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Kubuntu is awesome! Using an LTS version which provides a solid base and then using the kubuntu-backports PPA to get the latest KDE Plasma stuff works great in my experience.

Canonical has provided security updates just for the packages in "main" and the security updates for the rest were provided by community maintainers on a best-effort basis. With Ub…

> Lineage has the proprietary Google Play Services Lineage doesn't ship the proprietary Google Apps. It is up to the users to flash it after flashing Lineage

All the advertisements about the latest Nexus phones have always been about them being the first to get the latest and greatest uodates and yet it took them just 1 year to ditch th…

I was an idiot and I am not proud of that! I was thinking like "I need insulin when I eat food. So since I am not eating, I don't need insulin and everything will be fine" :-(

I use DriveDroid ( http://softwarebakery.com/projects/drivedroid ) on my rooted OnePlus One running CM 13. Very easy and convenient.

I fasted for a day when fighting with my parents. Worst thing to do since I am a Type-1 diabetic and ended up with Diabetic Ketoacidosis the next day and a near-death experience :-…

Imho, this looks like a deliberate ploy to get most Windows computers to upgrade to Windows 10 so that they can force the App Store model in order to get the 30% cut.

I am tempted to believe that the pharma companies are more interested in keeping their recurring revenues from diabetics than find a one time cure. Here in India, the medicines and…

Great job GitLab team! Way to go! Unfortunately I cannot use it for my projects till the issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12920 exists. Hopefully, it will be re…

The original TRAI paper for this Net Neutrality discussion looked exactly like if it had been written by someone from the telcos. This repeated "call for feedback" attempts made by…

If Facebook is bringing in Free Basics only to get those who do not have internet access to get some, then why is Free Basics provided even to customers with data packs? I have see…

Awesome! This was the only way forward for a user-centric web browser like Firefox. Glad to see that they have listened to user feedback (and uproar) and backed down.

The "Hello" button automatically came back to the toolbar (I had removed it) after the Firefox 42 upgrade. Thought that it could be accidental and checked on a different machine, t…

Would appreciate better support for the Integration-Manager workflow described in http://git-scm.com/book/be/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Wo... . It is possible to use this workf…

> So, let me ask you a question, you prefer a browser where stuff is disabled by default and you enable them at your own will? Can you give me pointers into what about discovery of…

Quoting the About page of the Mozilla Input site, "Firefox Input is Mozilla's primary feedback mechanism for products.It is set up to be a method of one-way communication about you…

> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier. Not sure how it was easier, since there is already a Firefox extension for Pocket which could have been…

I have already created a feature request here - http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions... The main assumption in the Integration-Manager workflow is that code…

If you are using the Integration-Manager workflow (which GitLab doesn't support as well as Bitbucket or GitHub), all the members of a team have read access to all the repositories …

Blog post on this - http://www.aeracode.org/2015/6/17/beyond-request-response/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/x509Certs#Error... says that the certificate is not properly encoded