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December_Stars

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    Comment #36973078

    Also a trans person and I felt obligated to log in for the first time in over a year seeing your comment. I've seen comments here that are a nicely packaged up version of 4chan (no…

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    Comment #29106955

    It's a lot more up to date than IceCat, which rarely has binary packages for distributions and hasn't seen an official binary release from the FSF since version 60.7.0 a few years …

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    Ask HN: Career paths going to college: cybersec, CS+cybersec, or something else

    I am a high school senior choosing between 2 universities in Purdue and UNC Charlotte. My interests are in cybersecurity, networking and operating systems. My ultimate goal is a hi…

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    Comment #26503949

    Hi. I submitted this because I am an AP (American program that allows you to get college credit) CS Principles student that uses code.org for the class. I took the class after bein…

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    Comment #26015371

    And how will we start the change to more open systems, except by starting in the start of the workforce chain in schools? Imagine if schools starting teaching everyone Blender over…

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    Comment #25517630

    Odd how no one has mentioned the addition of client side decorations. Personally it's a huge dealbreaker for me, I really dislike how they look. It's a shame, because the release a…

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    Comment #25106509

    First off, you are right in that Linux has major security issues and isn't perfect in it. However, outside of the comments that have already been posted in defense of linux's secur…

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    Comment #24833210

    It is missing one crucial truth that dispels the thesis: The fact that a social network does not need to be owned by one entity for everyone on it to be able to interact with each …

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    Comment #24832382

    > It is not possible to imagine a video game produced by an open community, because it requires the vision of an auteur, not design-by-consensus. A lot of modern videogames use art…

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    Comment #24568085

    There's also LibreWolf, which has a flatpak/AppImage and is more up to date with the latest Firefox - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser

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    Comment #24482777

    Pretty sure this was the only available software, iirc it was some Vernier related thing.

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    Comment #24481698

    There's a few but those are quite prominent. Most notably I remember when I took Physics 1 we used some very specific software which name I do not remember but it was proprietary a…

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    Comment #24481382

    Speaking as a student whose school primarily uses Google's suite (classroom, meet, etc..) but still has a few older solutions, some of which are free software, I can say that there…

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    Comment #23987585

    If our economy damns us if we do have a baby but damns us if we don't maybe the economy is the issue, not us.

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    Comment #23527489

    Coming from a household where people took this step count goal religiously, it genuinely has no impact on your health. Obviously more steps is better but 10k is just an arbitrary n…

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    Comment #23446945

    Yes, their products do. Run FF through mitmproxy and look at all of Mozilla's privacy policies and tell me they're not collecting far more data than they should be, at least by def…