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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

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  • The trick is to use a text editor with a fixed-width font.

  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

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  • This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs

     
        
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  • DHS considers reality show pitting immigrants against one another for citizenship

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  • I don't know if there are others that did a better job but the only source the USA Today article had was the Daily Mail, other than a quote they got from DHS which simply denies there's any truth to it.

  • DHS considers reality show pitting immigrants against one another for citizenship

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  • Okay it's not The Onion, but it is the Daily Mail.

  • Need help automating backups

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  • By the way, don't forget to make a good backup before you start messing with backup scripts. Also, if the reason you're keeping twelve different backups is to see how things changed over time, put it in git instead.

  • Need help automating backups

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  • I was going to give some suggestions, but it's easiest to say it like this: 

     
        
if ( ! test -d ~/Backups ) ; then exit; fi
cd ~/Backups
count=`ls -d Main-* | wc -l`
if [ count -gt 11] ; then 
    rm -rf `ls -rtd Main-* | head -$((count - 11))`
fi
rsync -aL ~/Main Main-`date -Ihours`

    You'd run something like that every six hours. Don't expect it to work, but maybe it could help get you started.

  • Should we use *Linux when referring to the entire system, instead of Linux?

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  • or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, --++Linux++--

  • A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer

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  • Well, I got around to reading it although I didn't look too closely at the actual mathematics of quantum annealing. The sensationalist tone of the headline dominates much of the text as well, unfortunately. But they did factor a 2048 bit number, taken as representative of a class of such numbers which have two factors that differ from each other in only two of their bits. So a space of roughly 2^1000 numbers I guess.

    California State University previously factored a 1061 bit number. It's reference 27, which says "https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/44" where it should be "https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/444.pdf".

  • A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer

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  • This marks the first successful factorization of RSA-2048 by D-Wave quantum computer, regardless of employing mathematical or quantum techniques, despite dealing with special integers, exceeding 2^1061−1 of California State University.

    That's a lot of California State University. If I'm guessing correctly as to what they're trying to say it's an impressive result, but it is not a successful attack on RSA-2048 and it's made somewhat less plausible by the misleading title.

  • Donald Trump threatens to stop Barbie dolls being sold in US

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  • Imagine spending four years plotting and scheming about how you'll do everything better next time, and this is what you come up with.

  • Linux isn't (just) better, it's also more FUN!

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  • Computers? Fun!? Whatever, nerds.

  • Alex Jones Thinks Trump Has Gone Too Far

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  • Stop, you've gone too far. Also you've gone the wrong way. And your driving is terrible. And you're drunk on power. Why did I even get in this clown car.

  • My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk

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  • My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk

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  • That is what their mod was accused of having done, albeit on reddit. If Kev believes those allegations to be unfounded, he's done a poor job of expressing that.

  • My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk

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  • Alas, not everyone on the fediverse is so friendly and welcoming towards people who "express certain political views" by using a position of power to suppress those they disagree with.

  • I like my men

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  • I like my women the way I like my passwords: Long, cryptic, and full of entropy.

  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store

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  • Long may I continue to be proven wrong.

  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store

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  • Turns out it's nowhere near as complicated as everyone said it would be to change the constitution. All you've got to do is buy yourself a Supreme Court.

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  • It might. If some day they don't control the browser, whoever does control it might be hesitant to build in features that are only there to spy on users for Google. Cookies do at least have some other uses.