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>Users are well known for typing web addresses into any box available.

OTOH, such users might not be aware that their Amazon searches are collected and data-mined.

>identify a better host where PortableApps.com can get over 50TB per month for free

With those amounts of traffic for SF's larger projects I wonder how and if one could build a competing website for hosting binary FOSS today and have it be profitable without resorting to shady tactics. Clearly, making the projects themselves pay is not an option.

As for SF, even before the installer business under the current management it had really misleading banners everywhere. I doubt they would have resorted to those of they could have been comfortably profitable with AdWords.

That sounds like an outline for a problem that should be happen across all service industries that are run privately/paid by insurance companies, not just healthcare. Do we hear more about it in (American) healthcare simply because it's something the most people interact with or is it noticeably worse there? For the record, I am not American and don't know what it is like to interact personally with US healthcare.

That should be n^m where n is the number of packages and m is the number of distributions (for software that's common to all distributions).

And anyhow, perhaps it would easier get support this way since you could get each software package to run in the distro where it's the easiest and then set them up to interact over IP like they would in containers.

> Force yourself to just sit there on the command line.

That's good advice in general but instead of using the bare CLI I'd suggest that you learn about screen and tmux early on. It'll make you miss the windowing system less.

That struck me as very questionably, too. Based on personal experience and what I know about the economic state of the three countries I find it hard to believe that Ukraine is somehow doing such better psychologically.

To convey an anecdote, on several occasions I was told by fairly well-traveled people that the Eastern regions of Ukraine were the most miserable place they'd been to in Europe.

>if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter

Okay, I think I understand your position now. (Though I'm not sure if the lack of belief in objective truth is as common as you claim.) Sorry be so persistent but I have to ask: suppose you do care about the nature of existence; how do you tell if it's one or the other or which one is more likely?

>that doesn't mean reality exists outside of my own experience.

I am aware of phenomenology and I've read some Merleau-Ponty. To my taste, however, the situation where an objective/"objective" scientific truth makes consistent predictions about my sensory experiences that suggest a physical outside world and another where that truth makes consistent predictions about the outside world itself, which in turn causes the sensory experiences, don't seem different in a meaningful way. Why make that distinction?

Thanks for the explanation. I thought you were running a emulator cabinet with a your own launcher and/or emulator. This is a lot more DIY and no way you could mistake it for Counter-Strike.

>I made once a Arcade game (cabinet, code, everything). And took it to Campus Party Brazil.

Sounds like an interesting project, and unusual for a DIY arcade cabinet for having custom code. Do you have a write-up about it or a public repository? I'd like to read more about it.

As for

>"Some dude brought this illegal counter-strike server disguised as arcade game."

that's a pretty absurd claim. Did your machine run any arcade games that vaguely similar to Counter-Strike (like VirtuaCop 2)? That's the only way I can think of a person who knows nothing about video games could come up with that idea without simply lying.

Edit: Are anti-gamer hit pieces common in Brazilian media?

Thanks for your insight. I'm genuinely surprised if I did come off as being against both sides. I thought my comment was obviously pro-rationalist (my reasoning being that a deliberately rational person would recognize the importance of one's emotional state and use rational thought to improve it). I may have inadvertently stumbled upon a trolling strategy: in what appears to be a binary choice don't be recognizably for either.

I was also apparently too sleepy to call parentheses by their name.

There is mathematics and physics, at least. A lot of arguing can be, and has been, had here but it's largely arguing about definitions; you cannot deny that they allow you to obtain the "truth" in the sense that that truth can be used to predict and affect what happens in the real world as far as your senses can best tell you. There's no arguing away fire or public key encryption.

There's a good deal of middle ground between the self-evident

>We are not merely rational creatures we are also feeling creatures

and a thought-terminating cliche like

>Objectivity doesn't exist.

