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they are not thinking running linux in a VM is a good answer, but that it is the only option they have to keep windows relevant for developers, short of porting windows itself to r…

actually given the nature of the project i would suggest an entirely different name: woosh. wsh for short.

how about tree letters? sht?

if proxies are legal, then i am not associated with what goes through my proxy. ISPs ate not associated with the activity that goes through them either. and what about tor? should …

why is running a proxy a bad thing? someone profiting off it could be bad maybe, but even that is good if it pays for my subscription. but compare running tor nodes, and especially…

that link talks about non-EU citizens. the people discussed in the topic are EU citizens.

so when india is talking about banning VOIP they can not mean any voice sent over IP, which makes that distinction matter.

scouts also used the salute. they likely adopted it from the bellamy salute: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-glass-plate-photograph-o... https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne…

that depends on how you define VOIP. strictly going by the term any voice sent over the internet is VOIP. but since PSTN can be routed over the internet too, that would be included…

I understand why people want you to write; because it’s good for you, because it focuses a wandering thought, because the first sentence is usually rubbish and the seventh is often…

i don't get your point. that does not matter. what i mean is that as a user i care about the tech that runs on my phone, not how the connection is made. i don't make phone calls an…

reloading objects from a (changed) source at runtime while keeping their identity and updating clones) the functionality is still there, but hidden. roxen can reload modules but th…

or his success depends on his perceived confidence. meaning that maybe he is scared, but doesn't want to show it because it would make it worse. care to share some key takeaways? n…

you use it to access the internet, but the point is if the internet access is disabled you still have a local network for p2p communication across the city. also multiple people/hu…

if it was built with AI then the knowledge of the builder is not really adding much. the next person coming in to fix issues is just going to feed the thing into an AI too, and ask…

i believe that the big ones, bing, google, even deepl are all using AI to translate. the variation and the mistranslations i sometimes get are to wild. i wish the translation tool …

i don't know OpenBSD either, but i am guessing they are similar to linux capabilities where a process can reject certain permissions, or where you can remove permissions before sta…

you are right, i am using wezterm which does bundle nerdfonts. i didn't realize that.

sure, but i as a user care about the tech, and what i am trying to say is that VOIP as tech for endusers is no longer interesting because we use video chat now.

Only two countries in the world have police who don't carry guns in regular service. Those are UK and NZ. and china. police in china generally is not armed. (china may or may not b…

The only general-purpose languages that come close to the required execution model are Common Lisp and Smalltalk well, and pike, which itself is based on LPC so it has the required…

you are looking for LPmuds. LPC is a language that looks like C (the C in LPC) and there is even a general purpose language called pike that is a rewrite of LPC. in an LPmud, the e…

i remember using ED in LPmuds. fun times. i had learned coding already so i can't claim that much, but when it came to web development i discovered the spinner webserver, written i…

most nations with gun control do not need people to protect themselves against police violence. that's the real problem here.

if you only got git then you should git got. ;-) (works best with an australian or new zealand accent)