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If that's the case, I have to say that for the political views of many people, an LGBT flag is as disrespectful or dangerous to society as a swastika can be to any individual or group. Being unable to see that just proves further that reddit admins are biased.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything; everybody has their own views and trying to change them over the internet is a waste of time. So this off-topic for me ends here.

You can still do that using msg.exe

If you are reading this: I installed Fedora recently because I wanted to try it and I found the partitioning process to be absurdly complicated, compared to that of Debian or Ubuntu (ubiquity). I have several partitions of several operating systems in this disk and I was hesitant to continue because it wasn't very clear what the partitioner was about to do with my disk. Unfortunately that was months ago so I can't really describe what the problems were.

People in this thread don't remember the NET SEND spam from Windows Messenger. (Which was a system service and had absolutely nothing to do with MSN Messenger)

You could basically do "NET SEND 12.34.56.78 my spam message" and it would appear on the screen of your victim.

http://blogopod.com/image/2008/net-send-spam-big.gif

Spain.

The point of the "Linux on the desktop" meme was that everybody would start using free, preferently GPL'd software for everything. Android is far away from that.

Sending an MMS is very expensive and many people don't even bother to configure their mobiles to send them because they've never used them.

I am not being sarcastic and I use it and I have used it for years. I consider myself a "hardcore greybeard", or a neckbeard, which is what you actually meant ;P

I don't agree with the support thing though. Most Gentoo users are knowledgeable; developers are always on irc/forums lending support; certain commands such as `emerge --info' make it easy to figure out what the state of the machine is regarding flags/masks.

>as soon as you try to measure how well people are doing, they will switch to optimising for whatever you’re measuring, rather than putting their best efforts into actually doing good work

Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect ?

My recommendation for any kind of serious desktop use is always Gentoo. Problems like the one you mention are much easier to solve when you can pick which versions of all packages to install and which kernel flags to enable.

It's an article signed by nobody claiming three distros to be "the best distros of 2017" without any kind of serious arguments.

How did this rubbish make it to the front page? Botnet of voters?

This is exciting not only because of the Tor project itself but because this will set an example for other projects to follow.

There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.

That's why I mentioned intelligence. You need proxy wars, coups, espionage, state-funded terrorism, etc etc in other countries to maintain your power. The US excels at that.

Well... that's actually true. The US are where they are because of their military power and intelligence.

Backports are virtually useless. http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-backports/allpackages

PPAs are a very good idea but they are almost always managed by third parties and I don't trust them.

Also, upgrading the system every six months is annoying and fails too often. A rolling release decreases the friction of doing a major upgrade.

- FLAVOR: All?

- HEADLINE: Stop releasing every six months. Instead, have an LTS, like you already do, and then a rolling release that is conservative and battle-tested, like Gentoo does.

To help with the rolling release, create an infrastructure that allows you to progressively release updates that could cause problems to some users (like an evdev -> libinput or a GNOME 3.22 -> 3.24 transition)

I'm not the kind of person who hates changes, but everything that Twitter does certainly irritates me. I liked the service ten years ago when it was IRC-like. This is just one step towards their target of making it annoyingly complicated for power users. I've had this for weeks on Android (A/B testing?) and I was kind of hoping they'd drop it... nope.

I share your concerns but the protocol is open. https://core.telegram.org/mtproto

All official clients are open source so you can fork them or create a new one from scratch.

The reason curl is everywhere is that it's written in C. So obviously the author is not going to rewrite it in any other language.

This happens in Europe, at least with electricity, you can choose a tariff that is cheaper during the night and more expensive during daytime.

The rest of the people knew about this vote and they didn't care enough to vote. What are we supposed to do about that? Should we force everybody to vote?

For me to consider donating, they should consider releasing the source code.

Biting the bait: having voted for someone doesn't mean you agree with everything he promises and then with everything he does after he's been elected.

I can say this update took longer than usual. But everything went okay, from what I can tell.