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vlad003

Re:Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:38PM (#9267300)
Can you link to the example? I've been interested in doing something like this, but as far as I can tell, you can only read messages using the Graph API; there's no method for sending messages.
Re:KaTeX – Fast math typesetting for the web on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:09PM (#9129110)
Can I just add $$x^2$$ to my text and have KaTeX render it automatically (like MathJax does), or do I have to use katex.render() directly?
You can have something like this in your .bashrc:

    multitail() {
        com="tail -f "

        for arg; do
            IFS=':' read -a array <<< "$arg"
            host="${array[0]}"
            file="${array[1]}"

            com="$com <(ssh -t $host 'tail -f $file')"
        done

        eval ${com}
    }
This will take the host:file syntax of remtail and turn it into Plugawy's example. I haven't tested it, but if you echo "$com" it'll spit out Plugawy's code.
Re:Live patching for Linux 3.20 on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @03:17AM (#9031982)
That's because the <title> element only contains "LKML: " on the thread, and "LKML.ORG - the Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive" on the main page.

Maybe they forgot to keep the "unofficial" in the title?

Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters on Saturday February 07, 2015 @01:37AM (#9013292)
It's possible the false sense of security is worth more than people think. It lets them say "hey, we tried".
Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters on Saturday February 07, 2015 @01:27AM (#9013275)
I'm not sure what the benefit of HTML5 video is if you still end up being forced to use some proprietary component. You ditch Flash but now you have to run some DRM software.

And there's so much more to HTML5 than video; I disagree that lack of DRM video support would set the rest of HTML5 back in any way.

EDIT: I guess the sandboxing aspect of EME is a significant improvement over Flash running as a plugin.

Re:Lizard Squad attacks Brian Krebs on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:07PM (#8829091)
It looks like it's unstable. I can connect to it occasionally but most of the time Firefox is saying the connection was reset.
Re:Redesiging a Broken Internet: Cory Doctorow [video] on Sunday December 28, 2014 @07:27AM (#8806114)
I think that probably falls under "launch other executable code".
Re:Sleep sort (2011) on Friday December 26, 2014 @05:24AM (#8798589)
I don't know Perl, so I rewrote it in Python in an attempt to understand what's going on: [link redacted]

I'm not storing key,value pairs for elements that don't exist (not sure what the Perl code's doing), so it shouldn't be too bad in terms of space used.

Re:The Pirate Bay Back Online on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @03:36PM (#8731525)
Oddly enough, if you search for "test", you do get results. Nothing else works, though.
Scroll up. The conversation is above the linked tweet.
Re:Why Did Google Decide to Split Inbox from Gmail? on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:26PM (#8615496)
He means separate from Gmail.
Re:Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies on Friday September 26, 2014 @07:51PM (#8375487)
On Ubuntu, since 6.10, Dash has been the default system shell rather than Bash. '/bin/sh' symlinks to '/bin/dash'.
Re:Google deprecates OpenID 2.0, moves to OpenID Connect on Sunday September 21, 2014 @03:21AM (#8346552)
It looks like the OpenID Foundation considers OpenID 2.0 obsolete and OpenID Connect is the new thing: http://openid.net/developers/specs/
Re:The seL4 microkernel on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:04PM (#8103328)
Conveniently enough, I just generated myself a pdf of it: [link redacted]
Re:Google+ now lets you use any name you want on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @07:13PM (#8039695)
I find it much easier to read when the text is in columns of that width (like newspaper) than when it's full width. According to Wikipedia, it's actually recommended to put your content in columns of about 60 characters[1].

And it's not that narrow; facebook's newsfeed is about the same width as that post on my 23" monitor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_%28typography%29#Typogra...

Re:Introducing Raspberry Pi B+ on Monday July 14, 2014 @03:42AM (#8029920)
My understanding is that the Raspberry Pis are intended to be used in education. The front page says: "We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how computers work, how to manipulate the electronic world around them, and how to program."

That said, I use mine as a simple NAS for backups.

Re:Google Profits from Malware on Friday July 11, 2014 @09:08PM (#8023348)
Since you can't escape the problem, maybe it might be a good idea for sites like these to make it clear where the ads are. Something similar to the yellow/orange Ad tag on Google Search would make it clear which download buttons are ads and which ones are the ones you want.
Re:W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:29PM (#6493396)
It is the concern of the middle men, though. If content providers aren't willing to provide content, then the middle men will have no reason to exist. You can't have Netflix without any movies or shows on it.
Re:Users don't like social login on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:57PM (#5412803)
You don't have to. You can use a username.
Re:Slackware: a perfect distro? on Friday August 17, 2012 @07:55PM (#4399509)
> The only major issue facing Linux users these days, except perhaps printing, is wireless networking and sometimes even getting wired connections to work.

I never have had a problem with networking. Always worked right out of the box for the past 3 laptops and 5 distribution versions (I'm on Ubuntu). But I've had problems with suspending. I only had it working on one laptop and even then I had to make some modifications to make it work.

I'm currently using Win7 as my main OS just because of the suspending. I take my laptop with me everywhere, and having to shut down and start back up each time I need to use it is a deal breaker for me.

Re:Apple logo and the golden ratio on Friday August 17, 2012 @07:49PM (#4399477)
Amusing thing is the original was drawn by hand, so it likely didn't have all those ratios calculated accurately: http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...
Re:Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale on Sunday August 12, 2012 @08:42PM (#4374112)
Magnet links take up much less space and it's much easier to mirror TPB