I’ve been researching inexpensive mobile phones and the field is not broad. Here are the 2 phones which seem to stand out in the sub-$200 (US) price point: Motorola Moto E4 $130 specs on gsmarena review on techradar Nokia 3.1 $160 specs on gsmarena review on gsmarena review on techradar comparison on gsmarena
Facebook’s degenerate corporate culture and, specifically, its uses of data which may be technically legal (or were) but can’t withstand public scrutiny are at the heart of its business model… Facebook’s predatory corporate culture and dubious uses of data are too deeply embedded in its business model to be easily extracted. And it may not …
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This is great to see.
LLVM just lost a contributor upset by the LLVM Community Code of Conduct. In my experience projects progress much faster when people are polite and decent. The fewer jerks on any team or platform, the better.
I’ve mostly been using msmtp as a mail transport agent on my linux systems but I wanted to review what was available: nullmailer – 2.1 released 2017-Oct, nullmailer on github msmtp: 1.6.6 released 2016-Nov, msmtp on sourceforge dma – 0.11 released 2016-Feb, dma on github ssmtp – unmaintained esmtp – unmaintained My preference is something hosted on github …
I have never been in this position in my life. I have been an avid computer user since my family’s first 4.77 MHz 8088 PC circa 1986. This is the first time I’ve ever actively recommended people not buy a computer. The reason is that this is the first time all major microprocessors on the …
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I believe the rise of so many new programming languages in the past few years is in response to a reconsideration and reflection of what people like and dislike about current programming languages and not yet finding a language that is as great as they imagine a language could be. I suspect someone could write …
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Like many developers I come across Stack Overflow pages with some frequency when performing research. I came across a question to which I had an answer and I decided to was time to try and contribute. Well, my answer was deleted, and then the question was deleted, and at no time did I get any …
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I’ve disliked the NetworkManager dnsmasq integration for some time. As far as I understand it has caching turned off by default so I’m not sure what the rationale is at all. So disabling means 1 less system process and less magic on the system (since resolv.conf will reflect the actual nameserver settings rather than be …
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I’ve used dnsmasq for many years, more than a decade even, and I have no complaints. I think it works well as a lightweight DNS forwarding and caching server. But I have also been experimenting with unbound for a couple of years and recently decided to switch over my home network to use it. This …