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munchlax

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    Comment #45773143

    Only in English.

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    Comment #45772904

    Perhaps because they is plural. Plural is reserved for the royal family in some cultures.

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    Comment #45772869

    There exists makefiles that don't allow DESTDIR, as in mkdir derp gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(

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    Comment #45769367

    That was almost never the case. We just didn't know any better

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    Comment #45763718

    I've replaced all my GPT disklabels with Sun disklabels because I refuse to let them talk. UEFI still boots. Spec said it can boot from fat in an eltorito floppy image and sun disk…

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    Comment #45757573

    And ridiculously expensive

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    Comment #45744153

    Not neccesarily a guise of security, but perhaps a different means of security. E.g. securing stock investments, profits, monies, etc. Nothing is 100% secure, you can't be in the v…

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    Comment #45744125

    I bet those are just a rounding error to their profits.

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    Comment #45744120

    I think it is and it doesn't just end there. It's develop and distribute binaries . Everyone is still free to develop and distribute source code .

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    Comment #45744084

    And good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.

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    Comment #45744057

    It doesn't make sense to choose between a snake that bit you and another that bit you earlier. If you don't want to be bitten, get out of the snake pit.

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    Comment #45733269

    Of course! Sell the disease and the cure.

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    Comment #45725361

    Yup. There's always some kind of tool anyway so why not. I mean, even if you read the logs as they come out of a screaming line printer, the tool is the thing that takes log messag…

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    Comment #45723014

    *the goverment and foreign espionage agencies FTFY

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    Comment #45722892

    Thanks. That may well be enough to trash firefox all day.

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    Comment #45722843

    Who knows how many ways there are to exfiltrate data. Without software (and hardware) freedom, you can never tell what's going on.

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    Comment #45712390

    It's the amount of BSD you have from gross BSD after paying all the technical debts.

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    Comment #45712344

    And let me guess... You haven't had to replace them since?

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    Comment #45711282

    The author of the work can call it whatever he wants

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    Comment #45711265

    I admit I havent investigated this thoroughly, but I suspect the low hanging fruit in the tinykvm case is having rw access to /dev/kvm I think it should be possible to pass /dev/kv…

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    Comment #45709834

    The problem is that your 20% isn't the same 20% as anyone elses 20%. If you want a more thorough explanation, go read a book. Many are available for free on sites such as archive.o…

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    Comment #45707664

    The traditional way of doing this is by combining programs. Many programs already do this. e.g.: time nice distcc ccache gmake I do this with other tools as well. bwrap, chroot, en…

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    Comment #45704812

    If websites didn't force insecure SMS 2FA, these services wouldn't be neccesary. It's like we can't have nice things anymore because criminals can't have nice things so you can't h…

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    Comment #45703448

    You can do it regardless of orientation given you can apply enough pressure

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    Comment #45693449

    Linked page gives me a barely readable error