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Re:"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"
on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:28PM (#47318796)
I remember from the Gentoo days that when you compiled PyPy from source it would generate a Mandelbrot in ANSI art during the compilation. I was so impressed!
Re:Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous
on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:16PM (#32048548)
how can you cheat on chess?
Re:Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002
on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:26PM (#30645559)
Before Arch, the Gentoo wiki was a gold mine for technical details. Until they lost it all and didn’t have any backups.
Re:Apple Open Source
on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:05PM (#29502925)
Did you also know that it actually spawns the `sjeng` command line binary as an NSTask and attaches to stdin and stdout. So basically it’s just a fancy GUI around the Text based UI :)
Re:Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms?
on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:20AM (#26769481)
The battery life of the Nest Protect is also incredible! I have them for 3 years already without changing the batteries.
Re:China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:23PM (#26731533)
I see it mainly of getting rid of physical money faster. Ofcourse people already use alipay, wechat pay and they spearheaded it. The expiration timer is most likely to incentive people to use this over wechat and alipay and get faster usage feedback.
Note that wechat and alipay are commercial companies. So having a national digital currency does have benefits
Re:Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:16PM (#26730566)
The CTF part made me confused though, was this bugbounty part of some CTF?