onosendai

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by onosendai 2y ago
I'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was expected given the recent decline of his health. I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and definitely worth watching, but if anyone who didn't k
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Waggle Dance(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by onosendai 2y ago|0 comments
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by onosendai 4y ago
The first Eco-Drives came out in the mid 90s. If you look around you'll find quite a few reports from people who bought the very first ones, and which are still ticking away virtually maintenance-free for 25+ years and counting. My own
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by onosendai 8y ago
I've been using dnf to continuously upgrade my Fedora installation between 24 and 28, and it's worked pretty much flawlessly. It's gotten to the point that system upgrades are as boring as the regular stream of updates that y
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OK, US government – see you in court(csas.ei.columbia.edu)
15 points by onosendai 9y ago|0 comments
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Startup Sequences of Shells(dingyichen.wordpress.com)
32 points by onosendai 9y ago|6 comments
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Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis(lieberbiber.de)
1 points by onosendai 9y ago|0 comments
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Hackers can’t solve surveillance (2015)(dmytri.info)
3 points by onosendai 10y ago|0 comments
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Chapeau Is Exactly What the Linux Desktop Needs(linux.com)
2 points by onosendai 10y ago|0 comments
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Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums(insights.ubuntu.com)
39 points by onosendai 10y ago|12 comments
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Do you trust this application?(blogs.gnome.org)
7 points by onosendai 11y ago|0 comments
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Why the Linux Mint hack is an indicator of a larger problem(techrepublic.com)
2 points by onosendai 11y ago|1 comments
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Mysterious collector opens world’s largest private Apple exhibition in Prague(arstechnica.com)
2 points by onosendai 11y ago|0 comments
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How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Jacob Appelbaum(theintercept.com)
5 points by onosendai 11y ago|0 comments
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by onosendai 11y ago
They do acknowledge the source of the font: "Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects." It's a bit disingenuous though. I&#x27
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by onosendai 11y ago
You can listen to Jean Shepherd himself tell the story of the "I, Libertine" hoax during a radio show here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html It's 40 min long, but well
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by onosendai 11y ago
It seems both NoScript and AdBlock Plus have become really permissive as of late regarding their whitelists. While ABP is a bit shady with their 'acceptable ads' deals, I believe in NoScript's case it's probably due to n
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by onosendai 12y ago
I've also noticed that I retain information much better when I'm actually writing it down on paper, than when I take quick notes on a laptop. I don't know the cognitive basis for this, but I suspect that it has something to d
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How I build stuff(levels.io)
3 points by onosendai 12y ago|0 comments
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Russia publicly joins war on Tor privacy with $111,000 bounty(arstechnica.com)
9 points by onosendai 12y ago|1 comments
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by onosendai 13y ago
> Are services shuting down at greater rates that in the past decade? Probably not, but the model has shifted and there's a greater offering of services nowadays. Given the choice available and all the niches covered, it's very
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British Ex-Spy Launches Fund to Support Whistleblowers Like Snowden(wired.com)
2 points by onosendai 13y ago|0 comments
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by onosendai 13y ago
> especially since Google (and many other cloud providers) don't provide any kind of easy client-side encryption options That's like wishing printer manufacturers would provide an easy way to refill their ink cartridges. It wil
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Bletchley Park accused of airbrushing Edward Snowden from history(theguardian.com)
8 points by onosendai 13y ago|3 comments
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A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers(thoughtcrime.org)
1 points by onosendai 13y ago|0 comments
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by onosendai 13y ago
As far as quick 'n dirty solutions go, if you're not overly concerned with security, you can always use "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" to serve all the files on the current directory over HTTP. I also recall that KDE had a
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by onosendai 13y ago
I second this. I've been using youtube-dl for years and it's essential for viewing video content on your terms. A little know fact that no one seems to mention about this tool is that, the name notwithstanding, it also supports ma
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by onosendai 13y ago
> people easily forget all their personal ethics when someone in authority (whether their boss or the police) tells them to do something. I don't know whether you're aware of this or not, but you just described a famous experim
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by onosendai 13y ago
This is a collection of quick shell recipes, so in that context it's perfectly acceptable. Besides, there are some environments where you can't just install packages willy-nilly, even if they're present on the repositories.
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by onosendai 13y ago
The quick 'n dirty recipe to test the disk write speed isn't ideal, since there's the buffer cache which significantly skews the results. A much better way would be: > sync && time sh -c "dd if=/dev/

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