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Didn't even read the story as soon as I saw it was an economist article. It's a complete rag written by hipsters, there's a reason no article has writing credits. Here's an older y…

Just because places aren't hiring doesn't mean you don't send them a portfolio of work anyways. Find a place you want to work at and harass them gently for a job. If you need extra…

Maintainers left and somehow the decision was to start integrating LLVM with base instead. I think openbsd devs prefer pcc but there is just too much work to do on it and no motiva…

The CEO of Steam Gabe Newell disagrees with you. They (and Blizzard) are moving away from Windows 8 entirely. Steam is coming out with it's "steam box" which is a linux run gaming …

I am forced to use mysql for an experimental homomorphic encrypted db. Now that I know there's actual pro support for PostgreSQL that have commits I'm never going to use mysql ever…

The cult of the cloud is great business for me since I specialize in finding VMM and KVM bugs. Since corporations want to cheap out and host their previously secure physical boxes …

Lol hilarious. The .biz site is cookie cutter bullshit full of buzzwords I wouldn't want to pay for it either but I applaud these guys screwing over their stingy boss anyways. Ever…

It's also a huge prison sentence to change the IMEI on phones, or be in possession of IMEI changing software in most countries. Only phones I use are unlocked samsung phones like N…

This is the corporatist way. Everything is measured so it can be 'tweaked' by managers and technocrats because school is a business now. Having a bad teacher to me doesn't matter w…

Walking around campus I still see an endless sea of Apple products, though it's more of a fashion accessory now. I am a pariah with my IBM Thinkpad running openbsd. When I spot the…

Hah, I had the same problem using latest Debian Iceweasel browser to look that page. It almost filled up my 32G of Ram and crashed too. Outdated Google Chrome displayed it perfectl…

I couldn't use a 6 digit pin in Italy. Some ATMs in London,UK didn't like it either. Singapore it's mandatory for a 6 digit pin so have no idea if a 4 digit pin will work, anybody …

Its not just France, try all of Europe/Russia. There's a good reason people left Europe to build new lives in Canada and USA, because they left behind the old world entrenched hatr…

Games are already being ported to other operating systems because of microsoft greed. MS wants to copy everybody with an app and game store, which will be the only authorized way t…

Bill Gates eradicating disease is pretty awesome. His weird school ranking system in the US is pretty bizarre and utilitarian. "Students would be better served by measures of which…

>Ubuntu that gave the world its first decent free operating system lol what

some problems with this -authorities won't care msgs are anonymous and will assume you wrote them or know who did if your phone is seized, you will get rubber hosed anyways -just h…

rasberry pi is a mess of firmware they won't release full documentation for. enjoy your enormous binary blobs

no they objected to the entire idea of bitcoin as an 'intermediate currency'

nobody will miss gcc when it dies. too bad pcc went unmaintained

I hope to god my doctor's office isn't using iOS to secure my medical data. Elcomsoft has a product out to bypass iOS encryption These guys are releasing free software why the hell…