Arkanosis

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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Almost everyday, often several times per day. Changes made more than 10 years ago help to fix bugs still present today even if the codebase has changed a lot (they have commit messages, link to old tickets with more discussions ; sometimes,
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Using it daily… reading 300+ titles and around 50 full articles every day of the year… Definitely not dead for me. I can't even imagine how I'd read as much /interesting/ content in as little time without RSS.
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Quite a few, I guess, but you'd probably be more concerned about how many other domains share the same IP addresses rather than about how many IP addresses this domain resolves to. And the answer seems to be thousands of domains — whic
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
The Host header is encrypted when using HTTPS and the SNI is encrypted when using ESNI. In the best scenario (DoH + HTTPS + ESNI), ISPs only get the destination IP, not the destination domain.
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I'd be glad to pay now that I've enjoyed reading it… but I'd almost certainly not have read it if I had had to pay first. I like the approach taken (among others) by Matthew Butterick for Practical Typography [1]: I've e
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
You can get cheap 1 Gbps wired Internet in France, yet, in the 5 cities I've lived since 2016: - I actually have > 100 Mbps in 2 of them (both in the 20 biggest cities); - I painfully had > 5 Mbps in 1 of them (in the 20 bigges
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
No language is perfect, so languages either improve over time or lose to other languages which do. On why fixed release cycles are a good thing, I find this FAQ by Herb Sutter of C++ fame enlightening: https://herbsutter.com&#x2F
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I'd happily pay for well designed (ie. ergonomic, usable, intuitive, consistent) software on Linux, but: - it has to be free (as in freedom); - if it's pretty, good, but I'd never pay for something pretty at the cost of any
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Not at all (last commit to master 11 hours ago): https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/ (beware of the commit dates: they aren't necessarily in chronological order).
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I don't get why you're being downvoted, because that's an excellent question: I do that all the time: I'm using F-Droid more often than the Play Store. Actually, I haven't ever used the Play Store on my second smart
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
This. Answer “pg!” without any clue of what the objective is, and you'll end up with surprises like “oh, you know, this is for a revolutionary concept where people can check in their source code at different stages of development, so t
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Regarding 1): choosing a software stack (or any part thereof) without a clear use case is a recipe for failure. What's the use case?
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
French train traveler here. I concur. I use them to travel from France to Italy through Germany and Austria. bahn.de is a great resource and so is their Android app. Even in France, I sometimes use their schedules rather than the local ones
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
There used to be a 3D view in the Firefox dev tools which was unfortunately removed in Firefox 47. That's sad, because it was incredibly useful to understand not only the size of the elements, but their nesting and z-index as well.
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Good to know. As a non-native English speaker, I was very surprised to see that word on HN. Thanks for my first Australian English class!
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
The point of the thread is that US manages to look like a bully not because it sentenced him to prison (which it didn't, indeed), but because it placed tariffs on EU agricultural products in retaliation for it refusing its beef stuffed
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your perspective!
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I currently use a mix of SaltStack in masterless mode (for system-wide configuration) and Makefile (for user-specific configuration), both in the same git repository, and it handles pretty much everything fine, including idempotency. The th
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
If all your games are available in Steam, I see no advantage in using Lutris: in my experience, Proton works very well out of the box. For games that aren't available in Steam, Proton is of little help AFAIK, and that's where Lutr
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Well said. As the person you replied to, I find your answer helpful. Thank you!
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
For games, give Lutris a try. For years, I've been reluctant to use Wine wrappers like PlayOnLinux, for no reason other than I don't like wrappers. I always ended up getting everything working with bare Wine, but at the cost of lo
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I use Wine from time to time, because some vendors (especially hardware vendors) still expect you to have Windows for silly reasons (eg. to write an update file on an USB key for a car GPS — I'm looking at you, Renault — or to unlock a
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I believe Baloo (a KDE project) does exactly that (indexing local content). There are different tools you can then use to search for indexed data: I assume KRunner will be the closest to Spotlight, but you can search for files right from Do
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
That's my observations as well. I'd add that people share derivative work not only because they like it, but because it makes sense: upstream means much less maintenance and infrastructure work, many more opportunities for improve
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Yep: - ROC: Republic Of China (Taïwan) - PRC: People's Republic of China (China)
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I'm on Freenode from time to time, mostly for Wikimedia and a bit for free software support as well. I'd be there all the time if I had more time. I've seen a lot of people switching to XMPP, then Facebook, then Gitter, then
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
Trusting one's eyes is doomed to failure anyway. That's what PGP is for.
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
I've seen a lot of similar posts hosted on Google Plus and shared on HN in the past. They are all gone, now. Sure, Google has a horrible track record when it comes to service durability, but I wouldn't trust Facebook as a reliable
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by Arkanosis 7y ago
In my book, “Hello?” deserves no answer and I'm very fine with whoever sends that not willing to send me more emails. The previous emails might deserve an answer I just haven't had the time to send yet, but for otherwise equally i

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