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by hackertux 11y ago
Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28protocol%29
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Mutt and HTML email (2012)(jasonwryan.com)
1 points by hackertux 11y ago|0 comments
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by hackertux 11y ago
> Very quietly, very securely, very aware, he has been preaching the dogma of Open Source By the end of 1998, Stallman had formulated a position: open source, while helpful in communicating the technical advantages of free software, also
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by hackertux 11y ago
"But evolution is only a theory!", which is true, it is a theory, it’s good that they say that, I think, it gives you hope, doesn’t it, that - that maybe they feel the same way about the theory of gravity... and they might just fl
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by hackertux 11y ago
The lack of public awareness about the nature of surveillance troubles me. UK public must wake up to risks of CCTV.
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by hackertux 12y ago
The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is part of the installed system software: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw&#x2
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by hackertux 12y ago
"The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to wh
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by hackertux 12y ago
Around 1980, when the news media took notice of hackers, they fixated on one narrow aspect of real hacking: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, and took the term to mean breaking
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by hackertux 12y ago
According to wikipedia, A 4:3 ratio mimics human eyesight visual angle of 155°h x 120°v, that is 4:3.075, almost exactly the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29#Pract...
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by hackertux 12y ago
My favourite C&C game was Tiberian Sun, so I'm really interested in seeing an official mod from OpenRA. However, It's not clear to me if it uses the proprietary Freeware game content (terrain, units, structures) of the origina
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by hackertux 13y ago
I think that if there were laws against framing[1] and hotlinking then Google would be the biggest offender. [1] http://webdesign.about.com/od/legal/a/aa030507.htm
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Linking to infringing content is probably illegal in the US (2006)(webtvwire.com)
1 points by hackertux 13y ago|1 comments
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by hackertux 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Given their value, that would indeed be foolish. Don't smash rare cartridges with a hammer, kids! That's not really the point of the video.
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by hackertux 13y ago
The Nintendo World Championships gold cartridges are more rare than the grey ones (only 26 of them were made). The Nerd also covered it some time ago in an avgn episode. Having seen it's not a "super rare elusive game", he sm
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by hackertux 13y ago
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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Canonical, Ltd.'s Trademark Aggression(ebb.org)
1 points by hackertux 13y ago|0 comments