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Bin heute hinter einem Fahrzeug mit der Aufschrift "Strassenunterhaltung" hergefahren.

1/10 - war stinklangweilig.

machines, life Show more

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heard there is a openbsd kernel patch you should be running which hangs your computer on startup until computers are verified safe to use again

the machines will kill us all, eventually Show more

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If hyper threading and all these other glaring security holes, esp for virtualized environments, were known back when SPARC and other ISAs weren't dead yet...do you think they'd have still died out?

Seems like all the x86 speed gains touted as a reason for Intel superiority over competing ISAs turns out to be complete BS

Can we get SPARC back?

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A wise person recently said: "The goal of many things is to suck less than the alternative."

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This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wedn

How many emails does it take to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?
marc.info/?t=152950890100004&r

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Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.
-- Noam Chomsky

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insect, colorful Show more

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Classless routing became an RFC on 24 Sept 1993.

I hereby declare 24 Sept . A quarter-century since classful routing was a thing.

Celebrate by having a cider, and booting anyone who still talks about Class C addresses.

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America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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@phessler I prefer to pretend IPv4 is deprecated, as much as I dislike so many things about v6