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The author actually has it right due to OpenBSD's httpd running in a chroot of /var/www. Edit: nevermind, you're right, just checked it again and the author put the copied awk unde…

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Insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have held up pretty well against the US military over all. Pervasive gun ownership in these countries prior to our involvement is a major part …

I'm waiting for a politician to pass legislation requiring us to have the telescreens from 1984. We already have thought crimes, I mean red flag laws and no fly lists. People need …

The problem with property taxes as they are usually implemented is that they put a very high burden on farmers and are often passed on directly to renters by their landlords.

Why would they do that? Why would they care which hypervisor/VM solution you use?

Interesting move by IBM. See also OpenSPARC. [1] I'm curious if anyone will do anything interesting with this. [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/index.h...

For this reason I would never trust my livelihood with the Play Store. Beer money, yes, paying my bills, hell no.

Also every release of the .NET framework to my knowledge ships with the "csc.exe" and "vbc.exe" compilers. So C# and Visual Basic.NET are available out of the box with modern versi…

Is Bill Nye's opinion relevant in this either?

This is rich, considering just how reliant Federal Government agencies like the Department of Defense are on contractors.

To continue this analogy. When I go to a restaurant and order a steak I don't get told by the waiter that I should really be eating vegan gluten free instead. What really bothers m…

What concerns me about the Red Hat acquisition is just how much of what we consider "Linux" is developed and controlled by Red Hat employees. Look at things like Gnome, PulseAudio,…

I'm not saying that just doing word processing on my phone is incredible. Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful word processors and I just find it incredible how many features…

I find all of the negativity related to this very strange. Microsoft Word on Android is incredible (and the other MS Office apps for that matter). The ability to not only view, but…

This is pretty incredible work. I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive. I always thought that UWP was …

Between the environmental impact mentioned here and the meteoric rise of ransomware that crypto currency has caused, I have a hard time believing that it is a net positive overall.…

The problem is that the Android SDK is a Rube Goldberg machine full of layers of over engineered complexity. It does not work well with anything other than Kotlin, Java, and to a m…

In their defense the vast majority of mainstream media in the United States is left wing biased. Fox news is pretty much the only major right wing counter balance.

I think it's much simpler than that. The reason why Android updates are so broken compared to iOS and Windows is the lack of a stable driver ABI. Fuschia would fix that.

I will stop playing this game if I have to make an Epic account. Their security is a joke. Some Russian made a fake account using my email address without Epic ever actually verify…

Rust's learning curve isn't exactly a shallow one either. For the record I think Rust has a lot going for it, but it is not the C++ killer that many are touting it to be.

That's because SCOTUS refuses to hear any gun control cases.

See also California's unconstitutional gun control laws. They believe they have moral superiority on their side and federal laws don't apply to them.

However Rust is single vendor and single implementation, has a much smaller community and ecosystem than C++, is not standardized, and does not support all of the platforms and use…