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Comment · 1 year ago
Only in English.
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps because they is plural. Plural is reserved for the royal family in some cultures.
Comment · 1 year ago
There exists makefiles that don't allow DESTDIR, as in

  mkdir derp
  gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp
Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(
Comment · 1 year ago
That was almost never the case. We just didn't know any better
Comment · 1 year ago
I've replaced all my GPT disklabels with Sun disklabels because I refuse to let them talk.

UEFI still boots. Spec said it can boot from fat in an eltorito floppy image and sun disklabels sit in the second or so sector. Spec also said it abstracts the type of volume so all boot methods always work for all drives. ISO images don't use the first 4kB so it doesn't see there's disklabel at all

So now I can mount the ssd as iso9660 but there's also partitions on it of which the third spans the entire drive (of course, because that's the c partition)

Comment · 1 year ago
And ridiculously expensive
Comment · 1 year ago
Not neccesarily a guise of security, but perhaps a different means of security. E.g. securing stock investments, profits, monies, etc. Nothing is 100% secure, you can't be in the void and still call it a void, etc
Comment · 1 year ago
I bet those are just a rounding error to their profits.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it is and it doesn't just end there. It's develop and distribute binaries.

Everyone is still free to develop and distribute source code.

Comment · 1 year ago
And good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.
Comment · 1 year ago
It doesn't make sense to choose between a snake that bit you and another that bit you earlier.

If you don't want to be bitten, get out of the snake pit.

Comment · 1 year ago
Of course! Sell the disease and the cure.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yup. There's always some kind of tool anyway so why not. I mean, even if you read the logs as they come out of a screaming line printer, the tool is the thing that takes log messages and spits them out the printer port.

How hard can it be to write a log cat utility in awk?

Comment · 1 year ago
*the goverment and foreign espionage agencies

FTFY

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. That may well be enough to trash firefox all day.

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