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by myztic 11y ago
Interesting list. One of the biggest issues for me personally is the split effort. There are >300 distributions actively maintained, 300 projects whose sole purpose it is to package the kernel and some userland-stuff to make a usable ope
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by myztic 11y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/... + China 9,679.30 GHG emissions (MtCO2e)[1], United States 6,668.79 GHG emissions (MtCO2e)[1] - population China ~1.3 billion[2], popul
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by myztic 11y ago
New development? Actually they have been doing that probably all around the world for years now. A friend of mine in Germany also got such a letter once and wrote something back along the lines of "Wasn't me, don't know what
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by myztic 11y ago
EDIT (for some reason I can't edit above): -) and just for fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgdvSNpi60 (I love that video for some reason :D)
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by myztic 11y ago
I want to write some general things about OpenBSD / the OpenBSD Communtiy I realized while I gave it a spin just this month (in no particular order): -) they are a "pressure cooker" for development, if they have to brake some
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by myztic 11y ago
We are talking about the general public, yes it is hard to use and incredibly cumbersome for those people. Imagine explaining your grandma how to use it, we are not talking about people browsing HN ;)
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by myztic 11y ago
It's very easy to change your user agent / every type of header, you can send any string you want to a server, even an empty one. There are extensions/add-ons to very easily change your user-agent on the fly, on Firefox I can
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by myztic 11y ago
DuckDuckGo really looses the battle when it comes to search results. And since they make the case with privacy, I also want to make clear, they don't loose because Google tracks us all, even if you are logged out from your account, use
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by myztic 11y ago
See also my other comment, I changed my opinion on that. What I originally thought about were systems like NixOS (for serious development), or something more minimalistic that offers greater control like Slackware, a *BSD (Jails, byhyve, dt
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by myztic 11y ago
I actually have thought about it some more and gave Ubuntu a spin and now I am 100% with you. Might seem a little weird, this "sudden" change of heart, but yes, you are right. If I am honest, I spend 90% of my time in a terminal,
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by myztic 11y ago
Nope, I really meant Ubuntu compared to other Operating systems / Distributions.
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Best Science Books of 2015(brainpickings.org)
3 points by myztic 11y ago|0 comments
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by myztic 11y ago
(This is completely Off-Topic but it's been bothering me for such a long time now and I never got sufficient answers) Why am I seeing Ubuntu on Screens of developers, experts, et cetera in Cover Stories such as these, most of the tim
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by myztic 11y ago
You probably know that the PC == Windows and Mac == Apple association dates back decades and while I know where you are coming from I don't see much value in pointing it out. Everybody knows that saying PC for a Windows Machine is not
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Red Mercury: Fake Nuclear Substance still sold on black markets(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by myztic 11y ago|0 comments
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by myztic 11y ago
Phew... interesting, though it is marked as fixed?!
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by myztic 11y ago
Have you tried using Chromium? (I still recommend Firefox though) Chrome is basically a stable release from Google of the Chromium Browser (which in itself is an Open Source Project), as such Chrome is more tightly integrated with Google
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by myztic 11y ago
Agreed, but additionally to "one-time revenue" versus "ongoing annuity stream": a) Acceptance, Image The fact that they don't sell is the reason why many don't mind it as much. "So their automatic algorith
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by myztic 11y ago
I actually pay money for E-Mail for example, I think many would be happy to pay for GMail if they would offer the option of "No Ads, and we don't use your information at all", but since Google has perfected the business with
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by myztic 11y ago
It's also what the Platform allows the Extension Developers to do and the users not to do. One Example? I have been disabling what Apps get access to on my Blackberry for I don't know how long. Forbid Whatsapp to have Access to th
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by myztic 11y ago
Yep, but since Google's whole business model revolves around monetizing user information, I am not surprised about this article. Google's Motto is "Data Collection for monetary purposes is not evil". Think about Android
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by myztic 11y ago
When it comes to Google and Data Collection just always assume the worst. Not to bash on Google, I am no hater, but it's what they make money with. Browser for free? Google Mail with 15 GB of storage? We all know their business model.
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by myztic 11y ago
Of course you can't compare the trouble Sun originally had in creating ZFS with the difficulty of porting it to Linux when it has been used for years and you can built on stable code and learn by the other implementations. This compari
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by myztic 11y ago
I wonder why this got so many votes to be honest, it's from May 2014 and as far as why one would want to try FreeBSD it is not very detailed. That being said: I use FreeBSD and (obviously) prefer it, but: 1) ZFSonLinux has made huge st
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by myztic 11y ago
My favourite of his (Fyodor's, guy behind nmap) conference appearances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMG0e7byPvo Scanning the Internet apparently can raise some eyebrows ;) Should be general knowledge, but for all w
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30th anniversary of Windows – What we loved(infoworld.com)
3 points by myztic 11y ago|0 comments
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by myztic 11y ago
Regarding Iraq (since it comes up in some other comments) one could (I am playing devil's advocate here) make the argument that the Iraq war was a just war on false assumptions. What reasons do you need to remove a dictator? 0) He does
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by myztic 11y ago
Amusing Interview with Bryan Cantrill (regarding his background and he also shares some stories) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc#t=06m06s Also very informative (about what happened at Sun in the 90s, dtrace, ...