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rxlim

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    Comment #14884224

    Yes, precisely like Facebook "Internet" is worse than nothing. Things like these will bite us in the ass in the future, better to stop it as soon as possible.

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    Comment #14883919

    No offence, but please write your desktop "apps" as native programs or don't write them at all, we have enough of this slow and bloated web shit on desktop already. Sorry.

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    Comment #14839676

    After some research I'm now able to provide an answer to my own question. The canvas was partitoned into blocks of 10x10 pixels that was white until sold. You would make a payment …

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    Comment #14839173

    So it was like buying tickets online? if multiple people were interested in the same region, the one which payment went through first got the region? However, this must still have …

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    Comment #14834900

    I wonder how he got everything to fit as more and more space was sold and if it was a manual process? It must have been like playing Tetris on expert mode.

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    Comment #14805736

    > I love the idea of an nearly always on and connected device. My desktop computer is exactly that.

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    Comment #14580789

    If this is really true, I might have to eat my own words.

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    Comment #14579390

    The amount of work that goes into Devuan for pulling out systemd of Debian Jessie is clear evidence that what you are saying is not easily possible.

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    Comment #14579333

    > Debian is already one of the few distributions that goes out of its way to provide support for non-systemd init systems. How does this manifest itself in practice? I don't want t…

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    Comment #14579304

    systemd was just a symptom. Multiple developers that had been working on Debian for many years, left the project in that period for various of reasons.

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    Comment #14579234

    Congratulations. The return of Firefox branding makes me feel nostalgic. I remember using Firefox 1.04 on Debian in the early 00's. This was in the golden age of Firefox, when ever…

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    Comment #14534526

    I did run an older version of binwalk on the firmware image, but it was unable to unpack anything and only printed false positives. I have now tried the newest version and it's abl…

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    Comment #14530881

    Good points. I must admit that I have not contacted Gigabyte as my experience with such large companies tells me that I will only get elevated blood pressure and absolutely no usab…

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    Ask HN: Integrity of BIOS update?

    I want to update the BIOS on my Gigabyte motherboard as this hopefully solves a problem. However, the archive containing the BIOS update and flashing tool can only be downloaded ov…

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    Ask HN: Which closed-source software would you most like to see the code for?

    I would choose Winamp 2 as the early versions of Winamp is exactly how I think software should be, and I also have great memories with it.

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    Comment #14380042

    This kid has a bright future as a human fuzzer. After a few days something like this would probably happen: Kid: OK Google, Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself c…

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    Comment #14286354

    In 1998 I installed the NetBus server on computers in the computerlab at my school. I would then run the NetBus client on a computer in a secluded corner, and watch the reaction fr…

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    Comment #14242787

    At least for it to be exploited remotely. It can still be exploited locally.

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    Comment #14242600

    For a system to be affected, both chipset and CPU have to support vPro. For example, a PC with Core i7-7700 CPU and H270 chipset is not affected because only the CPU has support fo…

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    Comment #14157948

    This is a post[0] from one of the project leaders: However, I think we all agree we want the Thunderbird replacement to be a desktop client (plus other platforms like mobile), and …

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    Comment #14156360

    According to Cambridge Dictionary "in the works" has the following meaning: in the process of being planned or done Thunderbird replacement is currently being planned, so I think i…

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    Comment #14009091

    I need to make much more research before I will convince anyone, but as a start I like the philosophy of Devuan very much. I have moved many many servers from Debian to FreeBSD aft…

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    Comment #14005225

    Just saw the video and must say that it has really sparked my interest in Devuan. I heard of Devuan when the fork was first announced but never gave it much notice, now is the firs…