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by wicket 10y ago
That's really interesting. Are you able to tell us how long those 500k cores were running for before the facebookcorewwwi.onion name was found?
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by wicket 10y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean when you say "piping is systematically broken". It sounds like you might be trying do something that isn't really meant for piping. The general idea behind UNIX programming is that pro
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by wicket 10y ago
For me, the answer is "plenty", but that's neither here or there. Everyone has their own use case and I daren't say yours isn't valid. Video editing tends to done in applications, of course that's not to say v
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by wicket 10y ago
On UNIX, the "API" is basically that everything is a file and programs are written to handle text streams. After all these years, the shell is still perfect for this. It sounds like you want create a new language and shell in ord
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by wicket 11y ago
What I don't understand is why they are so dependent on hydroelectric power. Venezuela sits on a shitload of oil and have a history of practically giving it away to their citizens.
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by wicket 11y ago
Desktop Firefox. Not all browsers expose battery information[1]. Of course Firefox for iOS isn't really Firefox. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/b...
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by wicket 11y ago
I didn't like that it was able to obtain my battery information. I discovered that this can be prevented in Firefox by setting dom.battery.enabled to "false" under about:config.
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by wicket 11y ago
A phone without a backdoor would be illegal in the UK once the Snooper's Charter comes in to full effect. I'm very interested to see how the UK government will react to Apple's stance.
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Arsenal player Mathieu Flamini reveals mass produced oil replacement(thesun.co.uk)
5 points by wicket 11y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 11y ago
It's shame that The Register had ruin a good story with their shoddy, tabloid-esque journalism by claiming that the UN privacy head called Vint Cerf "dumb". He never called him "dumb", he actually highlighted his i
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by wicket 11y ago
Everything in theory could be compromised, that's the story of computer security but that doesn't mean we should ignore any threats. That's like saying I might as well use dictionary words for all my passwords because they a
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by wicket 11y ago
> You're not accomplishing what you want to accomplish with this How do you know what it is that I want to accomplish? I will accomplish everything that I want to accomplish. > You have the choice of not running apps. Get a feat
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by wicket 11y ago
As far as I'm aware, UMTS has not been hacked. You can tell the device to connect to UMTS only. Of course this doesn't stop carriers from giving government agencies direct access to communications. If secure communications is y
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by wicket 11y ago
I'm surprised HN readers don't already know this. It still astonishes me how so many so called "tech savvy" users are content with surrendering their privacy and freedoms to Google or Apple so that they can run the late
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by wicket 11y ago
I'm curious to know what it is that you prefer about the design of System XVI over other alternative init/service management systems. In particular, compared to s6 [1], which has similar design goals to System XVI but appears to
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by wicket 11y ago
Linux is just a kernel. It always has been and always will be. It is pretty useless without userspace. That's why we have distros. As long as multiple distros exist, they need some way or other to differentiate themselves. Differe
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Free Mobile... when Android is not enough [pdf](neo900.org)
2 points by wicket 12y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 12y ago
> It will always return false. Exactly! It's not the best of examples really, is it?
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by wicket 12y ago
There should a dollar sign before hello, e.g.: bash [ -z $hello ] ...or is that a bashism that I'm not aware of? If so, that's just horrible. Personally, I prefer to write portable shell scripts. Entering "!posix test"
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by wicket 13y ago
I'm always interested in open hardware but I'm a bit baffled by the choices that are available: Just the board: This is perhaps the most appealing option but I would want a case with it, I'm not interested in building my own
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by wicket 13y ago
Too little too late for what exactly? Certainly not for their target audience. Perhaps you're on the wrong site. This is Hacker News and this device is for hackers. Name another mobile computer of a similar form factor or even a sm
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LXC 1.0: Blog post series(stgraber.org)
2 points by wicket 13y ago|0 comments
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by wicket 13y ago
Agreed. Anything that is not part of the SUS or POSIX standards should be in a separate section indicating their origin/availability.
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by wicket 13y ago
World's first? I'm pretty sure that this doesn't pre-date Sega's Hologram from 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_%28video_game%29