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Comment #42265066
chroot doesn't nest, there is only one chroot active for a given process at a given moment. If you're inside a chrooted environment and call chroot on a subdirectory without enteri…
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Comment #41825903
AFAIK it only worked with optical drives, not pendrives. I've spent hours trying to get this functionality on my pendrives back in the day, to no avail (thankfully!). It was on Win…
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Comment #41778041
Something akin to "uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address" should be fine.
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Comment #41771561
The title seems to be wrong, uBlock Origin supported it for many years at this point (only on Firefox). This seems to be a refactor of that code, not a whole new feature.
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Comment #40859935
It's usually run as a local web application with the browser running on the same machine as the backend, though it's possible to bind it to non-localhost interfaces.
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Comment #40263571
Sounds very similar to the paid data processing opt-out Facebook does now. That actually might be an interesting case.
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Comment #39657994
One more point I'd add to (2): given its massive inertia / network effect, the tooling and the resources are leagues ahead of everything else. I'm using Darcs for a few personal pr…
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Comment #39079575
So Wi-Fi Direct?
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Comment #38945822
This works only under the assumption Github won't change the current DNS setup that happens to work this way. A trivial example would be adding a record for the specific subdomain …
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Comment #38926223
A minor correction: it's usually preferable to apply commits with `git am` instead of `git apply`, as it applies the commit with all its metadata, not just the diff.
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Comment #38394840
This missing piece of information would be essentially `git reflog`, except it's not something Git sends between the clones.
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Comment #37996769
> The only thing I don’t get is automatic synchronization between magit status buffer, and the file that’s currently open in the editor. That is, to view the current file and the d…
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Comment #37739147
Yes, C-x 5 0 is safe, but I often use my window manager's keybinding for closing a window instead. Customizing confirm-kill-emacs sounds like a great idea, I'll consider it, thanks…
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Comment #37738552
My relatively new stance is that sometimes having an Emacs process that doesn't share the state is a feature, not a flaw. Specifically I started using non-daemon Emacs processes al…
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Comment #37511227
> Storing metadata out-of-band strikes me as key to any usable content management system within a realistically complex space. Yes and no. I was specifically comparing it to Git An…
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Comment #37507944
TMSU is the only such system I found useful without being cumbersome. After years of trying to use Git Annex, it was refreshing that TMSU doesn't alter the files in any way, merely…
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Comment #36444313
> The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. Why is this even a problem? A purchase is a purch…
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Comment #35186735
Outbound links containing the word "sexy" at that!
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Comment #35186317
Why are you on Twitter during work? That might be the NSFW part.
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Comment #35093839
> Yeah, yeah, security vs. convenience is always the issue, but so far I've just selected convenience. In terms of the SSH and GPG keys which I use multiple times every single day …
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Comment #35093784
> I don’t see any use case or security benefits by using the static password feature. Even if you enter a password manually and concatenate it with the password of the Yubikey, a k…
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Comment #33280531
Their documentation seems to disagree. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/default-cache-...
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Comment #30720138
> my family found the noise that the Browns make annoying That's why you start with Blue and only when they complain you switch to Brown. ;)
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Comment #30160831
Yes, and they should be marked as conflicting, as OP suggested.
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Comment #30098203
Let me rephrase: GPG is possible to get working, the resident keys are not, regardless of the amount of setup. Though the other comment seems to suggest it might not be the case, s…