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by hd4 9y ago
Maybe a very dumb question, but why didn't they build anonymity into it rather than advise users to route it over Tor? My guess is it may have something to do with the Unix philosophy. It's still a great tool regardless.
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by hd4 9y ago
They would still have to prove you a) leaked it, b) didn't prevent someone taking the CD and creating a backup without your permission
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by hd4 9y ago
I would make a slight amendment to that >whether we care But I'm glad that there are those who get it.
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by hd4 9y ago
Because they might want to withhold their right to milk it for successive generations and not have to bother with making original games.
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NyaaTorrents is taken down by owners in response to EU court ruling(pastebin.com)
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by hd4 9y ago
I didn't say it was undemocratic. But it is a sign of a government going down a path of no longer putting the interests of the citizens first. And we have many lessons from the past about governments who don't mind curtailing the
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by hd4 9y ago
Post-Snowden, I think you will find there are more who care about this than there were in the past. The only reason any of us take this seriously is because of what we factually know about government agencies snooping on us.
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by hd4 9y ago
Because we programmers tend to pick up on patterns forming. Once the Indian government sets a trend of repressive anti-citizen behavior, then we can trace it back to the earliest steps in this direction and maybe come up with a solution aft
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by hd4 9y ago
Demonetizing the most widely-circulated banknotes and now 'no consent required' by the government to get fingerprints. So much for the world's largest democracy.
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by hd4 9y ago
Dark times when even good old AMD is doing anti-consumer crap. I don't even get how this is helping their cause against Intel. They could have simply not done the stupid things Intel is doing and carved a niche. But this is just showin
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by hd4 9y ago
Oh great. Do we have any viable choice left in avoiding these 'helpful' blackbox modules? Viable meaning something that could run a medium-load server?
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by hd4 9y ago
Has AMD done anything similar to this? I'm thinking of what hardware to buy in future, probably going to skip Intel-based going forwards.
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by hd4 9y ago
Is that because the exploit only affects Windows? I somehow doubt that but just wanted to be sure.
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by hd4 9y ago
It's less about Islam being a race and more about how Manifest Destiny is showing its ugly face once more.
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by hd4 9y ago
You seem to be implying that because they're Muslim but not really Islamic and very western that it's somehow not desirable for them to become more Islamic. How about you let them decide what's good for themselves? Why is it
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by hd4 9y ago
I totally agree with you, but the counter-argument will then always be "what incentive does the bank then have to operate?". For this reason, I believe the idea of a bank as a business or an entity that is operated privately witho
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by hd4 9y ago
Oh man, the days of needing to go to a conference to pick up Linux CDs. Yes, I definitely remember Caldera. Only thing from that list I haven't done is meet Linus though I guess I will get around to it at some point. Actually come to t
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by hd4 9y ago
Xcode (and by extension iOS development) is one of those things that makes you wonder if it ultimately does more damage to Apple in the long run than good in keeping it Mac-only. What is the purpose in limiting the number of possible develo
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by hd4 9y ago
If you need the latest versions so badly, why don't you just compile from source instead of waiting 4 months?
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by hd4 9y ago
I've heard a lot of reported display/performance issues when running it in a VM. Try installing it on bare metal.
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by hd4 9y ago
Ubuntu took Linux from relative obscurity to being a relevant player on the computer desktop. Before Ubuntu, if you expected to get a build of a typical popular Windows program/game you would get laughed at. Now it's virtually exp
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by hd4 9y ago
>2008 The Linux desktop experience has come a long way since then. Try Ubuntu 16.04.
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by hd4 9y ago
I didn't realise normal folk came to HN, but your advice is noted.
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by hd4 9y ago
Great response. Did you manage to post any/all of this to the feedback-request thread by the guy from Ubuntu about 3 weeks ago? If not, I think you should. I might even do so on your behalf as I've definitely felt some of these pa
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by hd4 9y ago
I haven't tried installing it in Debian, I only have it installed as a GUI-less server, but in theory it should be fine. The reason I mention Ubuntu is that the community is just much larger than that of Debian and there is more of a c
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by hd4 9y ago
Your criticisms of Linux are basically that there is a proper security/stability process in place.
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by hd4 9y ago
Ubuntu would be the smartest choice. It's got the best support of any Linux distro, and you can install Steam on it just fine with the deb.
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by hd4 9y ago
Which software in particular?
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by hd4 9y ago
This is the only reason I have considered a Hackintosh in the past, actually got one but didn't get around to writing code for it because I got busy with other things. I wish it was less of a closed garden. I'm not sure how it hel
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by hd4 9y ago
Not a troll attempt, but I want to know why people use Hackintosh over, say, Ubuntu or Fedora? What can you do with Hackintosh that you still can't with a Linux distro? Edit: Possibly a bit late to ask, but I should have asked if you h

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