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by sverige 8y ago
This one is actually easy: Those are the personality types who are drawn to running for office.
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by sverige 8y ago
Sure, but how many servers are running to ensure that Big Tech can maintain 24/7 surveillance through those phones?
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by sverige 8y ago
Go further: ever thought about turning off your computers and not carrying a smartphone that requires charging every day? The internet and related hardware consume an ever-increasing percentage of total electrical output. We could just turn
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by sverige 8y ago
There's no daylight "saved" or "wasted." It's merely forcing everyone to change their schedules according to someone else's arbitrary desire to have their schedule moved up an hour. It should be gotten ri
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by sverige 8y ago
And the rest are Linux boxes.
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by sverige 8y ago
Yep, cwm is maintained by the OpenBSD devs and is part of base, so you don't have to download a package for it. If you want, though, i3 is only a quick dl away. I used to have a kind of complicated cwm setup, but I got tired of that an
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by sverige 8y ago
As mentioned in TFA, running OpenBSD on mainstream, not-bleeding-edge PC laptops is pretty easy. I've been doing it with such machines (Dell, Compaq, ThinkPad, and most recently HP) for eight years. The last few years especially it has
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by sverige 8y ago
A great place to start would be to seriously limit or eliminate pesticides like Roundup. Don't believe the alarmists in Big Ag who will say the world will starve. We overproduce food now, and organic farming techniques, if widely adopt
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by sverige 8y ago
Thanks. I considered linking directly to the FAQ, but chose the undeadly link instead simply because it highlighted the fact that the FAQ is a new addition, though the infrastructure has been there for a while now.
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FAQ – Virtualization(openbsd.org)
87 points by sverige 8y ago|11 comments
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Chinese-style 'digital authoritarianism' grows globally: study(france24.com)
2 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
I agree with Torba's basic position on free speech. I am opposed to the recent developments along the lines of 'some speech should be banned (merely) because it offends.' OTOH, when I tried out Gab a couple years ago, very ea
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by sverige 8y ago
Wow, I'm usually the one correcting grammar. Good catch!
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Medical students 'raised on screens lack skills for surgery'(theguardian.com)
2 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
It was invented long ago. Section sewn or case binding allows a book to lay flat. It is considerably more expensive than other methods, though.
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by sverige 8y ago
> If you're inclined to ask someone who you were interviewing for a job to come do sex to you and your wife,... Exactly right. Stop right there. You've gone over the line of professional behavior into something far below that s
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by sverige 8y ago
"Even before X3.4-1967 was published, there was already interest in two more minor revisions. First, the ISO code had since its ﬁrst draft allowed the use of character 0/10 for new line as well as for line feed, but ASCII had not.
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When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves(npr.org)
477 points by sverige 8y ago|515 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
It's fascinating to me how the comments here mostly ignore the results Netflix has gotten with this approach. They are literally disrupting Hollywood, a 100-year-old monopoly, and have accomplished that after very few years and startin
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by sverige 8y ago
Interesting choice of license. It will be very interesting to see what kind of growth their community experiences as a result.
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Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them(bloombergquint.com)
2 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
Yes, ditto on newegg. My heroes for fighting patent trolls and building the best shopping cart ever and having good products at good prices. Lately it's been in decline though. Haven't bought anything there for over a year.
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by sverige 8y ago
I run OpenBSD on a Dell Latitude as a daily driver. Works great.
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by sverige 8y ago
Yes. syspatch and pkg_add -u handle updates.
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by sverige 8y ago
I use it as a daily driver for my laptop. It's quite performant. I also boot a linux distro sometimes on that machine, and don't notice much difference in battery life between the two. They've been adding drivers like crazy f
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by sverige 8y ago
Exactly this. Unless of course you became an Iridium level donor with the caveat that someone promised to build a Docker clone for you. Edit: And in response to toyg's comment, here is a link to a video of a talk by the developer in qu
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by sverige 8y ago
Clearly not. They are ruled by the Workers' Party of Korea, and it is a self-described revolutionary and socialist state. And since we were originally talking about Chinese communists, it's interesting to note that they have been
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by sverige 8y ago
> It's rule by people who use the brand "communist", but they aren't actually communists in any meaningful sense, not even as in what the word meant to the Soviets. China is very authoritarian, but it is not communist
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by sverige 8y ago
It's still actual communist rule -- by the Communist Party of China, no less.
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by sverige 8y ago
Well, it was put up on a server accessible to lots of people. How is that legally private?

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