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23 days ago“but I like Windows”
I can’t imagine any better reason to use Windows than that.
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Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?
Not necessarily. It’s reasonably easy to keep long lists of known IP address ranges of known VPN providers and block access to these, but VPN traffic to a not well known IP address is generally impossible to distinguish from perfectly legal encrypted traffic such as a VPN connection to a corporate intranet. (There are also VPN protocols that are made deliberately hard to identify at all.)
4·2 months agoOne part of my full time job these past fifteen plus years has been to help maintain a foundational open source library that my employer and many many others are dependent on.
When it comes to total impact of open source work, I’m unlikely to ever surpass that.
Commodore’s bankruptcy in 1994 was the end of the Amiga, which forced me to switch to something else.
At the time, the choice of hardware I could afford and operating systems that didn’t suck was extremely limited, a PC with Linux was pretty much the only practical choice and I’ve stuck with that ever since.
19·2 months agoGreetings from Switzerland! First of all, I’d like to complain that the Swiss flag in the image is incorrect, the correct Swiss flag is a perfect square. Then I can attest that the diagram almost certainly shows the effect of causation.
I’m still using good ol’ Xournal. It isn’t really particularly good (and I’d be happy to find something better), but I’ve been using it since forever and the force of habit is strong.
Well, sure, but Freedman only joined several years and editions after my copy of the book was printed so I only learned about him today and in my mind the book is still just University Physics by Young, sorry about that.
Have you read University Physics by Young?
One obvious use-case is to cause the file to get a new timestamp, which for example tools like make look at.
No, it isn’t, x writes only when changes have been made, while w writes unconditionally.
I’ve had Linux on my work desktop for the past twenty years.
You had me scared there for a moment, but the Syncthing people are dependable and support hasn’t been dropped, it’s just the prebuilt binaries that no longer will be provided.
[…] just as convenient and beginner-friendly as what Apple provides?
There’s a reason why Apple is able to charge so much money for that — and that reason is that the answer to your question is no.
I switched from vi to vim in 1994 and found it immediately obvious how to quit — it was just like vi!
I guess I’ll never understand these memes.
Slackware, of course, but when Debian was first released two years later I obviously switched (and it’s been Debian since then).
1·8 months agoEven more real scenario: The first real visitor isn’t even a customer but a bored teenager who says nothing at all and instead takes a piss on the floor. (Anyone who ever published anything on the internet knows this scenario.)
I still can’t imagine any better reason.