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Unread post by simgin » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:30 pm

Some sinister art :) Could become some nice walls, btw the galleries run vertically.
http://breedart.org/hive/art_release_view.php

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Unread post by bones » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:03 pm

Jim Rockford Warned Us About Google And Facebook Back In 1978...

http://io9.com/jim-rockford-warned-us-a ... thardigree

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Unread post by stark » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:48 pm

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Unread post by rhowaldt » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:21 pm

this is what Wux does all day: http://pastebin.com/30S0jh2c ;)
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Unread post by bones » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:36 pm

^ Hahaha...
> day 3
> hot sales rep comes in with laptop issues
> she's 9/10 cougar
> all flirty with me
> tells me she needs something updated
> can only hear her boobs
> her laptop smells like straberrys
> download adobe reader for her and hand it back

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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:15 am

^ This has been reposted on /g/ and /tech/ more than I can count... but no one seems to mind on there. Even if it is not dat sweet, sweet OC, it still remains good stuff :D
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Unread post by stark » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:33 pm

If you're that into news reading:

http://www.pastpages.org/
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Unread post by stark » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:10 am

Don't clone this repo, just get the tarball:
https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirec ... all/master
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Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:50 pm

Interview with Mr. Donald Knuth: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Good to know he uses a window manager like the cool guys.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:35 am

^ Very interesting.

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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:46 pm

^^ Back when Ubuntu had just dropped Sawfish for metacity :D
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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:51 pm

^ All hail uBlock, I suppose.
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Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:53 pm

^ Of course, but that's a change of focus. Those companies did something that doesn't really suit my needs.

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Unread post by bones » Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:04 pm

GekkoP wrote:Shit happens, I suppose: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02 ... s_unblock/
As usual, it seems money talks louder than principles. It seems I dropped ABP/ABE at the right time.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:26 pm

Though ABE does not use those practices IIRC. Great we have uBlock. :)

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Unread post by bones » Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:16 pm

^ Yes, you are correct about ABE, of course.

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Unread post by dkeg » Tue Feb 03, 2015 11:46 pm

So a greedy hog

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Unread post by bones » Mon Feb 09, 2015 2:49 pm

The Distrowatch folks have launched a new website that keeps track of crypto-currencies, same look and feel:

http://cryptocoin.cm/

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