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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Fluxbox because it has enough features for me, very much "done" and stable. Also the greatest theme collection.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
SystemD and the Gnome file picker don't look so bad now, do they? At least Pottering isn't trying to extort loans from me when I start/stop a service.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
If executable names were traded like internet domains, imagine what they'd be worth now.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I find it easier, simply because backend is typically the one language. It's easier to understand when there are fewer layers to everything. All I have to do is ensure the routes correctly serve/receive JSON and that's where
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Somewhat analogous is PowerPoint, where I delighted in making games and movies as a child. It was possible to trigger actions when buttons and on screen elements were clicked. I used it as a poor man's Flash. Whilst it isn't versa
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
The death of woodgrain and solid metal electronics is an unmourned tragedy. It gives a serious but warm tone. As are the loss of tactile buttons and illuminated displays, analogue and digital monitors. It feels like the same trend in softwa
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Funny, I've had the opposite journey. I learnt Unix shell recently and then needed to use the Windows command line. Hence I found this guide. CMD is very rudimentary compared to shell/bash, but it is quickly enough learnt for simp
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Batch File Programming, a thorough intro to the windows command line (2009) [pdf](eddiejackson.net)
3 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|2 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
And, how and why Old English was rediscovered. Fascinating piece.
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When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons? (2018)(etymonline.com)
43 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|15 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
"Time and chance happeneth to them all" is a phrase you read once and it is with you forever.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
My apologies, I had no idea this essay was such an annual event. The essay entered my head today and I thought it would fulfil other curious minds. But as I see, it has already done that. I'll endeavour to find something more original
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Politics and the English Language (1946)(gutenberg.net.au)
15 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|7 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Not to menion lacking any pretention. It states the subject precisely. An honest straightforwardness with nothing to hide.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I was referencing my experiences of the average computer user in that time peroid, which was mostly but not exclusively home PCs. They managed. And I know nowadays many of them hate the constant UI changes and sluggish JS browser apps. But
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I've never met anyone who couldn't grasp the idea of programs running locally on a computer. Practcially every user of Android/iOS will understand it intuitevly. Back in the day anyone of all ages and abilities I knew on 90
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Well, when the story began I though this sounds like a pleasant getaway, and I was happy to read you've acquired such a place. Then the rest of it was just a dour decline. Man, oh man. The worst of it is that all these devices could in
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> ..but then they eventually found out that people could be scared into doing anything by justifications of "security" (regardless of what's being secured, who it's being secured by, and who it's being secured fr
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> We transform your passphrase on your computer into two different, unrelated values. With one value, you cannot derive the other0. We send an authentication token, derived from your passphrase, to the server as the password-equivalent.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I genuinely miss the days of playing with DOS, Windows 9x and then all the excitement of Windows XP. All on my own hardware, which was whatever I could scrape from parents, savings, neighbours. I could do what I wanted with these old PCs. T
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
And they tell me that automake is bad!
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> The fight is not about which programs the user can run, but who controls the user data Some things were so horrible, not even Stallman could imagine them happening in his worst nightmares.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
We know the web is now so complex that it is impossible for a voluntary project to maintain a web browser, at least to a level of near-parity with Chrome. It seems impossible, but I wonder if Mozilla could be salvaged? I want a browser styl
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> I would honestly be happy to use a browser that looked and worked like Netscape 1.0 as long as it supported modern web standards and didn't keep moving buttons around. Have you tried SeaMonkey? It may be what you seek: https:&#x2
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
His strong stance will deter all 'hackers' and like scoundrel from touching any government website! When would-be data breachers see how he treats anyone trying to be his friend, they'll dare not make an enemy of him. This Go
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It sounds simple but it really isn't. When trying to approach sacrosanct 'truths' from a clean slate, I've met torrents of emotional resistance. Yes, from others. But also inside myself. It is quite something. I wish I c
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Ah, didn't expect the venerable Meletus to show up in the conversation today. How's the weather in Athens? > sentenced to death because he was deliberately annoying people I see you're still certain of Socrates' mot
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
This reminds me of the simple brilliance of Socrates. He began from the premise that he knew nothing, and would ask all manner of simple questions building on top of the previous answers. It wasn't long before he uncovered how little e
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
'Fuck up, move up'
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
There are many reasons to oppose government ID schemes on principle. Consequences like these just demonstrate the case.

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