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9fb29947on Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory

I like how 10 years passes between comment 4 and 6 in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77999#c4

9fb29947on iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake

It's an increase.

Cool. I doubt those intrusive marketing emails will ever include that header though.

9fb29947on Lenovo collects usage data on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

Why does OEM versions of Windows even exist in the first place? How is a bloated, crapwared system ever going to be a better user experience than a clean install?

9fb29947on Classroom for GitHub

They should join forces with Khan Academy.

9fb29947on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy [pdf] (2001)

> Division [in the UNIX community] leads to wasted effort and political infighting, limiting the success.

Very true. Why do we need to have so many divisions, when we're all more or less wanting to make the same thing?

9fb29947on Unhackable Kernel?

There is no such thing as an unhackable system.

9fb29947on Let's talk about iMessage again

>> Apple controls iPhones. They have root access, you don't.

>> It's like speculating about the owners of an Internet café implementing a TLS MITM attack in their own network's router

This is also just another speculation. We can't know because it's closed source.

9fb29947on Let's talk about iMessage again

> Also, I thought the consensus was that Apple was 'backdooring' iMessage by giving LE access to iCloud backups which include iMessage, not compromising iMessage directly?

Can you please expand on this? How would access to iCloud backup not compromise iMessage?

9fb29947on System XVI: A replacement for systemd

Can we please stop making Linux as a thing about choice[1] and stop fragmenting the community in the name of following a UNIX philosophy, the rule of KISS or some other nonsense? Are we really going to spend lots of energy the next n years discussing the best init system? Isn't this a pretty simple and solved problem by now?

[1] http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/

9fb29947on Restoration of First Edition Unix Kernel Sources

My eyes!

https://github.com/c3x04/Unix-1st-Edition-jun72/blob/master/...

9fb29947on What is code?

  $ md5 <<< code
  7844a93ad4b97169834dade975b5beff

9fb29947on Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video

Why isn't Apple in this alliance?