Crinus

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by Crinus 7y ago
AFAIK Voat requires registration so it is more pseudonymous than anonymous. Also the up/down voting interfere with the messages themselves as people use them as quick "agree/disagree" without engaging in actual discussio
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not think chans are very discussion friendly (in terms of layout and functionality, not culture) though and AFAIK there is optional registration that can make people focus on the messenger instead of the message.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Instead of a conference why not just an internet forum that focuses on user anonymity (not even nicknames) so that writers can both express exactly what they think and readers can focus on the messages instead of the posters? After all the
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by Crinus 7y ago
Because i believe Wayland is fundamentally worse at a design level than X11. Why else would i post something like that? And i too have lost interest on Linux (on the desktop at least) over time (incidentally also working on games but that i
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by Crinus 7y ago
Microsoft also had CodePlex yet they acquired GitHub.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> pick up a piece here or there, and go on straight to bashing Wayland, gleefully unaware that I was one of the people making it. Don't worry, you working on Wayland doesn't make it any less sucky, it is broken at a design leve
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by Crinus 7y ago
This doesn't answer the question though. The question was "why would you buy this over a pc with the same specs?" and you answered essentially with "if you do not already know this then you cannot know this". How wo
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by Crinus 7y ago
I remember building Mozilla took around 6 hours in my PC back around 2003. Though granted, that was a Pentium II PC with only 128MB of RAM and most of those hours were probably spent with the OS (Linux) swapping stuff :-P.
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by Crinus 7y ago
And what is the point then? I'm serious since i read this "if you do not understand why then it isn't for you" but without any explanations about what isn't understood.
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by Crinus 7y ago
This reminds me of the "Why did Borland fail" story: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail/answer/Danny-Thor... (discussed on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97122
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by Crinus 7y ago
It doesn't seem to handle name collisions very well. I'm certain there were other languages called "D" before the Digital Mars one, for example.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Isn't that mainly because these weren't norm? For the vast majority of text editing software you do not type Ctrl+J for a new line after all.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I absolutely hate auto-updates on anything. Of course this is always met with "but security issues..." YOU BROUGHT SECURITY ISSUES BY MAKING EVERYTHING NETWORKED AND IN A PERPETUALLY UNFINISHED STATE!!! And of course since everyth
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by Crinus 7y ago
The moment you enter into hex editing these records is the moment that you are into trouble anyway - assuming the software is trusted in the first place. In some countries it isn't really the POS that does the bookkeeping, but a specia
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by Crinus 7y ago
I know one of the first things i'd do if i had the code would be to improve the practically abandoned MDIClient. The second would be to bring classic theme back :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I've always been a bit confused by this take, because the most likely alternative to having proprietary code in the front-end is to have proprietary code in the back-end. He'd push for AGPL for that. Also Stallman doesn'
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by Crinus 7y ago
This reminds me of my aunt's ex who is an accountant telling me in mid-2000s that his peers wouldn't take seriously any program that run in Windows because to them all the graphics gave a 'toy' feel. Apparently pretty mu
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW there are a lot of closed source freeware programs out there, especially on the Windows world. Irfanview is a very popular example. Another, not as popular in general, though quite popular in HN, is the utilities by NirSoft.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I like the idea in principle, though in practice i noticed that there are a bunch of similar lists and all of them tend to have only 6-7 sites (half of them being the same). I think there needs to be a more automated way of finding and shar
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by Crinus 7y ago
> And one other suggestion, which I made to a vice president but perhaps not in my talk. > > Release the source code of Windows under the GNU GPL. > > I know that is a stretch, but from what I heard there. it isn't t
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by Crinus 7y ago
I used a EeePC 701 for a few months. I found it perfectly fine with Window Maker, though the keyboard was awful - but it did work and i'm not a big keyboard snob anyway so i just went with it. I was able to play old games, chat on IRC
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by Crinus 7y ago
When Linux finishes initializing itself it runs /sbin/init (it is one path it tries among a bunch of others, though i think /sbin/init is the first it attempts to run - you can override that with the init= kernel paramet
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by Crinus 7y ago
A FOSS license allows an organization you dislike to continue using your software, but it doesn't require that you continue working on and providing that software on any specific way (there is the requirement in GPL to provide on reque
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by Crinus 7y ago
If an author of a free software believes that it is against his own morals to indirectly assist some organization that they see as immoral then, yes, they have the freedom to stop working on that software as there is no obligation on their
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by Crinus 7y ago
He removed his repository because it was used by a company that he thinks it did something he disliked. I don't know why it matters, at least in the grand scheme of things. For him it probably matters due to his personal views and it&#
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by Crinus 7y ago
The upward bump at the top is the line between her breasts, you can see it in the painting i linked too, but the logo is black and white so it is more obvious. It could be thinner but seems that all lines on it were drawn with the same widt
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by Crinus 7y ago
This looks to be inspired by pinup poster girls so she's most likely wearing a dress like in [1] but with her right arm on her stomach. [1] https://thewondrous.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Pinup-Ar
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by Crinus 7y ago
Mainly because it is the easiest (or simplest :-P) part of the entire page to criticize so people do that. FWIW, personally i like it (though i'd put a frame around it to emphasize the pinup poster girl style) and find it more artistic
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by Crinus 7y ago
Basically simple does not necessarily mean "easy to use". The main "easy" element about most simple stuff is "easy to understand" and that is often what is sought after when it comes to simplicity.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Wayland by itself is useless, you need other stuff to get some useful functionality, and the combination of Wayland+other stuff not only give you just a fraction of the functionality you get out of the box with Xorg but they also tend to

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