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I'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was expected given the recent decline of his health. I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and definite…

The first Eco-Drives came out in the mid 90s. If you look around you'll find quite a few reports from people who bought the very first ones, and which are still ticking away virtua…

I've been using dnf to continuously upgrade my Fedora installation between 24 and 28, and it's worked pretty much flawlessly. It's gotten to the point that system upgrades are as b…

They do acknowledge the source of the font: "Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects…

You can listen to Jean Shepherd himself tell the story of the "I, Libertine" hoax during a radio show here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html It's 40 min l…

It seems both NoScript and AdBlock Plus have become really permissive as of late regarding their whitelists. While ABP is a bit shady with their 'acceptable ads' deals, I believe i…

I've also noticed that I retain information much better when I'm actually writing it down on paper, than when I take quick notes on a laptop. I don't know the cognitive basis for t…

> Are services shuting down at greater rates that in the past decade? Probably not, but the model has shifted and there's a greater offering of services nowadays. Given the choice …

> especially since Google (and many other cloud providers) don't provide any kind of easy client-side encryption options That's like wishing printer manufacturers would provide an …