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Just curious, is anyone else hearing popping sounds when they click on various things? Unsure if its intentional, and if so, trying to emulate an old hard disk seeking or speakers popping from interference.

Otherwise, kudos to the devs for creating this amazing work of art!

A quick setup script for raspbian: http://www.pivpn.io/

First off, I'd like to thank all the developers who have put their time and effort into building this amazing piece of software.

I have been curious: if ReactOS aims to be binary compatible with windows, does this mean it succeptible to windows malware infections? I understand that despite having a similar API, the ReactOS implementation different from microsoft's implementation, so a vulnerability on Windows won't necessarily be present in ReactOS, but let's say a user infects themselves through a malicious word doc macro that downloads a windows malware exe or dll, can that still cause harm to a reactOS system? Or is some sort of sandbox in place to prevent such attacks?

Authenticator by Matt Rubin https://appsto.re/us/ChQQT.i

Open source, lightweight, extremely small app size

Same here!

I use mpv or mplayer installed through brew.

Perhaps this might do the trick?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gmd3HGA...

One app that keeps my faith in native binary apps is Telegram. Its iOS app is usually around 40MB and keeps compatibility with old iOS versions down to iOS 6 (as of v3.18). The desktop Qt app is also around 40MB uncompressed. On iOS, from using the app, most of the controls seem to be native and it uses minimal custom font/image resources and outside of the code to draw Qt widgets, it seems to be a similar situation on Windows. On macOS, the native (non-Qt) app clocks in at 15MB [0], which was recently re-written in Swift, likely also using mostly APIs native to the OS. Of course, not every developer has time to devote to craft such customized software to each platform, but in these cases Telegram does restore my faith that highly-efficient binaries can be built for desktop apps in 2017.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telegram/id747648890

>The article has that Jews Run the World Through Secret Organizations smell.

Exactly, and I don't like it! I too was quite surprised it came from politico of all sources.

Similar comments on the article here: https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/10/needs-alt-right-conspir...

I agree. Just because two people may both come from a similar religious denomination or donate to the same organization does not mean that organization is privy to potentially nefarious collaboration among parties. In addition, I agree this article appears to draw a conclusion that Chabad-Lubavitch is the nexus of a Trump-Russia connection, but fails to prove anything other than both Trump's family and many with potential ties to Putin all independently support the organization. It is also worth noting that the late Lubavitcher rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, promoted the opening of synagogues to support the diaspora of Jews where they live. In many places, a Chabad synagogue may be the only Jewish organization for miles, and especially in places like Russia. Today, they form the backbone of synagogues in Russia due to them daring to support Judaism dating back to underground work during the Soviet era. For this reason, Chabad is the movement many Russian Jews choose to support.

$500+ iPhone 5 (2012) user checking in here, currently into the 5th year of updating to the latest (most patched) OS version. I wish android had something like this.

Great comment. What you are saying is spot on. I had a 2009 17" Toshiba satellite dual-core I upgraded ~1.5 years ago to another Toshiba Satelite 17" with a quad-core haswell chip. Now my mom is looking to upgrade her aging 2010 Gateway 17" dual-core machine but for Intel's latest lineup, most i7 laptop CPUs are only dual-core and only a slight clock speed bump above the i5 models. I guess they felt quad-core mobile CPUs consume too much power for laptops but still, since they were able to do it a couple years ago, why have we taken a step backward?

She also is a happy owner of a non-retina iPad mini which is still chugging along.

In my area, there were tons of mortgage companies going under left and right back then. Definately lots of people lost their jobs but the glut of cheap office furniture allowed my dad's cost-conscious company consistently upgrade for a while. Since they were a descent-sized firm, buying a lot of chairs or monitors was easy but I wonder how often for someone like myself interested in just a single desk or chair could compete with someone interested in buying a lot.

I heard a similar explanation from a rabbi just a few days ago. Quite interesting and thanks for sharing.

This is another python 2 fork that reading this reminded me of: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

Academic institutions truly keep the spirit of the old web alive!

