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Sidewalk does not allow generic access to the Internet. It connects to Sidewalk servers only. Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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From that point of view the Ryanair jet wasn't denied the option to land so that Protasevich could be arrested so it suffered no threat. See the ridiculousness of that argument? What actually happened is that both planes were coerced u
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Choice quote for those who will claim (ignorantly or in bad faith) there was no threat to human life and coercion and that this was "completely different" (it wasn't): "Without enough fuel to fly an alternative route, th
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IP addresses are PII in Europe.
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Do people indent namespaces in C#? In C++ it's common practice to not indent.
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Sorry but this is false and we must end this misconception. Run JavaScript in a browser on a single-user machine? You are vulnerable.
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Hackers wouldn't touch UML with a 4000000000000 kilometer pole.
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Good riddance. UML is part of the infinite-complexity infinitely-layered culture around the Java language in the late 90's and early 00's. Where OO-supremacist "system architects" were trying to split software developmen
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Sorry but those commercials have no cultural significance. It's just stuff you remember.
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I used to be involved with an ISP-specific product which was basically a plain-old HTTP proxy that would ensure everything is compressed with gzip at max settings and which downscaled images. For dial up, it worked well. For everything else
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Gemini has decided to invest in a "technical solution to a social problem". Usually a terrible idea, but having spent some time in Gemini they seem to be succeeding. There's more concentrated random, weird, interesting stuff
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Do you have any specific knowledge about Ghanaian industry or is this just your opinion? Can you provide some sources for your claims?
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To be fair when I read "for LATAM" I usually expect it to be "for one particular country but we want to pretend it's for LATAM". (Not picking on this launch specifically.) The countries are just too different, it do
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Why am I not surprised that HN is a place to find people who argue against women's right to vote.
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Yes, of course, each of those countries is internally very diverse, and in relation to the others. Each of those countries was made by a mix of native, European, African and Asian peoples of different kinds, in different proportions, at dif
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It has its advantages and disadvantages. It is also the political system that caused this: "In 1991 following a decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI) became the last Swiss canton to grant wome
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I bought it for $5 on alpha, mostly because I thought Notch was being a bit of a fool trying to sell a hugely pixelated game that ran on the JVM but I thought that he might need a little moral support and that I could be one of the very few
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I thought the platypus was Slackware's, not Linux's, mascot at some point. As in the old Walnut Creek CD-ROM releases: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLV_JkEWgAAOcdU?format=jpg
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There was one person who wrote deep reviews of things like chargers and battery packs (I think) on Amazon, checking for standards compliance and design safety. Does anyone remember who?
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The money used to feed Alexander would also be better used as donation to malaria funds, but I don't think he would argue that he should starve to death as I am sure he believes he has a right to self-preservation. He's arguing ag
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What's stupid or broken in waiting for a service to shutdown? I mean Slackware used to send a SIGTERM to all processes, wait two seconds, and send a SIGKILL. Why would anyone need more? It's the Unix way (except it isn't). If
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How did you reach the conclusion that he wasn't born in poverty? According to your own quote, his father was a clerk in a shop in India.
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That series of posts should be seen in the context of someone who was working on a Solaris to Linux migration (like EVERY company at the time) trying to claim credit for creating cloud computing. This is NOT the origin story for EC2, which
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I don't get what the problem is. He used DNS as a name server, which is what it is. The only weird thing is TXT instead of CNAME.
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Yes. GIMP used to use the proprietary Motif toolkit before, and GTK was created to get rid of this dependency. The Linux logo was created on a Motif version of GIMP (see screenshot): https://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux&#
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Emily Short is a genius.
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Spider and Web is a very interesting game with many well-used devices and twists. Photopia leans towards the "fiction" end of "interactive fiction". It's very short and accessible.
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I play some IF here and there and the comp is my go-to place for what to play. I'm frequently years late though. It's not a thing I think I should track in real time. Infocom games were nice and all but modern IF is where it'
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A lot of this hardening is based on a fairly obsolete Unix view of the world. E.g. preventing users from seeing other users' PIDs, changing /etc/securetty, non-root X server... In real life, nowadays, a single system is likel
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The fact that systemd bundles a lot of functionality (which is different from being a monolith) means it has a disadvantage in the terrible metric of "CVE counts". Now if only the systemd-hating crowd would take a look at how many

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