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jackewiehose
9y ago
Why having webfonts at all? Every computer and mobile phone has tons of fonts already installed. Your fonts definitely don't look better. Please don't waste my bandwith with it. Why do you make mobile sites that can't be zo
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9y ago
I'm not so worried and I wasn't even thinking about the US. My government (Germany) has the same leading politicians who think like that. And I wouldn't underestimate the media influence of other countries, where tor might ev
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9y ago
No, I didn't know that. Thanks to the US Navy. I just expressed my personal perception. I see politicians talking about, that the government should be able to decipher whatsapp etc. They probably don't like tor either.
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9y ago
I blame the governments. They admittedly don't like people talking privatly.
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jackewiehose
9y ago
I prefer M-x shell - simple bash syntax and full emacs editing capabilities. But it's also painfully slow. Typing ls -l in the wrong directory and I'm tempted to kill the buffer. On the other hand, this encourages me to use M-x
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9y ago
bash has emacs keybindings by default
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jackewiehose
9y ago
Offtopic, but thank you for pointing that out. Since I'm not english I cannot judge the writing of such an article. For me it just feels like my english isn't good enough. So at least I know I'm not the only one.
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9y ago
I'm using linux for some time and I installed tons of software without my package manager (thats unavoidable because not every package archive has every software). In the end its all about trust. If you trust some web domain you can al
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jackewiehose
9y ago
Isn't it possible for a rooted device to fake beeing a non-rooted device to (selected) applications? To my understanding root means having the full control but I fear that this definition doesn't apply to smartphones.
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9y ago
On Windows NT you had to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete at the login prompt because that was a key combination that no other application could intercept. Nowadays you work as a non-privileged user but then you have to enter your admin password in v
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jackewiehose
9y ago
It's frustrating to upvote a post that favours flash over any other technology but I have to agree with you. I don't like this always-online trend for all kinds of applications. (generally spoken - I don't know the scratch s
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10y ago
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Terminal-Icon on LiveCD-Desktop Please put a shortcut to a terminal emulator, somewhere visible, on the desktop of the Ubuntu LiveCD. Whenever I have to use that disc in an emergency situation, I'm glad