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runn1ng
10y ago
I still run Linux despite all the challenges and all the hardware constantly breaking and working just-not-right, because I just love the openness and I don't understand how can Apple (and windows) users survive without "apt-get&q
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runn1ng
10y ago
Or you can dump it on medium, which looks better on mobile devices and looks cooler in general.
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10y ago
OUYA tried to do an open console. It didn't work out well for them. It's true that it might have been due to other issues, but right now, the console industry have a very public, well covered by the press console, that has tried t
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runn1ng
10y ago
How is this spyware in any definition?
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10y ago
> The key point rests on language in Article 107 of the 2007 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which provides that “any aid granted by a member state or through state resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or thr
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runn1ng
10y ago
I wouldn't read that much into it; WhatsApp is simply more popular so they would face too much of a backlash. That would be my guess.
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The Libertarian Utopia That’s Just a Bunch of White Guys on a Tiny Island
(gq.com)
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10y ago
I will add what I wrote on a different thread PGP is used very heavily on online drug marketplaces. You really can't use Signal or WhatsApp there - leaking too much metadata - and even OTR is leaking too much data. PGP is quite good fo
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10y ago
PGP is also used very heavily on darknet on drug marketplaces. OTR (or even Signal) is not possible there, so people stick to good-and-tried PGP.
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10y ago
"Culture" goes way, way beyond "interesting food".
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10y ago
Speaking for myself I don't hate cooking meals I hate all the fuzz around it - getting ingredients - do I buy "organic"? is that expensive? how cheap should I go?; finding the right recipes - how do I compare 20 different one
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10y ago
> the only real way to have a nation is to have other nations acknowledge its existence I always think of Taiwan / Republic of China. While most countries don't officially acknowledge it (and, slightly amusingly, Taiwan doesn&#
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10y ago
I am not sure about the letter of the law, but I think the spirit is clear that the intent matters. And they didn't operate the servers because they wanted to give platform to child porn users, but because they wanted to catch the user
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10y ago
They were up most of the day in here (Prague, Czech Republic, Europe), but it's down now (started about 20 minutes ago). It seems to be another wave of the attack.
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10y ago
Hard :) The network effect is hard to overcome. I migrated to it just because a lot of people in my company used it. You can try to persuade just the friends that you talk to the most, and if they will like it, let them share it further. Or
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10y ago
I am not sure how is it compared to WeChat. I have no friends from mainland China :/ Compared to LINE - originally Japanes app, popular in these regions - it's a godsend. LINE is terrible.
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10y ago
I have had a great experience with Telegram app with poor connections. No wonder it's so popular in Asia, Russia and Middle East.
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runn1ng
10y ago
Well, it's quite unfair to all the version between "System 1" to "Mac OS 9" to start with OS X :) Sure, it share almost no code (AFAIK), but it does share some design philosophy.
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10y ago
Yeah. But again, it doesn't seem like there is a huge and vibrant developer community inspecting the code, implementing features and fixing bugs; looking at their gitlab and their redmine, it seems like there is almost no activity. (It
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10y ago
Ideologically, I like Replicant. Actually free-as-in-freedom version of Android, great! In reality though, it doesn't really work on most of modern phones, and on the ones it works on, there is no WiFi support. And the latest commit on
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10y ago
You still have the "old" (1 day old) DNS records. Try to flush your DNS cache.
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10y ago
Actually yes, he taught himself some Russian, from what I remember.
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10y ago
AdBlock has: * AdBlock * AdBlock Plus * AdBlock Ultimate, now AdBlocker Ultimate uBlock has: * uBlock * uBlock Origin ...and I can never tell the difference.
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10y ago
If this de-clutters the website "proper" in the long run, I am for it.
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10y ago
Truth to be said, Apple's marketshare is failing and Android is growing, with all the Chinese manufacturers making pretty fine phones. Xiaomi phones are surprisingly good. I am not sure if that future, where everything is tracked and
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10y ago
Interestingly, your query - "Friends of friends who like mountain biking and live in New Zealand" - still works for me and indeed, I see two friends of friends from New Zealand that like biking.
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10y ago
I literally cannot scroll the post itself down. It's stuck no matter what I do, so I will forever see just the first half of the article. I usually hate one-note comments about the web platform of the postings, but since this is a blog
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> writing Chrome app Note that Google will stop supporting Chrome Apps in 1 year or so. http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.htm...
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I will add HID API support, that apps have and extensions don't. https://developer.chrome.com/apps/hid
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10y ago
Well, whenever I install a messenger (seems like I am doing this too frequently last few months, since every group of friends like to use a completely different messenger), first thing I try is a simple "ping-pong" messages, that
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