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SMS authentication on wordpress.com fail
wordpress.com recently added two step authentication. Hooray for taking security seriously! Unfortunately the setup page is full of fail:
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BT VDSL modem linkjacking HTTP URLs
Yet another reason to install HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript: It looks like our BT Hub 4 is linkjacking all HTTP URLs:
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Precycling phone directories, Oxford style
Quick guide to reducing paper waste by precycling phone directories in Oxford, UK:
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Awesomely slim Linux desktop setup
Welcome, weary traveler. I sense you have become frustrated with your distribution of choice, for incessantly reinventing the wheel, trying to adopt all the worst practices of Apple and Microsoft, providing poor documentation and/or really supporting only the most basic of setups. Fear not, for there are light-weigth, flexible, well-documented no-nonsense alternatives available.
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Ubuntu phone fundraiser
Canonical has started a fundraiser to develop an Ubuntu/Android phone. There's a 600 USD early bird tier for one day to get the phone itself, and afterwards it's a massive 830 USD.
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This automated message is provided for the sanity and convenience of the Global Academics Research Facilities personnel
From one scientist to another (neither of them me):
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Green Man Gaming web site experience
I wanted to buy the XCOM Enemy Unknown Pack (Update: sorry, the link is dead), but this was a major pain:
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The Tomorrow Girl and Other Stories
Aaron Diaz's art is hypnotizing, and the stories awesome (also in the overwhelming sense). It is the best kind of hodge-podge with stone-age anti-intellectualism satire, trans-humanism drama, weird daydreams, unresolved mysteries and more.
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A superior Linux experience with Awesome
Awesome actually lives up to its name. Short and sweet, here's why you should try it:
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Quit social job sites
I just quit two social job sites, and I don't expect I'll start using another one. After several years' membership I find that my occasional hillbilly-style urge to peek through the work-life curtains of acquaintances is not outweighed by the cons: