Endy

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by Endy 8y ago
I've never been crazy enough to ask this; but it's simple - Do you actually want to be doing this work, or do you do this work because you need to survive?
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by Endy 8y ago
Are you personally making profit? Are your paychecks coming in regularly, and your lifestyle still being supported? If that's the case, then back down and don't sweat the rest of it. I understand your idea that you want to be pa
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by Endy 8y ago
Why should the LA Times keep supporting the EU after GDPR when their financial base is entirely in the US - and the paper's online presence mostly is based on serving ads and retrieving data?
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by Endy 8y ago
As a private user, I just use either Clonezilla Live or an old version of Norton Ghost, and burn that to media (DVD-RW lately, it used to be CD-RW until that became unfeasible, and before that floppies). I prefer the RWs because that means
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by Endy 8y ago
Any time you allow the browser to do something without user input, you take away more user control and put it in the hands of a browser developer. That's a mistake.
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by Endy 8y ago
By the same token, people can choose to watch videos on YouTube/Dailymotion/Vimeo; or they can seek out self-hosted videos on the same topic all over the internet, which they can either stream or download to their device of choice
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by Endy 8y ago
I like the idea of PeerTube, but there are many hurdles. Anyone whose ISP/firewall/etc blocks all Torrent traffic is going to have a major challenge - which means that while part of what PeerTube has been so far is educational vid
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by Endy 8y ago
Really? I don't agree here. I've never seen any that weren't being pushed to one of the major podcast apps - and thusly centralized. I mean, the whole term comes from the fact that it was originally downloadable to your iPod
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by Endy 8y ago
It still works for basic notetaking and prewriting in Win7 - both native and (even better) in DOSBox.
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by Endy 8y ago
I mean, I respect that concept; but just for my lifestyle, if someone is sending me .txt files with non-DOS/Windows line-endings, I'm talking to the wrong people.
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by Endy 8y ago
I'll skip it thanks. Notepad, and EDIT.COM, work well for what they're meant to do - be basic text editors on the Windows/MS-DOS platform.
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by Endy 8y ago
To stretch the pained metaphor further and disagree, it's like when the employee does not tell you about the low-cost item, but only the vaguely related but high-commission item.
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by Endy 8y ago
Did Links/eLinks/Lynx not provide a better benefit in terms of bandwidth? It seems like trying to process it the way you're doing would lead to more overall load, rather than less.
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by Endy 8y ago
I'm just waiting for the massive deadly accidents to happen when some teenager hacks the system and decides to have "fun".
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by Endy 8y ago
Requiring a full version of WebExtensions Firefox is a real deal-breaker in terms of memory hogging (that and only having an x64 Windows binary). Why not do what Pale Moon, SRWare Iron, Chrome-Opera, Vivaldi (i.e. Opera-Chrome 2), and othe
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by Endy 8y ago
As someone who's done some email marketing and sales, I would avoid cold emails as a starter tactic. I'd start off by leveraging platforms like LinkedIn Groups, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, etc. Rather than start with email, start
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by Endy 8y ago
No, the Web I want is a free and open sharing of ideas and passion projects without all the added nonsense. It's fine if corporations have a limited presence, but frankly speaking, I believe we need to go back to Web 1.0. I'd ha
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by Endy 8y ago
Yes, that is a primary argument. Information exists and is meant to be free. None of the "software companies" would exist without free access to data. I support public libraries over media retailers 100% of the time, as well. On t
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by Endy 8y ago
There's a difference here - the transaction of physical goods. There's also a big difference between, "You offered me a burger, you have signs saying I could get burgers here, and there are large groups that index you as the
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by Endy 8y ago
Nope, they had a spider-crawler and a full engine along with the human-curated Directory.
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by Endy 8y ago
Why do you trust Google enough to do this?
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by Endy 8y ago
I forget where I first saw this quoted, but it's relevant here: "There is no 'cloud', only someone else's computer". That's part of why I store very little data online, compared to most people (or the dat
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by Endy 8y ago
Why does it matter whether you're making millions of dollars? If you have any information which you would like to not lose for any reason, back it up in as many formats and locations as is feasible.
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by Endy 8y ago
I always expected a die roll from the day I first installed Wesnoth. Then again, I had some tabletop war game / tactical game experience by that point (as well as the original X-COM), so it really would have been more surprising if Wes
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by Endy 8y ago
I mean, given what Blender is, having tutorial videos accessible by anything other than desktop browsing isn't a hopeless or horrible thing. Every Blender user has a desktop or laptop (or has modded something to heck and back in order
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by Endy 8y ago
To add to that, there's also the fact that any user of any ISP that throttles/blocks torrent traffic is probably going to have the same experience. Plus the fact that there's at least two people I know whose ISPs actually cu
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by Endy 8y ago
Isn't it nice when your expectations are exceeded? But seriously, Archive.org has done a lot in the last few years to improve its multimedia streaming - take a look at some of the music, radio shows, and audiobooks they have up there.
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by Endy 8y ago
Pretty much, I was more thinking about these: https://archive.org/details/lets-play But, yes. And there's already at least some version of Big Buck Bunny up there, so it's not like there isn't Blender c
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by Endy 8y ago
I wouldn't be happy about any loss of life, you're right. However, has the Smyte situation led to anyone coming to physical harm or put in mortal danger? If it has, I'm sorry, I didn't see anything about that. What I&#x
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by Endy 8y ago
I still stand by my earlier suggestion - break away from Alphabet; release videos directly through archive.org & Wikimedia.

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