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LinuxBender

57,650karma·19,241submissions·June 16, 2015
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I am not for everyone. To ignore me in uBlock Origin, add to "My filters":

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For HN usage questions see https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for HN tips (not my repo)

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Archive [1] [1] - https://archive.is/xiSwL
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I just watched Real Genius the other day. It's one of my favorite Val Kilmer movies. Another one that seems to be forgotten was Red Planet [1] I would like to see the robot dog developers make …
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Rather than wholesale banning of advertisements I would like to see existing laws actually enforced and judges using existing wiggle-room to make examples of businesses that use deceptive advertising,…
1y ago·view thread
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Good luck Tom. I do not envy the people that take on the work required to moderate this site while remaining unbiased and I am glad you are ready for the challenge. I am sure you will do a fantastic…
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Thankyou I will research that one.
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True and even a SCIF is not foolproof. From the 50's to the 90's the US and Soviet military played a lot of fun games one of which included typing up a classified document in a SCIF and the…
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To your point the incident I described took several windows admins a while to find the USB prank. They thought we had a live extortion hack in progress and that was about the time they called me into…
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I wholeheartedly disagree. Same. There are plenty of example configurations for less technical people to stand up their own server. As a bonus they can learn from it with time and also help family…
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Archive [1] [1] - https://archive.is/goUMo
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I know this does not answer your question but you can change any of the colors with uBlock filters. I can share mine but I must add the disclaimer it might make your eyes bleed. Adjust the colors b…
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Oh trust me I know. This was CBRE and they are cantankerous and contentious on good days.
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No, it's not at all an April Fools' Joke or anything along those lines... An Intel open-source engineer just posted the patch series entitled "hide the disgusting turds" for the L…
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I was referring to "all these years" as in happening all the time, not that it has never occurred. The US has always requested permission to enter the Mexican air space. The CIA operated …
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