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marrs
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Comment #46765439
If you have to sue your provider just to get a normal service then society has already failed. I can only imagine you're an American for litigation to be your go-to solution.
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Comment #45977517
> In a text that introduces itself with a section describing the increase in brown people, if you talk about crime in the next section, the context is brown people. And you know it…
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Comment #45908928
> DHH's fears are all feeling no fact. They're mostly feelings (which is what I said above), but there are plenty of facts in that article as well. > The "Pakistani rape gangs" tar…
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Comment #45895285
> Re racism: Read the "As I remember London" post, it's full of language and selective facts painting brown people as criminal. I didn't read it that way at all. I certainly didn't…
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Comment #45886572
> DHH also does this, of course, as he paints a false narrative in his blog text that brown people are dangerous. I've never seen him even imply this; and I'm afraid I simply presu…
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Comment #45875259
What's your definition of ethnonationalist? It surely can't be as simple as identifying with your tribe, otherwise just about every nation except America would be ethnonationalist.…
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Comment #43137985
Nah, it's great. It's the only thing that keeps me on Linux tbh.
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Comment #43137978
It does in this case.
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Comment #43137970
Not when you want to write your own patches, it isn't. I think the design of DWM could be improved to make patching easier, but it was a revelation to me when I discovered it: for …
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Comment #38806563
I guess the term "sandbox" can become overloaded. I'm not thinking of OS processes as sandboxes in this context. > However, that’s a big “if”, since most of the linux sandbox thing…
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Comment #38800858
I forgot about those links. No, I didn't look at them. I've taken a quick look now. They seem to be about X and everything that's wrong with it, which is fine, but I don't see much…
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Comment #38800222
X11 isn't a sandbox and that's fine by me. I'm not particularly interested in zero trust computing. I'm not strongly opposed to it, but in general I'm going to choose a lightweight…
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Comment #38719451
Maybe your knowledge is out of date? Afaict, most (if not all) of the differences between desktop environments have been fixed by XDG. I don't run Gnome or KDE and everything on my…
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Comment #38718695
> That fragmentation is one of the reasons why in the end you get an Electron app. How so? I run Electron apps all the time. They behave like any other app. > Most people don't wan…
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Comment #38718683
I don't know what this means
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Comment #38715444
I write software for web browsers for a living and I shudder at the thought of having all of my apps trapped in some bloaty, slow sandbox that's different enough from all the other…
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Comment #38715306
I doubt that. Most of the WMs available for Linux are way more capable than their standard counterparts. There's a rich diversity of UXs available on the platform. Hopefully their …
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Comment #38714828
> so you have to adapt No I don't. X11 works perfectly well for me. Wayland doesn't. Until I can migrate without issue, I'll be sticking with what works. If it gets to a point wher…
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Comment #32457596
Same here and I've used and shared the same number for at least 20 years. I had no idea SMS spam was an issue until I read this thread
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Comment #32457574
Use a degoogled phone
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Comment #28941326
In your opinion, what should the punishment be for not complying?
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Comment #27536903
JS has dynamic scoping via call, apply, and bind.
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Comment #27473850
GTK is polyglot.
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Comment #27473840
I'm more interested in the the actual statistics for security vulnerabilities found in C vs. C++ programmes, rather than theoretical benefits one language might have over the other…