ackalker

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by ackalker 9y ago
I find your example of installing a package to be somewhat amusing. The fact that one can install a package in some OS means that somewhere, one or more people sat down and wrote a recipe for building and packaging it, and then hopefully pe
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by ackalker 9y ago
In my case the setting lists two languages, but "en-US" does appear to have a higher 'quality' factor, so there.
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by ackalker 9y ago
> [...] The experience does not collect or share any data [...] Wrong (unless proven otherwise). From the Shield Studies FAQ[1]: > What data do Shield Studies normally collect? > [...] > Mechanism: > > - at STARTUP, SHUTDO
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by ackalker 9y ago
There would be "rioting in the streets" of the internet if Mozilla ever decided to drop support for ALSA in Firefox. There are distros, Void Linux (which I am using right now) for one, which ship without pulseaudio (or systemd for
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by ackalker 9y ago
> [...] the extension gets silently pushed to all the US users(!) Non-US user here, my Firefox got it, too.
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by ackalker 9y ago
This is about forwarding individual remote applications, not entire desktops.
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by ackalker 10y ago
Ah, memories of one of my very first lab assignments in digital circuits engineering class (back when computer science was still busy splitting off from applied mathematics and electrical engineering). We were given nothing but a breadboard
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by ackalker 10y ago
They're called proprietary video drivers, and yes, they pass unknown commands, without user authorization (think DRM) to PCI(e) devices (video cards) all the time.
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by ackalker 10y ago
In the same vein, do try ":help 42" as well... :)
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by ackalker 10y ago
An experimental, no, production feature I would love to have in every browser is a way to disable these excruciatingly annoying full-screen popups which some sites (including the one linked in the topic) show you on your first visit. No,
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by ackalker 10y ago
Interesting fact: while not all shared object files are executable (or rather: do something interesting other than dump core), some most definitely are: try executing libc someday: $ /usr/lib/libc.so.6 See http://s
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by ackalker 10y ago
Much better than that, actually: http://visualgdb.com/ This one has been around a bit longer, too, and despite its name is now much more than just a pretty face for GDB but rather a full cross-platform development environme
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by ackalker 10y ago
Mmm, love the good ole'style hack. Find a hole in the system and peek through, good-natured of course. Reminds me of how I discovered that some hosting company's FTP server supported the somewhat obscure `cdup` command (which shou
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by ackalker 10y ago
> ...which allows selecting different distributions, including Arch Linux? Sorry to rain on your parade, but there is _no_ official Arch Linux image on Docker[1], as you can easily verify[2]. Use at your own risk whatever Arch Linux imag
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by ackalker 10y ago
TL;DR: KISS+YAGNI :-)
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by ackalker 10y ago
It's so amazing, it was probably made with secret alien technology!
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by ackalker 11y ago
Maybe it time-traveled back from the future to save us from deadly attack by an alien probe, to give us a chance to get things right this time.
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by ackalker 11y ago
Exactly. The high current, if combined with unevenly split loads, improperly installed or maintained wiring, excessive use of spurs etc. can actually mean a greater risk of (fire) damage due to overload compared to 'star'-like cir
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by ackalker 11y ago
Those of us coding in GNU Radio, LabView, MaxMSP, PureData, Simulink, VEE, vvvv, etc., would object to such an overly general statement. (Hint: those are all visual or hybrid textual/visual programming languages.)
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by ackalker 11y ago
Erhm, no local network setup? Why is it that nowadays all the so-called cool stuff requires me to sign up with some online service?
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by ackalker 11y ago
It may be my (somewhat archaic) sense of crypto humor, but any time I read the term "Dual EC", my mind says "CE lauD", making it sound like someone saying the word "cloud" with an accent expressing a lot of dis
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by ackalker 11y ago
To add: you can use software like Raccoon: http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon Use it with a throwaway Google account to download apps from the Play Store, then use adb to install them on your device. This works fine for apps wh
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by ackalker 11y ago
I think it is about time that we (the users) reclaim the right to our data and what we do with it. Never since the days of mainframes and timesharing have we been turning over so much of our (personal) data and the processing of it to third
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by ackalker 11y ago
I guess that you nave never been to a demoscene event then (or it doesn't count as a hackathon in your book). Lots of chance that there are teams there working in frenzy to finish their demo in time while across the table others are bu
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by ackalker 11y ago
Tough chance of any youth from my country trying to compete with him. Our government has imposed tough regulations on credit card ownership in order to curb personal debt. Those who apply for a credit card must be 18 years or older and prov
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by ackalker 11y ago
s/fuck/goodness/g # for goodness' sake, this is HN, not /.
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by ackalker 11y ago
One-time pad encryption, implemented correctly, cannot be broken or backdoored. There is the matter of key exchange of course, but that is as old as the use of covert communications itself. Anyone who cares enough about their communication
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by ackalker 11y ago
Isn't the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" from Microsoft supposed to scan for such things? Obviously it isn't a full-fledged virus scanner, but I would expect scanning the system for outdated DLLs and such to be well w
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by ackalker 11y ago
These governments and institutions should be called to task, PMs/ministers/MPs impeached if need be. Their negligence or refusal to act on this matter is a threat to national security. Literally.
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by ackalker 11y ago
I think the problem is not a language problem but rather both a set-theoretic and a technical issue specific to how NTP works. Set-theoretic: what exactly is meant by "the pool"? Is it: a) the set of all NTP servers on the Interne

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