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by sobkas 5y ago
Allure of flushing down the toilet GPL software from their stack is just too high for them, to just walk away from it.
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by sobkas 5y ago
>Multifactor authentication (MFA) is one of the primary lines of defense against DEV-0537. While this group attempts to identify gaps in MFA, it remains a critical pillar in identity security for employees, vendors, and other personnel a
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by sobkas 5y ago
> It's all been social engineering. Are you saying the software developers should have programmed all the humans in these organizations better? They should have used login mechanism that didn't failed so spectacularly as passwo
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by sobkas 5y ago
I use Gnome+Wayland for gaming. I only had one problem for years that I used it. Something related to "Failed to initialize parser".
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by sobkas 5y ago
They will go broke if they do bad job at extracting money from their renters, not bad job at providing value to them. Also: https://www.wsj.com/articles/landlords-were-never-meant-to-g... , privatization of profits and
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by sobkas 5y ago
> You don’t personally need to be. If it’s free money why hasn’t someone done it? Why are there houses sitting there vacant? I have seen some articles that it starts happening there too. For example buying houses in Detroit, through web
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by sobkas 5y ago
> If you honestly believe being a landlord is such a slam dunk you should take out a mortgage, buy a property somewhere in United States (there are places as cheap as $50K) and rake in the cash. I'm sorry, but I am not sociopathic e
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by sobkas 5y ago
> > Landlords have chosen to enter an inherently adversarial relationship with the goal of profiting from the other party. > There isn't any reason for it to be adversarial, it's certainly not inherently so. Only if one o
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Does dpkg support merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs?
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by sobkas 5y ago
> What happened to Google Fiber anyway? It's not like Google doesn't have the money to do whatever necessary to make it work. They found out that doing things in real world is hard. So they took their ball and went home. Pretty
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by sobkas 5y ago
Yep. I also had a phase of "use Emacs for everything, literally" but I have it behind me. I now I use it as the editor. I use it to edit EvEryThIng.
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by sobkas 5y ago
I'm shocked. Under capitalism people with capital choose who will win in the market? How it's even possible? It's almost like that under capitalism people with capital make the rules.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Oh yes. I absolutely hated editing that file, but when I got lucky and got it right on the first or second try, that rush was something I doubt Windows or Mac users get often. Although now that I'm a bit older, I'm glad I don
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Wasn't one of the first things they used this data for was to find people with grow-ops in their basements? And in some cases instead of pot they found crypto mining rigs.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> I live in Turkey and we have a similar state propaganda (though fortunately not war). So what about Syria? Kurds are another topic you might want to look into (both inside and outside the Turkey). Azerbaijan-Armenia proxy war? It'
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by sobkas 5y ago
> In my country (not Spain) our government broke many laws (violated the constitution) in the name of covid restrictions. They decided it was ok because of public health. But laws are pointless if they can just be ignored when the govern
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Back then it was assumed that the management could be held accountable. When in doubt, create a committee.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> - or: follow the rules to a t. Not necessarily malicious compliance, just don't care that you overload the system. At some point someone will sit down and look at it and corners will be cut. Also hope that you are not a corner. Be
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by sobkas 5y ago
You better not earn any money on this... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/all-of-mugshots-...
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by sobkas 5y ago
> I never understood the obsession with sending heavily armed police to break down doors for some trivial white collar crime. If there is no immediate threat to life, it can wait. You would think that with all the financial and digital s
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Depends by what you mean by "real buttons" but my first thought was that 99% of gaming mice will have at least 3 buttons and a scrollwheel. Often it's closer to 10 buttons. > This one has 20 buttons (including 3 big o
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by sobkas 5y ago
> For every one of these stories though, is there a 'we pushed too hard too soon, the product wasn't ready, people were already turned off it by the time it was'? In gaming industry you can't swing a dead cat without
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by sobkas 5y ago
> And if you think that your government will never do such thing, think again, harder. Citizens must have a leverage against abuse. With shrinking use of cash, cryptocurrencies allow people to evade a chokehold that can instantly smother
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should w
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by sobkas 5y ago
> GNS is about better technical foundations for DNS in the 21st century, it's not about changing the politics of the ICANN root _(although it's arguably an empowering technology for alternative roots to emerge)_. For a such l
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by sobkas 5y ago
Also when you depend on driver to differentiate between high/low end devices, open source driver is also no. Eg. Nvidia, throttling consumer devices in favour of enterprise grade ones.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Why would anyone pay for it? Because doing it properly is too expensive for average customer? Also, in capitalism you only need to outrun your competitors, not achieve some kind of perfect driver. So when your competitors are as &&
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Why is it that closed source drivers are the norm rather than the exception for hardware companies? Because when you want to depreciate your old hardware and want to push your customers to new one, open source driver that is maintained
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by sobkas 5y ago
> A 486 can handle X just fine. 486's were our main X11 desktop machines at the office in the mid 90's (it has been the year of Linux on the desktop for me since 1995). The challenge is more that most modern X clients won'
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by sobkas 5y ago
> How financial markets should be. Until the bubble pops, then better not be one holding the bucket.

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