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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| Buzzwords are not there for you, they're there to appease marketing teams and confuse competing companies making them feel like they're not ahead of the curve.
I've always wondered whether these tren... |
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15-11-2022, 05:29 AM |
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Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: RE: Historical GUI Websites
| that's a really nice find!
I especially like the ads and the tutorials, they're perfect to give you a general feeling of the OS or software and how it was perceived at the time. I'd be curious of what... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-10-2022, 03:42 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| (06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: gopassThis one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ?
(06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red f... |
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Security & Cryptography
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07-10-2022, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
| (02-10-2022, 12:51 PM)kuba Wrote: My first post here.Hello there, welcome!
That's a lot of languages. |
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02-10-2022, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Hello there!
Welcome to nixers.
(04-09-2022, 01:15 PM)ckester Wrote: Welcome, and thanks for keeping those old laptops out of the landfill!If I remember there was a thread about the oldest hardware... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-09-2022, 02:50 PM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
| This sounds like an amazing retirement plan. |
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25-08-2022, 01:56 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (23-08-2022, 04:12 AM)ckester Wrote: For example, is the license or programming language an important criterion for you?The license for me is a bonus factor, as long as I can read the code and that ... |
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BSD
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23-08-2022, 05:11 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| (02-05-2022, 09:52 AM)pfr Wrote: Dont think this ones been done yet..?
I know this one, but I'll just give a hint because I was coincidentally adding a link to their website for next week's newslett... |
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02-05-2022, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| https://512kb.club/
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/cfdLwy0.png] |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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26-04-2022, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| (23-04-2022, 06:36 AM)josuah Wrote: A two-column layout was just added to The Gopher Times (troff-based): https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/9/t...-opus4.pdf
I had a blast reading this! These are ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-04-2022, 06:56 AM |
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Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
| Welcome to nixers!
That's a lot of machines, are you using them all, on a home network? |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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20-04-2022, 09:20 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (17-04-2022, 05:26 PM)adi Wrote: the web site for my static site generator mkws
The name is really well-chosen. However, I got a tip, you're sharing the binaries in a tgz file directly but I can't f... |
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Programming On Unix
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18-04-2022, 02:26 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (17-04-2022, 12:28 PM)akoizumi Wrote: [2]: https://git.patchysicp.xyz/novaburst/ayu
That's very nice and straight forward, it seems many persons are building their own password management tools. It ... |
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Programming On Unix
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17-04-2022, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| (25-03-2022, 09:57 AM)VMS Wrote: I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available?There's an RSS feed: https://newsletter.ni... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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25-03-2022, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| After a long while, I'm announcing that we're going to be restarting the newsletter. Feel free to send contributions and propose ideas if you have any.
It would also be nice to merge the concept with ... |
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25-03-2022, 05:14 AM |
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Thread: Syntax help error
Post: RE: Syntax help error
| You're right, the size is in pt and the help is misleading on what the actual output will look like.
XX-Large
It's better to use text instead of numbers, such as:
Code:[size=xx-small]XX-Small[/size]... |
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11-03-2022, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: RE: Recommended UPS?
| Before installing solar panels I used any random UPS that had been thrown away. I'd modify it to remove the noise it makes when it's on power supply, connect the internal circuit to a 150amp truck bat... |
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Hardware talk
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08-03-2022, 12:00 PM |
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Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script
| There's a discussion on lobsters related to this. An interesting custom solution is this one from vermaden. |
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Programming On Unix
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07-03-2022, 02:47 AM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| (28-02-2022, 11:48 AM)DECnet Wrote: I like to have per-session historyWhat's your process to search in the history file? Do you purge old files also?
For many the histfile is a huge source of knowl... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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01-03-2022, 06:04 AM |
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Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
| What I personally use is still a combination of mpd and client interfaces such as ncmpcpp. I like the whole architecture of having a server manage the music library and be able to interact with it fro... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-02-2022, 02:45 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
| On that note, I also forgot I have a script for battery status that pops up at certain intervals.
It's running as a systemd user timer (~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants).
The timer unit
Code... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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13-02-2022, 05:49 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: What do you use as a system monitor
| Hello nixers,
Here's a simple thread: What do you use as a system monitor and do you have recommendations.
I normally go for htop and top but I'm looking to broaden my horizons.
Be sure to mention t... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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10-02-2022, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Alright, last two chapters of the book!
# Chapter 13
This chapter is about building a file server using P9 proto.
