Edward Torvalds @[email protected]
- Fav. superhero
- Sherlock Holmes
- Fav. novel genres
- Detective, Crime, Horror, Adventure
Computer nutter. Likes reading fiction.
"I carry my cloud in my back pack"
"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school & there it all happened"
"Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously"
Joined Aug 2017
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Web Standard developers are masturbating monkeys who want to *rewrite* entire OS again in *browser*
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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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$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# nvidia fuck you
blacklist nouveau
blacklist nvidia
blacklist nvidia-modeset
blacklist nvidia-uvm
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So true about software industry:
It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.
— Keith Braithwaite
The Global Oil Market Is Broken, Drowning in Crude Nobody Needs - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-29/the-global-oil-market-is-broken-drowning-in-crude-nobody-needs
Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load - https://www.khanacademy.org/donate
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Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial massacres - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/hague-court-orders-dutch-state-to-pay-out-over-colonial-massacres
A federal judge handed down a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota on Wednesday, ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act by approving federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. 🎉 
🎊
Does anybody believes that Covid-19 pandemic is cross negligence?
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For last three-and-half hours BSNL has been sending me same OTP which is valid for 10 minutes. So far I have received 34 SMSes. I only requested it twice.
It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-programming-languages-do.html
Wallabag's Android app is missing many simple features sharing and deleting articles.
So much for self hosting 😭😭😭
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Anyone interested in a streaming this weekend in which I would explain any of these topics?
- Bash scripting
- Linux Hardening
Julian Assange denied bail in UK after claiming 'high risk' of catching Covid-19 - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/26/julian-assange-denied-bail-in-uk-after-claiming-high-risk-of-catching-coronavirus
Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-defender-for-linux-is-coming-this-is-what-you-need-to-know/
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The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it at https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-exfat-filesystem-is-coming-to-linux-paragon-softwares-not-happy-about-it/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/879chtxu8q #freepost
Kill the web! Good going Apple!
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Safari 13.1 has now shipped with "full third party cookie blocking... cookies for cross-site resources are now blocked by default across the board" https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/
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I missed the bit in the Safari announcement where they said they were striking a massive blow to offline web apps 😬
"[It now erases] all local storage data for a given site if the site is not used for seven days. Basically, you go on a vacation and the data is lost..."
https://andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwas-are-hard-but-now-apple-made-them-impossible.html by @soapdog
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@p @kick @a7 @jasonl8446
> faux-academic language by people who pretend to know math.
Oh boy do I have the perfect meme for you lol. I completely agree.
> faux-academic language by people who pretend to know math.
Oh boy do I have the perfect meme for you lol. I completely agree.
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@EdwardTorvalds btw: a couple of weeks ago, the second patient *cured* from #HIV was announced... but everyone was too concerned with #Coronavirus to even notice the news reporting on this historic event 🙁
- Fav. superhero
- Sherlock Holmes
- Fav. novel genres
- Detective, Crime, Horror, Adventure
Computer nutter. Likes reading fiction.
"I carry my cloud in my back pack"
"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school & there it all happened"
"Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously"
Joined Aug 2017
