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Comment Re:most useful? (Score 1) 77

Agreed 100%. Learned of tmux and how much more bad ass it was than screen back around 2010, never looked back. For a few years now I've used a highly-customized .tmux.conf file that mimics screen's "ctrl-a" behavior, among other things, so that I don't lose a step when I absolutely MUST use screen (e.g., at work where more people are familiar with it than tmux). Pretty much all my work (and leisure) activity is done via tmux these days, saves me lot's of time when trying to remember something I did or setting up an environment in a more productive way. Always pains me when I finally have to close out a session for a reboot or something.

Comment Re:You cancel service? (Score 1) 242

It was really just my US Robotics DSL modem telling me it wanted to be set on fire and then smashed into small pieces.

Lol!!!

In my case, I've been using them for the better part of the past 5 years...like others, I knew the writing was on the wall when they started that login crap. I've in fact only used them sparingly in any case, as some time ago I just began using a domain name I'd purchased and my own DNS server. Not surprised they're finally taking the free offering away.

Comment Re:Linus is being Linus. (Score 1) 641

Admittedly I've not read nearly enough into the "blow-ups" to even have a valid opinion on this. Let's see, there's this one, and then there's the one where he was accused of being a misogynistic ass, then there's the "fuck you nvidia" one. Yeah, I tend to agree with you...everyone I've read into I completely agree with him on.

Comment Obligatory Franklin quote (Score 2) 335

"Rolling Stone retorts that privacy can be an issue: 'We want safety, but we also want privacy,' says the journalist. Bill Gates tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: 'Let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys."

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
-Benjamin Franklin

I wish I could just beat that into the head of the majority of people. We as a people should be firmly on the side of privacy over safety, it should not even be a question. Many do not see the big picture, but rather focused on a phantom enemy and see Snowden as betraying us against that enemy. Snowden is a true patriot, and indeed a hero, simply in the sense that he EXPOSED OUR PRIVACY BEING USURPED BY OUR OWN GOV'T. I'm pretty young (30 this year) but I'd imagine there was a time when the end of the last sentence would've incensed the MAJORITY of Americans, not just the one's paying attention. We must not sacrifice our freedom (in the form of privacy in this case) for safety. We cannot. And that is more important than some false sense of them doing this for our own good to "catch the bad guys". Secret courts, indefinite detention, etc. should NOT be happening in the land of the free. People wake the fuck up. /rant

As for Gates, obviously he would not be a fan of Snowden...it's people like him who pull the strings of our gov't anyways. I wish I could say I was surprised.

Comment Re:What's the solution? (Score 1) 295

This is the correct solution. Been on FF since Opera abandoned the Linux community last year (saw the writing on the wall with the yet-to-be-released Linux version of their Blink browser -- not that it even matters since all functionality that I loved Opera for died (or will die) with 12.x). Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it's become vs. the last time I used it [on linux], which was around 2009/2010. Still not as fast as Chromium or Opera, but fast enough to do the job without wondering if I'm missing out on speed, and with all the add-ons, I'm able to mimic most of the behavior Opera gave me.

tl;dr +1 for "use FF"

Comment Re: They would have to take budget from somewhere (Score 1) 166

It's fucking sad to putting this all in perspective and hear/read it all together. What a fucking sad state of affairs we're in. I had no intentions of plugging anything when I began this post, but I'm going to do it now since I know some AC will ask "what do you do to stop it?" This is what I do, and you should too.

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