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by Fice 9y ago
GUIs normally support keyboard navigation and TUIs can often use mouse. Some application may support keyboard poorly, but that would be the problem with that particular application, or GUI toolkit it uses, rather than the general GUI/T
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by Fice 9y ago
Is there a conceptual difference between GUI and TUI? Same UI elements, only represented by different technical means. CLI is different, but CLI does not have to be text-only.
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by Fice 9y ago
Interesting how some UIs appear to be limited either to education, end-user programming, or professional software development, and others (e.g. Smalltalk) strive to be universal and work as an integral part of the OS's user interface.
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by Fice 9y ago
> any connected device can read and write directly from your RAM Which means that unrestricted Thunderbolt can be used to access DRM-protected data...
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by Fice 9y ago
The sole purpose of existence of a corporation is to make money, and it would be strange to expect them to be nice and not use every opportunity for profit. Thus, enforcing ethics is a consumer responsibility: if you believe that something
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by Fice 9y ago
The Teredo protocol (implemented by miredo-client on GNU/Linux) provides a simple way to get a public dynamic IPv6 address on a host behind NAT. Combined with dynamic DNS this solves the problem of accessing my devices from anywhere I
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by Fice 9y ago
In Fossil the good use case is supported by using private branches: when you merge a private branch into a public branch, only the merge commit is pushed, the private branch remains private.
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Fossil – Next Generation(fossil-scm.org)
208 points by Fice 9y ago|123 comments
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by Fice 9y ago
Windscribe.com appears to be behind Cloudflare, which means that they allow a third party to MITM https connections to their site. I would not trust their service.
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by Fice 9y ago
We know that Intel CPUs have IME and AMD CPUs have PSP, but is anything known about VIA processors ( https://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ ) and boards ( https://www.viatech.com/en/
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Antinews – GNU Emacs Manual(gnu.org)
1 points by Fice 9y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 9y ago
Wouldn't that be "reinventing the flat tire"? The Web needs far more serious redesign than just replacing the syntaxes.
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by Fice 9y ago
I generate unique passwords using command-line tools like apg and pwgen and store them in an encrypted Emacs org-mode file [1]. Emacs can open files transparently via SSH [2], so I have easy remote access to my password store without having
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by Fice 9y ago
A decentralized technology only works until some corporation with large advertising resources creates a proprietary centralized service around it and most people flock to their offering. E.g. Bitcoin is becoming centralized around popular o
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Code Staging in GNU Guix(hal.inria.fr)
65 points by Fice 9y ago|20 comments
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by Fice 9y ago
> Packages like Emacs 'paredit' make it even better. Not just better — it's a leap from editing code as plain sequence of lines of characters to editing code structurally. And lisp syntax enables complete and uniform struc
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by Fice 9y ago
The "loudness" switch on stereo amplifiers is for loudness compensation [1], not compression. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_compensation
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Did Lynch and Frost Hide a Secret Code in Flickering Airplane Windows?(welcometotwinpeaks.com)
2 points by Fice 9y ago|0 comments
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Want More Time? Get Rid of the Easiest Way to Spend It(raptitude.com)
1 points by Fice 9y ago|0 comments
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UBports: Stable OTA-1, Halium Is Heating Up, Convergence Works(blog.ubports.com)
1 points by Fice 9y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 9y ago
What's wrong with "2013 devices"? Nexus 5 probably has more alternative OS choices than any other phone available: LineageOS (based on Android 7.1), Ubuntu Touch (UBports continuation of the project), Plasma Mobile, Sailfish,
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by Fice 9y ago
One thing to try is to map 2D image data to 1D using Hilbert curve or some other locality-preserving space-filling curve.
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by Fice 9y ago
I used Sylpheed a lot in the past. Very fast, clean, simple and reliable. But switched to Notmuch (with Emacs UI) years ago for its great flexibility and programmability, and due to my general preference for using Emacs modes over separate
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UBports Community Q&A (UBports Continues Work on Ubuntu Phone)(blog.ubports.com)
1 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 10y ago
On the other hand, the GNU project tries to build a coherent operating system, which means that Guile, being part of GNU, is the preferred choice of the extension language for other GNU projects. This makes it very likely for Guile to stay
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by Fice 10y ago
I'm not a participant in the GNU project, but, as I see it, the most important thing about GNU is that they actually have ethics and culture, and that's what keeps the project relevant for decades. They hold to their principles an
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by Fice 10y ago
Notably, they were able to achieve this performance with bytecode interpreter. Unlike other mentioned Scheme implementations, Guile does not use a native compiler (neither JIT nor AOT).
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by Fice 10y ago
One big advantage is that this unified recursive representation of code allows structural editing. With things like Emacs's paredit you manipulate code structure directly by splitting, joining, and moving subexpressions instead of edit
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First it giveth: Rushkoff and the ethics of the digital economy(tinyletter.com)
1 points by Fice 10y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 10y ago
It's not just about moving data from one provider to another. GitHub is not simply a hosting service, it's a large centralized social network, and the cost of switching from it includes reduced project visibility and disconnection

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