digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
And that still defends against the biggest howler with email, that in raw form it is a post card, not a enveloped letter. The issue if trusting that the sender is who is being claimed is a very different issue, and one that i don't thi
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Machines, at least within the individual program, is a set of orderly instructions. Human society is anything but.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
More worryingly, it seems that the "anglo" media is expert at exporting their world view to the rest of the world given time.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah the kernel does a great job in maintaining backwards compatibility, the rest of the stack not so much...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
If this was the case, could one observe such a trend already in places with proper public transport (light rail etc)?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
It depends. If the debt being repaid is in local (national) currency, perhaps but less likely than if it is in foreign currency. If it is all local, then it becomes a question of whether the nation has the production capacity and investment
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Much of the bloat is from higher resolution graphics, and all the layers of mitigation of various security issues that comes with multitasking.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And just now it dawned on me that my rss reader had been failing to process the xkcd feed for some time. I guess i am way past the saturation point of the stick figures humor.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Blizzard and a bunch of other gaming companies have made good use of torrent as a way to distribute patches.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Or how about we stop perusing services that demand that we run 200+k of JS just to look at a few lines of text and images?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
You can't block torrent. You can perhaps block individual DNS entries, but as long as traffic can flow between "random" ip addresses, torrent will exist.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
This in large part because the MAFIAA got so damned used to selling the same thing over and over and over, as new ways to package came to be. This anything that comes around that shortcircuit that business model gets lawyer bombed.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The likely reason why they ended up on Youtube was because every last Android phone (and a fair few other phones) have Youtube bundled, complete with a one button upload. In the spur of the moment, in particular in a warzone, the proper pla
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Anyone know how FreeDOS deal with this, if at all?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Another thing that happened in that time was the infighting between the media production branches and the electronics branch.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Would not surprise me if the sound issue is PA related, and he has to go to alsamixer to bypass PA's tomfoolery.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The more i have had to deal with the Linux ecosystem, the less i want to do with the bleeding edge of it. Because you will find shit breaking, willfully, every other month or so, because some caffeine addled code monkey thought he could do
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The more that changes the more it stays the same.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Apple, protecting the user from himself? As for removing IE. My understanding is that this would perhaps remove the UI and certain other assets, but the engine and various other bits would remain as the rest of the Windows UI relies on it.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly trying to track down the root cause may require a full rebuild of the system, something that may not be a option (never mind that things likely worked on a previous driver version)...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly AMD seems to be in a rush to drop stuff from their Windows driver. I had the unfortunate experience of watching them drop support for the GPU part of my APU while it was still one of their headline APUs. This because they had based it
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I suspect the only way for that to happen is for someone to come up with a way to mass-transfer game libraries from Steam to some other service. In other words, Steam has the PC gaming world by the balls.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Netscape Communicator, anyone? Never mind Opera 12 and older. Could be that we will see Vivaldi revive this, if they ever get that far...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Possibly because it is very strongly anti-gamification. This while the HN/Reddit "karma" score is a very much a e-peen score board.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I find myself thinking about JWZs diary from the Netscape days, where on launch day someone in the office had rigged up a script that played a cannon shot whenever a download completed successfully.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
All manner of non-visual feedback is highly undervalued these days for some reason.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Now you are mixing two very different situations. BI as a concept do not, and will never, fix exchange rate problems. BI is for when on paper the nation has a functioning domestic economy, but one that exclude large parts of the population
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Over at filfre, an article held a quote from one of the game devs from back around the C64 era. It boiled down to the notion that the gaming industry have a (bad) habit of resetting itself whenever there is a solid change in hardware availa
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That assumes that he BI sum will stay unadjusted across years, a very dumb way to do it if true. As for Venezuela, and similar situations, look towards the exchange rate.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van. http://www.dominosdxp.com/

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