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I wish well-done XMPP/Jabber clients that do voice come up. If you are an XMPP protocol developer / implementer reading this, thank you for what is there so far. Please don't stop.…

This isn't true for India. Until last year, all the cards I'd seen in India were either Visa, Mastercard or AMEX. This year my bank tried to send me a "Rupay" card which is an Indi…

Here's an example of the quality of Uber's customer support: https://twitter.com/muks/status/1137237193657868289 This was after I reported that my 72 year old mother was asked to g…

We got Misha in Hyderabad too in the 80s. My mother used to buy them for me regularly when I was a kid.

Wow.. wow.. there are others who have read the same things. :) The hydro pneumatic rocket! I tried to find Mir publishers books about 10 years ago. Apparently Mir got bought out an…

I agree with you.

I can give you a link to download my build if you want (which is a pristine unofficial build with Android security patches till February 5, 2019), but in the end, it depends on whe…

Same device here (whyred). If you want an "original" build, you can still build an up-to-date Lineage OS with the latest Android security patches from source from their repo. It is…

How does the output compare to running a video with mpv and vapoursynth to increase the frame rate? e.g., this recipe: https://gist.github.com/phiresky/4bfcfbbd05b3c2ed8645

> Yeah, shellac isn't the most durable finish, but it sure is pretty. +1

Condolences, but how is this hacker news? There's BBC and CNN for this sort of stuff.

> But we do need a gatekeeper Having observed this area for 18 years now, I'll say that gatekeeper (a party which has unwaveringly observed and stuck to delivering the principles o…

> The result, however, is that at this moment, MongoDB is under a non-approved license and therefore IS NOT OPEN SOURCE. Perhaps you meant to say "is not OSI Certified", because th…

I've been a Hetzner customer for several years. I'm yet to have a faulty disk experience with them, but that's not what this post is about. This month I "purchased" another EX41 se…

It would take someone with reasonable technical skills to install LineageOS as it involves unlocking the phone's bootloader (depending on the choice of phone hardware), working aro…

Waiting is inconvenient to buyers and to explain it away, Xiaomi provide some silly reasons such as saying they are trying to thwart sideloading of apps and custom ROMs by reseller…

After my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone started having hardware issues, I looked to see if a phone running open source software was available, one that also could run the Android apps I c…

> I appreciate that this is a work in progress but this section is misleading. As all too briefly mentioned elsewhere on the page, EDNS allows extending this. In practice most of t…

verysadpanda: You may be feeling low right now, but believe it, the low feeling will go away and things will get better. If you are at the bottom of the barrel, the only way you ca…

Hi antirez C doesn't have a destructor that gets called when something goes out of scope. That's taken advantage of in C++ (RAII) to implement various things (like scoped_ptr that …