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cheiVia0on New Macbook Pro can't walk and chew gum at same time (watch wifi and USB = fail)

I can't believe the didn't _at least_ include a few USB-C to USB-A adapters. They're probably a couple cents each to produce.

cheiVia0on Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device

You are not alone:

https://neo900.org/

cheiVia0on Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

It would be really great to be able to build macOS-only open source apps on Linux.

cheiVia0on The Lost Virtue of Cursive

When I was in high school, at some point I realized that if I wrote (printed) my notes too fast, I had a lot of trouble reading them later on.

Since then I switched to cursive, and for the most part stuck with it. I doubt others would have an easy time reading my fast cursive (doctor-style scribbles) but at least words have a "shape" I can easily recognize, even if letters are completely deformed.

Meanwhile, my chickenscratch print took so much effort to decipher that it was easier to just look up the info elsewhere.

cheiVia0on Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

> So I can see why people would call [Stallman] holier than thou

Well he is a saint...

https://stallman.org/saint.html

cheiVia0on FreeDOS 1.2 RC1

Looks easy: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/USB

cheiVia0on FreeDOS 1.2 RC1

Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut... https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

SVN: probably inertia and a large repo that would be work to convert.

cheiVia0on GNU Terry Pratchett

  $ HEAD debian.org | tail -n2
  X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

cheiVia0on Minoca OS: A new open source operating system

GPL doesn't force anything back into the community. It only requires freedom for users, not code for upstream.

cheiVia0on Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support

Fingerprints can be separated from their owner and fingers can be controlled by others. They are also duplicable, depending on the sophistication of the sensor.

cheiVia0on Open Game Art

Some open source art games:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/

cheiVia0on NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise

For the folks outside the USA, that is 14-17cm

cheiVia0on Man-in-the-middle vulnerability on Gentoo sync and emerge

Unlike rsync/webrsync/above repo, it doesn't have pre-generated metadata, which makes things painful

cheiVia0on PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature death in China

> Nanoparticles are particles between 1 and 100 nanometers in size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoparticle

cheiVia0on Apple Says Goodbye to the Startup Chime with the New MacBook Pro

Blind folks are going to be very annoyed about this.

cheiVia0on Ask HN: Usefulness of being mentor in Google CodeIn

Students get experience with open source. Google gets some mind-share. You get contributions and potential new contributors. Seems like a win-win.

cheiVia0on Man-in-the-middle vulnerability on Gentoo sync and emerge

Who is it run by? It's not under https://github.com/gentoo and the gentoo-mirror org doesn't have any "public members" ... I'd be more concerned with trusting this, than my ISP or OSU OSL MITM-ing me.

That aside, wouldn't it make sense to have the generated metadata in a separate repository? Sync the latest metadata, then check out the corresponding revision from the actual gentoo git repo.

cheiVia0on Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3

Specifically, different cables support different bitrates and Wattages. This is due to the number and thickness of the wires in the cable.

I think Monoprices's labeling of a 5Gbps or 10Gbps USB-C to USB-C is false, however. There is nothing about the USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gbps) spec that requires anything more than a regular USB3 cable. I think the "5Gbps" version is just an older product description from when 5Gbps was the fastest USB available.

cheiVia0on Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide

Wasn't it concluded that it was to reduce power usage, and it was Intel that didn't provide a Linux driver?

Edit: http://lwn.net/Articles/701635/

cheiVia0on Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure

The only private repository is one you created on your own computer and didn't push to github.

cheiVia0on Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for

Not one?

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50/

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p70/

http://shop.lenovo.com/lv/lv/laptops/ideapad/y900-series/y90...

cheiVia0on The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized

It is definitely not MacWrite since it doesn't conform to the format:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MacWrite

Looks like it is actually Word for Mac:

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

cheiVia0on The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft

OK, the palm rest and the pointing device, I'll give it to you, but saying that all laptops are Powerbook clones is a big stretch. The "notebook" firm factor originated from NEC UltraLite, released 3 years earlier.

http://old.chuma.org/ultralite/index.shtml

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_UltraLite

cheiVia0on Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

MMM, delicious natural snake venom.

cheiVia0on Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal

What about Allwinner?

cheiVia0on Common swifts can stay aloft for up to 10 months

Works in the Tor Browser.

cheiVia0on A Quantum Leap for the Web

You can alleviate this problem by increasing dom.min_background_timeout_value.

cheiVia0on Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius

How does this work? Broadcast a really strong WiFi signal?