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nificantly simplifies setting
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is strange, — but true; for truth is always strange; / |
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unintelligible propositions.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1816-07-30 |
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sk’ did the last time
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s, efficient |
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Firefox trademark restrictions.
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icipated your wish to know, and provided a concrete example of
the hostility. Did you read the discussion at that URL?
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n read each news item at the above URL to find out more.
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an answering machine for my phone. Now when someone |
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own facts.” —US Senator Pat Moynihan |
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ly bad for it to be replaced. Otherwise it stays,
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at is common to those, and absent for
other countries?
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ons to!
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proprietary, and then tries to keep others from |
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awful lot of |
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rhkra...@gmail.com writes:
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 10:25:25 PM Ben Finney wrote:
> > In other words: Yes, it's inconvenient, but it's because *no one can
> > know* with confidence any more whether that key has been compromised.
>
> Well, I should study up more o
atever
signatures you find with that key any more.
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must be a radical and a rebel, for |
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he source do not use this program.” |
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F since
I started using Evince :-)
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other field.” —Erik Naggum, in _gnu.misc.discuss_ |
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Wagner, via Lily Tomlin |
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`\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it |
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ster programmer has unlimited power |
`\ and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach |
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freedom.”) |
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ustomer that you are not going |
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e site about what you're doing.
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and the Vice President's side.” —Steven Colbert, 2006-04-29 |
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Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> writes:
> On 12/03/2017 04:14 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What specific features must the device omit, to meet this criterion?
>
> Presence of internal hardware capable of radiating in cell network
> spectrum (omitti
ly?)
that must also be omitted?
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ssing opportunities. Behind every failure |
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Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 06:25:01AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The GnuBee PC-2 is being crowd-funded now (until 2017-11-30)
> > <URL:https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2/>.
>
> Terrific, thanks.
>
>
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web host where you can run
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test of the validity of any idea is |
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d to describe the specifics in bug reports to the Debian BTS.
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s is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves |
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n Wright |
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Nothin's Gonna
> STOP
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in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to |
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should know?
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i.org/community/>.
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Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> writes:
> On 07/18/2017 07:18 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Doug [2017-07-18 13:25:34-05] wrote:
> >>> My point is that most of the folks who complain about code not
> >>> being free to modify are not capable of m
e who sell video cards – who tries to deny us that freedom.
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a great idea to come in unencumbered by dogma but you |
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a musical?” |
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Albert Einstein |
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ollected Works_, 1913 |
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iscussion balkanised with some
people's responses rejected.
There are likely others, but that seems enough to answer the question.
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r Wilde, _De |
`\ Profundis_, 1897 |
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wasn't any gum under |
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y L. Mencken |
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, for making bug reports.
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ion).
> I know nobody will read this email.
You know better now.
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Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
> Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> writes:
>
> > The policy for Python in Debian requires that “/usr/bin/python’ is
> > the default Python 2 interpreter, and ‘/usr/bin/python3’ is the
> > default Python 3 interpreter.
so too.” —Voltaire, _Essay On Tolerance_ |
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ly guess, like you :-)
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be wrong. Please tell us the details so we can know better
what your system is doing.
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f software
freedom generally.
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Good sigmonster, have a cookie.)
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r you have |
`\examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.” |
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that proxy question suffice?
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Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Especially when patches are needed, you shouldn't expect those
> > patches to apply to anything except the exact upstream version. The
> > work of
ot the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he |
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ree software,
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ind an email client that correctly preserves the thread
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Kushal Kumaran <kus...@locationd.net> writes:
> Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
> > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes:
> >
> >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML
> >> in a ZIP file. Unzip
ious formats that call themselves
EPub?
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d.
SMS probably does not count as a decentralised system in the sense the
original poster is seeking.
> Google Voice
Google's services are highly centralised to a single vendor.
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s Guide To The Galaxy_, Douglas |
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