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  • could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone

    This is the first thing I thought of upon reading the title, and I swear I’ve read a writeup of something that included this as a lead that led to identifying an individual (i.e. commit timestamps)



















  • That depends entirely on what you want to / need to do with your PC.

    As a teenager some 15 years ago I did use a TTY only setup on an 800 MHz Pentium for… Months, I guess? Obviously I wasn’t doing anything too immediately productive back then; I was mostly either compiling kernels or playing nethack with the wiki open in (e)links via screen for multiplexing. It was an intensely comfy experience as I recall, just a small handful of processes running at any given time.