terrestrial

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by terrestrial 9y ago
'xa' is available on my system. Who is working on the PR?
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by terrestrial 9y ago
!g has been my exclusive portal to Google for years (also on mobile). I never understood what all the rage was about until I went to try it in the "normal" Google. This is the first time I've seen that "lightning" i
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by terrestrial 9y ago
Does Bing have "bangs" such as !gm for Google Maps, !gh for GitHub, !wa for WolframAlpha and so on? With no user tracking? I was a heavy user of address bar search prefixes, but it's amazingly convenient to not have to think
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by terrestrial 9y ago
> If all the leaks in the past decade have shown anything it's that everyone spies on everyone. It's been like that forever too. It may have been like that for a long time, but it's not entirely true anymore. The leaks s
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by terrestrial 9y ago
A law would not "fix" this. It's a workaround. Which law was this guy breaking to begin with? The problem is lack of scrutiny by the officers handling this. The process should have gone something like this: United: "Hey,
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by terrestrial 9y ago
KDE and Gnome are both really good nowadays, but Ubuntu is a buggy piece of shit. I've helped friends install it a couple of times recent years, and seen various desktop program crashes every time . It wasn't like this back in th
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by terrestrial 9y ago
> there's little doubt that being able to read everyone's private messages will enable the intelligence services to better do their jobs [citation needed] Seriously, this argument is FUD. I'm sorry for picking on this quot
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by terrestrial 10y ago
Hi Jon! I know you are a stand-up guy [0]. Have you considered working with the free software community to create a truly free and modern browser? No-one trusts Chromium since it's filled with Google-specific bits and tweaks, even anal
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GNU Hurd 0.9, GNU Mach 1.8, GNU MIG 1.8 Released(gnu.org)
131 points by terrestrial 10y ago|63 comments
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by terrestrial 10y ago
It's just preparations for the impending first contact. Now we'll be a little less surprised when they mention they've been around all this time. Perhaps Kurzweil wasn't that far off after all..
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by terrestrial 10y ago
What I really meant was "inversely proportional", rather than opposite, although I do abide by that (if only because the words have such different meanings). Increasing one will not reduce the other, or vice versa. As an example,
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by terrestrial 10y ago
Privacy and transparency are not opposites. It is possible to have privacy in a perfectly transparent world. I agree that the privacy battle as we know it is already lost. Once someone has the kind of powers the "umpteen eyes" a