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delirious_owl

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  • TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability

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  • I mean doesn't it have a cargo belly of a football field?

  • Malicious Plugin in Pidgin (Chat Application)

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  • I used to use pidgin for our corporate HipChat. Pidgin was the best client for HipChat. I especially liked the psychic plugin, so I could get notified as soon as someone began composing a message to me (well before they sent the message).

    I wrote a small python script to send my phone a high-priority message alert whenever my boss began composing a message to me. This was especially useful when I was in the kitchen or doing laundry or something.

    We lost so much when these shitty corporate messaging services went so far off the XMPP spec that we couldn't use third party clients anymore

  • Malicious Plugin in Pidgin (Chat Application)

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  • Its really not hard for them to compile themselves. This is what most package managers do

  • Malicious Plugin in Pidgin (Chat Application)

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  • To be fair, if your app has its own plugin list and installler, its probably going to be vulnerable to download malicious plugins.

    I don't know of an in-app plugin installers that actually cryptographically verify signatures on downloads like apt does.

  • TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.

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  • Why? Please add it back.

  • TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.

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  • Where's the piped bot?

  • TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.

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  • He mostly punishes Eve. The first few pages are sexist as fuck

  • TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.

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  • They were Palestinian, right? It was probably a Clementine.

  • TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.

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  • It was originally designed to run on peanut oil.

  • TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.

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  • Wait till you lean how many species go extinct per year.

    We're currently in the middle of a mass extinction era, mostly caused by human industrialization

  • What are your favourite extensions?

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  • They don't. I'm telling you they don't. When I disable my ad blocker, the ads I see are not relevant to me. Many times they're not even in a language that I can speak.

    They are not tracking me between sessions. Its obvious.

    What you're saying makes sense, and its why Tor does what it does. But in practice, this works too.

  • What are your favourite extensions?

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  • Again, they can fingerprint me. Buy their fingerprint is useless because it constantly changes.

  • Companies that use desktop Linux

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  • There are no tools that you need to pay for that are not free as gratis or libre.

    But I would be OK with only charging for software that's not libre. So software thats gratis but not libre doesn't dock you, since you're contributing to something good that helps the world

  • Companies that use desktop Linux

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  • I could seeseome countries passing laws to prevent people like graphic artists from being "discriminated against" due to their software needs.

    I'm not saying it makes sense, but such laws might exist. And I want to know if they do

  • TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

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  • I never played any of those because they're not free

  • Yt-dlp is the best way to download videos and audio

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  • That's fine. Once it's out, other people can help. Or if you give up on it completely, anyone can fork it and resume development on it.

    Thanks :)

  • TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

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  • RoE RoE RoE your boat, gently down the stream

  • TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

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  • Probably the opposite. Who wants to do a job where you die the first hour on the job?

  • TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

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  • Hold the 'm' button on his laptop?!?