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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>While xz is commonly present in most Linux distributions, Not Slackware since Slackware does not patch xz or many other utilities. Plus it does not use systemd. From what I remember a patch was put in to give systemd extra functionali
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
I remember when word hit the streets, Lawyers at the time hated it and they kept Word Perfect alive because of its foot note logic. I wonder if M/S got that "fixed", early on they had a hard time with it.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>The tentative ruling is not a final decision Well, this being the US, I guess the Judge is looking for more "tips". https://natlawreview.com/article/it-tip-or-bribe-supreme-cou...
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
So high population areas emit more carbon, who knew :)
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
What a country, looks like yet another lawsuit for cancelling already allocated funds.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
So now the poor people forced into using Windows 11 will get constant prompts for each file and new files as they are created ? Looks like maybe at the directory level, a little better, but will be fun for developers :( M/S should all
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Same here, still using fvwm2, and have tested fvwm3. I use it on large screens. fvwm is the main reason I dread wayland taking over. But at least the *BSDs will be on X for a while longer.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Grey is an English spelling? I had no idea it was.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
I am more worried about M/S influence over the Linux Foundation than this. In reality people only have themselves to blame if they decide to use Microsoft than an alternative.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Where I grew up in the US, in grade school, our neighborhood school in the small city had teachers from both Quebec and Ireland. So we learned non-US spelling first. That caused a pain when I and my friends ended up in high school and had
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
I need to stackup on a few HDDs for my Old Laptop that is my main system :) I know I could use an SDD in the system, but not sure if the self-life, I have a HDD from 30 years ago in an old desktop, it is still going strong.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>Chevron, which never manufactured paraquat and hasn’t sold it since 1986 ... should not be liable I think Chevron may have a point, no one knew back then and they stopped selling it ~40 years ago. But --- To me, if the US had a real
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>A hoped-for by acquisition by Amazon.com in 2023 collapsed over regulatory concerns. I never understood why the US objected to this. Amazon was not in that business. But you see acquisitions like Paramount that will eventually turn US
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Quite a person, glad to see she was won the Turing Award before she passed. But she should have recognized earlier in her life.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
How things have changed, late 90s, early 2000 was an exciting in Linux Land. Now, not as much excitement.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Very nice, not what I expected and worth a read!
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
I really use to like LG products, but between your link and this, I will never buy LG again. They were added to the same list Samsung was added to years ago. It is like these companies do not want to sell what people really want, but only
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Interesting, did not think if it that way. I guess why not, with this admin the US is handing China what is left of our scientific lead on a silver platter. Just look at the de-funding of mRNA vaccine research in the US for an example.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>In 2025, it’s pretty much the same. In some respects, it’s worse: Well not quite, if you use mutt, it is easy to encrypt emails with gpg. The setup could be a bit hard for new people, but if they have good reading comprehension it is e
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
OpenBSD does not have a /proc file system.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
> The action, he’s said, makes him unemployable, even though he still has a license Well I guess you cannot be too stupid to be in Congress. The place were unemployable people end up.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Now I wonder what this will do to Google ? IIRC, they have been looking into a similar extortion fee for Android Developers.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
When I submit a process to bg, I mostly use cron and I do not care about seeing output during runtime. So, tail suites my needs in the rare cases something unexpected seems to be happening.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Thanks, links saved. Then there is this method, but I guess that article refers to no redirection output. If in background or via cron, I always redirect. But this is for UN*X type systems with a tail that supports '-f' $ prog &g
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
What can I say, I thought it was funny. But seeing it over and over could get annoying.
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>When companies buy expensive stuff, for accounting purposes they pretend they haven’t spent the money; instead they “depreciate” it over a few years I thought there was a US IRS Law that was changed sometime in the past 10/15 years
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
Almost impossible to do, but I agree and have been saying that for decades. Until recently I agreed with the age of 16, now I am starting to think they should be banned until they get an High School Diploma or equivalent, if no "diplom
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
100% true, as I type this on a social media platform :) But at least this site does perform moderation and so far it has not been toxic like most others. Plus if someone disagrees with you, just about all of the time, that person comes acr
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
>The problem is that it is impossible to know if someone’s cancer will be deadly or not. And that is the issue, I know 2 people who developed cancers when they were around 40, one died, the other person survived but had to be treated. S
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by jmclnx 11mo ago
No, solution is to go back to a tax structure we and in the 1950s, were the very rich and corporations paid real taxes. Starting with Reagan, taxes cuts corporations and the rich has been the main driver of the debt. And I will add to that

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