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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:12PM (#10847636)
You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.

(Sorry. I'll take your downboats and be on my way. I could not resist.)

Re:DNS conformance test program on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:18PM (#10836833)
>This package is available under a Creative Commons License. You can download the source code here.

Peculiar choice of license for software. Also, having downloaded the package and done a quick grep, I don't see them mentioning which CC license. It's important to mention. Also, the package includes a lot of IETF RFC documents, the license of which are still not quite clear to me.

I suggest that they use the ISC license [0] for the next release of their source code and that they make the license of the included IETF RFC documents clear.

This all being said, it looks to be a nice project and I wish them good luck with it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license

Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:33AM (#10835507)
Which pony?
Re:Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:45AM (#10830413)
AoE II HD [1] and AoE II HD: The Forgotten [2] are currently on 80% discount holiday sale on Steam.

Offer ends in 29 hours and 15 minutes as of this writing.

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380

[2]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/239550

Re:Windows 95 booting on a Nintendo 3DS on Sunday January 03, 2016 @06:21AM (#10830261)
Submitted Engadget article rather than original forum thread because the thread has a low signal-to-noise ratio.

Did not retain title of Engadget article because it's so clickbaity.

Re:FreeBSD on the raspberry pi on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:32AM (#10830166)
The title of this post -- "FreeBSD on the raspberry pi" -- is not very descriptive. The title seems to imply that running on the Raspberry Pi is news, which it's not, as myself or anyone else already running FreeBSD on our Pi can attest to. I'd suggest changing the title to "Patch posted to have FreeBSD use armv6hf target arch by default for the Raspberry Pi" -- however, someone just commented on the Pull Request:

>armv6 is already hard float, all armv6hf gives you is it will pass floating-point data to functions in floating-point registers. I also expect that armv6 will be using the hard float ABI soon (within a month) an at this time armv6hf will be removed.

So maybe just remove the post all together?