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kebolio

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About kebolio

communist subversive working within the system

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    Comment #14814061

    https://www.passwordstore.org/ command-line, encrypts passwords with gpg, synchronises using git and by default only copies the password to the clipboard and automatically wipes th…

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    Comment #14581951

    firmware is specific to chipset and are binary blobs supplied by the manufacturer. ath9k-supported and generally realtek cards don't need firmware; theo de raadt noticed the cultur…

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    Comment #14580294

    has nothing to do with apparmor.

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    Comment #14580287

    HEADLINE: easier, simpler package creation and building DESCRIPTION: on distros like arch, to a lesser extent void and even gentoo, writing package definition files (PKGBUILDs, ebu…

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    Comment #14580247

    firmware support involves supplying the binary blobs that the driver needs to upload to certain peripherals like intel wireless cards. personally i would like to see non-free softw…

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    Comment #14501557

    Slightly disconcerted that the first thing webdevs are rushing to do with wasm is to port massive language runtimes to it, continuing the web tradition of piling shit upon shit upo…

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    Comment #14236828

    You can sell GPL software under all the terms of the GPL, but the users can redistribute it under freedom 0, 2 and 3. You can mitigate this by being a single source of development …

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    Comment #14234280

    hmm the .jp international clique really does spread far and wide...

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    Comment #14230983

    What's the difference? Capitalism is always going to end up with consolidation, monopolisation and anti-user practices.

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    Comment #14229235

    Yes, it is to do with "capitalism" and the product of a society geared towards making money instead of making cool stuff. It isn't immutable, there are better ways of doing things,…

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    Comment #14228956

    Capitalism is why we can't have nice things in the first place. Capitalism precludes news media from reporting fairly and accurately rather than pander to their advertisers. Anothe…

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    Comment #13989848

    Don't get where people get the idea that Wales are agitating for leaving the Union. Wales is more legally entrenched than any other of the constituent countries of the UK and also …

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    Comment #13860621

    LLVM is a compiler toolkit, used by, for example, Clang for C/C++/Objective-C, Rust, and various libraries like Mesa.

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    Comment #13811640

    > for no reason What's the reason that they should accommodate you and write you a dockerfile?

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    Comment #13759419

    At least in Rust's case, RAII/lifetimes provide mostly the same development experience without GC overhead.

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    Comment #13715947

    I've found you definitely need swap if you don't have 8GB of memory. I personally have nowhere near the amount of patience required to wait for the OOM killer.

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    Comment #13669394

    You mean Lisps?

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    Comment #13631038

    I just wondered seeing as it had been flagged dead within an hour I believe. I believe however that this is one of the fundamental flaws of Reddit-style websites. On an imageboard …

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    Comment #13628629

    Reason for downvoting?

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    Comment #13617736

    Would have like to have seen Firefox's particular handling of this, but it seems like the author's definition of "browsers" (plural) == Chromium.

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    Comment #13555231

    Pretty sure PuTTY is a one man job and the page is just a personal one hosted on chiark.greenend.org.uk, which seems to be just a server run by his mate

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    Comment #13489608

    Something ruffled your feathers. Why do you want Firefox to be abandoned rather than improve it's security? For my and most other's mundane browsing needs Firefox _is_ secure enoug…

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    Comment #13489556

    >thanks in large part to code from Chromium This is false and misleading. The only bits Firefox plans to nick from Chromium are things like the C++ PDF reader which is a regression…