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by nuker 3y ago
Sad times began in 2002, when the last independent TV channel (TV-6), to where the team of previously shut down channel NTV, flocked, was also taken over and shut down. That was the end of free press. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by nuker 3y ago
> The Russian people lack the will, organization, and moral courage to overthrow their klepto-plutocrat dictator. They lack secure communication tools in the first place. I believe Telegram is backdoored by FSB and Whatsapp just bent ove
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by nuker 3y ago
AWS ECS is better than Kubernetes, and Cloudformation is better than Terraform. Just my IMHO. Both are more simple and do the same thing.
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by nuker 3y ago
Offtopic. I watched this post rankings [0] and saw a huge drop from 6 to 75, a minute ago. Damn algorithms, lol [0] https://hnrankings.info/39286209/
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by nuker 3y ago
“Rocky mirrors RHEL exactly, aiming to be a bug for bug compatible release with RHEL itself.” Is openSUSE like this?
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by nuker 3y ago
Good question. I saw the CentOS drama unfolding and Rocky was pitched as a replacement. They held the door so far :) (Hodor from Game of Thrones)
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by nuker 3y ago
> you are being punished for exercising the rights that have been given to you by the original software license This means war. Rebel!
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by nuker 3y ago
Or Rocky for RPM diehards :)
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by nuker 3y ago
> The GPL only requires that you provide sources to those to whom you distribute binaries, not to the general public. Interesting. I looked at Wikipedia GPL page and saw this: "The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL)
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by nuker 3y ago
> As a matter of fact almost all startups are already on Ubuntu... To my perspective playing corporate games with the open source community ... "Canonical Ltd.[4] is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and fu
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by nuker 3y ago
But RHEL is under GPL licence, right? So what Rocky does is covered by GPL, thanks aside. No thanks expected when it is a war :)
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by nuker 3y ago
My default Linux for stuff. Just installed it as a VM on my Proxmox box for an SFTPgo instance. I think it is the best choice today for RPM based distro.
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Rocky Linux, Reflections on Three Years of Growth(rockylinux.org)
39 points by nuker 3y ago|57 comments
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by nuker 3y ago
> Developing and installing apps is the main feature of a computer. I may argue that policing the App store is the main feature of the iPhone. That is why I bought it in the first place. It is not a computer in general sense. I want only
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by nuker 3y ago
Next morning Facebook removes its app from Apple Store and directs users to sideload the app, because it needs those sweet permissions that were denied before. Apps outside official app store may force you to enable permissions it does not
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Magnetoreception(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nuker 3y ago|0 comments
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by nuker 3y ago
> So I went with a CF card to IDE adapter. No no no. The sound is irreplaceable. I ended up with FUJITSU MPB3043AT. Tried Quantum Fireball 2GB but it was too noisy.
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by nuker 3y ago
Specs plz :) Do you have PCI slots? Is PS2 mouse port present? I had to find serial mouse, A4Tech one, with the ball :) No USB lol
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by nuker 3y ago
Offtopic, but I built a 486 PC, to remind me my first computer. 16MB FPM SIMMs, AMD Am5x86 133MHz CPU, Matrox Millenium + 3dfx Voodoo II. Win95. And a fkn external modem. But there is no dial-up ISP left in AU :)
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by nuker 3y ago
Ha ha! I get it. But today’s FF is slipping to being worse. Lets see if uBO survives Manifest V3. And don't use DoH, I have a bad feeling about it, http cookies inside DoH are undefined thing.
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by nuker 3y ago
> annoying after every launch causes me to use all of the various 2FAs In Mac, KeyChain passw manager can store TOTP secret too, so its just three clicks instead of one/two :) Why not using Safari? There is Wipr, not uBO but good en
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by nuker 3y ago
Apps outside official app store may force you to enable permissions it does not really need, refusing to work without it. Apps in official store should work with the permissions approved by the store. The “should” is enforced by the store.
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by nuker 3y ago
My default for all browsing is to use Private Safari window and never stay logged in for longer than needed. Btw, there is hidden Safari setting in iOS, under Advanced at the bottom, “Privacy Preserved Ad Measurement” that was on, for some
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by nuker 3y ago
> Personally, I am on the record wishing that Apple would allow some sort of “expert” or “developer” mode — chock full of warnings Next morning Facebook removes its app from Apple Store and directs users to sideload the app, because it n
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by nuker 3y ago
It also means Cloudflare sees HN traffic in plaintext, including login/passwords
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by nuker 3y ago
> and it's really just a list of file names in the order you want them I want the user to see what albums are there and be able to play individual albums because I separated each album per folder. m3u playlist is a all-in-one-list t
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by nuker 3y ago
Like a good boy I thought I'll create an Issue on GitHub. No dice, the VLC project has no Issues tab :)
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VLC does not have Open Folder menu item(videolan.org)
1 points by nuker 3y ago|5 comments
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by nuker 3y ago
I'm trying to share music using a zip file with a bunch of folders, per album. I need to tell the recipient how to play it. Obvious instruction will be to use VLC app. But when I try to replicate the usage on my Mac, I do not see Open
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by nuker 3y ago
> But tacking on "in plain text" to it just creates confusion. Today, when the context is service provider and customers, "plain text" is used to say that service provider has the data unencrypted.

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