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FreeBSD 15's installer to gain option to install a full KDE Plasma desktop(osnews.com)
25 points by thomholwerda 1y ago|1 comments
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Releasing Windows as open source is the only viable way forward for Microsoft(osnews.com)
2 points by thomholwerda 2y ago|0 comments
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by thomholwerda 2y ago
If you're not running Debian/something Debian-based, do you just dump the .so files in the listed directories and hope for the best? Or is there something more you should do to get these to work on, say, Fedora? The fingerprint re
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Chinese-owned Riot installs rootkit on every League of Legends players' computer(osnews.com)
93 points by thomholwerda 2y ago|25 comments
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by thomholwerda 3y ago
10 of the world's largest 50 companies by revenue are European. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
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Chrome OS Flex: a good start with zero follow-through(osnews.com)
2 points by thomholwerda 3y ago|0 comments
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The only PC ever shipped with BeOS preinstalled(osnews.com)
4 points by thomholwerda 3y ago|1 comments
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iOS for consumers, macOS for professionals(osnews.com)
3 points by thomholwerda 10y ago|0 comments
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by thomholwerda 10y ago
The graph for Britain is clearly wrong. David Cameron is clearly far-right by any European standard, so the country's swing to the right should be a lot more pronounced.
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by thomholwerda 11y ago
How is this relevant? Because country A murders people, country B may freely do so too?
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by thomholwerda 11y ago
Mandating the availability of such service information etc. to 3rd parties is entirely normal in the automotive world. Why do we always treat software and technology as some sort of super special case that should be held to different rules
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Jolla announces focus shift(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 11y ago|0 comments
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The Peculiar History of the Windows Character Map(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 11y ago|0 comments
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The more things change, the more they stay the same(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 11y ago|0 comments
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by thomholwerda 11y ago
It's about time the idea of "monopoly" is extended beyond mere market share. With the amount of mobile profits Apple is raking in (70%? 80%?) I'd argue that they have FAR more market power in mobile than all the other pl
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by thomholwerda 12y ago
The Dutch city of Willemstad is a perfect example of this. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6923818,4.4397462,1155m/data...
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by thomholwerda 12y ago
Read some neuroscience textbooks, for example, and then come back to me about how it's a "religion". This has to be one of the worst comments I've seen in ages. My god.
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by thomholwerda 12y ago
I think some supermarkets fridge their eggs, some don't here in The Netherlands. However, I have never seen anyone not fridge their eggs at home. In fact, it seems crazy gross to me to keep eggs outside of the fridge at room temper
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by thomholwerda 12y ago
Do lobbyists spend money to influence politicians? Yes? Then it's corruption. Private money - whether it be from rich people or large corporations - should have no place in politics. The vote of a poor single mother working two jobs to
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Nokia posts disappointing Lumia sales(osnews.com)
47 points by thomholwerda 13y ago|70 comments
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
> As long as they don't watch Netflix. Netflix works just fine on Linux, right? Or am I mistaken? > Or play games. Most people actually do NOT play the big Windows games you are referring to. They play browser-based games. Work j
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
Seeing a fervent Apple supporter cry foul over iA even though Apple does the exact same thing all the time is... Beyond belief.
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Android 'Sooner' prototype dropped "well before the iPhone announcement"(osnews.com)
1 points by thomholwerda 13y ago|0 comments
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
You have to click one link on the front page to a short summary of what Jolla is. One link. One. Of, you can just scroll down. That's it.
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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone(osnews.com)
1036 points by thomholwerda 13y ago|261 comments
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
Except that the ITC ruled that Samsung in fact did NOT fail its FRAND obligations. Please read the original ruling before spreading things that simply are not true. On top of that, the ITC raised considerable doubt about whether or not the
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Regarding the ITC's exclusion order against Apple(osnews.com)
18 points by thomholwerda 13y ago|4 comments
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
...seriously? You do understand that this choice that you speak of is simply a strength of the Android platform? You can't just push that aside just to maintain your own world view. Android is the most popular mobile operating system right
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
No, you shouldn't. Ever wonder why Palm succeeded where Newton and other failed? It's because Palm used a standardised, single-stroke learned script, whereas its competitors used full natural handwriting recognition that sucked balls. Glass
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by thomholwerda 13y ago
The cold and harsh truth nobody is willing to put out there: if Apple and Microsoft may abuse vague software patents, why shouldn't Lodsys? Monkey see, monkey do. You are either against software patents, or you're not. You can't cherry-pick

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