thelukester

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by thelukester 10y ago
Last year, obfsproxy was absolutely still effective in China. There are several comments here that "Tor doesn't work". Yes, vanilla Tor hasn't worked for years now. While it's true China has managed to block obfspro
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by thelukester 12y ago
20%? Are we even looking at the same charts? After closing 5 tabs 270mb -> 480mb! Those numbers don't lie and your guarantee is worthless to those of us that have seen Firefox's memory bloat over the past year. When Chrome star
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by thelukester 13y ago
Actually the addictive factor reminds me of a Joust on rails. Take away the left/right controls, and idea is similar to the 1982 arcade game. If you've never played it before, check it out on MAME.
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by thelukester 13y ago
No, VLC should remember the last audio level, just not when it's over 100%. If I leave it at 50%. On next restart it should be 50%. If I'm watching a movie and finish on 200%, on next restart it should be 100%. Clipping sucks. VLC
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by thelukester 13y ago
In contrast to “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.” ― Confucius It boils down to taking responsibility for your own actions. She took the effort to change her physical gender without
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by thelukester 13y ago
On my 2-3yr old laptop w/ a 8600GT, I agree that for 2D only X11 apps, Nouveau drivers seem to have less issues with tearing and drawing than the proprietary drivers. But once you want to need power management to run on battery, play g
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by thelukester 13y ago
>In the case of games, nearly every single game company refuses to provide their games as free (libre) game software. Rockstar spent $266 million to develop Grand Theft Auto V. How do you expect them to recoup this cost if they gave it a
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by thelukester 13y ago
I think it’s marvelous when our society takes care of our existing mentally and physically ill. But encouraging those with major genetic problems to reproduce is asinine. A close friend of mine is very religious, over 40, chose to have a 3
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by thelukester 13y ago
Novice developers should not be writing drivers in any language. If you don't have a C background, you're not going to be able to contribute much code to any OS. Besides config files and scripts, NetBSD is nearly 100% C. If you re
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by thelukester 13y ago
I can’t believe you seriously consider PulseAudio to be a technological improvement. Having used PA for years, I have encountered and reported numerous bugs and performance issues. After trying to debug some PA issues, I lost all respect fo
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by thelukester 13y ago
I've been gaming in Linux with both native and Wine/CrossOver games(free year thanks to Bush) for over 8 years now. Drivers are the biggest issue. There are 2 main issues here. First is quality. The video card manufactures need to
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by thelukester 13y ago
Your demo was also choppy for me on 2.2 Core 2, 460m, Chrome 29, Win7. After your experience with both native and WebGL game development, don't you think it's a little premature to make a hardcore game targeting only WebGL? Thanks
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by thelukester 13y ago
Your 9 yo installed fake antivirus + search engine hijacker. First of all, what the hell are you doing letting a 9 yo browse on a machine with root privileges? Secondly, that has nothing to do with this story. As the article is wrongly accu
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by thelukester 13y ago
Good for Lightning UK! Growing up he was one of my heroes with DVD Decrypter. I hope he can make a few bucks on advertising with its spiritual successor. This article is sensationalist BS. After a little research it's clear that DevSha
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by thelukester 13y ago
I've traveled all over the world, from South America, India, to China. In all those places, the locals stare and take photos. They stare at me, also a redhead; they stare at my girlfriend, who is from LA and dresses like it. Unlike thi
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by thelukester 13y ago
Funny a cryptographer was just explaining why you should never question your field's fundamental assumptions. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164050-discovery-may-make...
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by thelukester 13y ago
When I was living in China, I used Tor daily to circumvent the great firewall. Back when the Tor bundle was using Firefox < 15, it has some bad memory leaks, but Mozilla has done a great job of fixing those. Chrome has turned into the m
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by thelukester 13y ago
Maybe I'm missing your sarcasm, you place no value in your digital privacy, or you're just completely computer illiterate. If you're capable of installing any app on your computer, you can run the tor browser. There is nothin
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by thelukester 13y ago
Remember that we’re wired to respond to personal news. That’s the secret to Facebook’s and tabloid magazine’s success. So as happy as I am about this, let it also be a reminder that Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is.
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by thelukester 13y ago
If I could change one thing about human history, I'd remake the 0 and O's (# and letter) and the I, l, and 1 (letter i, letter L, and #) so you could never confuse them in hard to read CAPATCHs.
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by thelukester 13y ago
Most people seem to focus on the visual programming model which is just one aspect of NoFlo. I think its real power comes from the Flow Based Programming model. Functional programming is the trendy solution to the problem of concurrency the
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by thelukester 13y ago
Yes, the cool thing about LV is allows you to turn an idea on a flow chart into code that resembles the original chart on the high level. And, nothing beats it for data acquisition and testing. Like all visual languages big projects and the
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by thelukester 13y ago
Agreed, CSS/DOM/JS need to be replaced, before the web can truly be an application platform.
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by thelukester 13y ago
For my company, this is exactly what's happening. Like Facebook, we found HTML5 to be insufficient for our app, so our resources have shifted to iOS and Android development. Native gives much better and consistent performance and UX, a
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by thelukester 13y ago
For you I2P users, What are you using for P2P software, I2PSnark, iMule, or I2Phex? I tried it a few years ago, but didn't have much success in finding anything. Any tips for setting up, searching, performance tweaks?
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by thelukester 13y ago
Count you in on the openness alone? Who are you, RMS? There's already an extremely open OS out there. In fact Firefox OS is based off of it. You can download the source code, build it yourself, and submit patches. You can even change t
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by thelukester 13y ago
matthiasv, I don't know what your secret is, only 1 tab open in 1 window open at time, JS disabled, or what, but this is a very real issue. I have Firefox installed on all 4 of my machines, work desktop, home desktop, laptop, and a net
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by thelukester 13y ago
Yeah, Italians use gestures when talking; no kidding. In the video, they showed dozens of gestures, most which I had no idea what they meant. I would have found it much more informative and interesting if they explained what all those commo
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by thelukester 13y ago
This is why I'm more excited about Ubuntu Mobile than Firefox OS. With Ubuntu, I get an open ecosystem with native performance and am not locked into using the Firefox browser. If the gesture system on Ubuntu is done as well as the Bla
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by thelukester 13y ago
Does anyone know of any good ad-dons or extensions to blocks medium.com articles from showing up on HN? By the amount of low quality articles that make it to the front page, seems like there must be some kind of voting ring for them.

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