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> Are there good alternatives to generate PDFs server-side? pandoc is suitable for this.

One does not simply 'force memes' or 'make memes'. - The Internet

Netflix used to be open to accepting very controversial documentaries in the past. Any new developments on such documentaries already released on the platform and they start to sneakily take them down…

Well, Twitter was seen as a failure in 2009 compared to Facebook at the time. What constitutes to mass adoption is if several so-called 'influencers' try it out and if they make more money o…

More like Half-Life 1/3 confirmed.

> TikTok poses a major threat to Facebook and Instagram in particular. Billions of downloads doesn't tell you if 'something is growing' it's the Daily Active Users. Ask them how…

Ideally I would prefer a SmartWatch that has AsteroidOS [0] preinstalled that on the software-level is free from Google. Such a watch might be very difficult to obtain. Even by flashing existing Andro…

Looks to me that as our technology evolves, some other people's understanding of it becomes increasing limited, as evidently shown in the article.

While you are correct, the BBC are 'really trying' their best to explain this disaster to the average John and Jane. But again they are still in the middle-ages when it comes to mentioning t…

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo... …

TLDR: Yes.

So it seems that the "Open MIPS" initiative is no more, thus joining ARM as a disqualifed 'open architecture contender' to RISC-V. PowerPC is also open but it isn't really app…

> Cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure) only make sense for smoothing out unusual/seasonal peaks, or support rapid growth. If you are 100% cloud based, you’re throwing away large money ever…

> I question - why am I really doing this? Honestly, I don't blame you for asking this as I also ask myself the same question every-time I use a Linux distro. Even as a software developer, I j…

This is spot on. The problematic nature of the Linux desktop is due to the inability to have a standardised and integrated desktop experience but instead its community goes for an ecosystem of having …

The World's oldest person of (2015).

The example of the failure of BeOS here is still a lesson for Linux to actually be a viable desktop contender in terms of a integrated and a consistent desktop for its users. Be Inc was just one of ma…

The philosophy of Haiku sounds like a goal that what Linux should have been for the desktop. Unfortunately the distro ecosystem has riddled it with endless pitstops of issues, competition of similar t…

Well BT is available in all areas in the UK except for Kingston-Upon-Hull which has it's own broadband provider called KCOM which is enjoys a complete monopoly in the area with the city having fi…

> so IMO using bitcoing for the PornHub is not a general solution and people that promote it without mentioning the anonymity problem are making a disservice. Well this is exactly why I said "…

> I've looked into it months ago and it seems that there are a lot of breaking changes on every release and this scares me from using it. Don't worry, as soon as Auntie Apple, Uncle Uber …

> I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Well I don't want my Google account to be associated with the videos I watch. Nor do I want…

> Cryptocoins aren't practical enough (yet?) to rely on completely for stuff like this. Really? I can understand "Bitcoin" as one of many cryptocurrencies that are unstable and very …

> A chilling effect on free speech. Real alternatives to paypal and credit cards need to enter the market. This would have been a huge problem in 2012, Now there are realistic solutions to avoid th…

Here we go again. This is what happens when you enforce a policy such as a CoC and if one person attempts to step out of line they are arrested on the suspicion of wrong-think. If that wasn't ins…

> You need to have these cutting-edge learning tools to help kids really achieve their best results. Oh dear. This sounds like a scathing attack towards people who want to save money on a cheap com…

Goals: Host all OpenJDK Git repositories at https://github.com/openjdk/. First, LLVM and now OpenJDK? I would be happier if this was creating an official mirror but n…

Well if you look at the "cross-platform" support compared to the other languages such as Go and Rust, Swift is quite poor at this: Apart from Linux, platforms such as Windows, FreeBSD, WASM,…

The internet's own proverb still applies: Do not believe everything you see on the internet. Especially so called 'news' on social media.