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closeneough

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    Comment #48910996

    How does Windows compare to this?

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    Comment #45589175

    This project is about reverse engineering the firmware blobs. It states that they do not want to create a distribution like postmarketOS or other projects do.

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    Comment #43409599

    why is this story with 200 votes not on the front page?

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    Comment #38957980

    Drew DeVault posts also regular updates on mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111738819188358936

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    Comment #38206187

    Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189817

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    Comment #32221221

    If you wanted to create an ebook from scratch, how would you do this? Would you write plain html. Would you write markdown, and convert it? What tools would you use?

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    Comment #31164784

    Nope, it just has been announced. There is no release yet.

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    Comment #31157534

    There is one. The first link when you open the blog. https://harelang.org/blog/index.xml

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    Comment #31152004

    Imho as everywhere in this field there are tradeoffs to choose for improving this problem: Complexity (rust, formal proofs), runtime overhead (GC), etc. Hare tries to be simple, so…

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    Comment #30555731

    It's the name of the players horse.

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    Comment #29538558

    Isn't this true for every culture?

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    Comment #29041313

    Ah yes, it's cloudflare of course. On of the other contesters.

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    Comment #29036601

    Yes, send more data to big companies like cloud front and google. They need it.

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    Comment #27414304

    Yes you need to trust the software. But unless you don't store it on your computer, you need to trust software. The hard part is to figure out which software and whom to trust. I w…

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    Comment #27414117

    It's still in the works and unfortunately I've written it in German. If you're still interested I'll share a link as soon as it's released. Should be sometime this summer.

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    Comment #27414103

    Pfp puts the icon in the browser bar, to counter such action. So the pop-up can only be opened this way and the pop up is in a different context than the website itself. Yes the po…

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    Comment #27411389

    I would NOT recommend the chrome password manager. If you sync your passwords, they will not be stored encrypted at the google side. You need to specifically set password encryptio…

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    Comment #27035351

    Why should I believe this site?

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    Comment #26792021

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

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    Comment #25254094

    I'm using e.foundation for a while now on my Moto G3 (osprey) and it's working ok despite a few camera/gallery crashes here and there. The only thing I'm not really fond of, is tha…

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    Comment #22803211

    https://genode.org/

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    Comment #22482045

    I've decided for --list-kept. --invert will be supported to not break scripts.

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    Comment #22455423

    Thanks for the input and for pointing out the typos. They are fixed now. I will consider changing the invert flag, but I'm not that happy with something like "--list=...". There wi…

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    Comment #22455375

    Yes, this was a starting point for me. I was referencing to borg prune in my initial readme, but I dropped it because the algorithm works differently and I wanted to avoid confusio…