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I find your example of installing a package to be somewhat amusing. The fact that one can install a package in some OS means that somewhere, one or more people sat down and wrote a…

In my case the setting lists two languages, but "en-US" does appear to have a higher 'quality' factor, so there.

> [...] The experience does not collect or share any data [...] Wrong (unless proven otherwise). From the Shield Studies FAQ[1]: > What data do Shield Studies normally collect? > […

There would be "rioting in the streets" of the internet if Mozilla ever decided to drop support for ALSA in Firefox. There are distros, Void Linux (which I am using right now) for …

> [...] the extension gets silently pushed to all the US users(!) Non-US user here, my Firefox got it, too.

This is about forwarding individual remote applications, not entire desktops.

Ah, memories of one of my very first lab assignments in digital circuits engineering class (back when computer science was still busy splitting off from applied mathematics and ele…

They're called proprietary video drivers, and yes, they pass unknown commands, without user authorization (think DRM) to PCI(e) devices (video cards) all the time.

In the same vein, do try ":help 42" as well... :)

An experimental, no, production feature I would love to have in every browser is a way to disable these excruciatingly annoying full-screen popups which some sites (including the o…

Interesting fact: while not all shared object files are executable (or rather: do something interesting other than dump core), some most definitely are: try executing libc someday:…

Much better than that, actually: http://visualgdb.com/ This one has been around a bit longer, too, and despite its name is now much more than just a pretty face for GDB but rather …

Mmm, love the good ole'style hack. Find a hole in the system and peek through, good-natured of course. Reminds me of how I discovered that some hosting company's FTP server support…

> ...which allows selecting different distributions, including Arch Linux? Sorry to rain on your parade, but there is _no_ official Arch Linux image on Docker[1], as you can easily…

TL;DR: KISS+YAGNI :-)

It's so amazing, it was probably made with secret alien technology!

Maybe it time-traveled back from the future to save us from deadly attack by an alien probe, to give us a chance to get things right this time.

Exactly. The high current, if combined with unevenly split loads, improperly installed or maintained wiring, excessive use of spurs etc. can actually mean a greater risk of (fire) …

Those of us coding in GNU Radio, LabView, MaxMSP, PureData, Simulink, VEE, vvvv, etc., would object to such an overly general statement. (Hint: those are all visual or hybrid textu…

Erhm, no local network setup? Why is it that nowadays all the so-called cool stuff requires me to sign up with some online service?

It may be my (somewhat archaic) sense of crypto humor, but any time I read the term "Dual EC", my mind says "CE lauD", making it sound like someone saying the word "cloud" with an …

To add: you can use software like Raccoon: http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon Use it with a throwaway Google account to download apps from the Play Store, then use adb to install them …

I think it is about time that we (the users) reclaim the right to our data and what we do with it. Never since the days of mainframes and timesharing have we been turning over so m…

I guess that you nave never been to a demoscene event then (or it doesn't count as a hackathon in your book). Lots of chance that there are teams there working in frenzy to finish …