Crespyl

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by Crespyl 8y ago
Today is Setting Orange, the 4th day of Confusion in the Year Of the Linux Desktop 3184.
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I encountered Processing after I'd already learned the very basics of programing, but found it invaluable as a tool for quickly experimenting while learning practical concepts. Daniel Shiffman's excellent book "The Nature of
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It is federated in a manner similar to traditional email. There are many different servers with many users on each one, it's straightforward to run your own server, and users on server A can easily communicate with users on server B.
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> improve your browsing experience In advertiser-speak, "relevant and interesting ads" are an "improvement to your browsing experience". Actual end-users may have a slightly different interpretation on what constitu
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> When you write a piece, if you want to delete it so that no one else can read it, it should be your right. Right up until you publish it in a public journal or newspaper, at which point you have no right to demand that every other read
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by Crespyl 9y ago
For what it's worth, ScummVM supports Riven pretty well, and you can get the game itself off of GOG.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
The assets for Myst at least should be in decent shape, or at least the ones used in the real-time 3D Myst Live (I think that was the title) remake from a few years back. I seem to recall hearing that there wouldn't be a similar Riven
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Ars is the only news site I actually have a subscription for. I'd always appreciated their journalism, and learning about the fulltext RSS feed was the feature that got me to sub. I'd love to see more sites offering that optio
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by Crespyl 9y ago
With git it's usually possible to set your config file to enable a given feature by default, unless you override it with a flag. The `--color-moved` one for example can be toggled on with `git config --global diff.colorMoved default`.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Gum seems to be fairly traditional. Obviously the goal is "not inhaling things that aren't air".
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by Crespyl 9y ago
The ads are obnoxious and the way every "app"/service implements their own interface with quirky behavior (Does the "up" button show the timeline, pause, or take you back out to the episode/series selection scr
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I've also been a long time Emacs+Org mode user, and while I was aware of babel and the ability to tangle literate programming documents, it simply never occurred to me that I could execute those snippets in-place and manipulate the res
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Have you mostly used Android/Tablet based readers like the Kindle Fire or similar? I have similar issues with lots of online services for more than just ebooks, but it seems like the e-ink devices (I use a Kobo) tend to be more minimal
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Sears, a few decades ago.
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I suspect the percentage of podcasts sponsored by squarespace is probably even higher than that
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For what it's worth, I've occasionally noticed similar problems with frames (embedded content from other sites especially), and it seems that force-reloading the page with ctrl-shift-r gives a different behavior than the reload bu
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Old extensions won't ever really work again, but part of me is still kind of holding out hope for WebExtensions API features for things like "allow extension on 'system' pages (new tab, settings, etc)", "focus
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by Crespyl 9y ago
This will be a problem on any platform that allows users to choose their own names. IIRC, for quite a while Slack even allowed two people in the same channel to have identical display names.
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Discord is an Electron app, so while it's not as bad as Slack, it's still hardly what I'd call lightweight, especially in comparison to IRC/XMPP clients. There's a lot to like in Discord, and it rapidly became the g
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I don't necessarily believe that FB was literally listening to the phone mic, but it is the case that the FaceBook app was a notorious battery hog.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I use uBO and uMatrix which work well together. uMatrix has "block third party resources by default" behavior that can be precisely customized per domain and resource type (eg, allow images and css but not scripts or XHRs).
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I'd be so excited for an Honor series. Of my favorite space operas, it's definitely one of the more readily TV-adaptable ones (arguably more easily so than Culture), especially after the success of The Expanse.
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by Crespyl 9y ago
I find auto-complete/suggestions to be mildly annoying at best, and auto-correct (anything that retroactively changes what I've entered) to be physically unpleasant to use. That said, gestural input does feel significantly more na
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by Crespyl 9y ago
That said, if you use a multiplexer like tmux, I think it would be able to capture the internal highlighting it uses, which can be mouse driven.
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> Facebook isn't trying to instill fear Except for when they're running psychological experiments designed to manipulate the emotional state of their users.
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> not sure how mature it is I've been following the project for a while and the answer, unfortunately, is "not very". It does actually work as a sink (WiFi P2P discovery included) and there's a WIP branch with source
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I think maybe "coming to the mainstream" fits better. I too saw it in Ada in school, and of course Haskell and friends have had them for ages. There does seem to be recent trend of popular, highly visible languages that are addin
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> I knew because I could see them that they weren't inherently dangerous. Software doesn't have the same analogy in this space. This has a lot more to do with manufacturers unethical approach to closed and obfuscated opaque sof
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Regarding keyboard shortcuts, at least, on a desktop there are standard affordances for showing what keys will trigger an action. When browsing a menu bar or looking at a dialogue, labels will usually have an underlined letter (sometimes re
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by Crespyl 9y ago
Alternatively, the service provider could implement a procedural jingle generation system to produce a short, catchy customized song to help them recall the number. 0118999881999119725....3

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