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newnewpdro

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    Comment #22358851

    No way, 51nb wouldn't have done the X62 if we were alone.

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    Comment #22358733

    Don't get my hopes up for a return of the X40/X60 form factor

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    Comment #22358529

    It's not like we don't embellish and overbuild high priority state of the art facilities today. A well back then may have been quite a proud and precious thing you point your best …

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    Comment #22354458

    > then that implies that about 99.9% of the US military budget -- and the entire known fleet -- is essentially a massive disinformation campaign Except that's not how the world wor…

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    Comment #22351759

    The fediverse seems like a good start. Wikileaks should host their own instances of mastodon/diaspora etc, and we should stop participating in these centralized commercial enclaves…

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    Comment #22350006

    > He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbann…

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    Comment #22349898

    > One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS. Was Terry, he committed suicide while homeless in August 2018, after being horribly antagonized and mani…

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    Comment #22349872

    > very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted…

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    Comment #22346218

    If you buy physical gold, how does one go about converting that back into liquid cash without getting fleeced? Where do you sell it? I don't get the impression that pawn shops or j…

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    Comment #22345574

    When people recommend buying gold, do they literally mean purchasing gold bars/coins and sticking them in a safe?

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    Comment #22345361

    No worries, I was just curious to read about it.

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    Comment #22345112

    That's pretty smart, using de-tuned aviation engines. But unlike what WalterBright is describing, these were appropriately reconfigured to not require high-octane fuel.

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    Comment #22345107

    I couldn't find mention of anything else aviation-related in the per-tank pages, and the Maybach WWII engines page [0] doesn't speak to it either. Do you have any good references w…

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    Comment #22344872

    > In WW2 the Germans fitted aircraft engines to their tanks, which worked great when the engines ran, but too often they didn't due to battlefield conditions. (Germany was also ter…

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    Comment #22343268

    There's plenty of reporting to be found if you just search "munich linux". From the end of [0]: > At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004, it was one of the largest orga…

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    Comment #22342790

    Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Win…

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    Comment #22342630

    > this is not just a write-where, this is a full guest-to-host write-what-where Ouch.

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    Comment #22340527

    > I was under the impression the bundle of insurer and healthcare provider would avoid these issues. It gets worse, bundling those two is the epitome of conflict of interests when …

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    Comment #22340508

    I had loaded that page and didn't see one, I guess it must require javascript.

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    Comment #22339780

    Strange for that wikipedia page to not contain a single graphic representation of what's being described.

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    Comment #22338744

    I emailed pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org FWIW

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    Comment #22338524

    > Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen...…

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    Comment #22337679

    Yikes, do you know of any activitypub-compatible implementations actually packaged by distros? gnu social perhaps? diaspora? I checked out Pleroma after seeing it mentioned on that…

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    Comment #22337320

    It appears "Installing from source" is the only option? Are there no distributions packaging mastodon and its dependencies such that I don't need to have gcc/build-essential and pi…

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    Comment #22336991

    Can anyone recommend a good and current guide on setting up and maintaining your own mastodon instance?