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aquabeagle

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    frankly, It never helped on my resume but I enjoyed writing. Frankly, if I saw this code on a resume, I'd keep looking. scanf("%s",buffer); // Debug :: printf("hash : %ld\n",hash("…

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    Comment #23906866

    While this article is about OpenBSD's floppy support, if you already had OpenBSD on the machine and working networking, upgrading it without any external devices is as easy as: ftp…

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    Comment #23751412

    Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically sayi…

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    Comment #23709357

    As is Heaven's Gate's website - http://heavensgate.com/

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    Comment #23691622

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

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    Comment #23488472

    I think we're supposed to call them "allowlists" now.

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    Comment #23479378

    And making a video about how to defend against them can get you sued. https://twitter.com/bennjordan/status/1268961057743294472 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqIvak-4Ek

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    Comment #23470022

    I've tried Haiku a few times and liked it, but it feels like the beta label has been around forever and is not doing them any favors. It's 2020, you're not publishing software as a…

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    Comment #23468357

    Google is king of NIH.

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    Comment #23443291

    So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contri…

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    Comment #23439275

    There was a free website many years ago that I used, where you print out a form with blocks on it and write each letter, then scan it and upload it and it gets turned into a font. …

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    Comment #23438610

    Seems like having to use a bunch of popular patches is counter to the author's other praises about how simple and minimal the software is. Why doesn't upstream integrate them and l…

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    Comment #23236461

    Which of the hundreds of Linux distributions that have free/volunteer resources split amongst them do you run?

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    Comment #23105662

    Immediately sold them and kept the cash

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    Comment #22918393

    Notify17 seems really expensive for just proxying push notifications. You only get 75 free per month?

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    Comment #22770299

    Because macOS Server was a large reason why companies bought the Mac Mini.

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    Comment #22610037

    Which was largely written by Joe Biden in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveil...

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    Comment #22451976

    tarsnap desperately needs something like this included with it.

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    Comment #22374319

    If you consider PGP something that mostly works, and Signal the fringe contrarian view We're talking about email here, so yeah, the number of encrypted emails I've received with PG…

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    Comment #22374027

    Typical security industry contrarianism. "Stop using that thing that mostly works as intended and is integrated into lots of email clients and systems, and has a number of independ…

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    Comment #22237948

    It's the Boss Level.