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l24ztjon How India’s massive 2019 election will work

He said "almost anything that India does is at an impressive scale". Nowhere he talked about elections.

Also elections in India are pretty much rigged especially because of people buying votes.

l24ztjon Sailfish OS Oulanka is now available

https://blog.jolla.com/content/uploads/2019/03/battery1-1024...

That contrast is terrible.

l24ztjon Ask HN: Why does Paypal still exist?

I don't know. I trust PayPal. I am a client and I know if there's a problem they will always have my back even if I'm in the wrong.

l24ztjon The silent victims of the US embargo against Iran

I am saying it's not illegal because the UN doesn't make law, and I know there will be no consequences for this "crime" because the UN can't enforce anything and no country which is in good terms with the UN will want to piss off the US.

Having said that, I do NOT condone sanctions in any form.

l24ztjon The silent victims of the US embargo against Iran

The UN is completely toothless. Whatever they say is as relevant as if it had been said by a local court in Kazakhstan.

l24ztjon The silent victims of the US embargo against Iran

Iran sanctions didn't start with Trump. But you already knew that. The US has been choking Cuba for decades, for example.

Also, immoral/unjustified != illegal.

l24ztjon Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal

wsltty is absolute crap. Not only it is very very slow with long lines or fast output, it also freezes often with applications that have GUIs like irssi.

l24ztjon Ask HN: News.Y Combinator.com wants to use your devices location

You've got a virus.

l24ztjon Had They Bet on Nuclear, Germany and CA Would Already Have 100% Clean Power

Clean if we ignore radioactive waste, that is.

l24ztjon GNU Nano 4.0

I have the opposite experience: notepad, notepad++, vscode, kwrite/kate, sublime, gedit, and many more I've used... none of them had this unwanted behaviour.

l24ztjon GNU Nano 4.0

Because if I type "hello" in a document, I expect the editor to save "hello", not "hello\n".

l24ztjon Ask HN: Why do many sites ask for recording permissions on Android?

Maybe your ad blocker is misconfigured, an ad was loaded and requested that permission?

l24ztjon Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundreds of New Computers’

Once again, we're talking about DESKTOP Linux here.

https://xkcd.com/1200/

l24ztjon Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundreds of New Computers’

No, they are not the same thing in their USE, which is exactly the point I'm making.

I trust nginx, sshd, postgres, postfix, etc. much more than I trust the gnome file manager, evince, dbus, pulse.

For every exploit that nginx currently has, there probably are a thousand lurking in gnome's file roller.

l24ztjon GNU Nano 4.0

>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.

yesssssssssss

l24ztjon Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not work

And disabled by default, too.

l24ztjon Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundreds of New Computers’

I said desktop, not server.

I don't have any basis, just what I expect. Windows has been fuzzed and reverse engineered to the moon and back. Desktop Linux? I doubt it.

l24ztjon Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundreds of New Computers’

I'd say desktop Linux is more insecure than Windows, and the only reason we don't see malware is that nobody uses it. So if high profile targets, like energy companies, started using Linux on the desktop, it may end up being worse than Windows.

l24ztjon Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media

What if I loathe both things?

l24ztjon Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media

By conservative he meant NWO.

l24ztjon Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday

Grinding is perceived as a negative; if a grindy game is good enough to keep you grinding, why shouldn't it deserve to make more money?