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10 Insane Hacks for Google Chrome to Try in 2017

Copying and pasting a phrase or word can be too tiring so the next time you want to conduct a search try this hack. Highlight your word and then right click on it then directly do a Google search and save yourself the hustle. If you are using Mac you can …
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It’s the next morning and what Trump said about the Internet sounds no less insane

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s unspeakably bigoted and un-American proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country – including U.S. citizens — is rightfully garnering most of the outrage and headlines since it spilled from his fevered mind yesterday. But what this dangerous demagogue had to say about the Internet deserves a fair amount of attention as well, if for no other reason than it’s scary as all hell:  

“We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”

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Twitch’s latest insane adventure: Installing Linux

Twitch playing Pokémon was easy mode. Tomorrow, Twitch viewers will be invited to do something altogether more challenging: install Arch Linux. Using the same Twitch chat-driven concept as the collaborative Pokémon playthrough, anyone will be able to enter commands and control the installation process.

Normally, installing Linux is quicker and easier than winning Pokémon. The install processes have been made broadly idiot-proof, especially if you’re installing into a safe virtual machine environment and so don’t even run the risk of clobbering a disk accidentally. But if Twitch chat has accomplished anything, it’s breeding a better idiot, one that is mindlessly bloody-minded, and so we fully anticipate that there will be trolling. Trolling Pokémon revolved principally around getting stuck repeatedly in menus and releasing captured Pokémon—annoying to those trying to complete the game but little that would force players to start from scratch.

Linux, in contrast, opens the door to a whole world of exotic trolling opportunities. There are old classics such as rm -rf / to wipe the disk, or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda to really wipe the disk. There’s the casual annoyance of kill -9 1, or comedy options such as the bash fork bomb of :(){ :|:& };:. We wouldn’t be surprised to see the machine casually trapped in a reboot loop or have its hardware removed to leave it incapable of I/O.

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