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delirious_owl

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  • TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood

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  • Thats not a farm house. Its just a house.

  • TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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  • Wait till you learn the history of the national guard

    (Spoiler: they were thugs hired by robber barrons used to murder striking workers)

  • What OSS tools do you use for personal knowledge & task management?

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  • Zim

    Its amazing. I keep my whole life in there. Also has tons of plugins that probably meet your tasks needs.

    I store it in an a encrypted luks volume that I upload to the cloud, so its zero knowledge on all the clouds.

  • Vegas Police Union: Facial Recognition For Thee, But Not For We

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  • No, they're public servants

  • Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds

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  • I get that its abnormal for me to open twenty tabs for a bunch of products and a bunch of different queries simultaneously. That's just being good at computers, and it should be encouraged.

    Don't ban people who are abnormal. Machine learning anomaly detection is making the internet unusable.

  • Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds

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  • "You're trying to be efficient and you use a computer too well, you must be a bot! You're banned."

    My experience every time I try to use most ecommerce sites like amazon

  • Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds

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  • There's no way your internet is faster than the server's (in most cases)

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • Ah right, useless.

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • That never works for me on Android systems. It probably needs some shitty Google service.

    You have a right to privacy. Its your school. They work for you.

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  • You don't so it to protect you. You do it to protect others. Your encrypted content could be a list of sources for a journalist. Or email correspondents.

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • My control key was broken, but I found that when I used an app and held down the space bar key, the CPU would get abnormally hot.

    So I wrote an Emacs interrupt to interpret a rapid CPU rise as "press the control button".

    Unfortunately the dev pushed an update that broke space bar heating, which broke my workflow. I opened a bug report about it, though...

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • I need this

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • Wow, Lotta smart people here doin some.hacky shit

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • Is there such a thing as a windows docker image that doesn't run Linux on Windows?

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • Open a bug report with the school network admkn. This is default android behavior and a privacy issue to boot

  • TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones.

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  • Yes, but boys like to play with girls. Checkmate.

  • Signed up for Equifax to freeze my credit, password can not be longer than 20 characters

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  • Wut. Is the competition not enough data for you? This is how we got AES.

    Can you name a single popular language where Argon2 isn't implemented in a stamdard library?

  • European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects

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  • Isn't this why all the Foss licsenses waive all liability?

    I think you're talking about hosting, not code

  • How do i convince my brother privacy is important?

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  • Post his social security number online, next to a scan of his photo ID. He'll realize the importance of privacy in a few months.