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odinduty··on Reddit for iOS and Android
>shortly after releasing their official mobile clients

???

odinduty··on Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
I wonder if this will mean more and more servers are going to be sued. I've been playing on private servers since 2012, I play hours each day, and the future does not look very bright if this keeps happening I'm afraid...

Just two days ago I started my journey as a blood elf hunter :-)

The problem with private servers is that they seem to be addicted to OVH. I get it that it's cheap, has nice routes and usually they don't give a damn about what you host, but it's a single point of failure. I wonder if many of those servers are about to move to Ukraine (Russia) or something like that :-)

Ah, and believe me, some of them make ludicrous amounts of money, have paid employees, etc. It's not just a community. They all forked MaNGOS or TrinityCore and starting piling up their fixes on top of it (which they don't have to share because it's GPL, not AGPL), but some chose to pay their developers!

I'm happy to answer any questions about what it's like to play on private servers or how some stuff works in the technical side, or the community, or whatever!

odinduty··on Facebook’s automatic alt-text for images
Ah, the Twitter app for Android (beta version) recently added a feature that allows you to add a description to pictures you upload for impaired people.
odinduty··on Five hundred days using Ubuntu Phone
All phone platforms are viable, it depends on what you expect from them...
odinduty··on WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
I'm not sure, but I think WhatsApp stores your key and it sends it to your mobile so you can decrypt the backup you downloaded from Google. But you can disable backups...
odinduty··on WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
Conversion is done by the devices I think.
odinduty··on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak
Well, often they really think nothing will change because they were promised nothing will change.
odinduty··on Organizations can now block abusive users
And why not? A project is a project, and some twat who happens to have the keys to the Twitter account of that project should not define how you should feel about a community.
odinduty··on Reading an iOS Stack Trace
Nice ad.
odinduty··on Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms
> Secure Boot [...] requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft

Nope.

odinduty··on Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
I am just linking to the picture he has willingly uploaded to his profile, my dearest friend. He can take it down whenever he wants to. Please bite a pillow to ease the anger.
odinduty··on Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked
I don't think he was accusing you of anything.
odinduty··on The TSA Randomizer App Cost $336k
They could hack into the iPad to make it display this: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

High chance somebody gets shot.

odinduty··on We Need a New Username System
And what's the practical difference between minimaxir#1667 and minimaxir1667, other than there's no "minimaxir" with no numbers?
odinduty··on “This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade”
I don't think he meant to say it was flawless, but I'm sure you agree it reduces the attack surface by a great deal.
odinduty··on “This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade”
Was that a security issue or just a crash?
odinduty··on “This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade”
> For the record, the timebomb for 5.34 will go off on 2017-04-01, ie, shortly after stretch's expected release date.

Debian always providing with fun...

odinduty··on Trump's Rebel Yell: How the Tech Revolution Is Setting Up Another Civil War
I wish all paywalls were like this: a modal I can remove with the developer tools.
odinduty··on Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day
And the Washington Post article clearly says, despite of that, that the April Fools day was banned. Read the title.
odinduty··on Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day
There's absolutely nothing in that post that makes me think it's an opinion piece or an editorial. It's a regular news entry, and a very misleading one, if not outright malicious.
odinduty··on Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day
I think there's a big difference between what that tweet says and having "banned April Fools". But what do I know :-)
odinduty··on Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
Why not? Chrome released the RLZ library code...
odinduty··on Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
Ah, that's good. Cordova is so horribly, horribly awful I am glad to see this happen.
odinduty··on For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
What do you do to be turned down by 38 companies? Do you turn on your laptop and it's running Windows?
odinduty··on Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
What do you mean by "normal Linux apps"? GTK+? Qt? Who'd want to use an application that is completely not optimised for a small touch screen?
odinduty··on Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
We all know what he means by "Linux tablet", you don't really have to nitpick...
odinduty··on VNC Roulette
Oh God, haha. I also have that reflex of putting 's everywhere in URLs. I've found lots of surprises, but not many, to be honest. Not even 0.1% of times I've tried.
odinduty··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
The ACLU is also a liberal association[1], although I agree liberals and conservatives work together in some issues. There's no doubt about it.

And yes, I think it's okay to reject them, because I am afraid of them gaining affection from everybody just to push an agenda later. If they wanted to herald digital freedom, they should have remained completely neutral in political issues, but they chose not to...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...

odinduty··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
Of course, but he was quoting a "list of feminists", which I haven't clicked but I guess contains dozens or even hundreds of individuals, whose lives most likely don't revolve around feminism.
odinduty··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
>It's like saying that you're against John Stuart Mill or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz because you dislike feminism[1].

I don't see why you'd have to be against a person just because they support a different point of view on some specific issue.

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