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Thread: gkh vs umn, or: what IS human research, anyways?
Post: RE: gkh vs umn, or: what IS human research, anyway...
| (Yesterday, 10:20 PM)sth Wrote: given enough time and energy, malicious code can make it past review.
I’m rather sure that other projects apply a more thorough review. |
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GNU/Linux
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Thread: gkh vs umn, or: what IS human research, anyways?
Post: RE: gkh vs umn, or: what IS human research, anyway...
| According to various news, there had been malicious patches which were added to the Linux kernel with not much review, so at least the experiment was successful. If they hadn't written an article abou... |
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GNU/Linux
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Yesterday, 10:06 PM |
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Thread: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's still alive?
Post: RE: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's st...
| The oldest piece of hardware that's still alive and in regular use is my IBM Model F XT keyboard. I'm positive that it is unlikely that I will ever own an even older piece of hardware. (No room for a ... |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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19-04-2021, 10:26 AM |
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Thread: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge
Post: RE: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge
| "Using bash" does not disqualify you as long as you stick to the POSIX standard. :P |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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12-04-2021, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: Sharing Media
Post: RE: Sharing Media
| Why is it called “min” when it uses Kubernetes? |
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jkl |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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12-04-2021, 04:25 AM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| Tcl is lovely, but it is unusual. |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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11-04-2021, 03:47 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| The thread about your favorite scripting languages mentioned awk often enough for me to start finally learning it. (Yes, I am the weird guy who uses Perl and sed and grep without ever having needed mo... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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10-04-2021, 04:02 AM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| Mostly, Hack and Fira Code Mono.
sans-serif varies a lot though. |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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44,980 |
29-03-2021, 04:48 AM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| (24-03-2021, 09:11 AM)mattrose Wrote: I tend to go to python, just because it's more likely to be pre-installed on any system I work on.
I would assume that Perl comes with more systems than Python.... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 12:47 PM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| It depends.
For system automation, there is no better option than a POSIX shell. (I don’t even have a bash. Problem solved.) I usually recommend Schily’s shells for that, unless you have a POSIX-comp... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: What are simple Operating System in these days?
Post: RE: What are simple Operating System in these days...
| Today I learned that Nokia had still owned valuable assets.
Well, one less now:
https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog...yberspace/ |
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jkl |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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23-03-2021, 02:31 PM |
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Thread: What are simple Operating System in these days?
Post: RE: What are simple Operating System in these days...
| (12-03-2021, 01:25 PM)rainlofi0703“' Wrote: I really need some simple operating system to play with it. I'm just unsure which one.
You won’t get much simpler than what you get with Plan 9 (9front, 9... |
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jkl |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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13-03-2021, 12:39 PM |
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Thread: pass, gnupg, managing keys and migrating password-store
Post: RE: pass, gnupg, managing keys and migrating passw...
| I have been considering to migrate from KeePass to pass/gopass a while ago, but I could not find a working converter yet. All I could find were outdated Python 2.7 scripts which only spawned errors.
... |
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jkl |
Security & Cryptography
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12-03-2021, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| Update 2021 - something old, something new - and I stopped using e-mails and managing files on the terminal.
music: mpd
video: mpv
terminal emulator: st
text editor: ed, emacs
gopher: phetch
image v... |
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jkl |
BSD
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10-03-2021, 10:30 PM |
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Thread: how many projects per repository?
Post: RE: how many projects per repository?
| (23-02-2021, 05:49 AM)venam Wrote: In subversion, for example, everything is under a certain path and you clone something on that path, that is not feasible with git as far as I know.
Correct. Only ... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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23-02-2021, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 years time?
Post: RE: What will the world of Linux be like in 3 year...
| Most distributions today are basically Debian with an even uglier default desktop, so that’s that about distro differences.
Gentoo and Slackware will probably keep up the flame of systemd refugees. |
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jkl |
GNU/Linux
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22-02-2021, 03:43 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| Finally, a sane sense of window tiling. Even although I stopped using that on a desktop, I have to thank you for your work. :) |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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19-02-2021, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: Logs in the Unix World
Post: RE: Logs in the Unix World
| Binary logs are broken logs. Change my mind. |
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jkl |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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17-02-2021, 03:30 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| After a short discussion on the IRC and finding out that macOS has no easy way to do that unless I want to install half of the GNU system, I wrote a tool that lets me ask for today in a week et al. wh... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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16-02-2021, 09:51 AM |
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Thread: Unix and the Industry
Post: RE: Unix and the Industry
| I run an illumos (ex-OpenSolaris) server. One could argue that Solaris 11 is an actual UNIX system. |
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jkl |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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15-02-2021, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| Someone screenshotted my favorite window manager:
http://www.windowmaker.org
One easier:
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/XjyhBci.png] |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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13-02-2021, 02:34 PM |
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Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script
| Almost on-topic: In a C++ software of mine (which I really should develop further... some day), I wrote a function to open a text file with the default editor. I would guess that, if one removes the V... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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10-02-2021, 03:40 PM |
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Thread: Activities proposals
Post: RE: Activities proposals
| How about 0 A.D. for a game? |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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09-02-2021, 03:55 PM |
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Thread: Unix file hierarchy
Post: RE: Unix file hierarchy
| As you already have noticed, much of systemd introduces many Windows concepts into the Linux world. It won’t stop to amaze me that this is a Good Thing™ now. |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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03-02-2021, 06:29 AM |
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Thread: Blackbox in Windows lives!
