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byjoaommp
2026 @03:07PM
(#65906431)
Attached to: GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
"standard"...
Having the middle click paste is incredibly handy and practical. When I started using Linux almost 30 years ago (rocking Afterstep as desktop) I found it strange. Now it's hard to live without it. It improves your productivity a lot.
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byjoaommp
2025 @07:45AM
(#65889913)
Attached to: Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025
They do and it's well known, as well as being the beach head to influence freedesktop.org
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byjoaommp
2025 @07:38AM
(#65841021)
Attached to: New Jolla Phone Now Available for Pre-Order as an Independent Linux Phone
The N9 is, IMHO, the best phone I've ever had. I miss it dearly. It was destroyed by the Nokia authorized repair center when doing routine maintenance under warranty.
That phone was way ahead of its time in features (twice ahead compared with the iPhone, which only matched its features over five years later). And its performance compared with the flagship Android phones at the time (all with double the cores and double the RAM) was unparalleled.
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byjoaommp
2025 @06:51AM
(#65632306)
Attached to: Water Menus Gain Traction as Restaurants Seek Non-Alcoholic Revenue Streams
Vidago, Pedras Salgadas, Vitalis and MelgaÃo are all from the same company (Unicer / Super Bock Group - yes, the beer one), different springs around the country (wife's deployef there doing IT work). They're all quite good. Some undergo treatment before bottling to remove excess iron content (MelgaÃo and Pedras at least). Pedras even has some delicious flavoured editions (lemon, tangerine, red fruits, passion fruit and pineapple). But the prices are *nowhere* near the article. A pack of four 0.25L bottles of flavoured Pedras is 2.19â (close to the same on dollars). And Vidago around 1.75 for a pack of the plain carbonated water.
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byjoaommp
2025 @02:34PM
(#65201885)
Attached to: Mozilla's Updated ToS: We Own All Info You Put Into Firefox
Those still fall under the categorias I mentioned
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byjoaommp
2025 @11:06AM
(#65201235)
Attached to: Mozilla's Updated ToS: We Own All Info You Put Into Firefox
I'm like "what the hell, Mozilla???"
But then, which non-Blink/Chromium/WebKit browser wiki I use?
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byjoaommp
024 @03:26AM
(#64369164)
Attached to: Rust Developers at Google Twice as Productive as C++ Teams
Not only that, some of the stuff they already did it before in C++ so now it's just a conversion, most of the logic, which takes considerable time to think of, had already been gone through before, artificially inflating the perception that C++ takes that much more effort. I'd argue the same thing would happen if it was the other way around. In fact I frequentou prototype stuff in a simpler language A before implementing the final product in the final language B (I have specific language combinations for each problem domain and final language requirements).
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byjoaommp
021 @09:57AM
(#61724763)
Attached to: Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares To Block Insecure Downloads
Actually, there are lots of reasons. Not all material needs to be encrypted, because not all material is privacy sensitive. Which means, the only thing left to deal with is tampering.
A better alternative than blocking it altogether - because that mostly renders transparent proxies useless - is to force links to HTTP content in HTTPS transferred sites to be accompanied by a new attribute in the anchor tag with a file signature (or a link to an also HTTPS-only file containing the signatures) that could be checked by the receiver. That way, no matter where the content came from, if the signature matched, the content would be the original. We have tried to push that idea. And yes, we know there are some caveats.
This is important because the performance of HTTPS compared with HTTP, excluding any proxies, is substantially different. In tests we made, a RPi4 could easily reach 10000 transfers/second in HTTP, but only ~250 transfers/second HTTPS (local network file, overprovisioned testing endpoint, same file for HTTP and HTTPS).
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byjoaommp
18 @09:25PM
(#56836026)
Attached to: Atari Accuses Journalists of Making Stuff Up So They Produce Recordings of the Interview
Actually, El Reg has been around since 1998. That makes it 20 years old, not 14.
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byjoaommp
2017 @09:07PM
(#55073157)
Attached to: Microsoft<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET Core 2.0 For Linux Released; Redhat Will Bundle Microsoft's<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET
You clearly haven't used Gnome 3.
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byjoaommp
2017 @05:33PM
(#53650619)
Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
I was establishing a comparison between the two. If you KNOWINGLY had something on your computer you know you shouldn't have and send it to repair, you're incurring in the same risks. I can't imagine someone as a surgeon not having even the slightest hint that such a thing might happen if he had something to hide.
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byjoaommp
2017 @05:00PM
(#53650413)
Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
If you give your keys to a contractor for him to perform some work in your house, don't you have the common sense to predict that if he's there alone, he might be doing more than just the work he was supposed to like browsing through your stuff including your garbage?
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byjoaommp
2017 @03:35PM
(#53649939)
Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
Not using Windows and I always turn off predictive caching. Furthermore, my webbrowsing ecosystem is very limited to about two dozens very specific sites.
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byjoaommp
2017 @12:14AM
(#53646233)
Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
Yes I have. Almost daily, actually. And I'm not talking about mission-critical knowledge in all else. I'm talking about pure and simple common sense.
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byjoaommp
2017 @12:05AM
(#53646217)
Attached to: Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
or just someone who downloaded some file expecting it to be something else and deleted it immediately... hence it being in the trash.
Stories of people downloading stuff, either by direct download or P2P and ending up with something different aren't all that rare.
Which is why if you do accidentally download something like that, you must clear your cache, empty the recycle bin and repeatedly overwrite all the free space on your disk.
Yes, because everyone knows how to do that. And of course, the commands to perform those actions are so easily available...
would a person smart enough to be a surgeon be dumb enough to send the computer for repair with a third party knowing it had child pornography inside?
Emphatically YES! Smarts in one narrow field doesn't guarantee smarts in every field: John Podesta is a Smart Guy, but he was stupid enough to fall for a phishing attack.
It's not a "field", it's common sense. He doesn't need to be an IT expert to know that he's taking chances if he sends a knowingly tainted computer for repair. It's just pure common sense, nothing else.
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