tlburke

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Nintendo’s next big Switch title is aimed at budding game designers(theverge.com)
8 points by tlburke 5y ago|0 comments
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Changing CentOS in Mid-Stream(lwn.net)
2 points by tlburke 6y ago|0 comments
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by tlburke 6y ago
Ah excuse me for that. 2 years of additional lifespan is still painfully short for a deprecated OS. Even free OSes like Ubuntu LTS get more years of support than versions of macOS (Ubuntu LTS release cycle of 2 years minus 5 years of suppor
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by tlburke 6y ago
You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Then you get to make the choice of using an OS that's vulnerable to exploits and an OS with a gigantic backdoor in it.
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by tlburke 6y ago
It's worth noting that Google, the big bad guys of privacy, uses a proper E2E encryption scheme.
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by tlburke 6y ago
It's been a while since I've used macOS but its firewall is one of the worst I've ever used, it might as well not even exist. It lets everything through by default, prevents you from restricting Apple software and doesn'
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by tlburke 6y ago
That's exactly what happened to my mother, she owns an iPad and an iPhone and she's constantly being squeezed for money because her two devices' backups max out her storage. She rarely takes photos and doesn't upload any
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iFixit – Smartphone Repairability Scores(ifixit.com)
1 points by tlburke 6y ago|0 comments
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by tlburke 6y ago
It's unsurprising, but it's also another nail in the 'the restrictions on users are for security purposes' coffin. Not allowing 3rd party replacements of the entire mainboard? Okay, understandable. The battery? Mmmmaybe
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iFixit finds iPhone 12 camera repair impossible without proprietary Apple tool(9to5mac.com)
43 points by tlburke 6y ago|22 comments
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by tlburke 6y ago
I don't think anybody really disagrees that redistribution is a copyright violation and the youtube-dl software doesn't provide any facilities for uploading or re-broadcasting content. This takedown is completely frivilous.
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by tlburke 6y ago
Well Remdesivir was originally developed as a treatment for Ebola before the current pandemic, so it isn't a specialized treatment for COVID-19. The fact that it has small and diffuse effects was totally predictable.
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Karaoke Bar Is Helping Japanese Town Come Back to Life After Fukushima Disaster(text.npr.org)
1 points by tlburke 6y ago|0 comments
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by tlburke 6y ago
If Apple wants to make their own users hostages that's their choice and Epic shouldn't bend to it. Apple has totally shattered the illusion that their walled garden model is about Security and not Control.
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How should society judge a defendant with a brain tumor? (2017)(nautil.us)
20 points by tlburke 6y ago|15 comments
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by tlburke 6y ago
Crown prince of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos's phone by sending him a video over WhatsApp, so its definitely something that agencies are already hard at work on.
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Package: Links2 / 2.18-2 / fix-puerile-humor.diff(sources.debian.org)
1 points by tlburke 6y ago|0 comments
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by tlburke 7y ago
Google Chrome (desktop) does not contain ads/"suggested content" on the New Tab page. For that reason alone I'll continue using Chromium on desktop until they actually pull the trigger and remove/neuter uBO.
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by tlburke 7y ago
Yeah the original BW gameboy used a modified Z80 which was old even in 1989. It took 4 AA batteries and had twice the battery life of the 6-battery (?) Game Gear.
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Ubuntu User Statistics(ubuntu.com)
2 points by tlburke 7y ago|0 comments
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Canonical Reportedly Not Planning to Enable Wayland-by-Default for Ubuntu 20.04(phoronix.com)
6 points by tlburke 8y ago|0 comments
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by tlburke 8y ago
They have a 3G model, I'm using right now! They also have a 4G 8110 "Bananaphone" that runs KaiOS, a sort of 'inbetween' smart-and-dumb phone.
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Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking(lwn.net)
132 points by tlburke 8y ago|83 comments
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by tlburke 9y ago
You could probably get very close with a well-configured twm or fvwm2
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by tlburke 9y ago
No. In fact, Rader was once considered to be a pillar of the community.