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The two things I hear from HN about new gTLDs are that they're a pointless cash grab and that it would be really nice to have a .js domain for javascript projects.

In this case the majority of the easter egg code is running inside the VM sandbox. It's very unlikely but not impossible that the small amount of code needed to load the hidden dis…

By this definition John sending an unexpected party invitation to his friend Dave is spam. edit: I guess spam is by definition commercial email. Still, I think it's possible to hav…

One one hand I'm happy to see the web able to do more and more. On the other hand, I worry that as we turn the browser into a platform with all these client side capabilities, brow…

I guess I don't understand how UEFI is inherently less free than BIOS. I assume most of of the opposition is due to secure boot, but every implementation I've used let the user man…

Thanks for turning me on Grab and Drag. Firefox is one of the few things I want to touch scroll on Linux.

I bought a refurbished ASUS Vivobook X202E and put Linux Mint on it. I was pleasantly surprised that everything worked out of the box (touchscreen, multitouch trackpad, wifi, etc).…

The Motorola blog says that the phone will have an unlockable bootloader (in the U.S) which means you should be able to install custom ROMs.