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Teddy has sold most if not all of his shares in Playtech and other gambling related businesses[1].

Also calling every one who ever served in 8200 an Israeli spy is ridiculous. Military service is mandatory in Israel. Lots of kids serve in 8200 because they get assigned there for their affinity for math and computers. Most of them do menial Ops tasks, I interview them occasionally for junior positions.

Here are some Israel startups founded by "spies": ICQ, CheckPoint, Wix ...

[1] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-sagi-bows-out-of-playtech...


True. In such case you need to create a different symlink within the same filesystem and then use "mv" to atomically overwrite the current symlink.

ln -sfn target new && mv -Tf new old


There is a famous Soviet joke about it.

Question to Armenian Radio:

- What is American embassy built from?

- Micro-concrete.

- What's Micro-concrete?

- 10% concrete, 90% microphones


I tried to switch to Firefox lately after this new speedy version had been released. I really underestimated how good Chromium is. Basic stuff, like in page search(Ctrl+F) is awful after Chromium experience. Resistance to copying omni-bar is silly. Crashes every day. The UX is bad compared to Chromium. Spent month dealing with it and just abandoned this endeavor. Really sad, i want Firefox to be better.


"Resistance to copying omni-bar"? It seems to work OK for me. What are you trying to do and how does Firefox resist it?

"Crashes every day"? I can't remember the last time I had a Firefox crash; maybe this is OS-dependent. (I use it on Windows and on FreeBSD; how about you?)

"The UX is bad compared to Chromium" -- obviously if you're used to one program's UX then another's may seem obtuse. What about the Firefox UX is actually bad as opposed to different? (For what it's worth, to me FF and Chrome seem very similar to use.)

(I think I agree about ctrl-F, which on some particular pages seems to misbehave on Firefox in ways I don't understand.)


I'm one of those people who can't use Firefox thanks to the frequent crashing. It happens for me at least once a day, particularly when I have the same site open in multiple tabs. I get a yellow bar saying a script is slowing down this website, and ALL the tabs lock up thanks to it. If you're lucky enough to kill all the impacted tabs (you're rarely that lucky, it's that unresponsive) your browsing experience from then on will be bad, and the whole browser will need restarting.

I haven't seen a Chrome crash in years, yet the Firefox ones are very frequent. Not that I want to switch, I might be the only one here who is happy with Chromium on all my PCs!


Interesting! I occasionally get the "a script is slowing down this website" message, but not nearly so often and killing the affected tabs seems to work OK. I guess some pages are super-extra-bad for Firefox. Or perhaps some extension you have is causing grief? (Though that should be much less able to happen in the era of WebExtensions.)


>Resistance to copying omni-bar

I think he was referring to the fact that Mozilla is still unsure about unifying the address and search bars. They only show an unified bar on fresh profiles, IIRC. What he thinks is wrong with keeping distinct bars, besides being different from Chrome, I don't know.


If whoever downvoted the above would care to tell me what they find unsatisfactory about it, I'm all ears. (For the avoidance of doubt, I mean that; I'm not just being snarky.)


I haven't had Firefox crash in years, and I use nightly for all of my day-to-day browsing. Chrome crashes or locks whenever I iterate on a canvas based game after some amount of refreshes.


I get where you coming from. It's really easy to underestimate the rip current. This might be very dangerous, especially if you are not a good swimmer, it can take you off shore and drown you if you panic and waste your strength fighting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rip+current


nothing is taking her off shore, waves are going towards beach, there are people standing, not swimming, all around here, including guy holding her legs and back after putting on safety vest, watch the video again, especially the end

this video was published by drone company and they made sure most outlets will include exact brand and model in the text body, some of them even in headline, once again very poor marketing attempt


He didn't cause any damages. He reported the issue including the pass he purchased as evidence and it was invalidated.


Here is Trevor explaining this image in his presentation:

https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...


Mine(Ubuntu) differs:

       It is usually recommended to only use usernames that begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, followed by lower case letters, digits, underscores, or
       dashes. They can end with a dollar sign. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]?

       On Debian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash ('-') nor plus ('+') nor tilde ('~') nor contain a colon (':'), a comma (','),
       or a whitespace (space: ' ', end of line: '\n', tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a slash ('/') may break the default algorithm for the definition of the
       user's home directory.


Don't know about Seattle but my ISP does run a transparent proxy that does mitm for http and caches files. They use http://www.peerapp.com/ devices to do so. I was also successful in poisoning their cache quite easily


"[Upstart] currently has no way to adjust the maximum number of file descriptors, or limit memory usage"

That's weird, because that's one of the things i like about Upstart. The ability to set pam limits and others in the same file. Upstart seems to support the same options Runit memory wise: stack, data, memlock ...

limit nofile 10000 10000

limit nproc 1024 1024

nice 3

chroot /var/roots/mychroot

[0] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas#limit


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