Cockbrand

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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Not sure if I'm missing something when I look at the discussion here, but there's Got Your Back [0], which backs up all emails in a Gmail account as .eml files. This seems to be the easiest and most straightforward way for me. [0]
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I'm Russian. Here's how propaganda works [video](youtube.com)
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
How it can be legal for Waymo to operate a noisy lot like this right in a residential area is absolutely beyond me. Also, did Waymo really not consider the neighbors before setting up the lot? That sounds hardly credible to me.
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
Thank you for that, I only dug out the HN discussion, having read the article back when it was on the front page. Weird that the link changed like that!
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
In contrast, see “Why Russians never smile”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317859
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
> [...] the response can be something like "you should know X" or "you should know this because of Y context" and it can be discouraging. This is definitely a cultural problem. You should get clear and non-judgmental
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
For a second, I read dogmas as some kind of X-mas for dogs, and I had a hard time parsing the title. To my defense, I haven't had any coffee yet today. Anyhow, happy holidays to all of you!
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
Lately, many Presta tubes come with valve nuts that fit Schrader valve holes. The nuts look similar to this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/612j5EAmLXL._AC_UF1000,1... So there's not necessarily a need t
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
At least the federal government loves to contract McKinsey, so a lot of the profit still ends up outside of the country. I didn't find any quickly accessible data on the state government in Schleswig-Holstein, though.
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
To Heise's (slight) defense, their forum system is at least 24 years old, extrapolated from checking the date of my first comment on it. Probably even older. Apart from driving page impressions, there didn't seem to be an incentiv
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by Cockbrand 10mo ago
As someone who always thought that it'd be cool to create my own parts and components by milling, but who never actually had access to a milling workshop, I find this video extremely satisfying to watch. Thank you!
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
IIRC, amber was considered the most eye friendly color back then. The cheaper monochrome screens were green-on-black.
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
I used to have this Debian box (which was a PowerMac G4) in my hallway. It had a 1000+ day uptime, back when this kind of uptime was still cool, or at least I thought it was. At some point it was two major versions behind, and I decided to
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
The cringe is strong with this one. (Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't seen that)
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
GP maybe meant EU + US in addition to the obvious Apple + Google?
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
Haha, before looking at the price, I joked "I'm not going to buy this if it's only $99 or less." I sure didn't get disappointed.
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
In much simpler times (around the turn of the millenium), Dillo was my main browser on my Mac for a while. I loved its simplicity and speed.
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
Probably fair re: NeXTSTEP, as I never had a NeXT to play with.
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
Also somewhat similar, the first large domain name dispute in Germany, in which a person called Andreas Shell held the domain shell.de: https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/-55795?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_... German Original: h
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
Before the advent of Mac OS X, Irix definitely had the best looking, most consistent and most usable GUI of any Unix system.
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by Cockbrand 11mo ago
> Now that listening to Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 has officially become impossible outside the UK archive.org has a nice collection: https://archive.org/download/BBC_Essential_Mix_Collection And then there's
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
Loving the layout (if only it wouldn't scale to the entire window width). Generator meta tag looks credible: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) [Netscape]">
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
Slightly tangential: there's an excellent Norwegian TV series based on the premise of suddenly appearing immigrants from earlier time periods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners .
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
There has been a 50% proof of concept, 50% art project by an Austrian university professor to a similar extent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY_Kindle_Scanner https://vimeo.com/73675285
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
Mandatory mention of Raquel Meyers' amazing Petscii art: https://www.raquelmeyers.com/
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
This has been solved a long while ago, for better or for worse. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
Others have already pointed out that a knob saves a lot of space. And I'm surprised myself how usable a knob is when controlled with a vertical trackpad scroll gesture. Probably still a frustrating control on a touch screen, though.
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
You beat me to posting this. When this version of the QuickTime player came out, I couldn't understand how Apple of all companies could ship this obviously awkward control. Edit: Scrolling further down on the article, I get reminded of
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
> What makes mp3 still worth considering? A lot of people (including myself) won't re-encode their existing music collections into another lossy format to avoid degradation in sound quality. Also, as much as it sucks these days, a l
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by Cockbrand 1y ago
You could use the browser's dev tools to emulate a narrower viewport. It should also be almost trivial to create a browser extension for this, if it doesn't even exist yet.

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