lunarscape

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by lunarscape 15y ago
Downvoted for pointing out what the OP conveniently ignores? Or downvoted for daring to even appear to go against the hivemind? Edit: I guess that answers that question. As pointed out in other threads the response to this has shown that
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by lunarscape 15y ago
They were not malicious but, imho, they crossed the line. It's not be too difficult to justify something simple like opening a closed issue but once he did things that interfered with other peoples accounts that's the point at which I feel
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Except he also opened a closed issue, compromised 2 other accounts and impersonated another user, something he admits to in his blog.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>Preferably I'd like to not host it myself, considering the amount of work and the problem of letting people know of updates etc. No problem then. I fully understand. >Do you have a device without market or is it just a personal pre
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Could you possible place a direct link to the free version so we could download it and side load it instead of logging into the market?
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by lunarscape 15y ago
To be honest I have no confidence in DNT. It relies on me trusting the very companies whose business it is to track users. I'm not their consumer so they have no incentive to treat me fairly or reasonably. In the last month we've seen how c
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Directly to screenshots here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/23/2818611/microsoft-office-1...
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Aren't they the same? It says "Startpage by ixquick" for example on the Startpage About page.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The need to justify it like that just screams how wrong it is. They want to exploit users and will do anything to achieve that. The default settings hindered them so they worked around it. Privacy shouldn't be "opt-in". Your statement sound
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Agreed. I find it hard to believe that so many people can be so ignorant of the very basics of healthy eating despite all the public health initiatives and mandatory classes in schools (at least in my country). I think people have the knowl
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by lunarscape 15y ago
This brings to mind the following article, in which doctors place greater emphasis on quality of life when making decisions themselves: Physicians Recommend Different Treatments for Patients Than They Choose for Themselves, Study Finds, h
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I wish more people read things like this. "I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.”" I have a parent who's a medical prof
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by lunarscape 15y ago
VLC is far from the only project to face this problem unfortunately. The Linux Mint devs likewise state it is "designed in Ireland and conforms to both Irish and European law", something H-Online talks about: http://www.h-online.com/open/f
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by lunarscape 15y ago
"I could, right now, write an application for any version of Windows, OS X, or Linux that uploaded your address book without a single prompt. Hell, I could do this with any file owned by your user. " I agree for the most part but "any versi
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I was specifically referring to Git.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Did you read the link as I did? The server hosting the packages was compromised. This could have happened to any software, not just open source, and I'm sure it has. >The same goes for "verified" binaries, packages, etc... apparently th
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by lunarscape 15y ago
... and much of the "ACTA myth debunking" has in fact been disingenuous or plain dishonest. Glyn Moody [1] has tackled a few of the most obvious ones. "It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has be
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Pouet [1] also has some has a great archive of demos. [1] http://www.pouet.net/
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>predicting that in one generation alcohol will be socially rejected the way tobacco is today because of how utterly destructive alcohol is to the human body. He's not the only doctor to think that way. "Alcohol is the most dangerous dr
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Incredibility sensationalist and biased. The 'BBC 5 investigates' radio program is even worse.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Chinese: http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/312.html Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&#38...
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The device (ZT-180) is already out there and runs Android. Good luck to the devs trying to get kernel source from Zenithink though, not to mind hardware drivers. They've already said they've run into problems. The vast majority of Chinese t
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by lunarscape 15y ago
He won't have to wait long. Yeeloong have a quad-core Loongson-3A 13.3" laptop on the way.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>The SFC will grant a new license, but on one condition - not only must you provide the source code to Busybox, you must provide the source code to all other works on the device that require source distribution. Wait what? This has actu
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by lunarscape 15y ago
So if you have proper Wifi encryption in place then this device is useless?
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Cool. I thought this wouldn't be out til FOSDEM.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Wow, that's really interesting. It's also kind of frightening as well. I wonder if in the future Kessler Syndrome will be considered a viable doomsday-like scenario.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The videos are far from indicative of the performance of the device that'll be shipped because it's totally different hardware. The tablet in the video is an x86 Atom based device and the one they'll ship will be an ARM tablet. I really hop
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the area but aren't anti-satellite weapons forbidden under certain treaties, similar to how nuclear weapons in space are banned? The US spun their test as preventing damage from a bad satellite and the Chinese said som
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>If you're writing for your own edification as much as for others Agreed. I know a few people who do this but the article focused on professionals. There's little point spending time writing stuff which doesn't get attention if your sol

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