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by yrro 3y ago
Oh and I forgot to mention the guy (whose name I have thankfully forgotten) that the Apache Software Foundation hired to go and troll the LibreOffice community in public forums across the Internet. A tradition that other OpenOffice "co
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by yrro 3y ago
Back in the day there was real interest in "OpenOffice" among non-geeks. Governments were mandating that documents be published in OpenDocument format. Microsoft sought to muddy the waters by publishing the confusing "Office
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by yrro 3y ago
It's already begun. The Stop Sell for Wholesale Line Rental happened this month, so you can no longer order a analogue phoen line in most areas.
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by yrro 3y ago
Ugh. I always hesitate before browsing to a Fandom wiki because the user experience is so full of dark patterns. I guess this is just another facet of that...
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by yrro 3y ago
Apache's stubborn refusal to direct OpenOffice users towards LibreOffice has done immeasurable harm to the Apache brand and it's basically ruined the OpenOffice brand. A great example of the damage that can be done by poor steward
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by yrro 3y ago
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Don't take this the wrong way but doesn't anyone ever read the manual any more? https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.htm...
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by yrro 3y ago
bridge: I wish there was decent documentation on how to configure & use Linux's vlan-aware bridge functionality ('bridge vlan' command). I understand it means that you don't have to create separate vlan interfaces bu
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by yrro 3y ago
Don't forget you may need to opt in to get mapping to work. It's not available by default on all platforms. If you're unlucky you'll also have to sacrifice a goat to appease the JVM gods. JVM behaviours vary hugely acros
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by yrro 3y ago
Will do thanks
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by yrro 3y ago
I've found that searching for stories with ELF in the title then trawling through the comments for the links is really informative.
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by yrro 3y ago
hm, ipinfo.io tells me that I'm using a VPN even though I'm not...
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by yrro 3y ago
Was it by chance on August the 30th? That would have co-incideded with the ultra rare "blue supermoon". Next one is in 203x...
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by yrro 3y ago
E = 1/2 m v^2 Drive slower and everyone is safer
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by yrro 3y ago
No I'm just saying it's possible. I can count on the fingers of 0 hands the number of times I've needed to do this to edit a deleted file out from under a process that has the only reference to an unlinked file open so at lea
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by yrro 3y ago
A rare delight but it does happen
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by yrro 3y ago
The result of inspecting such a file is usually a series of disgusted shudders, "this will do WHAT do my machine"?
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by yrro 3y ago
See Glascow's M8 which did get built!
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by yrro 3y ago
All the more reason to reduce the number of cars on the road: prioritize active and public transport (so that people choose to use them where possible instead of driving a wasteful private vehicle). Other measures should also be considered
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by yrro 3y ago
> road maintenance is paid for by income tax Isn't it funded through general taxation? Income tax, NI, dividend tax, duties, capital gains tax, VAT and so on all go into one pot out of which comes some money for the highways agency
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by yrro 3y ago
Apparently we can't do anything to change how existing vehicles are taxed on grounds of fairness.
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by yrro 3y ago
All valid problems. The car lobby (and their pet politicians) aren't going to do anything to fix it though. And we will all have to live with the consequences.
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by yrro 3y ago
I wonder about having a second ring of ticks on the outside, coloured to match the hand representing the position of the most significant byte, that has 0x80 at the top. This preserves the idea that all hands pointing to the top = midnight.
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by yrro 3y ago
But it doesn't have to. Space is freed up deterministically, not "sooner or later".
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by yrro 3y ago
Larger vehicles makes less efficient use of precious space. Vehicle size needs to be addressed as well as weight.
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by yrro 3y ago
Car size should be regulated and a maximum should be enforced. Pavement parking (and other antisocial forms of parking) should also be banned. In the UK, local authorities are in charge of parking enforcement. In Oxford they largely don&#x2
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by yrro 3y ago
While a process still has an unlinked file open, /proc/<pid>/fd can be used to obtain a handle to the file so that you can mess around with it.
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by yrro 3y ago
'Sooner or later' means 'until the file is no longer open'.
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by yrro 3y ago
At this point the Windows package manager omnimisery has metastasized and now idiot developers are insisting on writing their own installers even for platforms where it's totally un-necessary (harmful in fact!)
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by yrro 3y ago
Resolution: this is just how Windows works, deal with it
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oh no

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