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Comment · 3 years ago
> I could write a long essay on why we're not on the verge of expanding beyond our home planet

The reason that essay would be long is because you'd have to explain away so much progress from multiple independently operating space industries.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
After a lot of consideration, I went with Corral over NAS4Free because the former offered the (FreeBSD native) Bhyve hypervisor for VM's whereas NAS4Free has an integrated Virtualbox instance.

After yet another issue with basic functionality in the Corral release - and reading about even worse experiences on the forums, I decided I couldn't trust this product with the most crucial role in my environment and installed NAS4Free instead.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
The article mentions WhatsApp multiple times as a service that successfully made the transition to end-to-end encryption, but it always seemed to me that this claim is rather meaningless when we don't have the possibility of auditing their source code.
Comment · 9 years ago
Nothing special going on here; my syntax is based on me not knowing the particulars of `&`. I'll try to remember using yours in the future as it's more elegant. Thanks for the reply.
Comment · 9 years ago
This way a malicious user with physical access to your machine can easily get around your locked desktop by switching to tty1. It would be better to fork the xinit proces to the background and exit the tty after:

  echo 'xcompmgr &\nexec cwm' > ~/.xinitrc && xinit & && exit

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