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w0rm··on GNU social and GNU FM
It's only a guess, but I think some OSS projects are more often "based" in Europe as we do not have Software Patents here.
w0rm··on What will C++17 be?
You can use something like vagrant for you dev environment.
w0rm··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
"your"
w0rm··on Learning Vim while playing a game
It's broken for me as I have "start searching as soon as you start typing" feature on in my browser. It's searching instead of moving. Latest Firefox on GNU/Linux.
w0rm··on Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs
He mentions it's only in some pool configurations. I imagine there might be configurations where 512b or 4k makes a difference and isn't compatible.
w0rm··on Ask HN: What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown?
I think you have mixed "Open-Source" and "Free Software".

TrueCrypt IS Open-Source. You can read the source.

It is not, however, free software. It's free to use, but not free as in GPL.

w0rm··on Ask HN: What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown?
Well if encryption is that important you either buy a version of Windows which has FDE or you buy some other proprietary software which can do FDE. You can just keep using TrueCrypt until you need to upgrade Windows and get BitLocker supported edition.
w0rm··on 4chan demands 4chan.com domain name
yes, trademarks do not need to be registered and can be used before filing for it.
w0rm··on Direct3D to OpenGL abstraction layer
Yeah but this does not help if you want to port older games.
w0rm··on Download Atom without invite
Any instructions for linux?
w0rm··on Linux Containers, Docker, and Security
Interesting to see this as just today I have decided to setup a new server with LXC.