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Comment Re:Manhattan project (Score 1) 174

if the government did it with full force, Alphabet would not keep control of the workgroup.

That wouldn't be a problem if one believes Assange's theory that Google is not what it seems. As the years go by I tend to think that too, it has a symbiotic relationship with the government, to the point it can be thought of as an unofficial branch.

Comment Re: Confusing summary, article explains better (Score 1) 109

I meant this:

The findings support another prediction that neutron-star collisions produce chemical elements heavier than iron, like gold and platinum. Astronomers believe neutrons released during the merger combine with surrounding atoms in a phenomenon known as r-process nucleosynthesis. Telescope observations of GW170817’s spectra—the chemical composition of the star material—revealed it contained heavy elements, including 10 times the mass of the Earth in gold, according to O’Shaughnessy. These kinds of collisions, astronomers believe, may be responsible for populating the universe with heavy elements.

Comment OpenWRT recommended routers (Score 1) 320

Grab them while you can. I picked up a TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 v2.0 (european version) just days ago from ebay. Works with OpenWRT like a charm, does ~150mbits across two walls in 5GHz (faster if closer). This is one example where the latest firmware is locked but there's still hardware with older versions out there. They admit as much themselves:

The EU firmware was specialized for CE certification and can't be downgraded to other version, please click here for choosing your region and selecting the most suitable firmware version to upgrade.

Comment Timex TC2068 (made in Portugal) (Score 1) 857

The first computer I saw was my dad's Amstrad CPC 464.

Soon I had my own, a Timex TC2068. This is an improved version of the american TS2068 produced by Timex of Portugal, featuring improved Spectrum compatibility, in great part thanks to its emulator cartridge. I understand this is a relatively sought-after item in the american market.

Here's some photos of the portuguese factory in Costa da Caparica from 1986 if anyone's curious. This factory is a bit of a legend for portuguese geeks because it was Portugal's contribution to 8-bit computing with several innovations developed, such as the Timex FDD3000, until the factory was allegedly transferred to Scotland in a shady deal.

Comment But wait, there's more (Score 1) 3

He also claims that:

Obviously "don't use Pulse Audio" doesn't help with the vision of having a unified Linux audio backend.

I didn't know it was firefox's mandate to envision anything in the name of linux. As an open source project they should understand the benefit, even need, to allow different tools according to the job, in this case audio backends. It's not like ALSA is an obscure API -- It's the native kernel API that even PulseAudio uses! It should ALWAYS be supported!

Comment Privacy Badger (Score 5, Informative) 103

Why not just have a per-site identity? In other words, tracking cookies become worthless because they can't follow you from site to site.

You have, in effect, described EFF's Privacy Badger addon. It works heuristically to block cookies from leaking from their original domains, except when told otherwise (some exceptions are included by default -- so-called yellowlist, check out "How does Privacy Badger work?" section). I've been using it for some time and seems to work very well with little breakage. Rarely have to whitelist something.

Comment Seems to require systemd, actually (Score 1) 274

You might be closer to the truth than you think. I was about to install snapcraft's ebuilds for Gentoo (snap-confine and snapd) but then noticed the systemctl calls and unit files. Adding insult to injury, they didn't bother to list systemd as a dependency. Hopefully there's not a real dependency on systemd and it's just a matter of writing init scripts, but in the meantime, thanks but no thanks.

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