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    by corv 11y ago

    Fortunately AWS and Digital Ocean have great support for FreeBSD!
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    by corv 11y ago

    Also, worth mentioning is the excellent FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ storage appliance based on FreeBSD & its ZFS capabilities.
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    by corv 11y ago

    HardenedBSD http://hardenedbsd.org/ has completed a fork of FreeBSD with ASLR.
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    by corv 11y ago

    There is HardenedBSD http://hardenedbsd.org/ , which is working on filling gaps between OpenBSD and FreeBSD security. OpenBSD is definitely more secure out of the box than Linux.
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    by corv 11y ago

    There is a lot that can go wrong benchmarking filesystems, especially one like ZFS that relies heavily on its caches being filled. I find the claim hard to believe and would like to see the benchmark if you can dig it out.
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    by corv 11y ago

    There are several tiers. Nowadays installing a release version of FreeBSD, packages will get updates quarterly with security updates in between as required. In effect the system is suited for production and very stable by default. Other tie
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    by corv 11y ago

    I've found that OpenBSD has incredibly complete support for many laptops, going so far as to support Thinkpads with touchscreens and digitizer pens out of the box. Overall I find FreeBSD's desktop to be more usable, even though Op
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    by corv 11y ago

    There is canonical support such as the excellent handbook: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ The forums and mailing lists are also full of very knowledgeable users and developers. Besides, F