15charusername

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by 15charusername 13y ago
>If only someone had invented a windowing GUI. At work I have to use a mac, it's a PITA to manage multiple non fullscreen windows on it. There is also a fair amount of screen estate lost per window.
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by 15charusername 13y ago
And if it wasn't a government but instead a corporation, the only thing that would change is that you don't even get to vote!
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Why Iran? Surely Russia is a bigger suspect, but right now, my biggest suspect would be the NSA/CIA, the timing of the Syrian escalation is just too perfect.
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by 15charusername 13y ago
>Tor guarantees anonymity. No it does not, it is always best to use a seperate browser for tor because your browser & OS fingerprint is significant https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes And tha
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Even with Patent trolls and week patents, patents still allow companies to license innovative technology rather than hide it away for fear of copying (ala qualcomm) Patents are a good idea, it's the current implementation that sucks
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Wayland alone might not, but MAC can limit access to file descriptors
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by 15charusername 13y ago
1.4.2 is safe, 1.4.1 contained the fix for CVE-2013-2028
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Why Oauth2? I've read about it being less secure http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... but would like to hear the case for it.
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Hurd has been in development since 1990, Tanenbaum–Torvalds was 92. The shipping and loading of drivers separately from the kernel was a micro-kernel advantage and Linux being able to do the same is a move towards micro-kernel features in L
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by 15charusername 13y ago
> Linux being as monolithic as ever Except for loadable kernel modules which is a pretty big move towards microkernel-like features from the original versions.
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Wow people trust tools that don't have valid SSL certificates , it's no wonder groups like HTP roam free.
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by 15charusername 13y ago
I'm sure there will be a GUI way to switch the default but I tend to use environmental variables when I want to launch a program out of a non-default device >Is it possible to use/set environment variables to change the default ALSA dev
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by 15charusername 13y ago
Don't forget Samsung produce more than just phones, even if Tizen doesn't take off for phones, Samsung do a lot of other embedded Linux stuff. As for Tizen's success on phones, apart from lower end devices (where you probably don't want man