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CraneWorm

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    Comment #30676277

    > Students getting caught in mass cheating or deploying sly means to not get caught is not uncommon in India where competition is fierce as aspirants outnumber the number of vacanc…

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    Comment #30657104

    you can buy monitors running android now :)

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    Comment #30641953

    It's a mixed bag, the so-called "obfuscated servers" can sometimes allow you to watch region-locked content on Netflix. But they (Netflix) are definitely trying to combat these att…

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    Comment #30586245

    as long as you pirate stuff you should be golden

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    Comment #30515225

    Sencor used to offer big (as large as 58'') TVs, some of them even dumb as bricks I'd argue this is what parent wants instead...

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    Comment #30500253

    doesn't load w/o js

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    Comment #30454492

    It's just a command-line tool to download audio/video from youtube (and many other sites). You'd need to setup the iPad thing yourself, maybe using something like Plex?

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    Comment #30453918

    WTH, you don't, just use youtube-dl

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    Comment #30416427

    his description of perl is even less charitable

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    Comment #30415810

    > Different languages have different failure modes. With Perl, the project might fail because you designed and implemented a pile of shit, but there is a clever workaround for any …

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    Comment #30414775

    It's not, it's due to greed and people (and corporations) living of rent.

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    Comment #30391988

    isn't this web based? in which case the obvious choice is ad blocker

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    Comment #30375773

    > If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer. Sure, and disappear, because you're not listed by the bad deal company that has container-ships-of-money for marketing.…

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    Comment #30352042

    it boots from a usb stick and seems web only so it should run anywhere you can run chrome browser; I suppose?

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    Comment #30232577

    I downloaded Inkscape because trying to use Gimp for pixel perfect graphics was an exercise in frustration. Sadly, my experience seems to mirror yours, my first project crashed (no…

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    Comment #30232426

    I don't see a problem, did you try to use it? For me it opens "Choose an application to open the mailto link." all listed options open webmail clients.

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    Comment #30146930

    neat! here's mine: while true; do curl -q --http0.9 http://susam.net:8000/; sleep $(( $RANDOM % 10 )); done

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    Comment #30047263

    bar = Bar() if bar is None else bar

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    Comment #29933995

    DRM and the unskippable ads that make you aware that you payed to've become a product. The pirates offer superior product, every time.

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    Comment #29821927

    sorry, no. greed is what made big players implement the banners and make them as painful to navigate as possible (unless you yield and click "accept")

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    Comment #29809755

    > # Forensically clone filesystems and do other low-level operations on files. Very dangerous: > dd this kind of mindset is not helping and IMO only alienates newcomers (they seem …

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    Comment #29595571

    > machivellian character who murders people on a regular basis I read the first one he murders someone so it seems it has always been like that.

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    Comment #29160509

    WARNING, triggering content: lots of filthy swearing. still, a nice summary of what NFTs are good for :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaHugHihh0

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    Comment #29147286

    Well... in my case low value on my package added a week to my delivery precisely because after seeing this trick once too many the customs are now checking everything. I had to mai…