Andrex

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by Andrex 3y ago
It's just weird to me, "Mir" is a pretty unique name, and there's two softwares out there using it.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Don't know if it's worth pointing out, but Mir is Canonical's competitor to Wayland for Ubuntu's display server.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Probably the posters involved. Blessing and a (minor) curse that HN doesn't use avatars. Harder to avoid commenters you know you don't like.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Google didn't invent the idea of a web crawler or search engine. Because of how the web was designed, I think it was always an inevitability that the internet would start open but trend closed.
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by Andrex 3y ago
> This is even more apparent with BOTW/TotK where despite these being different from Zelda, an open world with zelda skinned on it, I still need to play it. A more charitable read of the situation is that you've grown attached
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by Andrex 3y ago
10 years ago I would have called you an extremist. 5 years ago I would have said ads are a necessary evil, but there's a lot of substance to your argument. Today, I almost completely agree. Fuck ads.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Honestly, we need a physical product that's like 30 bucks and the size of a USB stick (or Ras Pi for the MVP). It includes 3 years of free hosting for your domain name, a small web server, and a sync service that copies your files to a
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by Andrex 3y ago
YouTube and Google are saints compared to Meta and Microsoft, I'm sorry. And I'm someone who is actively deGoogling themselves right now. Microsoft got so bad I had to switch operating systems (no real love lost, but I really did
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by Andrex 3y ago
Would love a source either way.
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by Andrex 3y ago
Exactly. You think Nintendo prioritizes quarterly growth at the expense of everything else? No. Companies are not mindless money machines, they're run by people who make decisions. I feel like post-80s Americans totally lost the concep
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by Andrex 3y ago
I have JavaScript disabled by default and enable it on my bookmarks and when necessary on random new websites I visit. I have no problem turning on JS for a web app. I understand Google Maps just couldn't really work how it's expe
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by Andrex 3y ago
I'll bring it up as many times as is necessary: it's disgraceful that Mastodon forces JavaScript to be enabled for viewing (not even usage).
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by Andrex 3y ago
> If programmers paid half the attention their code deserves, I bet most of the software we use would be 2x faster, on average I'm so sick hearing about "lazy devs." Because I was one! I left a programming career because J
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About the Squarespace purchase of Google Domains registrations(support.google.com)
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by Andrex 3y ago
People blindly parroting memes don't exhibit discernment or intelligence? Whoah.
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by Andrex 3y ago
> People understand that a T-Mobile customer can send a text to an AT&T customer. They understand that a Samsung owner can call an iPhone owner. Meanwhile, every European techie under the sun is still breathlessly shouting "WHAT
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by Andrex 3y ago
I view investors like I view critics of media: necessary for society in small doses, but otherwise contributing little value of their own into the world. And my threshold for having "too much" of these is pretty low...
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by Andrex 3y ago
> I hardly believe even more than 1% of email users even know about its federated nature You're completely ignoring the corporate world, which may outweigh consumer email use (dunno, but it wouldn't surprise me.) G Suite isn&#x
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by Andrex 3y ago
They lost a techie like me when their main web app refuses to even display without JS. And I say that as a JS guy. Open stuff with aims as big as Mastodon should work on as many devices as possible.
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by Andrex 3y ago
GB Studio 3 is the shit. Thanks for (unintentionally?) being apart of that!
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by Andrex 3y ago
Is legitimate GB publishing making a comeback like I've always dreamed?! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009454
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by Andrex 3y ago
Morally, maybe. Legally, no.
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by Andrex 3y ago
If this is the same emulator ejected by GB Studio when it exports to web, that makes sense. All GB Studio projects on Itch.io likely use your emu too! https://itch.io/games/made-with-gb-studio 725 listed so far (lots o
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by Andrex 3y ago
> What I don’t understand is how they used an unencrypted form of communication for such important topics. ? What would encryption have changed? Apple were compelled to produce these as part of Epic v. Apple.
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by Andrex 3y ago
That idea is so cool. Eve and Dust got a lot of hype for something similar but I never followed up on how it ended up working out.
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by Andrex 3y ago
It's not that hard, you find an email and you basically do a cold call. I was doing it in high school off Newgrounds (which is full of royalty free stuff too!) If your project is small and free, you're not going to land The Euryth
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by Andrex 3y ago
Counterpoint: https://www.businessinsider.com/12-year-old-builds-nuclear-r...
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by Andrex 3y ago
Thank you for clarifying! Thank you, also.
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Coincidentally, I've been going through Digg's history including v4 and their early history, because it's nostalgic for me. What people don't realize is Digg actually had four founders, depending on how you count them. O
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by Andrex 3y ago
What if... Markdown was its own MIME type and browsers rendered it with a default stylesheet? :thinking_emoji:

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