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viseztrance

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About viseztrance

Self taught hacker

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    Comment #30292658

    I've been working on a video game and actually followed the article to implement astar. If you have an inaccessible node, astar will indeed scan everything. But to get around this …

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    Comment #28261930

    I know, but you still have to make it executable, hence it's not as convenient. And on top of this, an unlink is less error prone than a rm -f.

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    Comment #28261855

    Well the symlink command was also easier to share with others having the same issue, whereas a one liner that creates an executable script which returns 0 is less ideal.

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    Comment #28261381

    > The /bin/true (or /usr/bin/true) command is now nearly obsolete, because most extant shells now have a builtin "true" command. But it's still useful occasionally, for various sil…

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    Comment #28182548

    I question the same thing, and would like to know how accurate it is. Is there any peer reviewed literature that supports this?

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    Comment #28144277

    Somehow I can see some companies using this to spy on their employees and "measure" how productive they are, and how their timesheets reports match.

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    Comment #28140160

    Control for whom? Before gdpr the general stance in the industry was we never delete user data, just mark a field saying its deleted in the db and that's that. It's been a total sh…

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    Comment #28129623

    For what is worth, I have disabled it in firefox 90 in about:config.

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    Comment #28094339

    I think you would still be surprised at how many things emacs can still do better like undo in region or even simple macros that find use even during simple text edits. Though ulti…

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    Comment #28005755

    > Debt repayment has one vital characteristic: it is easy to understand If it were this easy you wouldn't see so many people taking on so many unnecessary debts. Technical or other…

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    Comment #27177257

    Thanks for sharing this.

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    Comment #27177216

    It tried when the mounting failed, saying it would drop me to a shell and then said "it fail to open up a shell".

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    Comment #27177169

    I've been using linux on my desktop for almost 20 years. This was the first time I couldn't get a shell to fix my problem.

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    Comment #27176679

    I ignored systemd because I thought it didn't affect me, as I only run linux (fedora) on my desktop, and hardly had any issues at that. But recently, when I changed my fstab file t…

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    Comment #27153234

    I know that, and it's of course a good point. I was trying to convey the fact that citizens from eu countries are not at the level of other third countries yet. For example you can…

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    Comment #27151974

    Bare in mind that eu citizens still don't need a visa to travel to the uk.

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    Comment #27147867

    Strange. I have resist fingerprinting as well (running on fedora), and it correctly detected all 5 apps I had installed from the list.

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    Comment #26847875

    I don't know how it can be fully prevented other than disabling javascript, but in my opinion firefox with "privacy.resistFingerprinting" is a good start, though you'll still stand…

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    Comment #26846049

    It's quite tough to know for certain if you're being fingerprinted. I worked on finding ways around fingerprinting at a previous job. The problem is that sites go out of their way …

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    Comment #26697810

    LG also has a special webos variant for signage displays (I developed for it at my last job).

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    Comment #26573193

    Looks like we've gone full circle.

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    Comment #26538217

    > Because it makes for a great excuse for their failure to negotiate their vaccine contracts. This argument is beyond ridiculous. It was the decision of health officials, and it wa…

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    Comment #26386708

    I've seen this pattern more often than not, but as the person joining the company later and having to fix other people's mess who either left or moved into management.