It starts by describing disk devices, devices defined as `/dev/sd*`.
The driver ca... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-01-2022, 04:27 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Book club time, happy new year.
# Chapter 11
A chapter about threads and channels.
Threads are independent of processes and so they have their own threadID.
I think we call that user-level threads ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-01-2022, 05:16 AM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
| Let's kick this off!
I work in a company that specializes in remotely configuring devices. This is mainly about telecom handsets/sims and routers.
We have components that plug into the network nodes ... |
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23-12-2021, 07:14 AM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: What Do You Do for a Living
| Hello fellow nixers,
What do you do for a living, or have done?
A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to sha... |
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23-12-2021, 07:13 AM |
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Thread: Retrospective 2021
Post: RE: Retrospective 2021
| (19-12-2021, 03:45 PM)seninha Wrote: Weirdly, this small school project of mine got popular and there was a course using it.That's really cool, I like the serendipity of life.
On the retrospective,... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-12-2021, 06:10 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Let's resume the book club.
# Chapter 9
Chapter 9 wasn't very exxeptional, most of it was about learning regex
related stuff.
there's a typo that hits hard in 9.4:
Quote:There is another tool is us... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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18-12-2021, 12:14 PM |
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Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
| Dear UNIX diary,
Today I learned, because it's good to be humble, that IPv6 addresses can be built automatically from the mac address (something called EUI-64). I'm wondering if this isn't too much ... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17-12-2021, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (11-12-2021, 06:25 AM)seninha Wrote: I have been rewriting some of my C programs into higher-level languages.
I think normally, in a perfect hypothetical scenario, people would go the opposite route... |
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11-12-2021, 06:43 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (06-12-2021, 06:09 PM)movq Wrote: Then I had a look at your repos and saw that you completed this super fast. What the heck, I feel dumb.Frankly, this has nothing to do with "smartness", most of the... |
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07-12-2021, 02:44 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (05-12-2021, 05:54 AM)movq Wrote: This really promotes “quick and dirty” solutions. Hmm.This could be said about all these interview-like programming challenges such as hackerrank/leetcode. They're ... |
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05-12-2021, 06:11 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Time for the book club review and discussion.
## Chapter 7
This chapter was captivating because it tackled aspects that I'm not
used to.
Here are some notes:
- The environment variables are cached ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-12-2021, 05:25 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderbord
| I'm going to join the leaderboard this year. It's a fun way to hone my rusty algorithms skills.
For those wondering, the leaderboard code above is still valid, so reuse it. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2021, 03:10 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| Quote:I've noticed that I can't frame myself as specialist in anything
I'm still not a specialist in anything, and can't seem to get into any particular topic. Thus, I can't find a job position.
(2... |
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30-11-2021, 02:48 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Time for the book club discussion.
Chapter 5 and 6 were interesting because they started to give an overview
of the decoupled, decentralized, architecture of Plan 9. They also
emphasize the strong en... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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27-11-2021, 06:45 AM |
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Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what
| A recent blog post reminded me of this: https://www.madebygps.com/an-intro-to-fi...-in-linux/ |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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23-11-2021, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i
| When I want to override and alias, I prepend it with "command". So maybe you could try: `command rm -r`. |
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BSD
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21-11-2021, 08:18 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Chapter 3 and 4 were pretty simple, especially with a Unix background
the content can be compared.
Here are a couple of notes I took during my reading.
## Chapter 3
They fixed the create syscall 😂
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20-11-2021, 04:40 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| It's time for the book club.
Here's my summary/notes for the first two chapters.
## Chapter 1
I installed Plan 9 latest image in a VM and started learning it
properly. All the times I tried it in th... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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13-11-2021, 04:56 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
| The talks have been uploaded and linked on the main post. |
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08-11-2021, 05:38 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
| And here are all the references and links for my talk:
https://icds.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uplo...d-Mind.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Mind
https://web.archive.org/web/201907211151..... |
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08-11-2021, 05:35 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
| The link to the conference has been posted in the first post. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-11-2021, 10:53 AM |
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Thread: Backing up and Deploying
Post: RE: Backing up and Deploying
| A little story reminded me of this thread. What do you do when the backup solution is automatic and you notice the corruption after the backup has already taken place?
I guess incremental backups woul... |
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07-11-2021, 04:46 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021
| (06-11-2021, 10:17 PM)seninha Wrote: Will we have some time before the conf for the people who will talk to test their browsers and mics?Certainly, I'll be there around 1h before so that we can test... |
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