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by flaptrap 3y ago
My girlfriend in High School and college was taking "Secretarial Science" like her mother but took Cobol for a laugh, maybe because I was taking every other language. Right out of college she got a job as the bum she married final
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by flaptrap 3y ago
I signed into Instagram because one of the news sites referenced it. A few months later I signed on again to set up a business account, only to be informed I was "violating the Community Guidelines" and asking to send a text (so I
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by flaptrap 3y ago
From 2018 - no use correcting it now - but an instance of drawing conclusions about probability after ignoring the predicates. So, if one child is a son, what is the chance both children are sons: (1) after a daughter (1/2), the next i
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by flaptrap 3y ago
Can we count the ways...just look around the web. Start with msn and linkedin which now merrily spin in my browser but never show any content.
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by flaptrap 3y ago
Without investigating further, I doubt this was a Thunderbird bug. Find a live ISO to boot a USB device, delete a few files, no more low hard disk. That said, I've encountered a few what-were-they-thinking data losses recently, the wor
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by flaptrap 3y ago
Again the fallacy. GPLv2 allow (1) giving the source code along with the binaries or (2) promise to allow any third-party to obtain those sources for the cost of copying. The Software Freedom Conservancy post shows that Red Hat considers GP
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by flaptrap 3y ago
I commented to the blog, saying that it was incomplete to say "Red Hat and IBM are making their sources available to all those who receive their binaries under contract. That is the GPL." The blog responded, it's submitted f
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by flaptrap 3y ago
Here we go again. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/license-rules... "The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only" https:/&#
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by flaptrap 3y ago
I haven't seen any comments that are absolutely accurate. Linux itself is licensed under GPLv2 - so any third party can ask for source once the binaries are distributed - but some are trying to spin in the opposite direction. Yes, othe
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by flaptrap 3y ago
Psychiatrists blame anxiety - everyone starts with their own experience, yet there is a point, as in the brain, the hippocampus reacts poorly (to anxiety) and makes it difficult to organize your thoughts (by interfering with short-time memo