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daffy

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    Comment #24556990

    The explosion was an act of sabotage? I would have thought it were an event resulting from an act and not itself an act.

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    Comment #24390757

    Maybe on Ubuntu. I'm talking about the ``manual'' installation to which everyone not using Ubuntu must resort.

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    Comment #24384329

    Was this using Ubuntu or whatever it is they recommend or ``manually''?

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    Comment #24382557

    What are TURN and STUN?

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    Comment #24382539

    Setting up a Jitsi server is non-trivial; this is simple (git clone / cd talk / npm install / npm start). And, if you don't want to trust the programme, you can do this from a dedi…

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    Comment #24302747

    If you have run the native programme (for me it keeps breaking up in the browser), run it from a dedicated unpriviledged user, without installing it on the system. (Run ./opt/zoom/…

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    Comment #24270515

    It is also possible that certain styles of writing and clothing are felt by some to be more beautiful. It is not necessary to reduce every stylistic predilection to status or ident…

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    Comment #24258628

    One nice thing in zsh is that you can type `/u/lo/b ` and be in `/usr/local/bin`.

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    Comment #24143193

    Does that mean that a firmware backdoor is impossible or very unlikely?

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    Comment #24141142

    Are you saying a librebooted machine is still probably backdoored?

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    Comment #24141124

    It's easy to find x200 etc. used. Flashing is another story.

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    Comment #24132341

    Blank keyboards also look better, especially these: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

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    Comment #24110882

    > Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard. Just curious: what do you think of the view that such superficial acts are gest…

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    Comment #24110751

    > Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and > should otherwise be a web page. To get decent typography, one needs TeX, and TeX produces PDFs, not web pages.

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    Comment #24108371

    What exactly do you think he said? If I remember correctly, he expressed a valid doubt about a matter of fact.

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    Comment #24099137

    Seems that in Germany too Apple was able to make the decision to resist quite risky. So maybe the question should be: is there any country where the target would be better protecte…

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    Comment #24095039

    In what other countries than America would this sort of thing work? (Not a rhetorical question.)

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    Comment #24091285

    https://www.bookdepository.com/University-Physics-with-Moder... Is this the full book? I'm confused by some items' being marked as "third volume".

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    Comment #24070050

    Yeah, I was thinking of custom window-manager setups. You can usually get a tty console by ctrl-meta-f1 etc., but that wouldn't help, since you'd have to enter a password. I suppos…

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    Comment #24070002

    This will only work, I suppose, if the attacker knows beforehand a keychord that will focus a terminal.