timonovici

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by timonovici 10y ago
Sincerity of course. There's so much work to do on GIMP, especially with GEGL integration and non-destructive editing, and too few hands to work on it. It would actually deserve 5-10 full-time developers given the project size, but 1 f
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by timonovici 10y ago
Finally! With one developer full-time, this project will pick up the pace.
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by timonovici 10y ago
Sure :) I'm still curious, although it happened a few months ago, and I got hired since. It's seems kinda unfair though, for the people who never got a message back, because they don't know the right person to ask, or they do
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by timonovici 10y ago
Oh, you're preaching to the choir. They're the worst. By far, the worst mobile experience, and by far the most aggressive push for their mobile app. I choose not to open their mail on my mobile phone. And obviously I don't wa
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by timonovici 10y ago
From first hand experience - no. Even if you ask politely.
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by timonovici 10y ago
My worst problems were with Toptal's website. I even tweeted them about it, but it still leaked memory like crazy. Maybe they fixed it already, but I wouldn't know - they didn't have articles that interest me in a while. Any
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by timonovici 10y ago
Yes. It seems this only works with Intel cards(wifi or ethernet); I don't know the reasons why, though - it might be some firmware support. Also, I find it odd that it can work with the wireless chip - shouldn't the laptop be asso
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by timonovici 10y ago
Yes, it's a very interesting project. I'm already subscribed to their list, I got on their site accidentally. If they do not succeed, the next best thing is to wait until ARM gets powerful enough, and hope they don't go down
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by timonovici 10y ago
I was thinking of this project - https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner This is the one that strips most of the ME (which seems to be Java applets, if I remember correctly Igor Skochinsky's presentation), but there&#
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by timonovici 10y ago
Where do you get your information from? AFAIK, it's only has been stripped down to a bare minimum, putting it in some sort of recovery mode - but it can't be erased from the BIOS chip yet.
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by timonovici 10y ago
The ME/AMT is the nastiest of them all. And those are not the only ones. FSP, the CPU microcode. You can get rid of AMT if you're on older hardware, or your willing to buy a laptop from (US) http://www.libiquity.com&#x2
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by timonovici 10y ago
> How about publishers serve ads from their own main domain ? ... Yeah, I'm a big fan of the idea. Imagine this - what if advertisers would give you a small PHP script to include in the website source code, that would run random co
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by timonovici 10y ago
It is designed for remote management of a computer. Take your best shot, do you think it has network support? Also, it doesn't need for the computer to be powered on. One of the advertised features is remote HDD wipe, in case your lap
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by timonovici 10y ago
Yeah, probably you're right. And it's not like it would stop the really determined guys - X-Raying stuff would do a part of the trick, and maybe stealing the documentation would the other part.
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by timonovici 10y ago
I had the same experience with French. I learned it for 10 years, I even won a national essay competition - guess what, when I was in France, I couldn't open my mouth. English on the other hand - I had only 2 years of study under my be
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by timonovici 10y ago
It would probably be done in few months, if GIMP had a few full-time developers. But as it stands, with people working in their free time, don't expect miracles. If anything, I find it amazing that it's still developed at all.
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by timonovici 10y ago
> One day people who embraced this kind of thing will be old and helpless, and "teenagers" will held all posts. Just sayin'. By then they will be molded by the system to act the same way, or they will be in a position wher
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by timonovici 10y ago
So, you would just fire people because they wanted to wear more comfortable shoes, and they sent a letter about it? There are places where shoes/clothing really matters, like a mechanics shop (with their overalls), a construction site
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by timonovici 10y ago
I must be one lucky bastard then - it seems that I can't get addicted to almost anything, be it cigarettes, alcohol, or energy drinks. I did have once a alcohol problem, but I can hardly call that addiction. I like coffee a lot, but I
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by timonovici 11y ago
One interesting idea would be to move the advertising server-side. Just smash a ruby gem in your project, or a PHP file, and let's see how well you'll sleep when you know somebody can inject code on your server whenever they feel
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by timonovici 11y ago
The problem is - every minute of every day, they'll show their wares, while I'm interested only seldom to buy things. Most people buy their toothpaste, brushes and toilet disinfectant at the supermarket, when they do their weekly
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by timonovici 11y ago
Things started to go downhill, and they consider themselves too big to die, too important for the current infrastructure. Any business will have this inertia - gripping their shaky hands on the past, and showing the fangs at the present and
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by timonovici 11y ago
That's not what neutrality means. That means the ISP doesn't take anyone side - either by making certain services faster at the expense of others being slower, or by setting preferential pricing. If facebook really cared about ac
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by timonovici 11y ago
I have ublock myself for privacy concerns, but I install ad blockers on all my relatives computers just because they are trustful and dumb enough to click any shiny green button that says "Download". Otherwise, I have to pull my h
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by timonovici 11y ago
I use pidgin, with the newer facebook plugin - it doesn't look as sexy, but it does almost all I need (except for uploading files), and I have a bunch of other accounts connected. When I need to upload stuff, I just go to https:/
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by timonovici 11y ago
I think that's just personal taste :) I remember eating fried pigs brain, rolled in flour, and it was delicious. Also, pigs testicles are quite good if fried in a certain way (with lots of garlic and wine), but disgusting in every othe
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by timonovici 11y ago
I've only shot a small caliber pistol. Leaving poetic derailments aside, my point is - A: the solution doesn't scale B: it will lead to further discrimination, only aggravating the problem
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by timonovici 11y ago
I'm a pretty fit guy, but I'm sure the recoil of a gun could break my wrist (well, maybe a desert eagle, I was pretty good with a kalshnikov on my military trainig). I spend more time typing on a keyboard than on a shooting range
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by timonovici 11y ago
Mostly because you descend into a circle of procrastination and self-hate. And the funny thing is, they are engineered that way: facebook doesn't want you to keep the connections with your dear ones, all they want is to keep you more a

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