The latter doesn't seem like a helpful response to someone who is apparently asking for scientific evidence for long working hours and/or overtime doing harm to you. If anything, knowing what science says on the matter is emotionally important as it could either (if the possibility of permanent harm is limited) provide some relief to or (otherwise) justify the indignation of a person currently doing overtime and unhappy about it (and hopefully lead to action on their part). Both scenarios seem desirable to me.

Edit: Could you explain the downvotes? In case it sounded dismissive I changed "thought-stopper" to the more formal "thought-terminating cliche" above and added the ellipses for clarity.

If you liked Jonathan Blow's lectures make sure to check out Chris Crawford's. A number of them are on his channel on YouTube. Crawford was more or less the first game developer to combine practical work with academic study of game design (and he's wrote the first-ever book on it). Your might know him as the developer of Balance of the Planet and the founder of the GDC; the latter he then left after the famous "Dragon speech", which is probably the first thing of his you should look up.

> I can start Firefox in Lightdm without beeing logged in. Just add an event then Evolution starts up. Let's you also happily sends Mail through the lightdm user.

That's pretty darn bad. You have reported this, right?

What command can you use in a pipe chain to fully read the input until EOF before passing it on? I'm not a big fan of piping to the shell but such a command could be useful for network applications in general.

Can you give us a link?

Time when you can fiddle with cards and write down cryptic series of numbers without attracting undue attention is probably scarce.

On the other hand a substitution cipher is more resistant to user error when encrypting or decrypting since such an error only affects a single character. In secret prison communication you might not have the time to double-check your encryption.

I wonder if imprisoned gang members have access to cell phones, though. They probably do. You could run actual strong crypto even on a J2ME device (or a gaming console, or a programmable calculator, or an MP3 player etc.) and I'm sure there's plenty of people you could hire to write a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind bespoke cryptographic app for a gang.

"Interesting preservation" should read "interesting presentation".

The webpage is difficult to view in the Android Browser (though not Opera Mini) due to the overlay at the bottom.

http://m.imgur.com/9eOKqJZ

On that note, at what resolution, if any, do embedded code snippets from GitHub and the like stop getting get cut off on the mobile? At 800x480 they get cut off even in landscape mode.

Intentionally or not, your comment seems to stereotype "those actually using Linux" as unable to appreciate the value of the time and effort saved by a prepackaged solution. While that certainly happens (and is more common in the Linux community than in many others) it is not universal. The popularity of Linux distributions like RHEL and Ubuntu among developers and IT people speaks to that.

Interesting preservation. I also couldn't help but notice that the slides themselves were beautiful. I wonder if they were generated using a recent version of, e.g., Microsoft Office (the fonts look like those used in Modern UI) or if there's a beamer theme that looks like that. If there is one, do tell.

I found your blog post insightful. Consider submitting it as a story on HN.

Has any of your friends run into the problem of the expected privacy of their photos being compromised and the photos reposted elsewhere?

I agree with the sentiment of your post, however, I'm not sure if for the kind of user who would put a root:root shell on port 24601 the alternative in the absence of the article [2] wouldn't be putting the same shell on port 22. The former at least has a better chance to stay uncompromised until somebody comes in to fix it.

Edit: I also wonder if a passwordless root Telnet would last longer. :-)

This is a very valid point and a good reason to choose a port in the privileged range if you use an alternative port for SSH. I wonder, though, what is the worst it can do if you don't use password authentication? E.g., to offer you a fake shell and try to capture your sudo password a rogue daemon would have to have access to your public key, which as an unprivileged user it shouldn't.

That's generally the solution to the problem of accessing the Web on old PCs: request the mobile version of the website. Heck, with enough trickery you can even get Opera Mini to run.

> An important property of corporations is that they are always resolvable to a natural person

To play up the SF angle a bit, this might change when lobbyists start accepting Bitcoin.

Perhaps you could do consensus checking retrospectively? I.e., out of N supposedly identical servers a random one gets to make any given decision in real time but then a separate system goes back and compares all servers' results and stops their operation if there's divergence?

The title of your website still says "The Price Guide for Everything". Are you going to change it?