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nortonham

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    Comment #43185433

    >Circulator eggs never made a whole lot of sense, They make a great deal of sense in professional kitchens. If you're expecting to do hundreds of brunch covers, or a giant breakfas…

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    Comment #43070132

    >A big conversation I see now days is what’s “wrong” with the modern nba, with too many 3’s being the most common refrain. That’s silly. I will tell you what’s actually wrong about…

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    Comment #42133312

    It certainly does to me....Firefox and ublock origin makes using the modern web easier. Anytime I use some other combination (at work, or someone else's device) I can't stand most …

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    Comment #41594827

    http://yashalevine.com/articles/tor-spooks http://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pro...

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    Comment #40287852

    and I still have a an original iPad Air first gen.....still works for basic things. Unsupported by apple now, but still usable.

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    Comment #40077339

    It's proving to be a good release so far. Hopefully they get more support in the form of manpower and cash. Looking forward to NetBSD and the increasing popularity of ARM in the fu…

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    Comment #40073297

    https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/riscv/#index4h2

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    Comment #40073284

    NetBSD is great because: can support lots of hardware; minimal but featureful; secure; pkgsrc; friendly community; It's like a good middle ground between Free and OpenBSD. Anyone i…

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    Comment #40073268

    probably best asked on a mailing list. But NetBSD is really community/volunteer driven, so someone with an itch to scratch will have to take it on

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    Comment #40073246

    I will say I like this more than your review of netbsd 9 ;)

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    Comment #39897838

    Maybe try it in a VM, or use second hand thinkpads or similar supported hardware.

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    Comment #39897824

    > Looking forward to NetBSD 10.0 review on the register :D Me too!

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    Comment #39897794

    Try one in a VM first. Get used to the different pkg management in whichever BSD you use vs. the linux distro you're used to using. NetBSD uses pkgsrc, which is pretty straightforw…

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    Comment #39445789

    thanks, I had no idea what that meant either

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    Comment #39372567

    > Judging him on not being "properly" socialist or anti-imperialist or whatever is completely missing the point. But there are people who put him on the pedestal. His claimed by th…

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    Comment #39372538

    > Did he write this at the time the Exiled staff were smashing each other in the face with horse semen pies? Seems like a lot of edginess and projection. Chronologically I think th…

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    Comment #39372468

    yes, but my money would have gone to mozilla, a company that I would like to see do well

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    Comment #39367035

    I get what you're saying about mullvad, but firefox having a VPN is one more way to get revenue.

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    Comment #39367030

    and here I was, getting ready to sign up to their VPN service

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    Comment #39367016

    https://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-chri... "That’s the thing about Orwell’s Imperialism: it’s perfectly ordinary stuff, distinguished only by the socialist per…

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    Comment #39367004

    >“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether th…

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    Comment #39366988

    Hitchens is pretty awful imo. Tried to paint himself as some type of lefty, as he got older agitated for war and just drank himself to death. That, and the weird new atheist sthick…

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    Comment #39359750

    Dude, where's my efficient public transport?

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    Comment #39283749

    >We can't simply blame it all on PG&E and move on, a spark from a PG&E power line would not turn into a devastating megafire if the forest was healthy. Correct. But we can blame PG…