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We are a generation raised without parents, an upgrade from generation raised without father.

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Why Google will never kill Mozilla Firefox, but will keep it alive to be a second *choice*

On May 18 1998, US Dept. of Justice filled anti-trust law suit against Microsoft alleging anti-competitive measures in browser market.

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Edward Torvalds  

Web Standard developers are masturbating monkeys who want to *rewrite* entire OS again in *browser*

github.com/addyosmani/native-m

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Edward Torvalds  

Hong Kong's fight against China for freedom indicates that people prefer Western type systematic-censorship over China's obvious-censorship

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Tactical Tech ✅  

Scammers scamming the scammers bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz98f

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Edward Torvalds  

Being in market means keep creating bullshit.

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Lot of people have tried and failed to rule the entire world at once. But in 21st century, bunch of people have succeed. Very ambitious I must say. 👏

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Drew DeVault  

OpenSSL docs: here's a pile of hundreds of functions, some of which do what you want to do, several of which will silently break your application security, and zero code samples

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Linux  

Finally!

Video playback's hardware acceleration VA-API / FFmpeg enabled by default on Linux!

Other new features:

* If you really need such - the ability to save, manage, and auto-fill credit card information

* Form filling support for PDF documents

* Improved picture-in-picture discoverability

* More accessible audio and video controls for screen reader users

* Improved video conferencing with Jitsi

==> 9to5linux.com/firefox-81-is-no
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#firefox #browsers #linux #vaapi #ffmpeg #ubuntu #pdf

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Edward Torvalds  

TypeScript is a failure. Even in projects using TypeScript I see errors like 'length of undefined', etc.

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ultem  
Ah, I understand everything now
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F0h  

The more I age the less sympathetic I am about absolute opinions and ideals, even towards those that I used to embrace.

The world is a complex place and things are seldom absolutely right or wrong, good or bad.

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Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums - Briar
briarproject.org/

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Drew DeVault  

The unrealized potential of federation

drewdevault.com/2020/09/20/The

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sankarshan  

Unlock and the Puja season is going to be a dicey situation. Had gone out yesterday and forget 'masks on chin' folks aren't wearing masks at all. Retail outlets at malls like South City Kolkata don't gate check for masks or even temperature checks.

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Cloudflare Evil 🐱  
systemd-goodnightd
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Katzeilla  

Copyleft and the
GNU General Public License:
A Comprehensive Tutorial
and Guide

copyleft.org/guide/

I wish I got enough time to read this.

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Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

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prx  
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🔗 Show Notes Links  

'Rogue' Chinese Virologist Joins Twitter, Publishes "Smoking Gun" Evidence COVID-19 Created In Lab | Zero Hedge

zerohedge.com/medical/rogue-ch

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LinuxReviews  

Video: Why peer to peer DMA is so very hard to do on Linux.
linuxreviews.org/Peer_To_Peer_

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🔗 Show Notes Links  

''I Have Blood On My Hands'': A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation

buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/craig

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Google puts so much money in building Web interface of Gmail. They don't want you to use a native client, which can be totally ad-free.

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