HeckFeck

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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   www.spareroom.co.uk Slashdot The Register BBC iPlayer, at least originally Also I'm sure someone recently wrote a text-based MMO in Perl but I forget the name of it
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   Finally, I get to write my init scripts in Emacs Lisp!
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   Thanks!
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   May I submit my sites to your index? I think they'd be a good fit for the index. https://www.thran.uk and https://wmw.thran.uk
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   The unfiltered Internet in all its glory!
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   I wonder why OpenBSD isn't considered for a router OS. It is smaller and more conservative than the Linux kernel. They also aim for security and code auditability. Presumably the same utilities and packages would compile for it as well
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   And thankfully not monetised like SourceForge did.
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   Is reliability always a good thing? I could do with a few myself.
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   by HeckFeck 4y ago

   Or https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki if you don't mind learning some new commands.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    Graphene is actually great, I'll admit that. Though it does come at the cost of avoiding any mainstream apps. I suppose that depends where you are in life and who your main contacts are.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    > nodejs bot that allows users in irc channels to ask questions to openai This manages to bridge three distinct eras of the Internet in one project, very impressive.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    That and the fact that it isn't being sold to other companies (from what I know of their privacy policy) and can be disabled if you wish. I don't blindly trust any company, but from what I can tell Apple makes their money from ser
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    More platforms would be better but the answer is for someone - commercial or some free software initiative - to get a usable and supported device to market, not making impositions on an already established platform with its own strengths an
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    This is the most beautiful thing I've read today. We need many more sulking advertising execs.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    > the free market failed to implement a meaningful competition for central app stores. I don't want every component of my phone OS broken apart and subject to what some legislator or lobbyist thinks is 'competition'. The c
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    I have a young cousin, he's recently had his sixth birthday. Reading is completely novel for him. He loves it. Even though he doesn't fully understand the words, he will point to letters and sound them, then he will read the full
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    > It blew my mind that some people think that reading is not about deciphering letters and sounding out words, and that these are the people in charge of teaching kids how to read. Indeed. We can debate the merits of letters vs ideograms
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    I host several statically built websites on a cheap VPS. DNS and SSL was configured once, Pelican + Rsync bungs up the new posts whenever I need them. The site itself handles hundreds of requests daily without breaking a sweat. The server h
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    That was a trove of useful knowledge and accomplished hackery. Let's hope it is restored soon. Some redditors have been trying to reach the owner: https://old.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/12klulf/bashh
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    How far is Servo from being daily-driveable? What's stopping someone from slapping it together with SpiderMonkey or some other JS runtime and calling it a browser?
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    Fair criticism. I think I need to move away from politics for my own sanity. I've thought this way for a while, even though I've avoided partisanship and focused on philosophy. Even there it's all heat and not much light, and
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    I think 'geek chic' (i.e poseurs) went mainstream a while ago, but actual nerds will never be popular by definition. I've tried in vain to find people at parties who care about my favourite arcane programming languages and ob
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    Now OpenAI have their new mascot.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    They will either swiftly throw it back into the dust whence it came, or they will immortalise it as new scripture. Depends on the direction of future society, really.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    The browser truly is the new OS, for better or for worse.
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    A tale of proxy avoidance in 2007 (2022)(thran.uk)

    12 points by HeckFeck 4y ago|1 comments
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    What's our better alternative, that will also permit us to easily communicate with non-techie friends and business associates?
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    A related question: was an Operating System first known as a Time Sharing System? I've seen most of what I've known as an OS in this era termed that, also I read that the term OS was coined for CP/M.
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    "The illusion of safety has a positive psychological benefit, therefore we should be obstructive, suspicious and procedural" - or something The fact that this works with so many people makes me warier of them than anyone it purpor
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    by HeckFeck 4y ago

    Now that explains some of John Carmack's actions.