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bemused

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    Comment #32136316

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/

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    Comment #26346627

    so Chrome 94 will be released on 09/21 and Firefox 94 on 10/05 .. what a coincidence, seems like 'my version number is bigger then yours' is still a thing in 2021 ;) anyways, I lik…

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    Comment #25056355

    The security superiority of Linux in contrast to Windows is rooted in its server/headless form - all of that changes as soon as you start good old X Wayland is supposed to fix most…

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    Comment #22421520

    thanks a lot for the curated collection! I've been tinkering a bit with milkdrop visualization on the raspberry pi 4 using projectM [1] and found the amount of mediocre presets in …

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    Comment #22309039

    this dns server only needs to run for 5 minutes every 4 weeks while renewing certs - no open ports otherwise

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    Comment #22308305

    set up your own dns-server for wildcard certificate validation on all your domains: https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns quite straightforward to set up - works great here for ~50 do…

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    Comment #16834819

    "Twitter for racists" - the common mindset in this echo chamber is a lot easier to tell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)

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    Comment #15443461

    got a 24" LG 1080p monitor in the van that needs less than 20W - doable with a small extra battery and 100W solar. the 4k monitors from LG are quite energy efficient as well (<30W)…

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    Comment #15374585

    webkit was based on khtml (LGPL) - not much of a choice for apple

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    Comment #14423127

    been safely driving a van with 140km/h top-speed on the autobahn just fine for years - there might be a correlation between the maximum speed of a car and the owners inability to d…

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    Comment #13652514

    SHA2017, 4th to 8th of August, near Amsterdam/Netherlands https://sha2017.org/

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    Comment #12829456

    second that, there is and always has been a strong attitude against all forms of discrimination and right-wing movements in the ccc - see the unvereinbarkeitserklaerung [1] from 20…

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    Comment #12621982

    The kākāpō truely is an eccentric creature - in the 80s Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine went out to find one for the BBC radio documentary series "Last Chance to See". …

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    Comment #12579704

    maybe focusing the generation perspective on the tech involved can help with moving this forward - as much as I'd like to contribute to a sane linux desktop in general (and LXQt is…

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    Comment #12438378

    chrome on linux doesn't seem to get much attention for quite a while now: got affected by this [1] more than 2 years ago and been quite happy with firefox for surfing & dev ever si…

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    Comment #11344369

    agreed, but not sure if Red Hats embrace&extend is any better - all corporate entities seeking too much influence/power in the oss ecosystem should be carefully watched

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    Comment #10991781

    - the tails project lacks the manpower take a different path than its debian mothership - the devs don't seem to be bothered by increasing their attack surface with systemd - syste…

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    Comment #10761017

    Well I really dont want to critize GNOME developers for working on free software, paid or not. But GTK is still perceived as a more universal toolkit than "just GNOME" and this mig…

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    Comment #10760909

    "the best Linux desktop toolkit" depends primarily on the language you choose and the quality of its bindings to the toolkit but consider that Qt aims to blend nicely into a GTK-ba…

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    Comment #10758500

    worked with GTK2/3 and QT 5+ years and got the feeling that GTK has been turning into the GNOME toolkit as well. not very pleasant to work with if you want your application to supp…

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    coldfusion!?

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    Comment #9438363

    sure, but thats exactly why I was asking - I am looking for some background on this decision and hoping that someone with more insight can share a link or something