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psykovsky··on Placebo Button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFQUBQuq_E&t=102
psykovsky··on “Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things
He wasn't saying merci is yes in french, he was saying that it is indeed the french word merci they use in Bulgaria.
psykovsky··on 1337day.com domain seized by the CIA
Or so they say... My bet is on a rival, seeing they're trying to sell the site exploits.
psykovsky··on How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10
I only got it after reading your comment. Thanks.
psykovsky··on Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer
I love when it gets to the part where they ask me how to download a youtube video as mp3 and I introduce them to youtube-dl, the terminal and a bit of .bash_aliases magic to make the youtube-dl command a bit easier. Their face: priceless =)
psykovsky··on Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer
I donate my time to various open source projects, translating.
psykovsky··on How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
Wasn't it enough for your girlfriend not to drink it?
psykovsky··on Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer
That also, ofcourse. But on our own machines we can decide, and if you're like me, every computer in your house uses a flavour of Linux and you don't even think about pirated software or software licenses most of the time.
psykovsky··on Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer
You know how you make linux work? Never install pirated versions of any software on someone else's computer. When you start talking about how much they have to pay to use windows and office legally they'll change their mind and use whatever you put in there.
psykovsky··on Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine
I think they already have. take a look at [0] and the reply.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663193

psykovsky··on FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
> by surrounding our rights

I think you meant surrendering, or did you really meant encircling? Not a native speaker, just trying to get a better grasp of the language.

psykovsky··on Dear Librarian: New York Public Library's Quirkiest Inquiries

    ‘15 June, 1967, [Question:] What is the natural enemy of a duck?
   [Librarian:] What do you mean?
   [Reply:] Well, a whole flight of them landed in my pool and I have waved a broom at them but all they do is look at me and quack. I thought I could introduce the natural enemy into the pool area.’
psykovsky··on Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
Still no alt+F1 to alt+F7, right? That would be cool to have. I'm really curious, as I made the leap to Ubuntu years ago and the most I've touched windows is doing reinstalls on friends computers.
psykovsky··on Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
Which needs a full desktop environment to be used. Or am I wrong?
psykovsky··on The Agency: An army of well-paid “trolls” in St. Petersburg
The exact same way they maintain democracy and fascist dictatorships. Even though the fascists need more than propaganda to keep it up.
psykovsky··on Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says
That's the business model of VC's and Founders, not the companies. The company business model will only be established on 3, if they monetize. Selling to the bigger fool not included, ofcourse.
psykovsky··on Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says
Hola's marketing team at work.
psykovsky··on Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says
So, basically any VC backed, SV based startup?
psykovsky··on Ask HN: My free app has gone slighty viral – looking for ideas to monetize it
Another open source one: https://github.com/indywidualny/FacebookLite
psykovsky··on Show HN: Diff.io
Why do antivirus seem to be more malicious than the virus they fight?
psykovsky··on SourceForge: Third party offers will be presented with Opt-In projects only
So does WinRar and Ubuntu's Archive Manager.
psykovsky··on Section 215 Expires For Now
If a sperm tainted dress stored on a closet for a couple years can do a lot of damage, imagine a full-take database stored for a couple decades or maybe even a couple centuries.
psykovsky··on Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month
Can we just blame one person instead of an entire country?
psykovsky··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
He wanted Curtis Green dead because of Force, not despite.
psykovsky··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
I could tell you a story... that at least corroborates that statement... but you wouldn't believe me anyway.
psykovsky··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
You forgot the part where he wanted Curtis Green dead because of a theft of USD$350,000.00 in Bitcoin commited by the dirty undercover DEA agent who he then hired to murder Curtis Green.
psykovsky··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
What are those bucketloads worth when the only time you get to spend them are when you buy assassinations from dirty undercover DEA agents?
psykovsky··on The File System Paradox (2007)
God said it was the right way.
psykovsky··on Synthesising Drum Sounds with the Web Audio API
If you continue clicking on play it will play it again over the previous one. Don't go crazy clicking, lest you crash your browser. I think the correct behaviour would be to stop the previous script run and start over. No, I don't know enough javascript to fix it myself and create a pull request, in case you're wondering. ;)
psykovsky··on Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?
10 to 20 USD, most probably.
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