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the 'cold war' ended up being a bunch of proxy actual-wars in my area, and I don't think the thousands that died liked it very much.

I recommend using the package manager than building yourself. If something needs to be modified about the source, it will first be patched in the widely used package manager. convi…

Ridiculous claim. A few months ago Gaza militants fired 460 rockets in one day, injuring 80 people (mostly civilians) and killing one, and the IDF has barely done anything besides …

Google has 100 times as many employs as NSO group. The equivalent for a group of 100 Google employees signing a petition is one person signing it. They can just be fired & replaced…

The suggestion to invalidate cache is also in ACPI 6.2A 16.1.1.2 Example 2: S1 Sleeping State Implementation (page 783) http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2…

Is it weird to support some of these today? we just dropped acorn26, although it was gone for a few years. I think mips r3k has a better behaving add ("addu"), or is that only on s…

If you've ever been on the bad side of banks you'll dread this a lot. I merely had my credit card stolen but getting a replacement was surprisingly time-consuming and I'm glad I co…

Apple isn't the best example. They generally do publish the modified source code to FOSS projects they do, and sometimes they don't add their own license clause, so the changes can…

it can't backfire too bad, if it does they'll change the license again.

so you want a non-commercial use license. these aren't seen as open source by most people, but perhaps they'll be accepted by users. calling it open source is harming actual open s…

No need to work so hard, VMs self-identify: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009458

This question sounds so silly I wonder if it's a strawman argument. Can you have any advanced device that doesn't contain anything made by 50% of humanity? no. This comment is sent…

HP's "keylogger" doesn't belong in this discussion. It was a debug trace to a driver. I've left similar traces as part of debugging. It wasn't even their driver but belonged to Syn…

That only refers to copyright, not the patent, right? I know FOSS projects avoiding a different implementation of RCU for patent reasons.

I have this in my ~/.xinitrc because I found the color changes of f.lux distracting: xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --gamma 1:1:0.5

Why are there so many fish?

> there's a one in four chance Closer to 1 in 7, because the reviewer might be female (who are rarely color blind).

I've enjoyed cleaning chores a lot more after mentally declaring them to be exercise.