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  • Tower of Babel

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  • "Employees speak new languages." Is what translate gives me, but I would translate it more as "The ones working speak new languages" or "Those who have employment speak new languages". I still dont get the meme though, so the context might matter more and my translation could be off

  • The Microsoft-Dilemma: Europe as a Software Colony | Reveals the backdoor deals Microsoft uses to maintain their monopoly, and how the conservative Gov in Munich destroyed the LiMux project.

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  • Very interesting doc! Its sad how this is the state of things, but something must be done. I hope with the news weve been receiving from Germany recently that this will change long term, and not just for the current government. Hopefully it will snowball and have a ripple effect on other EU countries.

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    JUST TODAY I was going to buy WinRar. I've used the software forever, for free, and I just thought... I appreciate this, they've never given me grief, and I'm going to pay them.

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  • As far as I remember it was so that they couldn't use it to create their own paid version. I think the dev wanted it to be free, but found this loophole. If I find the video I'll edit this comment and link it

    Edit: i was partially wrong above. Its not for the reason I thought it was, but rather as a business strategy. Individual users keep it relevant so theyre allowed to keep it for free, while businesses have to pay for the license to avoid being sued. Businesses are its main source of revenue. Here is a video explaining it. Its not the video I remember watching, but it seems to be correct.

  • Removed

    JUST TODAY I was going to buy WinRar. I've used the software forever, for free, and I just thought... I appreciate this, they've never given me grief, and I'm going to pay them.

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  • Correct me if im wrong, but I think I read/watched something a few years ago which basically explains why winrar has a free trial but never actually enforces it. It had something to do with copyright law details, and how making it a paid product extends the copyright protections on it so that corporations cant legally use the code for a longer time. Im not sure if I'm even remembering it correctly, because it was several years ago

  • Tarallo - selfhostable FOSS Trello alternative

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  • Ive been looking for something like this for a while. Ill need to try it out

  • Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

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  • To add to your analogy if i may, the firewall is kind of like a security guard or doorman at the building entrance. All mail has to go through him first and if something is addressed to a closed flat (port) he simply doesnt let it get delivered.

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  • As a helpdesk guy, this type of issue happens with microsoft office just as often. People tend to memorise where the thing they use everyday is, and any update that changes where it is or how it functions "breaks" their flow of doing their task. We as technical people tend to simply have the skills to use a search engine to find out where it moved/how to solve our problem, but they dont.

    While I havent been using libreoffice that long or as intensively as a government enployee would so I cant comment on if its the best OSS office suit for this situation, Im just happy they are starting the switch away from microsoft and CSS and finally waking up.

  • Uh..oh...

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  • I was recently made aware of the concept of "rubber ducking". Maybe thats something you were doing without realising

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Motorbike Racing Live Streaming - How to find streams?

  • manual-pairs: Neovim plugin that rethinks the concept of automatically pairing delimiters

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  • Ive been looking for an alternative auto-pair plugin, so I'll check this out. Thanks

  • [PSA] Arch Linux News: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode

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  • Thanks, ill look in there, and ignore that step if it doesn't exist, then do step 5. :)

  • [PSA] Arch Linux News: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode

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  • Could you please elaborate on the full path for the arch.conf file? I looked at /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/arch.conf and there was no initrd /amd-ucode.img (or intel-ucode.img) line, instead all I had was initrd /initramfs-linux.img

    Furthermore, for step 3 I didnt have any entry starting with ALL_microcode=

    I have yet to do step 5 fyi. Thank you

  • Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club

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  • Lord cat thanks you for your offering and expects more next week

  • The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities!

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  • Thanks, I now get it! 😊

  • The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities!

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  • Could someone explain what happened to me like im 5 please?

  • OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

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  • This seems like it could be useful info if it takes off

  • Eternity @lemdro.id
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    Mobile Notifications display wrong account

  • Messed up my fonts

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  • What is the process/commands you did to install the fonts?

  • Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects

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  • I never even got to see the interface haha

  • Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects

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  • Yea i wonder why that is. It seems to be a standard

  • Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects

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  • Basically when I was registering it had some wording like "start your free trial now" but once I got into the dashboard there was a message that cleared things up. So I have a free trial of what I assume is a higher tier of their service, which upon running out will revert me back to the Always Free tier.

  • Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects

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  • Hetzner or linode closed your account?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Wayland pros and cons?