Aelius

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by Aelius 8y ago
Flatpak to the rescue!
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by Aelius 8y ago
I like to run a pretty lean system, and flatpak gives me the ability to install some of the bloatier packages without the deep system dependencies they bring with them in a package manager. Installing a PDF reader should not forcibly instal
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by Aelius 8y ago
I'll through in a cross platform RSS solution: http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ I found a project similar to this, but unfortunately I can't find it again. Rawdog is a little rough around the edges, but wor
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by Aelius 8y ago
> I absolutely want to see every post of my friend's blog I handle this by subdividing my feeds into useful categories- a feature which every RSS client supports. My friend's blogs are placed in a category alongside other low-v
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by Aelius 8y ago
> inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the idea completely And this is precisely why it's insane and counterproductive to have unread counts on an R
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by Aelius 8y ago
Honestly I've always found MTP to be incredibly slow and sometimes unreliable. I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.
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by Aelius 8y ago
Doesn't matter what you play a vinyl on, vinyls are just going to be worse than CDs, despite what proponents tell you. When you extract the audio by literally scraping a piece of metal across the surface- every time you play a vinyl, y
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by Aelius 8y ago
This is true, which is one of the reasons why this writeup is misleading. You almost certainly need to exercise, because your body will adapt to simply eating less. When it can't adapt, you're probably starving yourself, which i
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by Aelius 8y ago
PSA: GNOME Software is a frontend to flatpak repositories. It's not a frontend for your package manager. Since flatpak provides security benefits, instead of removing Gnome software, he should have been removing duplicate packages from
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by Aelius 8y ago
In fact I wrote an image/tag database solution entirely in shell/coreutils. It's too disgusting to share.
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by Aelius 8y ago
Huh. Didn't think HN would be the place to find anti science sentiments. Seeing a lot of antivaxxer type logic being employed here in the comments.
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by Aelius 8y ago
Scihub would strongly benefit from moving to ipfs, shocked that hasn't happened yet.
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by Aelius 8y ago
Interesting stuff, but given bash's - Relative unportability - Poor noncompliant sh interpreter - Poor performance (can be 4x slower than POSIX sh shells like dash for certain tasks) I personally think bash is always the wrong choice.
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by Aelius 9y ago
I'm actually pretty surprised that the comments here are discussing the complexity of the USB C spec. That may well be true, but somehow I think Nintendo would have screwed it up no matter how simple you try to make it... The Wii and W
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by Aelius 9y ago
Sci hub seems like the perfect candidate for ipfs, I'm astounded the mirrors haven't implementated that yet.
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by Aelius 9y ago
Except h.264 videos have hw accel behind them (faster + less power draw) and use less data, making them doubly preferable on mobile as well.
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by Aelius 9y ago
More good news: expect to see Fx60 on Fdroid. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/making-it-easier-for-f-droid-to-...
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by Aelius 9y ago
There is, of course, the web interface.
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by Aelius 9y ago
I love efi for a similar reason: I still use bootloaders, but I don't have to chainload them or otherwise slow down my boot process with a menu asking which OS I should start. Default boot into OS #1. If I want any other OS, I manipula
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by Aelius 9y ago
Commenting to offset the negativity: I'm looking forward to flatpak, and I currently use firejail + liberal use of `chromium --user-data-dir=~/.config/chromium-<website>`. Because web-app based software and web-services
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by Aelius 9y ago
I agree with all the complaints about electron performance, but the thing that really gets me is how horribly developers fail at responsive design, with a toolset that is probably the most suited for responsive design since terminals. How t
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by Aelius 9y ago
Interestingly I have the exact opposite experience, especially since the rise of github. High quality floss software is everywhere, and closed proprietary crap is suffering if only because without github they still rely on forums or email f
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by Aelius 9y ago
Luckily Slack has the IRC and XMPP bridges. can't imagine any other protocols with a wealth of highly performant clients to choose from. Unlucky for me, my admins refuse to enable the bridges and also won't grant me an API key for
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by Aelius 9y ago
Maybe I've misunderstood something, but if gmail didn't do this, what's to stop me from sending emails that look like they come from your address?
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by Aelius 9y ago
Perhaps a better place to start the discussion about the legality of ipfs would be to ask if bittorrent is illegal in Europe. After all, if even one seeder is online somewhere in the world, a torrent is accessible and cannot be deleted. Doe
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by Aelius 9y ago
IANAL but I don't believe ipfs in of itself runs afoul of "right to be forgotten". Skimming Wikipedia, "the right to be forgotten" only requires search engines to not index things which are "deleted", or m
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by Aelius 9y ago
This makes a convincing argument for the general adoption of ipfs as a the backbone of the internet. As I understand it, nothing can be truly deleted, you only need to know what the hash of the object was and chances are it will still be ac
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by Aelius 10y ago
Windows 7 would forcibly shut down and reboot, without warning or indication, if you delayed updates long enough. Any laptop I owned with 7 could and often did spontaneously restart, no matter what I was doing. I'm not shy about instal
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by Aelius 10y ago
It probably has something to do with the tampering of copy protection, which companies would very much like to be illegal. An arrest does not equate to a conviction; there's a chance the charges may not stick, but I don't know Jap
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by Aelius 10y ago
At least in the US, I don't believe there is any precedent that establishes it is illegal to alter a product. There is always push back by companies, but it seems that the general trend is always in favor of the consumer (see, rooting

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