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Fiveplus

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About Fiveplus

Jack of all trades, master of none.

bll2ptpdn @ mozmail.com

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    The "commitment to open source" line in these press releases usually has a half-life of about 18 months before the telemetry starts getting invasive.

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    Comment #47399396

    Great project and we definitely need to maintain these public lists. Well done!

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    I concur. It is an incredibly stupid practice for an e-commerce portal to distract or burden their users with anything other than the product they're viewing. I'm like, "Buddy, you…

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    Comment #47366548

    Anyone reading this purely as a child safety or campaign finance story might miss the broader architectural war happening here. If you zoom out a little, this is the inevitable, sc…

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    The return of com.getpebble.android.provider.basalt is a very nice development. It revives the legacy plugin ecosystem overnight without requiring original developers (many of whom…

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    We have officially reached the logical conclusion of the feature-bloat-to-vulnerability pipeline. For nearly thirty years, notepad.exe was the gold standard for a "dumb" utility wh…

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    Comment #46866863

    The persistence strategy described here (mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt) combined with a bind mount to home is a nice clever touch for saving space. I don't know if that's also…

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    >The goal is, that xfwl4 will offer the same functionality and behavior as xfwm4 does... I wonder how strictly they interpret behavior here given the architectural divergence? As a…

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    This is a fantastic result, but I am dying to know how the G.hn chipset creates the bit-loading map on a topology with that many bridge taps. In VDSL2 deployment, any unused extens…

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    >It is possible to use the language server for syntax highlighting. I am not aware of any particularly strong reasons why one would want to (or not want to) do this. Hmm, the stron…