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by notfoss 12y ago
Holy cows, I got a very strong sense of Deja Vu, just after reading the first few paragraphs. I immediately jumped to the "posted" field and realized that I had already read it earlier, most likely through the same link that you h
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Music doesn’t feature in the Pirate Bay’s Top 100 most popular torrents(musicbusinessworldwide.com)
1 points by notfoss 12y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 12y ago
I have always felt that a lot of designers tend to copy stuff. But then again, perhaps coders copy code too. I guess, it's just easier to spot copied designs than copied code.
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by notfoss 12y ago
> India had a relatively peaceful transition, considering what it could have become. You are probably ignoring the Hindu-Muslim riots that took place during partition and the immediate Indo-Pak war after that. These were a result of the
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by notfoss 12y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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by notfoss 12y ago
And so do Adblock Plus and Adblock Edge. The reason I am interested in this is because of much lower resource consumption than either of those. I haven't tried Bluehell Firewall though. Can you comment on its performance as compared to
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by notfoss 12y ago
I believe that their cover was blown early and not enough data is available to analyze their intents. Now, it could simply be click fraud or it could have been the initial steps for a longer running disinformation program, but it is difficu
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by notfoss 12y ago
I don't know what he meant, but from what I have seen, most cheap Android phones use Android 2.3, and so they aren't good on the security front.
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by notfoss 12y ago
I think a better example would be Btrfs. Facebook hired the lead Btrfs devs and they are still contributing to Btrfs development. And this is because Facebook is very interested in Btrfs themselves.
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by notfoss 12y ago
Quite a long article, with different types of monitoring methods and scenarios mentioned. In the end, we can only do so much to shield ourselves. Granted, we can and should stop posting personal/sensitive information all over the int
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by notfoss 12y ago
Grml is a bit of an unorthodox rescue/live distro, as - if I recall correctly - it offers i3 wm as an option. It also uses zsh instead of bash. Its zsh config is quite nice, so much so, that it was included in the Arch Linux live media
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Featureful online man pages(mankier.com)
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by notfoss 12y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but if you are pretty sure, then how come you end your sentence with a question mark?
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by notfoss 12y ago
And you switched to emacs due to RMS ;) Jokes aside, during the 1 or 2 weeks that I forced myself to use emacs (a few years back), I felt that I would get RSI because of the painful default keybindings. Of course, I didn't know of ev
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by notfoss 12y ago
Umm.. virii is not a word.
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by notfoss 12y ago
It's a wonder he wasn't under an NDA or something.
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by notfoss 12y ago
Ignoring the /s tag, it sounds apt for a hollywood movie or a sci-fi show, but in reality it will most likely be run on an unnetworked VM. But funny nonetheless :P
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by notfoss 12y ago
I would compare it to Georgia. Why does every (well most) news website use Georgia?!! As if there is a dearth of newer beautiful looking fonts.
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by notfoss 12y ago
Antitrust lawsuits are a powerful deterrent, otherwise they surely would have gone ahead.
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by notfoss 12y ago
SSH aliases work for SFTP as well.
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by notfoss 12y ago
It's a good lightweight solution for many users, but it doesn't even support essential features like pppoe connections. Nevermind VPN and other stuff.
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by notfoss 12y ago
That's because it is bundled with util-linux. You can call it a drawback of bundling several unrelated utilities together.
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by notfoss 12y ago
So you are implying that there are no honest people out there, and on top of that everyone that finds a vulnerability has the guts and resources to make money off a 0day bug?
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by notfoss 12y ago
Fascinating read. Too bad that the conclusion is still a hypothesis. Also, this is the first time that I have taken a close look at the surface of the shuttle, and as @dewey noted, I too found it to be very uneven and blocky. From a distanc
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by notfoss 12y ago
Wladimir Palant(ABP dev) gives a short response here: https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-cons...
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Nikola (static site generator) v7.0.0 released(article.gmane.org)
1 points by notfoss 12y ago|0 comments
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by notfoss 12y ago
> The main credibility I could see in the general claim is encouraging over-complexity and insecure defaults. This is the thing which concerns me the most. The simplicity is being deprecated in favor of over-engineering. > These can
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by notfoss 12y ago
> Raytheon is converting the VTUAV TCS “block II” system from Sun’s aging, UNIX-based Solaris 8 OS to a “B2VL” version of Linux. I wonder what this B2VL version of Linux is. Also, it seems that USA is going full steam ahead with Linux ad
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by notfoss 12y ago
Sometimes, I wonder if there really are cats and dogs messing around with computers...
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by notfoss 12y ago
I like Gmane's interface. Many mailing lists are mirrored over at Gmane, and its "frames and threads" interface gives a nice email client feel.

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