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by mpol 4y ago
I remember stories from 20 years ago, about mplayer having security issues. These were supposedly used by people connected to the music industry to hack on people that were downloading music illegally. It felt very much as scaremongering, I
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by mpol 4y ago
For your interest, SuSE was once started as a Slackware clone with RPMs bolted on, together with YaST the system configuration tool.
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by mpol 4y ago
I don't really understand why Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora have no system configuration tool. Sure, there is a configuration for the user desktop. But nothing for the system in general. It is only SuSE and Mandrake/Mageia that have s
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by mpol 4y ago
Mandrake and Mageia use urpmi. It's a tool similar to apt, yum and zypper. It has been in existence since 1999. It can be used to install packages and also to upgrade a complete system, it will take care of dependencies for you.
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by mpol 4y ago
In Europe we used to have a dual system with a capitalist and a socialist part. Companies are capitalist and try to grow. The socialist governement tries to put limits to what is allowed. But now we have more neoliberal governments and the
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by mpol 4y ago
Can confirm with my experience. I used it for three years, inbetween two stable releases during the switch from SysV init to systemd. It all fell apart quite bad with many things breaking. I switched to a different distro. I hope the people
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by mpol 4y ago
Seneca said real friendship has 2 attributes. You trust someone as much as you trust yourself. And you talk with the other person the same way you talk to yourself when you are alone. Now, you could easily know if that is true for yourself.
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by mpol 4y ago
Yes, this is the reason AGPL was created. With AGPL software you have to open your changes, even if you don't distribute it and only use it serverside. There are still nuances, but this is the main gist.
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by mpol 4y ago
WordPress uses the PHP-mysqli extension. The PHP-mysql extension is unused since WordPress 3.9, quite some years ago. You might mean PHP-pdo is advised. Can you explain why it is better in this regard? Also $wpdb->prepare() uses parametr
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by mpol 4y ago
In the past few years Jolla worked together with MB. In the latest Sailfish release there were a lot of Android updates, and it seems of high importance to Jolla. At the same time, Jolla could use a new investor, but there was no news that
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by mpol 4y ago
AMD was more like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Itanium was already in trouble. It was hot (really hot) and underperforming. It wasn't selling really well, since it was too expensive. Of the UNIX vendors, only HP was
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by mpol 4y ago
The Vuelta of Spain was supposed to be a win for Bradley Wiggins, but his support Chris Froome faired much better. After Kobo lost, at the jury table, the win was awarded to Froome, then a support cyclist.
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by mpol 4y ago
I had it happen many times as well. A power outage or a thrashing system were often accompanied with an fsck and file loss on ext2. This even included system files like libgtk.so because they were open at the moment of crashing. I never und
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by mpol 4y ago
This bird flu is not the same as before. Before it was flu from the wild and the strains were quite mild. The current very sickmaking flu started inside farms and escaped into the wild. Millions of farm birds and wild birds are killed by it
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by mpol 4y ago
Sure, no problem. Just be aware that the power bill is part of the price too. I used to take the rough calculation; every Watt used 24/7 is 1 Euro per year. That wasn't even true 2 years ago, now it might even be going to 3 or 4 E
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by mpol 4y ago
So then BMW and Mercedes: BMW - Market cap: $58.47 billion - Q3 units sold: 587,795 Daimler - Market cap: $85.59 billion - Q3 units sold: 517,800
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by mpol 4y ago
That might only be done if you make it separate from people who are walking or cycling. So maybe a lifted monorail with cars? :) As long as people are on the street, it is a social situation with social behaviour.
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by mpol 4y ago
Aha, technological solutions for social problems, who could think that would not work :) Driving a car in public traffic is very much a social situation. A wink here, a small hand or head gesture there. Even looking away and avoiding commun
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by mpol 4y ago
"If you don't have a backup, it wasn't important." It is somewhat too tough, and I haven't yet said it to anyone in his/her face. In my mind I think it often.
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by mpol 4y ago
Looking at Wikipedia, the air might have been too humid in the old house. Ventilating or heating might have helped.
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by mpol 4y ago
From my days at the secondhand store I remember that half the books that came in were recycled. There is a lot of pulp. Many books are quite damaged. Also, schoolbooks from 20 or 30 years old are not very much in demand. At the same time, I
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by mpol 4y ago
> What stopped them from doing that while keeping the original OSS software copyrights intact? But the original copyrights and license stay intact, not? By the way, hard forking always gives a sense of confusion to me. Will both projects
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by mpol 4y ago
I am happy they decided to spend their time first on supporting GTK v3. GTK v2 is disappearing from distro's and the situation was getting urgent. This happened on 4.16 and I suppose a lot more small work for it happened in 4.18. I am
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by mpol 4y ago
I used a few drops of paraffine oil in both ears, then in the next few weeks some small pieces of dark and hard earwax came out. I am using q-tips too and had slight worries about pushing wax into my ears. Turned out to be rightful worries
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by mpol 4y ago
Aha, so all-eating capitalism without having healthy limits set by socialism.
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by mpol 4y ago
Please be aware, this is old SCO. New SCO is really Caldera (renamed), a Linux company that bought old SCO. SCO OpenServer was a product you saw everywhere in small companies. All on i386 platform, which made it a cheap UNIX. 1997 was the t
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by mpol 4y ago
Down here in the Netherlands most Golden Delicious are green, only seldom are they yellow. Mealy is when they are not saved well, more often they have a bit of bite. And juicy they are. It might differ per region.
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What to Know About EU’s Digital Markets Act(fosslife.org)
17 points by mpol 4y ago|7 comments
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by mpol 4y ago
Even with ddrescue you might lose a few bits. You will only find out when accessing those specific files and bits. For my photo history I prefer to keep PAR files next to it. On a running mechanical disc I haven't seen issues when runn
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by mpol 4y ago
I held the same negative opinion, until about 2018. Then I thought "enough is enough" and started contributing in my area. This in the hope and expectation that other area's will have volunteers working who started out with t

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