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by sillystuff 10mo ago
Debian requires that packages be able to be built entirely offline. > Debian guarantees every binary package can be built from the available source packages for licensing and security reasons. For example, if your build system downloaded
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by sillystuff 11mo ago
> They are about as accurate as flipping a coin. They are actually worse than a coin toss. The TV news show, "60 Minutes" tested several companies that provided polygraph testing services. The show claimed some one stole some e
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by sillystuff 1y ago
I think you meant to say /dev/random, not /dev/urandom. /dev/random, on linux used to stall waiting for entropy from sources of randomness like network jitter, mouse movement, keyboard typing. /dev/u
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by sillystuff 1y ago
I appreciate your intent, But... This does nothing to alleviate my privacy concerns, as a bystander, about someone rudely pointing a recording camera at me. The only thing that alleviates these concerns about "smart" glasses wear
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by sillystuff 1y ago
Perhaps "ungodly" explains current refusal, but original reason U.S. does not use metric is pirates stole the metric standards as they were being shipped over from France. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w
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by sillystuff 1y ago
Recently, the CBC was reporting on a realestate fair in a Canadian synagogue, where the only land on offer was illegally occupied land in the west bank. Apparently, this is a thing at synagogues across the west. Zionists, have made it clear
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by sillystuff 1y ago
Israeli jewish settlers murdered, on average, one Palestinian civilian per day in the west bank, for the entire year leading up to oct 11. The attacks on Palestinian civilians in the west bank have only accelerated, since then. Israel is a
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by sillystuff 1y ago
This is true. The original European Jews who founded Israel were even opposed to the German Nazis transferring thousands of Jewish children to other countries to save their lives. These Zionist Jews thought it would be better for their stat
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by sillystuff 1y ago
Israeli jews and their supporters in places like Egypt, engaged in terrorist attacks like bombing bus/train stations. The goal was to turn the population against the jewish populations within these countries, so they would have no cho
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by sillystuff 1y ago
I really liked the idea of Framework making inter-changeable parts available for their laptops-- allowing the purchaser to keep the laptop running / upgrading as long as they wish. I also liked not having to buy parts with the laptop
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by sillystuff 1y ago
I'll second the steep learning curve for the twiddler. I never got up to a typing speed on it that was not horribly, frustratingly, slow. But, I only needed it for a couple months. Like OP's relative, I also could not use my dom
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by sillystuff 1y ago
88 = "Heil Hitler" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism Possibly a coincidence, but with Musk's politics, it seems, at least as likely, this may be a recent, intentional, example of 88
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by sillystuff 1y ago
The repo appears to be working for installing/updating packages. Mozilla should allow file listing which should fix the 404s, and make this repo behave as expected when manually browsed (Apparently hosted on a Google webserver; maybe
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by sillystuff 1y ago
> 70M implicitly allowing it by not voting. > The root problem is the voters The root problem is that we do not have an actual opposition party. The so-called Democrats are a right-wing, corporate/oligarch controlled party that
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by sillystuff 2y ago
I played around with this in a VM the last time it was mentioned on HN. The thing I want to do, but wasn't able to find a way to accomplish was to have a virtual desktop switcher gadget and a separate gadget to swallow minimized applic
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by sillystuff 2y ago
I use offlineimap to sync several email accounts both to local storage, and to accounts on other free email providers. E.g., a gmail account dedicated to bug reporting is replicated by offlineimap to an outlook.com account. Address books a
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Instead of dupremove, bees may be more appropriate for your goals. https://github.com/Zygo/bees Bees does things at a lower level than just reflinking full files like dupremove (it dedups at the level of extents). Be
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Not LED light bulbs specifically, but... "The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence" https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> She ran the best presidential campaign in history. She lost. If you liked her, that is fine, sorry for your loss. But, I think this quote from you sounds delusional. If you were arguing she and her party's policies and record wer
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by sillystuff 2y ago
I don't understand why you think a celebrity endorsement would matter-- at all. One endorsement that mattered was Dick Cheney, the man behind the US's illegal and immoral torture campaigns, and who shared responsibility for the U
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Searched for author, she is with the Heartland Institute. Second link returned on search for Heartland Institute: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08082018/heartland-instit... It appears this article is just som
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Stop all JS, CSS, and any other processing for any tabs that are not currently active where the site has not been placed on an allow list allowing it to continue to run in a background tab. Also stop JS, CSS, etc., for any active tabs where
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by sillystuff 2y ago
It has been several years since I played with x32, but Debian had pretty good support. Not every package built for amd64 was also built for x32, but most server stuff was there. It has been a long time, but I was using x32 containers on an
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Seems like the smaller virtual address space available to each x32 userspace application would negatively impact ASLR too.
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by sillystuff 2y ago
You need to pass syscall.x32=y on the kernel cmdline for Debian packaged kernels. https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port But, maybe support has gone away recently, too since upstream apparently was interested in removing support?
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Apparently Sailfish is using libhybris. I looked at the libhybris page and a few other sources, but am unsure how much of Android is implied when using libhybris. Random person on Internet claimed it is a minimal, but complete, Android use
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by sillystuff 2y ago
The teacher is a 'mandatory reporter'. The teacher effectively lacks agency in deciding to report or not an issue that may be interpreted (by others evaluating the teacher's decision) as a potential sign of abuse. The teach
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by sillystuff 2y ago
I suspend my computer, every time I walk away from it, and it is not performing a long-running process. Often 10+ times per day and have never experienced an issue with suspend/resume after working out these two issues: 1) I had to add
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> I'm wondering whether there's also going to be a large-scale operation a few months ahead of the games of deporting homeless people Yes. Already beginning in cities all across the US since the Supreme Court decision in Grant
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> Some will do rocm but I don’t know if the AMD iGPUs are guaranteed to support it? If you only care about inference, llama.cpp supports Vulkan on any iGPU with Vulkan drivers. On my laptop with crap bios that does not allow changing an

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