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by rubinlinux 4y ago
I don't see it mentioned, but this is topical because curl turned 25 today: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/10465
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
There is another threat which is more a problem in my opinion. Imagine a future where everyone has moved to mastadon, and 1 mastadon server has done a good job of improving the flow and UX to bring in the users. Years later, when everyone i
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
IIRC it is radiation bouncing off its clumps of hydrogen from nearby stars.
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
> The only system I know that does that is the fanfiction site AO3, where teams of volunteers manually create aliases from, say, "snarry" to "Harry/Snape" They seem aware already.
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
There was a similar project at the University of Minnesota, called MAPS: http://aps.umn.edu/about/ where plates like these from the Palomar Observatory were digitized and turned into a catalog of space objects. These c
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
Novell purchased WordPerfect in 1994, and then sold it to Corel in 1996. So congratulations goes to Wordperfect Corporation itself, since this was 1992.
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
I got introduced to focus-follows-mouse mode when it was the default on some X11 unix system I used years ago. I have been using linux as a workstation for decades with this feature, and loosing it is the biggest barrier to my using a Mac o
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
One of the blogs I read has recently been pulling in this AI art stuff as story images, and I have a really strong reaction to them. They are almost obscene and gross to me to the point where I'm considering unsubscribe. Does anyone el
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by rubinlinux 4y ago
You have to raise your kids for the world that will exist when THEY become adults, not the world that existed when YOU became an adult. These things exist and they aren't going away. Kids need to be familiar with them in order to under
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by rubinlinux 5y ago
Any communication technology or feature which requires everyone to buy one brand of product in order to participate in is a non-starter. So no.
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by rubinlinux 5y ago
"We Noticed You Were Using a Browser Other Than Chrome..." PLEASE don't do this. PLEASE.
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by rubinlinux 5y ago
In debian based systems, there is a command that fetches the source code to any package (including the kernel) called apt-source. You can run that to have a copy of the source used to build whatever package you are in. Then you make your ch
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by rubinlinux 5y ago
To me, this is why the whole pinch-to-zoom debate of the recent trial was legit. You really don't know what changes to pixels technology is making unless you look at the code.
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by rubinlinux 5y ago
This reminded me of my aunt, who recently expressed concerns like this. Someone uses my toothpaste, "I just bought this tube a few weeks ago and it is almost empty" for example. And similar with ice cream etc. Thing is, it was her
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by rubinlinux 6y ago
This twitter thread puts this in a bit different light, I think. https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327253991936454663?lang...
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by rubinlinux 6y ago
> OSM is to Wikipedia as an atlas is to an encyclopedia. LOL? OSM is to an atlas as Wikipedia is to an encyclopedia. Surely?
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by rubinlinux 6y ago
My impression was that Turkish referred to nationality, not race in this case. The impression is that electronic law and order in Turkey are different than in California.
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by rubinlinux 6y ago
I usually use postmaster@theirdomain so they can spam themselves to an address they (in theory) cannot just ignore mail to.
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by rubinlinux 11y ago
Whisper systems releases source code. BMW runs whisper systems OS. Where is the rub!?
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by rubinlinux 11y ago
For my nearly 1TB backup size, this would cost per month the same as my Crashplan account costs per year. Why are all these linux friendly backup services (this, rsync.net etc) so much more expensive?