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vhguru··on Microsoft became incompetent in IT
Became?
vhguru··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
If Windows provided easier access to hardware, especially USB, from WSL it would be nice. In fact, if WSL enumerated devices and dealt with them as native Linux does, even better.
vhguru··on Bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr, even if they violate state law
There’s medicine for that.
vhguru··on Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)
Let the whataboutism begin in 3..2..1…
vhguru··on HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone
They tried with Sailfish, which is the spiritual successor of the excellent N95 OS, but alas not sufficient traction.
vhguru··on OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
Would be great to have Arch and OpenSUSE packages too.
vhguru··on Microsoft "doubling down" on cybersecurity
Lol
vhguru··on British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
Group chats generally don’t have E2EE. Most apps provide that only for one-to-one conversations. Group E2E encryption is a difficult problem.
vhguru··on Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
No.
vhguru··on Reasons Python Sucks (2018)
Reason 2 seems to indicate that the author doesn’t understand how Linux distributions work either, in addition to Python.