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by rolandog 5y ago
Well, "slang" is Dutch for snake... So maybe it's fuzzy word proximity where it's at.
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by rolandog 5y ago
It might've been a debugging feature that accidentally got shipped first with a copyrighted version, but then corrected to use some tune in the public domain.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I did start to notice sluggishness since a week or two ago. Maybe they thought they could target S21 users to get them to buy an S22? I actually saved and shelled out for a S21 Ultra 5G thinking it would tolerate the bloat from modern app
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by rolandog 5y ago
>Technocrats want to (micro) manage everyone's usage of everything. From Collins English dictionary: "A technocrat is a scientist, engineer, or other expert who is one of a group of similar people who have political power as we
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by rolandog 5y ago
From the FAQ [0]: > For users, GNUnet offers anonymous and non-anonymous file-sharing, a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant replacement for DNS and a mechanism for IPv4-IPv6 protocol translation and tunneling (NAT-PT with DNS-A
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by rolandog 5y ago
Have you thought about multiple 2FA devices? To my knowledge, you can use as 2FA w/Google: 1. A prompt on your phone 2. A hardware security key 3. TOTP token from authenticator 4. one of 10 backup codes And you can also have multiple s
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by rolandog 5y ago
Which is one of the reasons that made me think—conspiracy theorize—at first that the book was about a critique of capitalism, but then edited to read as a critique of communism. Then, I thought that both systems can be prone to manifest ine
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by rolandog 5y ago
Agreed. I'm guilty of scratching my own itch and inferring dark themes and interactive sessions, but it's nice to build things in a manner that may allow for a better integration with something else.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Indeed; on one occasion I had to help my wife troubleshoot something on a shared folder in her workplace's Google Drive... I was shocked by my wife's colleagues extensive use of special characters because they wanted their file to
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by rolandog 5y ago
That's actually cool! I feel it's great they do some introspective work, no matter the company size.
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by rolandog 5y ago
It's depressing to think that companies have normalized passing "mechanical turks" (exploiting workers from an impoverished country) as AI.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I copy/pasted ****; no luck.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Ooh, nice! I'll be giving it a try today or tomorrow, as I had been having trouble with MkChromecast.
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by rolandog 5y ago
That has been my experience as well; playing supportive interference, managing stakeholder expectations, and good communication and solidarity with your team makes for a much more productive environment than being a human version of a corpo
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by rolandog 5y ago
I think it's fine to hold Firefox to higher moral standards than its competitors, but what I don't like is the general negative vibe in which people criticize it (or Mozilla) for not being perfect. There is always a constructive
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by rolandog 5y ago
Ahh, sorry. Hadn't had enough coffee to spot the sarcasm. Indeed, dangerous games to play against people without scruples. I, too, have wanted to undertake projects that would fight against corruption, but I guess I shouldn't ha
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by rolandog 5y ago
What is the illegal part?
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by rolandog 5y ago
Me too; I've always wanted to learn about OpenBSD, and this may just be the way to start learning about it for me.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I agree with you; the other day I watched Moxie Marlinspike's video zine he produced almost 20 years ago ("Hold Fast" [0]), and I was really moved by it. But, I could also throw the same shade of doubt about every aspect tha
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by rolandog 5y ago
Yep, a lot of people who don't like criticisms of capitalism fail to understand that this system is disguised as a meritocracy but in reality it's a game and you win it by shaking off any moral scruples and stepping on everyone el
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by rolandog 5y ago
Do you think it could probably be decompiled? [0]. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14808336/297570
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by rolandog 5y ago
Indeed. I was thinking that maybe it was trying to be compatible with WIN32 apps or something, but it seems that it's running against MS's conventions [0]. [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/w
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by rolandog 5y ago
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to do a deep dive. I'll file a bug report with the Déjà Dup devs. If you don't mind me picking your brain: The logic behind isDirChar and dirName is not obvious to me. I understand not wa
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by rolandog 5y ago
Hi, thanks for your response. > Does “rolandog” mean anything to you? Yep, I think it's my username in the machine, but I think my steam username is different. > Advanced explosives seems to be a Minecraft mod. Were you developin
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Ask HN: Is this weird folder name indication of attempted log4shell attack?
5 points by rolandog 5y ago|7 comments
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by rolandog 5y ago
Security Now is quite a jewel of a podcast. I admire Steve Gibson for paying for transcriptions of each of his episodes [0]. That way, you can actually search for something you remembered being mentioned in an episode. [0]: https:/&
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by rolandog 5y ago
This is new to me, but really useful. Thanks for sharing!
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by rolandog 5y ago
In the article, the author mentioned that that feature didn't include contextual links (like what was the URL of the question), and all inside a huge HTML page.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I got the impression that this may have been posted because other fellow HN'ers mentioned it in the "How GNU coreutils are tested" thread.
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by rolandog 5y ago
To answer to OP, I think it's an inevitable consequence of the economic model behind the companies that make those products. That's why I'm trying to adopt FLOSS tools as much as possible (and also to try to learn how to con

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