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> When he was growing up, Chillicothe was the kind of close-knit, rural community where the local newspaper would print kids’ letters to Santa Claus every Christmas season. Randy’s…

Right. Don't replace systemd, compete with it. Don't remind everyone that your competitor exists.

(van Gogh)

Surely you know that gravitational force is indistinguishable from acceleration and the idea of 'down' sensed by any mass inside the plane is the vector sum of both.

I guess everyone means UVC here. A UVA flashlight is cheaper than lunch ;) edit: my facts were scrambled. C is the nasty one... maybe my favorite (unsafe) language will help me rem…

The people "you" elected and the people they appointed are all doing their jobs and everything is going to be Oh Kay™ ...ever since I was too young to vote. Now I'm a little unhapp…

Maybe they're like me and they really only really hate being lied to.

Alt+SysRq+k (read linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst before you try this)

> it's less rewarding than Javascript. This varies with goals, attitudes, background, bias, etc. Besides, if you know a little C, you can livecode over at glslsandbox or shadertoy …

> This is just the way licensing works today. I remain unconvinced. > If Oracle wins you are the copyright holder of that code, including the API. I said "what if I'm NOT ", as in,…

> You Seem to Assume that the language in question and the API’s must have identical license requirements. Maybe. I seem to be saying that with both languages and APIs, licensing-r…

> if Google wins, you just won't have a choice in the matter. > Google winning will allow any large company to replace open source software with proprietary software with no abilit…

> This is just plainly not true. This is DH3. [0] I need some more red meat. :) > Nobody on this thread has given a reasonable argument as to why APIs are not more or less like cod…

Referring to the article in [0], facts are not copyrightable. If you're going to write some code, then you usually choose to base your work on a particular language, which means yo…

You can also avoid using the file: wget $(...) -O - | display -

MetroPCS (prepaid MVNO now something like a subsidiary of TMo) required the 8-digit PIN on the account in order to change IMEIs. A bot would take down all the info, then if/when it…

Yeah it is kind of silly. If you aren't truly anonymous, you blow out some of your deniability just by discussing deniability. You said law enforcement and I straw manned another t…

Have you ever remembered something that you left in a home directory on someone else's server but only after you no longer had access to it? It wasn't sensitive but then, it wasn't…

If your /boot is on a USB drive and you set up with detached header then the disk can already be 100% random data. On the down side, that USB drive is not very deniable and the sys…

Violent is the point-- shutdown might be prohibitively slow. Or it'll get stuck waiting to umount a network share. Or maybe, you want the DRAMs to go dark and start losing ASAP, I …

echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger (read linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst before you try this)

Just a tick-- the quoted usage and the definition appear to be from two different people.

I apologize. Obvious sarcasm blew right over my head and I need to hurry up and stop pretending. I feel like my effective IQ right now is between 90 and 100 at best . The supposed …

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