nbsd4life

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by nbsd4life 8y ago
You're responding as if you didn't read the article and don't realize how widespread it was. We don't consider a child's consent as valid even if they were told the correct facts about what they were taking, which t
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
look up 'cooling vest'
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Enable this https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commit/2620a64... It will be enabled by default by the next release apparently.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
would probably need to add special list entries for how far behind dragonflybsd is.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
IRC has fine support for emojis, works for me on a CLI IRC client. it's up for your input method to allow inputting them, and up for your fonts to display them, and up for you to not force a stupid encoding.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Amazon has Twitch.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
It's extremely punishing of negative-sounding comments. People who want to call out bullshit on the orange website end up doing it on other forums so it looks like they hate it a lot.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
how do you feel about how Intel gives every big customer a nice presentation about every vuln ahead of the disclosure?
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Chromium is terrible for the BSDs, though - it requires something like 300 patches to build: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/master/www/chr... Mozilla, unlike Google, is not hostile to
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I don't see people dropping sqlite en masse.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Intel obviously failed to disclose information to OS providers like OpenBSD, but leaked information about the vulnerability by disclosing to the wrong parties, so they patched it based on the rumours.
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OpenBSD patches rumoured Spectre-like vulnerability(v4.freshbsd.org)
4 points by nbsd4life 8y ago|1 comments
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
so, there's a concurrent post about how 1.1.1.1 had an outage. Does that mean web browsing won't work if that happens again? If not, does that mean it will fallback to unencrypted DNS if 1.1.1.1 is blocked? Making this a default m
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
One of the things I noticed moving to the city is that windows don't have screens, because there's almost no bugs to keep out.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
guarding the cashbox isn't so bad because they have to do the same for the merchandise.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
HardenedBSD is based on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
> War is to a degree more consensual. Nobody asked me if I wanted to be bombed.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I don't think I've visited WSJ and it instantly paywalled me. Same in private mode.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
side note: lactose intolerance means diarrhea, not constipation.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Because it's bad.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
It's easy to speak against government funding with a $40 billion endowment, which is higher than the GDP of some countries.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
sorry for being ranty on HN, I'm abusing my anonymity to vent. please support a bootstrap method. I can't use any project in a programming languages that require downloading a specific binary to use in certain setups. It's no
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
been in this movie before with ocaml for bootstrap. it will die
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
mrustc is stuck at 1.19.0
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
it's rust code, you can't even compile it without downloading a binary from the internet.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
Netflix uses DRM so they control the hardware and software it runs on. I'm specifying hardware too because of HDCP - you can't just connect it to some random monitor because it might not support 'DRM for monitors'.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
If you like open source, don't work for Apple. I've seen multiple people stop all their open source contributions and communicating online after being hired by them. I assume they have very draconian NDAs.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
read the source code for the programs you use. compile them yourself. try to fix your own minor annoyances, and poke around. take a look at their bugs database.
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by nbsd4life 9y ago
if you are interested in this or other projects, GSoC is now and the deadline for student applications is 27 March (tomorrow).
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Usability improvements in GCC 8(developers.redhat.com)
99 points by nbsd4life 9y ago|28 comments

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