Post: RE: Blackbox in Windows lives!
| My problem with Blackbox was its menu-driven user interface when I had tried it in the early 2000s. Yet, I like that it still exists. |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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27-01-2021, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: Post the strangest, most unique distros you've encountered
Post: RE: Post the strangest, most unique distros you've...
| My first weird Linux was WinLinux, a late-90s distribution which came with a starter .exe for Windows, so I could reboot into Linux from my Windows desktop. I don’t really know much else about it, I h... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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25-01-2021, 05:57 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| pip upgrade rarely works well on at least some of my systems, especially those not using a system-provided Python installation. Python is a mess, honestly... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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22-01-2021, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: i am so satisfacted. greetings
Post: RE: i am so satisfacted. greetings
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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20-01-2021, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (19-01-2021, 12:41 AM)Evolution Wrote: Mostly: https://github.com/iheanyi/bandcamp-dl
Ah, the world is small. And you even have one of those CoCs.
I had to switch to Campdown on Windows because Band... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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19-01-2021, 07:12 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| As the software failed me again last night (the browser crashed, the article was restored - but I couldn’t add files, error 50x, until I restarted the browser again), I also hope to finally find the t... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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18-01-2021, 08:59 AM |
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Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...
| Most Linux tools which are “ported” to Windows require a thin emulation layer as well, like MinGW. So that’s similar.
WSL2 is the actual Linux kernel. |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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05-01-2021, 07:35 PM |
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Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...
| (04-01-2021, 10:26 AM)freem Wrote: As for the WSL question... I've seen that crap at work, in my last job (not on my computer, but on a colleague's one). It's slow and buggy, better to use virtualbo... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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04-01-2021, 03:01 PM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| 2020 was the year I failed to find a better job thanks to that pandemic. Maybe 2021 will be it.
Also, I plan to become rich and famous with one of my long-term development projects. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-01-2021, 05:07 AM |
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Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...
| I use Wox as a launcher, OpenShell as a start menu and (recently) Cairo Shell as a desktop replacement. It makes Windows slightly less annoying to use.
I fail to see why the WSL is so popular. I actu... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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04-01-2021, 03:52 AM |
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Thread: Using different editors for configuration and actual development...
Post: RE: Using different editors for configuration and ...
| I haven’t changed my habits that much in the past three years, except that I narrowed my installed set of editors - still, I use different editors for code, notes and system-related stuff, but I don’t... |
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Programming On Unix
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14-12-2020, 05:46 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| I surely hope that Python will fall into obscurity soon. It was an awful idea to overrun the Perl ecosystem with a teaching language as a vehicle. The victims are yet to be identified.
TOML predates ... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-12-2020, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| NixOS works just like GuixSD in these regards. Still, you’re tied to this very configuration format then. |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-12-2020, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: The demise of old software because of Firefox
Post: The demise of old software because of Firefox
| OK, that’s a bit short as a summary...
Chris:
Quote:As FTP sites stop being indexed, accessed, or usable in browsers, people also start running out of reasons to keep them operating. Many of the mos... |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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07-12-2020, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: My panel scripts
Post: RE: My panel scripts
| Back when I used dwm, I added my battery and WiFi status to my status bar.
If anyone cares:
https://code.rosaelefanten.org/dotfiles/...p&name=dwm |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-12-2020, 12:14 PM |
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Thread: Running a Mainframe in your basement
Post: RE: Running a Mainframe in your basement
| If all you do needs to increase your employment prospects, your whole life is work. |
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jkl |
Hardware talk
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03-12-2020, 01:37 AM |
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Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
| In my experience, people with certain stickers on their laptop have less interesting merits and views than others. |
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jkl |
Hardware talk
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03-12-2020, 01:36 AM |
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Thread: What are your opinions on "replacement" programs for core utilities
Post: RE: What are your opinions on "replacement" progra...
| (30-11-2020, 08:48 AM)z3bra Wrote: Oh, and did I mention that vis has a '|' command, to use external tools to edit selections ? Try to figure out the following:
Code::x/caesar/ |tr a-m n-z
Which is... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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30-11-2020, 11:09 AM |
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Thread: Browser options for limited mem/cpu resources?
Post: RE: Browser options for limited mem/cpu resources?
| (30-11-2020, 05:15 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: Setting up ad blocking etc on webkit browsers requires updating of blocklists etc.. Id' rather just install UBlock and be done with it.
Good news:
https://chr... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2020, 05:49 AM |
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Thread: Browser options for limited mem/cpu resources?
Post: RE: Browser options for limited mem/cpu resources?
| It does not become better with Firefox though. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2020, 04:11 AM |
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Thread: What are your opinions on "replacement" programs for core utilities
Post: RE: What are your opinions on "replacement" progra...
| tcsh.
Supporting it is not prioritized either. |
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Programming On Unix
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