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aboardRat4

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    Comment #49221675

    Android is Linux and it's written in C. Bionic is still a posix libc.

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    Comment #49151147

    HN does not seem to have discussed ddisasm enough. When I discovered it, I was amazed, astonished, stunned, thrilled, and in disbelief. It turns out that it actually works.

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    Comment #49142835

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-... DMCA and other anti-circumvention regulations.

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    Comment #49142816

    >Is it because it wouldn't run on the phone hardware otherwise? Because those 11 features mentioned in the OP post need to be unlocked.

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    Comment #49142807

    Emm.. as if Samsung doesn't..?

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    Comment #49142621

    This is all smoke and mirrors. The core issue is not "Google not allowing a feature", it's that small businesses cannot buy phones, install a patched version of Android without a r…

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    Comment #49142568

    We are already switching to English slowly, but steadily.

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    Comment #49142563

    >Knowing multiple languages, in particular less related or unrelated ones, is mentally enriching Just as being able to play an instrument or dance or actually reading literature fr…

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    Comment #49142541

    >Not to be "gotcha", but out of true curiosity: may I ask if you speak multiple languages fluently? yeah, I speak 4 languages fluently, and can get through more with a dictionary >…

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    Comment #49136351

    The golden age of languages is when there is only one language left, and everyone can understand everyone without cunning translators and hallucinating llms.

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    Comment #49130144

    Vibecoded lie.

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    Comment #49086204

    They flicker in front of my eyes, distract me from reading, and are easy to misclick. Generally, there is zero reasons to add moving elements to a page.

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    Comment #49086111

    Which email gui supports managesieve?

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    Comment #49086082

    None of them have good (or any) support for managesieve. Without managesieve (or some other autotagging mechanism), email is just a big pile of junk. Even Gmail doesn't support edi…

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    Comment #49069879

    Self-ejecting panels on three sides of the website are a horrible user experience. Other than that... The most important thing is not the protocol, it's the gui. At the moment emai…

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    Comment #49069819

    >Question: can this e-mail specification/implementation also replace direct-messaging protocols (like WhatsApp)? Deltachat

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    Comment #49055402

    I also thought this was rrdtool-related.

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    Comment #49052433

    >>I was curious about the name: That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

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    Comment #49017672

    >So in the country you live in, a shop owner is free to kick out women from his phone store, simply for being a woman But why would anybody do such a crazy thing? Such things just …

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    Comment #49016684

    >The right to housing .. The right of access to any place or service intended for use by the general public, such as transport hotels, restaurants, cafes, theatres and parks. The r…

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    Comment #49007402

    Okay, I misunderstood you, sorry. Yes, the system as you are describing it makes no sense. >Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on national origin Maybe the USA is like…

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    Comment #49007026

    But... basically any human activity changes forest composition. Only 30% of the forests are primeval, and those 30% are not in Europe. Forests are not "natural" for thousands of ye…

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    Comment #48999424

    >Glyphosate has made forest fires worse. How? How does this work? >Bleaching happens when the symbiosis breaks down due to elevated temps. The first part is correct, the second is …