Also, have fun trying to use your "high-speed"data connection in buildings with terrible reception. Disclaimer: I've worked in many of these

For Firefox users and vim fans: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimfx/

It's a difficult part of recent history that is important to be known and understood.

I noticed the first marketplace link refers to a freely available textbook on openstax (https://openstax.org/). What is the advantage for me as a student or professor accessing this content through your site when I can download a PDF directly from the source (the openstax site)?

I am always amazed by this history. And by how one's Jewish identity could have been lost should an ancestor have decided to assimilate during a difficult point in history. Quite amazing stuff! Thanks for sharing!

The ability for a "light" HTML only mode would be greatly appreciated

60 minutes produced a segment about him. Here is the transcript: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-kgb-spy-jack-barsky-steve...

Another alternative (specific to the pi): http://www.pivpn.io

This is definately something I need to look into. Not only would I be able to produce install images but also would have the chance to learn more about what goes into making that ISO file I take for granted. Thanks for posting!

I completely agree with you on the pleasure of using such a well-crafted machine. From the keyboard, to the connectivity, to the overall build-quality and the way in which the designers thought out so many things so well, it makes me sad that that I cannot just swap out its socketed (yes socketed!) single-core processor for something more modern.

You make a good point- I too have been an open-source consumer. Yea I have filed a few bug reports, helped some people experience Linux or switch from IE6 to Firefox, but have not contributed much to these projects time- or money-wise. With things like the Linux kernel, that are suported by the likes of Red Hat and SUSE (which are in turn supported by big businesses), I am not too concerned about their survival. But after reading about the GPG maintainer and now the GNU Octave maintainer being forced to stop their their generous contributions, I realize perhaps I need to be doing more as a user for open-source things I care about being around in the future.

Thanks for your post (and tl;dr comment too - I need to work on being more concise :-). I own no Quark powered boards but have some friends who do. It's a shame that they fall into the category of boards with poor software support (and even more of a shame since they are based off the Intel architecture). I own a few raspberry pi's and have been extremely pleased that even my rPi model B+ from 2012 still gets support and updates (and hopefully will for a while longer now that the rPi zero exists with similar hardware). Friends would brag about the faster or cheaper O-droid, Pine-64 or Banana-pi, but with dismal software support, I couldn't justify even a descent performance boost. This reminds me of the little I know of the Android ecosystem, where a tablet I bought in 2013 is still stuck on Jelly Bean, while my 2012 iPhone 5 still gets updates. I wish there was some sort of regulatory label put on these devices (or boards) that would clearly state how many years of support they would commit to.

This is great news! Thanks for posting! I will definately keep an eye on this.

It is a shame that many major Linux distributions are dropping 32-bit x86 support. I used to be able to say with confidence that the old laptop or PC in your garage can run any major Linux distribution, breathing new life into aging hardware. For example, I have an old ThinkPad T42, which I use to test out new Linux distros, which incidentally, is currently running Arch. Using older hardware increases the chances that stable drivers will be available. I put in the CD (or flash drive), boot up, and everything seems to just work(tm). Its no speed demon, but its usable. But now with Arch dropping support for a significant amount of commonly available and being a major, top-level distribution, I feel I now must make specific recommendations for Linux newcomers to try rather then have them waste time downloading a large ISO, transferring it to a flash drive or disc, to find they are unable to boot up with it. This may cause users to give up before even giving Linux or open source software an honest try.

Also, I wonder what this means for the Intel Quark SoC (found in Intel Edison and Intel Galileo boards). Does this mean Arch Linux wont be an option for these devices?

Despite RHEL 7/CentOS 7 not supporting 32-bit x86, there is now a community-led effort to port it to 32-bit x86. I wonder if Arch would consider doing the same (supporting 32-bit x86 as an alternative architecture).

I do similarly and also print out barcodes/recovery keys and put them in a safe place in case all else fails. Echoing some wise words from this post [1], insure your backup solution can be restored. I tend to test the QR code on my primary phone, print out a few copies for safe keeping, and then read the QR code from the printout into Ng backup phone.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13551905