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burtness

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    Comment #48914833

    the Wayland folks are the X11 folks though

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    Comment #48735397

    Right-wingers are so reliably sore winners. X is still comfortably the dominant microblogging platform on the internet, Facebook and Youtube happily boost and feed right-wing conte…

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    Comment #47458188

    It won't because none of the alternative inits are better

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    Comment #45185410

    *England and Wales

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    Comment #43823756

    Man, you really suck

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    Comment #42009514

    Isn't the problem that the vernacular concepts are what counts and they change depending on time and place?

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    Comment #40191911

    Buddy, I have some bad news about tobacco and alcohol...

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    Comment #39283183

    Ah, good ol' Riley's law

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    Comment #38590050

    No, its an upstream bug being discussed in the debian bug tracker

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    Comment #38590047

    This is a misreading of the bug. It is from upstream stable kernels before 6.5 that include commit 91562895f803 but not 936e114a245b6[1]. In this case Debian's current process is g…

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    Comment #38366654

    Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS) is an umbrella term under which we can offer various hypervisor backed kernel protection solutions. This is a common hypervisor agnostic …

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    Comment #37814141

    what about purchasing power?

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    Comment #36555924

    First they came for the Nazis...

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    Comment #34919103

    The example doesnt seem to support your argument. The rationale the developer gives here is reasonable and looks like good stewardship of a shared library - the patch added a new A…

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    Comment #34791494

    This sounds more like "incumbent" than "first"

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    Comment #34242111

    This misrepresents what happens if you use busybox in your product and don't comply with the license (posting a buildable version of your changes) - they first try and negotiate co…

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    Comment #33409798

    Wouldn't the path of least resistance here be giving cars the surface layer?

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    Comment #33409699

    I mean this is basically all politics - who should suffer and how much to keep society running. I don't think you'll find a progressive monopoly on that

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    Comment #32993382

    Yes, but those interest rates have been affordable. That context of affordability matters. The UK is also basically organised around the profitability of private home ownership. It…

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    Comment #31723161

    sure, in the real world we're all going around checking everyone's respect earnings to know whether we should use their preferred names, pronouns, exempt them from our favourite sl…

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    Comment #31564693

    You can change it to export in the background: (setq org-export-in-background 't) https://orgmode.org/manual/The-Export-Dispatcher.html

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    Comment #31343755

    This reifies the view of the system. Particularly the time spent as a PhD would be spent doing meaningful work contributing to the country. This is if we accept that the time spent…

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    Comment #29150540

    Ive had luck running it in wine on linux