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by 2ion 8y ago
> stories broken by NYT, WSJ, Washington Post etc These newspapers are useless. I'm interested in increased resolution of reporting on my immediate environment, I want to know about the backstabbing and backroom deals local politici
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by 2ion 8y ago
That problem is easily solved at other places in the FS stack. Use an crypto overlay like EncFS and sync only encrypted data. Alternatively, even stream encrypted updates to a directory via a gpg job and sync the encrypted blobs. Another la
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by 2ion 8y ago
In my spare time / hobby projects, I'm ready to don my FOSS advocate hat, but as a businessman and employee, I'm practically ignoring all issues with the lack of F in OSS. Many thanks to those who can afford to live by their
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by 2ion 8y ago
> It always seems odd to me that people still plan their lives as though the world fifty years from now will be basically the same as now Even planning for anything 10 years in the future is a daunting task. For any prognosis there are a
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by 2ion 8y ago
Can't even fathom how many MSc educated people in the sciences would never, ever consider teaching due that laughable pay (even worse when converted to hourly) when compared even to the lowest-paying industry jobs. That's not how
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by 2ion 8y ago
Firefox has gained a feature called multi-account containers several releases back solving exactly this kind of problem in a slick way: Your tabs can be assigned to different accounts (represented by different colors/names/icons (
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by 2ion 8y ago
I've stopped using Google Maps as a map altogether and subscribe to the service of a navigation map maker directly. Their maps (they do combine proprietary materials and sources like OpenStreetMap) are of higher quality and have a sati
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by 2ion 8y ago
> * Less work than blogging, way more benefits > > * Build a community around your inbox > > * Only share the emails you intend to It's just a fancy mailing list then? Minus the SMTP leg, plus privacy/consent issues
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by 2ion 8y ago
Yes, most tarballs do not support random access (there are some metadata extensions that allow this). This makes large tarballs annoying to use on systems with slow disk I/O (even a hard disk may be too slow (to the degree of being ann
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by 2ion 8y ago
Reverting to the classic Win9x/2000 style is what I do still immediately when using a Windows computer. As opposed to the horrible flat/white/modern design that govers Windows 10 and the web, it makes using the UI easier : E
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by 2ion 9y ago
It's the gospel of someone who experienced, by common standards, extreme success. No more, no less. I find his essays mostly to be opinion pieces without exceptional insights or conclusions that would make them stand out if they were n
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by 2ion 9y ago
Unsustainable (human) populations should shrink, which is alright and can't happen fast enough. A pragmatic and realist approach to demographic management, long overdue by today, I think, was last workable on a large scale in China (1-
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by 2ion 9y ago
Absolutely true. At work, we use 16.04 and Plasma in the version that shipped with it is very unbecoming. A stark contrast to what actually maintained, recent versions of the DE bring to the table.
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by 2ion 9y ago
Regardless of what the court supports, this outcome is the direct effect of the court's ruling although it is not proportional to the scope of the ruling. Admittedly, I phrased it in a catchy manner.
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by 2ion 9y ago
Fabulous :S The second time in 6 months German courts violated the public interest and ruled in favour of vested corporate intrests with an affect on me: * In late 2017, a useless commercial weather forecast outlet (aggregating its data its
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by 2ion 9y ago
I used most of these in an application's personal statement to a program at an internationally leading university…
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by 2ion 9y ago
> Absolute absolute majority of children in poverty and without access to education are born outside the USA. That's a fact. Just that doesn't mean that the USA would do better now or in the future with more poor people giving
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by 2ion 9y ago
> So those who benefit the most from resource depletion (i.e. those who can afford the hypothetical Baby Tax) would be free to have as many babies as they want, while the poor, already impeded in most activities and burdened by the cost
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by 2ion 9y ago
Their service may be good enough but they are hardly investing enough into their product at the moment. mailbox.org is also not a core product of theirs. Just read through the forums (mostly in German); there are basic features/aspects
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by 2ion 9y ago
Hosting such a project on Github, a US-based company which responds to DMCA requests, is perhaps not the most sensible choice.
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by 2ion 9y ago
> Upstream has been working on adding more btrfs-like features to XFS, but I believe that RHEL encourages using devicemapper snapshots (which you then format with XFS). Exactly, mountable and mergable snapshots have been supported by a L
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by 2ion 9y ago
Assuming you're dualbooting Linux and a Windows version: Linux keeps the RTC in UTC by default while Windows expects localtime and can't handle the conversion from UTC transparently if required. Configure Linux to use localtime as
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by 2ion 10y ago
I've always been guarding against such things whenever I passed through a non-free or otherwise questionable country's air ports: Laptop contents were pruned of everything, leaving just the base OS, and data was stored redundantly
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by 2ion 10y ago
Likewise; but one thing I've noticed is that most of the people in these videos support families. The reality is, the new lower middle class cannot support families with a single provider anymore.
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by 2ion 10y ago
Somehow the grey metal Mac Pro case shown beside the current Mac Pro and this Mac Pro concept design looks to me much better and functional than any of the other two. It makes a much more professional, high-quality, clean impression and has
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by 2ion 10y ago
The guy who did minimallyminimal.com did this several times, and it (probably) got him hired at Microsoft. It was interesting to see the progression of quality and scope of his work as I was following the blog since quite a long time before
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by 2ion 10y ago
Weechat lacks passive DCC. Otherwise, considering the respective plugin ecosystems, both can be made look and work pretty much alike.
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by 2ion 10y ago
This person for the reason of being famous can afford to run their own personal website based on a sponsorship model. Though I find it hilarious that some people are even OK with paying him anything to begin with as the cost of running such
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by 2ion 10y ago
Not to mention using Inkscape for filling in broken PDF forms…it's a major part of my workflow whenever I have to deal with such PDF files.
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by 2ion 10y ago
There's an inkscape cask for homebrew. You should be able to compile it on your own too.

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